Toys You Grew Up With at Bahoukas Bahoukas Havre de Grace
End of January 2010
What to do...
Cold winter weather and warm cozy homes! What can we do as we wait till spring? Think back to what we did when we were kids... lets play i
News-Antique.com - Jan 30,2010 - Bahoukas Havre de Grace
End of January 2010
What to do...
Cold winter weather and warm cozy homes! What can we do as we wait till spring? Think back to what we did when we were kids... lets play inside! Games and toys from our youth bring warm fuzzies! We have a whole section of the store full of vintage original versions of the toys you remember. Come see! Chances are good that your mother threw your original toys away, now it your chance to get them back again!
Come see! Come buy!!
Barbara (and George)
408 N Union Ave
Havre de Grace, MD 21078
410-942-1290
866-942-1290
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Toys You Grew Up With!!
What is the best thing to do when it is cold outside? Snuggle up inside and play with toys and games! Do you remember what your favorite toys were when you were growing up? Bring back your best childhood memories and come into the store and see our toy section. Find your old favorites!! Here is an "old toy" timeline with some fun facts:
* 1916- Lincoln Logs were invented by John L. Wright a son of the notable architect Frank Lloyd Wright. While it is often assumed that the name of the toy relates to President Lincoln, it is also a reference to the inventor's father, since Frank Lloyd Wright's given
middle name was "Lincoln".
* 1930's- "Monopoly" - is actually a spin-off of a 1904 game called "The Landlords Game". The longest known Monopoly Game lasted 70 days!!!
* 1939- "View-master" is a device for viewing seven 3-D images (also called stereo images) on a paper disk. Although the View-Master is now considered a children's toy, it was originally marketed as a way for viewers to enjoy stereograms of colorful and picturesque tourist attractions (we have ~60 of these in the store from cities all over the world that we obtained out of a Czech couple's estate)
* 1943- "Chutes and Ladders" - is an American version of a morality game from England "Snakes and Ladders"... who would have thunk it?
* 1952- "Mr Potato Head" Brooklyn-born toy inventor George Lerner
came up with the idea of inserting small, pronged body and face parts into fruits and vegetables to create a "funny face man." Lerner would often take potatoes from his mother's garden and using various other fruits and vegetables as facial features, he would make dolls with which his younger sisters could play. The grape-eyed, carrot-nosed,
potato-headed dolls became the principal idea behind the plastic toy which would later be manufactured. In the beginning, Lerner's toy proved controversial. With the war and food rationing a recent memory for most Americans, the use of fruits and vegetables to make toys
was considered irresponsible and wasteful. Toy companies initially rejected Lerner's creation. After several years of trying to sell the toy, Lerner finally convinced a
