Guys,
I still have my Flexible Flyer sled from Christmas c.1958, plus I still have my late father's Flexible Flyer sled from when he was a boy, so it is about 30 years older. Things were different back then. When I was a kid, the city used to block off the one street near us and not plow the snow, so we could go sledding, which I used to do every day after school when there was snow on the ground. They also flooded the basketball court at a nearby playground for ice skating. Of course after a few days the snow turned gray from the air pollution from the steel plant. Dave Heine Easton, PA From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Baker Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Re: Made in the USA Ed, The Flexible Flyer brings back memories. My aunt gave me one for Christmas in 1947, and it lasted until about 1955. I went sledding on it in many places in Minneapolis: Theodore Wirth Park, Marshall Golf Course, just over the Lake Street bridge from Minneapolis, Riverside Park. Great fun and great memories. I just bought another one like the one I had from an antique store in Marshalltown, Iowa, so that my grandsons can sled on the hill in our little Michigan town of Eau Claire. Yeah, they were well made. Tom _____ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Ed Kozlowsky [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: Made in the USA 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] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> , "richgajnak" <mailto:rustytraque@...> <rustytraque@...> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> , "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) >
