Right on Ed - that's what it was. I am just a little further removed in
time than you are:-) , so my memory isn't quite so good!!!
regards,
Rance
On 1/17/2012 19:18, Ed Kozlowsky wrote:
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 ______________________________________
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<mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, "richgajnak"
<rustytraque@...> <mailto:rustytraque@...> wrote:
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<mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, "shabbona_rr" <user141771@>
wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > In fact, AF was so well designed it blurred the line between
scale models and toy trains in its day.
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> > Bob Nicholson __________________________________________
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> 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... ;-)
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> Rich G(ajnak)
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