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Re: Toy Question
Most of you guys are just too young. (With the possibly exception of Dan. ;D)
There were no Hot Wheels. I had Dinky Toys and Gorgie Toys. Lots of 'em and still have many of them somewhere including Sir Malcom Cambell's Blue Bird.
Erector Sets galore.
There always seemed to be a bicycle.
The obligatory wagons whose wheels somehow found their way on some soap box derby type car.
Soldiers that we made out of lead (You know you melted lead down and poured into molds). No they weren't made in China.
When I was real young I used to cut out cars from magazines and play with them (This is real, I wish I still had that collection.)
Of course when I got older the AMT models overtook my room. I'd buy one a week with money from my paper route. I don't think I ever built one that was completely stock. Sometimes I entered those in contests. I rarely won, but did place with a Chevy II underwhich I put a straight front axle from some truck model. Even then I thought the Chevy II was the replacement for the '55 Chevy!
My brother and I seemed to always have electric trains around when we were old enough. Most them were Marx trains from Germany (Dad was in the Army).
Then there were the early slot cars you raced down at the hobby store.
Lots of fun was had back then.
Most of you guys are just too young. (With the possibly exception of Dan. ;D)
There were no Hot Wheels. I had Dinky Toys and Gorgie Toys. Lots of 'em and still have many of them somewhere including Sir Malcom Cambell's Blue Bird.
Erector Sets galore.
There always seemed to be a bicycle.
The obligatory wagons whose wheels somehow found their way on some soap box derby type car.
Soldiers that we made out of lead (You know you melted lead down and poured into molds). No they weren't made in China.
When I was real young I used to cut out cars from magazines and play with them (This is real, I wish I still had that collection.)
Of course when I got older the AMT models overtook my room. I'd buy one a week with money from my paper route. I don't think I ever built one that was completely stock. Sometimes I entered those in contests. I rarely won, but did place with a Chevy II underwhich I put a straight front axle from some truck model. Even then I thought the Chevy II was the replacement for the '55 Chevy!
My brother and I seemed to always have electric trains around when we were old enough. Most them were Marx trains from Germany (Dad was in the Army).
Then there were the early slot cars you raced down at the hobby store.
Lots of fun was had back then.
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