Playset Magazine

[Jim Page]

My favorite toy (despite the dollhouse) was a toy garage made of metal and about the same size as the dollhouse. It had a showroom on one side for new car displays as well as the mechanics' side, a gas pump, but best of all - it had a functioning elevator to move the cars to its roof when the mechanics (us) were finished working on them. Of course, I had a fleet of cars and trucks that constantly needed repairs.

Laurie, one of my friends had that toy metal garage with the elevator and I still remember thinking how lucky he was to have such an amazing toy. Another friend had a small model train layout, on a board about two feet by three feet, as I recall. It was a tiny city and the little train was in a clear tube about half-an-inch in diameter. You would blow on one end of the tube to make the little train go through the city. It was perhaps homemade, as this kid's dad was very handy at making things.

--Jim