Traffic Jam
Yea, I'm a bit of a saver. This image represents about half of the "Matchbox" and "Hot Wheels" cars from my youth that I have held on to. They are fifty+ years old.
I remember well the hours spent playing with the cars with my kid brother (two years younger), who had a parallel cache of cars. When we weren't playing with the cars we were strategizing and plotting our next purchase. Most purchased at Snyder's Drug Store where they cost fifty or sixty cents apiece. Does not sound like much, but those purchases did not come easy. I recall many trips to Snyder's with empty pockets just to look.
One summer we loaded a wagon with melons from my grandfather's garden and sold them door-to-door in his neighborhood. While we felt like titans of commerce, I believe there was one key aspect of our little economy that was not real-world. I don't remember grandfather ever collecting any of the proceeds from us.
Traffic Jam
Yea, I'm a bit of a saver. This image represents about half of the "Matchbox" and "Hot Wheels" cars from my youth that I have held on to. They are fifty+ years old.
I remember well the hours spent playing with the cars with my kid brother (two years younger), who had a parallel cache of cars. When we weren't playing with the cars we were strategizing and plotting our next purchase. Most purchased at Snyder's Drug Store where they cost fifty or sixty cents apiece. Does not sound like much, but those purchases did not come easy. I recall many trips to Snyder's with empty pockets just to look.
One summer we loaded a wagon with melons from my grandfather's garden and sold them door-to-door in his neighborhood. While we felt like titans of commerce, I believe there was one key aspect of our little economy that was not real-world. I don't remember grandfather ever collecting any of the proceeds from us.