True, but you had to go to those stores to find it. Today, it is more the norm 
than not. That's why the Pawnbrokers and Pickers pay a premium for old toys.

Even low-cost Marx trains were better quality than today's offerings (toys,that 
is). Anybody besides me have a Radio Flyer wagon in 1950? 

Bob Nicholson  ______________________________________


--- In [email protected], "richgajnak" <rustytraque@...> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> --- In [email protected], "shabbona_rr" <user141771@> wrote:
> >
> > Look at how well toys and AF, etc., from the forties and fifties has held 
> > up compared to the cheap plastic disposable junk sold at Toys"R" us, for 
> > instance.
> > 
> > In fact, AF was so well designed it blurred the line between scale models 
> > and toy trains in its day.
> > 
> > Bob Nicholson  __________________________________________
> 
> There was a lot of cheap plastic, disposable stuff sold at F. W. Woolworth's 
> and S. S. Kresge's back in the 50's and 60's that did't survive the decades, 
> either... ;-)
> 
> Rich G(ajnak)
>




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