Comments on: A Boomer’s Life Before Legos http://goinglikesixty.com/2009/03/life-before-legos/ Suitably old but mysteriously advanced. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:48:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: Giant Lego boulder | Laughing All Day http://goinglikesixty.com/2009/03/life-before-legos/#comment-10419 Giant Lego boulder | Laughing All Day Sun, 03 May 2009 19:46:52 +0000 http://goinglikesixty.com/?p=4651#comment-10419 [...] Test T-Shirt so funny it’ll make your head roll…Week In Review: The Wicked Worm That Wasn’tA Boomer’s Life Before LegosPokemon Less Influential Than Lego Game?“Baixakimsm: Lego Star Wars II: The Original [...] [...] Test T-Shirt so funny it’ll make your head roll…Week In Review: The Wicked Worm That Wasn’tA Boomer’s Life Before LegosPokemon Less Influential Than Lego Game?“Baixakimsm: Lego Star Wars II: The Original [...]

]]> By: GoingLikeSixty http://goinglikesixty.com/2009/03/life-before-legos/#comment-10221 GoingLikeSixty Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:13:39 +0000 http://goinglikesixty.com/?p=4651#comment-10221 @Cather Her In The Wry: Erector Set! Of course I had an erector set. How could I forget? But all those little nuts and bolts! I agree, coolest of all. @Gretchen: Yeah, it's world-wide! DWorld has a Lego area - or did the last time we were there. Seems that having all these complicated Lego structures would freak a kid out if he just had a few hundred pieces. <abbr><em>GoingLikeSixty...also wrote this...<a href="http://goinglikesixty.com/2009/03/28/life-before-legos/" rel="nofollow">A Boomer’s Life Before Legos</a></em></abbr> @Cather Her In The Wry: Erector Set! Of course I had an erector set. How could I forget? But all those little nuts and bolts! I agree, coolest of all.

@Gretchen: Yeah, it’s world-wide! DWorld has a Lego area – or did the last time we were there. Seems that having all these complicated Lego structures would freak a kid out if he just had a few hundred pieces.

GoingLikeSixty…also wrote this…A Boomer’s Life Before Legos

]]> By: Gretchen http://goinglikesixty.com/2009/03/life-before-legos/#comment-10220 Gretchen Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:15:07 +0000 http://goinglikesixty.com/?p=4651#comment-10220 An Erector set, hee. The jokes just write themselves. You should see So Cal -- in addition to Lego Land in Carlsbad (San Diego County), Downtown Disney, the shopping district near D-Land, has an entire Lego store. It's nuts. <abbr><em>Gretchen...also wrote this...<a href="http://www.suburbanhippie.com/?p=457" rel="nofollow">The Hounds Of Guilt.</a></em></abbr> An Erector set, hee. The jokes just write themselves.

You should see So Cal — in addition to Lego Land in Carlsbad (San Diego County), Downtown Disney, the shopping district near D-Land, has an entire Lego store. It’s nuts.

Gretchen…also wrote this…The Hounds Of Guilt.

]]> By: Catch Her In the Wry http://goinglikesixty.com/2009/03/life-before-legos/#comment-10219 Catch Her In the Wry Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:39:01 +0000 http://goinglikesixty.com/?p=4651#comment-10219 I had logs, tinker toys, and blocks too, but I also had an Erector set which was the coolest of all - metal girders, pullies and gears - now that was high tech. Today's Brio wooden girders just aren't the same. <abbr><em>Catch Her In the Wry...also wrote this...<a href="http://catch-her-in-the-wry.blogspot.com/2009/03/whos-shermy-and-why-does-he-show-up.html" rel="nofollow">Who's Shermy and why does he show up once a week at our house?</a></em></abbr> I had logs, tinker toys, and blocks too, but I also had an Erector set which was the coolest of all – metal girders, pullies and gears – now that was high tech. Today’s Brio wooden girders just aren’t the same.

Catch Her In the Wry…also wrote this…Who’s Shermy and why does he show up once a week at our house?

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