During the '50, there were not too many toys in the world. The most popular were (which I liked):
1. Little glass balls (most fighted each other with fingers on sand ground);
2. Wooden turning (Tor Rod), played a string, most played by a group of several boys laid one theft's Tor Rod on ground inside a circle, the others hit on it, found another one could not hit on it, to be another theft;
3. Two wooden rods (about 8 inches long), put one on ground, another one hit on it up and knocked on it made it flied away for several boys comparison of farest;
4. Small cartoon cards for exchange with the other friends.
5. Small pistals (guns) could fire liked the paper crisket produced fired noice, we played like that of nowaday's 'wide fighting'.
All the abovementioned were my favourites. It's simple but good in that time.