When Toys were for boys

[F2d5thCav]

And with the end of the Vietnam War, the protests, etc., war toys went out of fashion and have not AFAIK recovered.

One thing I noted in Europe is that for decades there were small shops that specialized in the sale of plastic models, including models of tanks and military aircraft.  They had fantastic dioramas in the shop windows.  But the people interested in the models and running those shops were the children of those who experienced World War II.  Once those children became old enough to retire, the topic was not interesting enough for following generations and many of those shops have closed.

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