Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Vintage Thingies Thursday: Tin Airplane

I love going to restaurants where they have all sorts of old toys on display, don't you? If anyone is starting one of those type places, call me, because I've got lots to offer!
One is this wonderful Depression-era tin airplane. It's wheels still move, and all the glass is still in the windows. Some of the writing has been rubbed off from play and rubbing against other things in one of my dad's many boxes of miscellany in the basement, but you can still read that it says Doug Corrigan's Jalopy. I wonder if it was a promotional toy? My dad still likes to collect promotional toys like Hess Trucks.
It looks great on display with many of his other toys at my sister's house. If I had a place and good way to display them I'd steal them all from her!
For more Vintage fun, visit Suzanne @ ColoradoLady, our Vintage Thingies Thursday hostess!
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15 comments:

  1. LVJuly 14, 2010 at 8:14 PM

    That is a neat vintage keepsake. I also enjoy going to places that have things like this around. The Cracker Barrel here has a lot of those type things.

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  2. OliveJuly 14, 2010 at 8:18 PM

    Neat airplanes. You have great collections. Happy VTT. ♦olive

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  3. GayleJuly 14, 2010 at 8:41 PM

    Love the plane and yes it is fun to see toys on display. Stop over to atmuldoon.blogspot.com to see another vintage toy.

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  4. AnonymousJuly 14, 2010 at 9:31 PM

    Only bad thing about those restaurants is they don't let you play with the toys on display!

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  5. Bossy BettyJuly 14, 2010 at 9:53 PM

    So great! Love seeing old toys like these.

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  6. ColoradoladyJuly 14, 2010 at 10:55 PM

    What a great toy! I love vintage toys too and only have a few, if only my parents would have held on to the ones I did have. Have a great VTT!

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  7. PostcardyJuly 14, 2010 at 11:35 PM

    I love old toys like that, but that's one thing I don't collect.

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  8. JocelynJuly 14, 2010 at 11:50 PM

    Very cool! I love that it says Jalopy on the wing.

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  9. AnnaJuly 15, 2010 at 8:09 AM

    What a fun piece. I have a lot of my parents' childhood books, but almost no toys. Thanks for sharing.

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  10. fitty's pinky rose cottageJuly 15, 2010 at 10:56 AM

    super cool collection! my sons would love to play with these.. my eldest son loves to collect this kind of toy.. thanks for sharing..

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  11. MaureenJuly 15, 2010 at 12:52 PM

    I love old toys. So do a lot of other people. People pay a lot of money to acquire toys from their childhood.

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  12. Pam KesslerJuly 15, 2010 at 2:46 PM

    Great airplane. It is in very good shape for its age. Thanks for sharing it with us.

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  13. AnnJuly 15, 2010 at 6:41 PM

    Oh I dearly love that plane. Such a cool item, with all the windows intact. Happy VTT

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  14. Sally Annie MagundyJuly 16, 2010 at 8:02 PM

    What a wonderful vintage toy plane! Love that!

    Happy VTT,
    Sally

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  15. LisaFebruary 2, 2013 at 8:51 PM

    Beautiful airplanes.

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