When Toys were for boys

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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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That has also happened to the Baby Boomer Generation and old cars. They were worth a fortune just ten years ago, but that is when alot of the boomers were in their fiftys. Now we are climbing towards seventy and the interest is gone, our kids don't see the same remenise as we did. Consequently old car values have largely collapsed from their highs.

As a kid of five, my Mom and Dad got me a really nice Hopalong Cassidy leather holsters and twin six shooters. White pearl handels and chrome/silver frames.  And they shot Caps, the rolled red ribbons of gunpowder dots that the little pistols fired, so they were very 'neat-o' toys. Then we discovered Girls....















And so it goes.............