Have we lost our kids in a hypnotic Playstation game trance? Have they become “drones” to the “video age”? Infrequently it may appear that way as many kids spend hour on hour in front of a video screen, pressing buttons or jockeying around a joystick. But it was not that way back when we were kids.we had real toys.classic toys. Let’s step into a time tunnel of sorts and recall some of the entrancing toys we had the enjoyment of playing with : Tinker Toys Ahh..Tinker Toys..rods, sticks, spools, spokes..simple, but a real classic toy invented in 1914 by Charles Pajeau, who was a stonemason by trade from Evanston, Illinois. He saw them improvising and using their imaginations and marvelled if improve on what they were doing. He designed his first set of Tinker Toys in his garage and displayed them in 1914 at the North American Toy Fair. Alas, his Tinker Toys drew no interest.
Pajeau employed a few pygmies and had them dress in elf get ups. The inter locking logs, invented in 1916, were fashioned after the bedrock of Tokyo’s earthquake-proof Imperial Hotel, that the younger Wright experienced being made. In the World War I time, it was in style to help American patriotic pride and for American’s to buy American made products, therefore the new toy was named after one of our most respected presidents, Abraham Lincoln. The first sets sold well and became rather more well-liked by the advent of TV to the U. S. In reality Lincoln Logs were among the 1st toys to be publicized and promoted on TV. Capitalizing on the approval for westerns in early TV, Lincoln Logs were successful promoted on 1953’s Trailblazer Theatre.
Today, Lincoln Logs are still obtainable and have passed the test of time. As an undeniable fact, as late as 1975, Lincoln Logs were still selling at a rate of 1,000,000 sets each year.