"stbenge" <^@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht 
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> Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> "clipka" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht 
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>>> (*... wanders off into nostalgic dreams...*)
>>>
>> We, grumbling old men, lwe ived before your blessed Lego generation :-)
>
> Hah, I knew it :)

<grin>
>
>> But we had Schucco, and Dincky Toy, and Meccano, and Matchbox to play 
>> with! Ah! Those were the days! I also owned a kind of forerunner to Lego 
>> (don't remember the name just now) also with plastic bricks but a bit 
>> larger...
>
> American Building Bricks? For building houses mainly? If so, we had some 
> hand-me-downs from our mother. Red and white blocks mostly, with smaller, 
> narrower pegs which didn't hold tight. We had a very incomplete set 
> though...
>
I still cannot remember the name... :-(  ...Age...   <grumbling in beard>
Indeed, the bricks were white and red, and also transparant. They often did 
not hold too well either.

Thomas

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