From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rüdiger Sonderfeld" <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>,
"Samuel W Flint" <swflint@flintfam.org>,
"Emacs-Devel devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: OT: Quick Lego Survey
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:53:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJnXXohXZzGyW4218btB2aee+FXW0ib2rz4xkmwrGVNE5rN+NA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANbX366XsGd+Aa0rg5FXABHZ1s5cVu5e_Obhw4mp_HA1VWvXGQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com
> wrote:
> ... even if your mum and dad dit not have money to buy much Lego.
>
I mentioned earlier that my childhood predated Lego and that instead I
played with AC Gilbert Erector Set
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erector_Set>. Like Lego, Erector Set came
in kits of various sizes with all the part to build a project pictured on
the box. And like Lego the price was an obstacle to acquiring a sufficient
supply to undertake truly large projects. Mine was a family that
definitely could not afford Erector Set. I do not recall ever receiving
even the smallest amount of Erector Set in its original AC Gilbert
packaging. I do remember being taken by my grandmother sometime in the
late 1950's into New York City and visiting the legendary FAO Schwartz toy
store <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAO_Schwarz>. That was probably the one
time I saw Erector Set in its glossy packaging. Still my wonderful mother
(due to turn 90 shortly) understood fully the virtue of Erector Set
abundance. She scoured yards sales on a regular basis until she had
supplied me with a large steamer trunk full.
Thanks Mum and Happy Birthday.
/john
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-17 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-16 14:13 OT: Quick Lego Survey Samuel W Flint
2014-08-16 14:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-08-16 17:00 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-08-16 17:39 ` dhruva
2014-08-16 20:15 ` Jan Djärv
2014-08-17 1:24 ` John Yates
2014-08-17 2:06 ` gottlieb
2014-08-17 13:23 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-08-17 16:49 ` Lennart Borgman
2014-08-17 17:53 ` John Yates [this message]
2014-08-18 7:37 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-08-18 8:40 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-08-18 9:12 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-20 4:38 ` Bill Wohler
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2014-08-19 14:34 Tim Chambers
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