What about the Wheel-o (by Maggie), remember those? And the rubber pistols
that you put a ping-pong ball in and squeezed to shoot?

Dianne Chamberlain
Stanley Museum, Kingfield, Maine

----- Original Message -----
From: "Indigo Nights" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: 1950s Christmas Gifts


> Ah-hah, Nicholas.  Thanks for reminding me!
>
> The Grinch!
>
> Don't forget that Dr. Seuss and Dr. Spock were quite
> en vogue in the 50s.
>
> Great way to joggle the memory, Nicholas.  Thanks!
>
>
> --- Nicholas Burlakoff <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > Miracles never end. Despite the fact that this
> > thread has been running for a
> > number of days and, despite the fact that it is only
> > marginally museum
> > related there have been no ill-tempered outcries for
> > cessation of
> > discussion.  There have been no churlish outbursts
> > that a lister who has
> > subscribed for the past fifty years is ceasing to
> > subscribe because of the
> > non-professionally relevant postings. I also would
> > be surprised if anyone,
> > who made a post on this topic received off-line
> > barrages of insults and
> > personal invectives.
> >
> > Could this be because the topic is a burning issue
> > in the museum community
> > or our society? Could that be because our listers,
> > who have a penchant for
> > defamatory an/or hysterical invective have seen the
> > error of their ways?
> > Or, could it be because the topic is nostalgic to
> > many and true fluff?
> >
> > I don't have answers to these deep questions, but I
> > do appreciate the number
> > of days of postings without rancor.
> >
> > My own memories run to books-Kipling, Robert Luis
> > Stevenson, Dickens, Dumas,
> > Sir Walter Scott and subscriptions to Boys Life.
> > Yes, I had the Radio Flyer
> > wagon, the Davy Crockett coonskin cap, a Daisy BB
> > gun and the Hopalong
> > Cassidy cap pistol but the books are still on my and
> > my parent's shelves,
> > and their content is part of my character and value
> > system
> > nburlakoff
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Museum discussion list
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
> > Of Indigo Nights
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:21 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: 1950s Christmas Gifts
> >
> > Great stuff, Lindsey!
> >
> > Mink for mom.  Even if it were little pins of
> > animals
> > made out of mink.
> >
> >
>
>
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