TonkaNut posted:They would sell at my house, I love those sets!
Jim thanks for this topic and TonkaNut thanks for the pics to refresh my memories. For such a long time I couldn't remember the "American Plastic Bricks" brand name and each time I'd see a Lego display or commercial would think about the "other" building bricks that I received from Santa and played with as a child. I would agree w/ the comment that the "American Plastic Bricks" structures are "fragile and easily toppled" since the interlocking connecting nubs were not that deep, but they provided many hours, days and years of fun. I think I eventually had 2 tubes of bricks which were later passed on to a younger cousin.
Also had the Tinker Toys and a small erector set. Later years in the early autumn we would tie a long string through 1 or 2 Tinker Toy wooden wheels and swing them up into the many nearby chestnut trees so that we could shake the branches to drop the spiny chestnut pods to the ground and open. It was a neighborhood competition as to which kid could collect the most number and pounds of shiny brown chestnuts. However, it was not that popular with our parents weeks later after finding several large paper grocery bags full of chestnuts that were starting to rot or be full of worms.
This parental discontent combined with someone in the group getting a slingshot eventually and led us to the next use of the chestnuts.
Truly a model of youthful creativity/ingenuity with simple toys.
