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Cool look back in time.
Looks Pre-War!
1957 Weird, NO postwar Lionel. It's all prewar. Are you sure this picture is 1957? It looks more like 1942 or earlier.
Great pictures, thanks for posting.
No, I am not sure about the date. A person who posted it to the "You know you're from Knoxville" Facebook page said it was 56-57. But people have dates wrong all the time on there,sometimes their memory has the wrong decade when it comes to real trains and they swear they are right.
Here is the original link,it says 1937! http://cmdc.knoxlib.org/cdm/si...ll7/id/5115/rec/1956
It's 1937.
Who ever called my old phone number about this topic please contact me via email sr2839@yahoo.com. These pics where posted on "You think you're from Knoxville"facebook page by someone,not me. I don't know anything else about the pictures.
I have great memories going to big departments stores at Christmas time in the late 40's and early 50's. . Wonderful train layouts and rows of Lionel and American flyer trains. Gosh, with more pictures could be posted. Don
my dad had that airplane ,, not sure if its still around, I remember that plane, it was like a fabric, cloth, I took it apart cause it wasn't working, that was about 50 years ago,
Yes, toys were made so one could use their imagination to create a world for him/herself. One had to touch and interact ON THEIR OWN! Not like the vid stuff today where one enters a world created by somebody else!
The Sears Store on N Shepherd in Houston used to have a great toy store on the second floor! Lionel; all sort of Marx, train and non, building sets, METAL Tonka toys........Parents got me my Marx set there!