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12 thoughts on “Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Spinning Tops”
Yep! A few of them are from Europe, and from decades past. It’s amazing what you can find online — too bad my galleries aren’t a hundred pictures each!
Loved these when I was a kid! Great post!
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HA! Hope we can get future generations back to developing that talent….
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I had the top one as well. And, I remember someone had the wooden one where you wrapped the string around the top grove.
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Yep! A few of them are from Europe, and from decades past. It’s amazing what you can find online — too bad my galleries aren’t a hundred pictures each!
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Oh, generation gap… I know that song from Dead Or Alive and had no idea FloRida rerecorded it. Gonna search for his cover.
Cool pics!
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I’m embarrassed … never heard of him …. had to search Google for the lyrics … but it describes spinning tops perfectly!
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When I looked up the FloRida version, I recognized it but hadn’t known it was him… but at least I recognized it!
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Truth be said — I knew the song, not the performer — one of my boogy-around-the-kitchen songs —
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I have tons of those! I learn a lot while watching Vevo vid channels on tv!
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Indeed!
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I remember playing with one like the first one… it is so cool to see the variations here NOW I want to collect spinning tops… thanks a lot! 😉
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Heh… I used to have one like the first one, too. Spinning, spinning …. now I’m dizzy …
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