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Little_Golden_Books — Goolden Books The Great Big Car and Truck on the sofa beside Little Ricky

ct2 — Little Ricky played by Keith Thibodeaux was credited as Richard Keith

In the 1956 I Love Lucy episode The Ricardos Visit Cuba, Little Ricky is seen reading a 1951 Golden Book entitled “The Great Big Car and Truck”. It is a larger size than the Little Golden Books and measures about 12 3/4″ by 9 5/8″. The copy I see on eBay pictured here is a twelfth printing from 1951 with art work by Richard Scarry.

1951 BIG GOLDEN BOOK CAR AND TRUCK RICHARD SCARRY VINTAGE CHILDRENS LARGE BOOK cartrukbiggoldenbook

See it on eBay 1951 BIG GOLDEN BOOK CAR AND TRUCK RICHARD SCARRY VINTAGE CHILDRENS LARGE BOOK

The current version of the book is available for Kindle https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Scarrys-Trucks-Little-Golden-ebook/dp/B01M5C66X2/
Reference :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Golden_Books
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Keith_(actor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Scarry Richard McClure Scarry (June 5, 1919 – April 30, 1994) was a popular American children’s author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million worldwide

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Fred Buys a Toy Dragon for Little Ricky

October 10, 2016 Patricia

In the opening scene of the I Love Lucy episode “Lucy Goes to Scotland” Fred comes in with a Chinese dragon puppet to bring back to Little Ricky. When Lucy mentions she had never seen anything like this before Fred replies “Well when I was a kid they had toy dragons.” and Ethel remarks “When you were a kid they had real dragons!”

The toy is an articulated Chinese dragon made of bamboo that has a hole in the base to insert a bamboo stick as seen on the show, similar to the vintage example pictured here.

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Little Ricky’s Fisher-Price Buzzy Bee Pull-Toy

March 7, 2016 Patricia

In the I Love Lucy Episode Ricardos Change Apartments Ethel discovers Little Ricky’s wooden Buzzy Bee pull-toy under the sofa cushion when she sits on Lucy’s sofa. The Fisher-Price Buzzy Bee is a classic that began in 1950 and is now a collectors item. Below is a 1950’s version seen on eBay this week.

Fisher-Price-1950-Buzzy-Bee — 1950’s Fisher-Price Buzzy Bee on eBay

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Little Ricky’s Jack in the Box

October 29, 2015 Patricia

Mattel Jolly Jack In The Box Music Box on Lucy's Coffee Table — Mattel Jolly Jack In The Box Music Box on Lucy’s Coffee Table

A Mattel Jolly Jack In The Box Music Box 1952 No. 461 is seen on the coffe table in the I Love Lucy episode Nursery School. This seems to be a hard to find scary looking Jack in the Box but I did see one in a closed auction on eBay HERE and a Mint in box one for sale at http://www.momandpopstoys.com/oddsends.htm

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Little Ricky’s Fish Bowl

September 26, 2015 Patricia

Anchor-Hocking-Fish-Bowl1 — Little Ricky’s Glass Fish Bowl on I Love Lucy

Little Ricky keeps his pet fish, named Mildred and Charles, in a large shallow glass fish bowl. If you search eBay for vintage fish bowl you will usually find a few just like the fish bowl Lucy is carrying in the above screen capture from the I Love Lucy episode Little Ricky gets a Dog

The Anchor Hocking 1 gallon fish bowl is a good match for Little Ricky’s one.

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Little Ricky’s Superman Costume

September 19, 2015 Patricia

In the I Love Lucy episode “Lucy and Superman” Little Ricky is seen wearing his official Superman playsuit. A similar costume pictured below was seen in a past auction at liveauctioneers.com

50s-superman-costume — Vintage child’s Superman costume 1950’s, marked “Copr. National Comics Publications, Inc.” Image source liveauctioneers.om

Superman Playsuit ad
SUPERMAN Issue No. 101 November 1955

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Little Ricky’s Mr Squawker The Duck Toy

September 19, 2015 Patricia

rickys-duck-toy — Fred entertains Little Ricky with a Mr Squawker duck toy

In the above capture from the I Love Lucy episode “Ricky Minds the Baby” Fred Mertz tries to amuse Little Ricky with a squeek toy. The rubber squeek toy is a Mr Squawker The Duck toy made by Rempel of Akron Ohio who also produced Froggy the Gremlin which we looked at in a previous post.

Rempel-mr-squaker — Mr Sqwaker The Duck Toy original

From the original patent application:
Mr. Squawker the duck, [Fanciful figure of clothed duck in walking position] Rubber, H. 12 in,
Appl, author: Dietrich G, Rempel, © Rem-
pel Enterprises, Akron, Ohio;
10 Mar52; GP3259.

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Little Ricky’s Cosco “Feed-N-Play” Table

September 12, 2015 Patricia

littlerickycoscofeednplaytable — Little Ricky’s Cosco Feed-N-Play Table on I Love Lucy

In the I Love Lucy episode “The Sublease” Little Ricky’s play table is among the items Lucy has to store at Fred and Ethel’s apartment. Little Ricky uses a state of the art 1950’s folding metal baby seat – a Cosco Feed-N-Play Table.There are a couple of them on eBay this week. Pictured below is one example. Click HERE to see the listing.

Cosco-Feed-N-Play-Table-ad-1953 — LIFE Dec 7, 1953 : Cosco Ad. 14-G Feed-N-Play Table priced $20.95

cosco-mark — Cosco Label From the Feed-N-Play Table

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Little Ricky’s Telephone Bank

September 7, 2015 Patricia

telephone savings bank — Little Ricky’s Telephone Savings Bank on I Love Lucy

In the I Love Lucy episode Lucy is Envious we see a plastic toy rotary phone on the mantelpiece of the Ricardo’s living room. In this episode Lucy is short of cash and searches the house for coins. She tells Ethel she even looked in the baby’s piggy bank but only found a couple of IOU’s from Ricky inside. Little Ricky’s savings bank is a match for the two color red and white plastic telephone savings bank by Amerline.

toyphone1 — Amerline Toy Phone Bank like Little Ricky’s – for sale on Etsy

The toy rotary telephone savings bank is by Amerline of Chicago, IL, copyright 1945 . Currently there is one for sale online in red and white pictured above.
CLICK HERE to See it on Etsy