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PARLOR GAMES

We used to have two kinds of building blocks, for constructing
things. One was made of wooden sticks of different sizes with
slits on each end.

There were thick wooden disks that went with them. They
had sockets around the edge and in the center. These were
Tinker Toys. I built all kinds of things with them. Wind Mills
were neat as I could slide a playing card into the slit at the end
of each spar and if I placed it in front of our fan it would spin
like blazes. Even better was a Ferris Wheel. It was much
more complicated, but worth the effort. Pop built a plywood
box for them with different size areas for each size stick.
Joe and I shared many of our toys. That was a good deal as he
would tire of them just as I began using or playing with them.

There was another construction toy we had. It was an Erector
Set, similar but different. It was made of metal strips. To
connect them I used small screws and nuts. While I built with
them, Joe got into Chemistry Sets. Although, I never played
or mixed any chemicals together, I began my college career
studying to be a Chemical Engineer.
Pop was busy with the Erector Set also. He built another box
for each of it’s parts. He built us lots of boxes to keep our
things in. Besides these construction boxes he built each of us
a silver 2x2x2 comic book container.

Their was another game that was all the rage. After World
War II there were a lot of Japanese items on the market.

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