For anyone who doesn't know what that was. It was a pole with a wheel on one end and a toy horses head on the other.So you stuck it between your legs (no comments please! lol) and jumped about pretending that you were riding a horse.
My sisters grandkids were here yesterday, and my hubby played pretend hobbie horses with them. Can you imagine the laughter? Three kids, 4 6 and 8 following a 68 year old kid round my kitchen, shouting giddy up but not a horse between them. lmao
2007-08-11 01:36:52 · 22 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
MaryAnn L. My son loved his space hopper too. x
Midnite Rambler. lol at you dad's suit! Our rag and bone man used to give us goldfish. I kept one alive for 8 years. x
dink2925. As you don't return to Q's I'm probably spouting bile at myself, lol but in the uk this toy is a hobby horse whatever you call it where you live! x
Iritadragon. Slap and tickle? There's always my rabbit if I'm desperate.lol x
Aceyducey. Poor you! How could your mum through away a much loved toy however tatty it got? x
2007-08-12 12:01:06 · update #1
I never had a hobby horse. My cousins had a rocking horse and hobby horses. I didn't even have a hobby pony. The tears are welling up in my eyes as I write this. It has tramatized me my entire life. I made one in 4-H when I was in junior high, but my mom made me give it to a 2-year old. I will never forgive her for taking my only chance of owing my own hobby horse away. ;-( lol
2007-08-11 05:33:15 · answer #1 · answered by Granny 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sylvia, I'm the same age as your husband, almost in a couple of months. That's a stick horse you're talking about and it was also called a broom horse since we often used brooms instead. The straw end was the horses head. We could never afford the more upscale ones with an actual head and tail wheel.
A hobby horse is one of those wooden horses that fit in some kind of framework and either bobbed up and down or kind of swayed back and forth like a porch glider. Don't confuse a hobby horse with a rocking horse which was a wooden horse with rockers on its legs.
I never return to a question once I've answered it so everyone who disagrees with me and wants to tell me how wrong I am might just as well save their bile because I won't see it.
2007-08-11 10:14:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had a small wooden horse made for me by an uncle, I don't know which one,. Times"was 'ard" in the 1940's with rationing and a war still on. I remember seeing a metal hobby horse in a local toy shop window, Oh how I wanted it. You pressed your feet on the stirrups and it could move. it was white and black with a red saddle. I could not get near it because the man chased me away. "Oh Father Christmas Pleeease I'll be a good boy for ever I'd ride everywhere on it"
Years later I saw one in a second hand shop. I'm glad I did not get it I would have been so disappointed
2007-08-11 10:10:26 · answer #3 · answered by Scouse 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I never was lucky enough to get one, but my Dad made me a green scooter out of two railway sleepers with roller skate wheels - it was so heavy he could hardly lift it and as very thin little girl I never had the strength to scoot it along, so it was a poor substitute for a hobby horse.
2007-08-11 10:01:22 · answer #4 · answered by blondie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I had one, my daughter now has a hobby-unicorn! What a wonderful imagination your hubby has, I bet they had great fun. Before I had my hobby horse, my mum used to let me use the broom, its head was the horses head, worked okay but not as good as the real thing.
2007-08-11 01:53:06 · answer #5 · answered by Tefi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are talking about a toy that was about when I was a child over sixty years ago. We had one and we called it Dobbin, it was dappled grey with a real horsehair mane and glass eyes.Eventually the wooden wheel at the back fell off but we still dragged it around.
2007-08-11 08:58:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, I called mine a stick horse. And yes, I'd put on my boots, cowboy hat and toy gun and go running around the backyard neighing and screaming. I was a mess.
My mother threw my stick horse away because he'd got cracks in his skin and stuffing was coming out. (She was probably pretty tired of my neighing and screaming.) I was so mad at her, I couldn't believe she did that.
2007-08-11 18:18:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
mum made me one the horses head was an old or lost sock of my dads buttons sewed on for eyes a mane made from wool an old broom handle for the stick. I had a great time on him (mum could almost make anything to amuse us)
2007-08-11 22:31:08 · answer #8 · answered by Diamond 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never had a hobby horse but my cousins did back in the good old days. I couldn't wait to hop on it when we went to visit them. Giddy up!!!! :)
2007-08-11 02:01:08 · answer #9 · answered by Shortstuff13 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My baby brother had one. (But then he got mostly everything he wanted--no questions.)
It's great for the delectable R__ to be playing with kids his own age. But I guess he wore himself out so badly that there was no chance of any slap and tickle later hmmm?
2007-08-11 10:25:48 · answer #10 · answered by Susie Q 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋