A.C. Gilbert's Discovery Village is in Salem, OR. 503/316-3485. www.acgilbert.org. Pamela Vorachek is the Executive Director.
For those of you who like toys distributed through fast-food restaurants (or deplore them, especially when stepping on them at night while barefoot), you might be interested in a new, small, permanent exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago: "Out to Lunch: An Exhibit of Fast Food Toys." http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/fastfoodtoys/index.html
--Todd Happer
Scientific American
On 02/24/2000, Museum discussion list wrote:
>For the first half of the century, Meccano and >Erector Sets (A.C. Gilbert
>Co.) I believe there is a Gilbert Museum in >Connecticut. Also Playskool,
>Lionel Train sets, paper dolls and coloring books >(Crayola Crayons debuted in
>1902, I think). Have you read KIDS' STUFF: Toys >and the Changing World of
>American Childhood, by Gary Cross (Harvard U. >Press, 1997)? Sounds like the
>exhibit will be fun. Good luck.
>
>Mary Sheila McMahon
>Museum of American Heritage
>Palo Alto, CA
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