METAL TOYS are here again (Apr, 1946)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1946
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1946
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METAL TOYS are here again
PARENTS of toy-age children will welcome back the sturdy metal playthings for which wartime toys were a poor substitute. Boy-proof tricycles, of new design and material, are coming; and improved models of play sewing machines and steam engines. Toy-makers figure on a 30-percent higher output this year to stop the cries of the 5,000,000 more children in the market for the latest thing in bomb-scooters.
“‘Pedal Bomb’ is what they call this combination.”
As opposed to the more accurate “Suicide Trike”?
Comment by Stannous — April 25, 2007 @ 12:30 pm
Look at all those great toys for boys…and a freaking SEWING MACHINE for girls.
Why didn’t they just make her a “toy” toilet scrubber and get to the point?
Comment by Blurgle — April 25, 2007 @ 3:49 pm
There’s another one like this where the girl gets washing machine.
Comment by Charlie — April 25, 2007 @ 4:20 pm
I’d rather my kid got the sewing machine than the suicide bomber trike…..They had some weird ideas back then. It’s like when older folks get all nostalgic for the 50’s, but don’t seem to remember it was a great time, but only if you were white. And male. Why do they *think* those housewives stayed bombed all the time on highballs and “Mother’s helpers”? Strange times.
Comment by Caya — April 26, 2007 @ 1:48 pm
Hmm, it’s the small in home version of the large outdoor spinning merry go round. Also known as the wheel of death.
Comment by repsac — October 19, 2007 @ 10:04 am