Topper Johnny Seven Factory

[47barolo]

Can you imagine a kid bringing a Johhny Seven into school today for show and tell. SWAT, Homeland Security, Big Sis would all be on the scene. 6 month suspension. No wonder the military is all gay today.

[Diogenes1360]

Men in Button-down cool black-suits . . Black leather shoes . . playing with the best 1960s war-toys ever made? Yeah! . . The lost Art of Style!

[marceloribeirobarros]

Won.....vintage pentagon war room  ?

[Casablanca1939]

so, most of the parents that bought these toys were either in WW2 or lived through it.

Didn't they feel kind of weird seeing kids play with this stuff?

[azyaninvasion]

One of America's downfall - Outsourcing .

[SecuR0M]

@azyaninvasion Hardly. Outsourcing just means less jobs for the uneducated and menial workers.

It means they have to go to school, and get an actual education that matters. Oh no. Not learning!

[kyolym]

the only thing left today is Hotwheels along came video games and its all down hill from there

[gomangojoe]

Amen to that brother!!

[52twin50]

Who else noticed the 12 year old girl laboring away with Mom on the Secret Sam Assembly Line? Damn that's awesome. I bet her little brother was jealous as hell! As an early 80's born baby, I would LOVE to see this sort of toy line brought back! Get kids back to playing outside and let 'em know there are such things as winners and losers in real life.

[oldtoys1961]

THis was the "Old America" back before Corporate greed and embezzlement,bail outs and massively increased productivity to maximize profits. Gotta keep todays CEO's living like kings. Too bad, the 60's was a great time for toys, real toys, not that cheap china made crap today. Actually, the 60's period was a great time, Its all about the dollar now and getting as much as possible for as little as possible. We need to start putting " In Islam We Trust" on the dollar.

[kidhix]

How do we get THIS AMERICA back..?

[candr]

@kidhix

Easy, get folks here to spend 10 times the amount they pay for things now.

[shanquilla562]

i had a johhny 7 and a mattel m-16 when i was a kid

[lonewulf44]

What an awesome job to have, messing with the toys :) And yeah, I was struck most by the fact of seeing American workers actually making things. Sigh ... country just sold itself out starting in the 60's and especially the 70's.

[madvette74]

I have 2 of those deluxe reading tanks.. all parts and one original box.. not for sale.

[mgrella63]

Topper Toys were some of the best ever Toys of the 60's and early 70s.Too bad the management ran it into the ground.The ceo lied to the SEC about the companys actual value or something like that.I still have a bunch of old Topper toys in my basement,none for sale!! They all still work! Topper was located on Trumbull street in Elizabeth NJ.I heard they had a factory in Rhode Island not sure though!Wish they were still in business!! At one time they employed thousands of employees!!

[ZaidNitsua]

i wish I was born in these times when america was america

[ILiveInMomsBasement]

Is this the same factory that built Mattel M16s?

[marcusalexander63]

notice these are american workers makeing toys in the U.S.

[scryerofold]

Propably not. The M!6 was actully made by Colt Arms. but someone joked that it looked like a Matel toy. I was lighter than the M14, and took more rounds do to a smaller caliber.

[shoopwhoopX]

every thing is lighter than the m14...

[DocWyoming]

@marcusalexander63 Today the pay for making such toys is about 70 cents a day. Think many Americans are willing to accept that wage?

[MaXG65]

Oh man! I use to have that tank! I think I still have the cone at the end of the barrel.

[rtermini]

and the music was pretty great too

[rtermini]

I love it so

[flyurway]

Imagine a job where you're a CEO and all you do is play with cool toys all day! Anyone notice too...I didn't even see a single pair of safety goggles anywhere in the vid, LMAO.

[dogterd]

what a great post. thanks a lot for sharing this one. seeing those old guys "testing" this stuff is funny as hell.

[tridentum]

When America still made stuff. Thanks Government and Wall Street for selling us out. Nice job you greedy bastards.

[satweavers]

Amen! See where we got doing nothing but selling each other's DEBT back and forth?

[SCOTLANDSSHAMEHOLLIE]

@tridentum well said , the us and uk are FUCKED , we gave away literally GAVE away manufacturing to asia so some fuckers could get richer

[SecuR0M]

@SCOTLANDSSHAMEHOLLIE I don't see the USA getting poorer...

[SCOTLANDSSHAMEHOLLIE]

@SecuR0M debt 15 trillion , is that not poorer

[SecuR0M]

@tridentum Learn to fucking deal with it, moron. Protectionism would mean that America would turn into the former USSR c. 1991, or Somalia. Globalisation is the future of the Western World. I'm sorry your lack of a proper education means you cannot find a real job besides digging ditches.

[Giminey]

If you have to ask that question ..you have no chance of understanding why..everything was called Johnny etc.. sorry

[1975tooto]

Why were a lot of these toys called Johnny? Lightning,ect?

[UntoldSecrets1]

why cant the old people like that guy still be here now? now we have like all sorts of people with no fun in factories.

[Buckeyecat2002]

There is a toy train factory in Concord, CA that makes wonderful collector pieces.

[jpmala56]

What is wrong with todays toy thinkers/makers? It's 2008 and the toys 45 yrs ago were a hell of lot better than today. So what if it wasn't R/C. The ideas along with the electricity generated by these manufactures were fantastic.

[pm0501]

Sweet Jesus! Toys made in the USA!

[kaferere]

Was that Adnan Kashogi?

[gomangojoe]

Adnan of the toy world!

[SargentRay]

Wow thanks for this awesome clip D.D.

[dezurtdude]

Totally awesome! Check out those "Hot 60's Babes" at the factory!

[clearlykyle]

which one?!