I was playing in the living room with one of my two current favorite toys, the Flintstone phone. The Flintstone phone was a marvel of engineering, the hand piece was a hollowed out dinosaur horn and the body was a rough hewn rock made into a phone with small rock buttons. When you picked it up and pushed one of the buttons, you heard a catchphrase from one of the Flintstone characters, “Wilma where did you put my smokes?” Something like that. Life was much more dangerous then…..
The other favorite was this set of Styrofoam blocks that had a set of connectors on top and bottom so you could build walls. Of course as soon as you built any kind of structure the temptation was overwhelming for an older brother to tear it down. Tommy was at school so I was relatively safe during the day. A lot of the blocks were already dicey as far as holding together, because so many of the connectors had been broken off from previous wall of destruction forays by him.
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