Comments on: a PEEK in Santa’s PACK! (Jul, 1947)

By: StanFlouride

StanFlouride — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:21:54 +0000

Does anybody else get their hopes up for just a milisecond when they see something cool like this and the words, “Buy on Ebay”?
I know that it refers to the original magazine but still…

Thanks again Charlie for another great year. I still hope to get to the restaurant someday soon.
Stan

By: CL

CL — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:47:15 +0000

These are the sort of toys my parents would remember. Lots of steel that could take abuse, and get passed down from the older kids to the younger ones.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:51:33 +0000

As a kid growing up during the war virtually all Christmas toys were made of cardboard or wood. Some were quite clever and fun such as the old “Build-a-Set” forts, castles and towns that we would assemble ourselves. They looked pretty good too. They never lasted long and I wonder if any of them survived. I enjoyed getting them and putting them together. In the first years after the war, when materials became available again, toy makers were coming up with lots of pretty innovative things for kids to play with like some of the stuff shown here. Most were made in this country since the other nations involved in the war were still too devastated to be manufacturing toys for export. This is a fun article and brings back lots of memories. Thanks!

Rick

By: jayessell

jayessell — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:45:11 +0000

William… From the photograph it looks like a large dry cell battery
connected to th controller.
(Also the 3 rails means electric power.)

PS: Merry Christmas Charlie!

By: William Deering

William Deering — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:07:56 +0000

I wonder if that train engine was red plastic with yellow cars from Louis Marx and Company? Marx later went to conventional model train transformers with both plastic and metal trains. My very first had spring powered motors. And oh yes, be careful with that rifle you don’t shoot somebody’s eye out! A Christmas Story? “You’ll shoot your eye out!” Thanks Modern Mechanix Blog for giving us another good year!