In these days of outrageous marketing initiatives - and sometime dubious practices - it's cool...even refreshing...to return to a sweeter time. And the sweetest of all - those cool tools we played with as a kid. Many of them morphed their way in our play rooms from unlikely origins.
Take Play Dough. This staple of every kid’s play life was born in the 1950s as a cleaner for removing coal dust from wallpaper.
Thomas Dam, a Danish fisherman and woodcutter developed the troll doll in 1949, as a Christmas gift for his daughter using wool for hair. Numerous companies shared the ever-popular doll until 2003 when the Dam family won full copyrite.
In 1934, Charles Darrow created a way cool board game but Parker Brothers promptly rejected it because it had "52 fundamental errors." So, Charles made his own, easily selling 5000 sets. Parker Brothers had a change of heart and the game, known as Monopoly, has been monopolizing toy stores ever since.
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