Are you sure the sled wasn't a Flexible Flyer? Ed Kozlowsky Sanford, Maine
>________________________________ > From: Rance Velapoldi <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 12:47 PM >Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: Made in the USA > > > > > >Not only had a radio flyer wagon, but what I believe was an American Flyer >sled - don't know how it got by ACG - but it was around 1948. This was in >Connecticut. Nice, wood (maple?) slats with steel runners, room enough for >about 3-4 kids/people. >Rance Velapoldi (Tranby, Norway) > >On 1/17/2012 15:13, shabbona_rr wrote: > >>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) >>> >> >> >> > > > >
