Grim findings surface after a clackers safety test conducted by British publication, "Which? Magazine," in 1971 evaluated the toy's components based on American safety standards. In recent months, ...

DOES ANYONE remember clackers? One of the most basic – not to say genitally suggestive – toys of the 1970s comprised two plastic spheres, each suspended from a string attached to the same plastic tab.

Ah, the early 1970s. A time when cars may or may not have had seat belts, and there were certainly no car seats for the little ones to ride safely. A time when one of the hottest toys were the ...

"Meet Clackers the class bear, Gabriel’s got him for the weekend,” said my friend Amanda, as we trudged up the hill to the Iron Age fort with the kids early on Sunday morning. Ah, I thought, that ...

Modern kids: you can keep your Pokémon, your wi-fi devices and your 'video' games. Back in the day all they had were Clackers. Good, old-fashioned, potentially deadly Clackers. This clip is from ...

EDISON — From left, Jo Ann Michalsky, Mary Ann Anacker and Donna Healy play with "Clackers" at the Menlo Park mall in Edison on Feb. 17, 1971. According to Melody Lee, writing for ehow.com, the toy ...

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We officially started watching Christmas films this weekend gone (alright, three weekends ago). One of them was the hilariously awful Jingle All the Way, starring Schwarzenegger, Sinbad (the comedian, ...