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MadRiver

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Howdy all!

When I was a kid, my family used to spend a lot of time on the Mass. coast. On rainy days, my mom would take us to the local five and dime and get these little wooden kits that made a dock scene. It came with a thick piece of cardboard, perhaps the size of a book of matches, painted to look like boards on a wharf. It also had little wooden dowels for the dock pilings. You'd slide these through on the little cardboard dock on each of the four corners. It also came with a little solid wooden house -- perhaps a bait shop. It also came with a small lobster trap (again, a solid piece of wood), and also came with a red plastic lobster (I always glued that next to the trap), and best of all, a nifty little plastic seagull with a pin sticking out of his bottom, so you could mount him to the little house, or perhaps to one of the wharf posts.

I went to the same location this year after nearly 20 years, and these little kits were nowhere to be found. I've also been unable to find any mention or sign of them on the web. Does anyone recall these little gems, or perhaps know if they're still in existence!?

Thanks!

B.
 
What kind of hippies were your parents and I guess they didn't hide the hallucinogenics well enough.
 
Oi!! Don!! You never had a Gilbert Chemistry Set??

"Phenothalene" was kinda "trippy" as I recall...
 
I did my older bro took all the good stuff
 
mehheh... cleverdick... :devilgrin:
 
All my family could afford was popsicle sticks and white glue. The glue tasted good...
 
TR6oldtimer said:
All my family could afford was popsicle sticks and white glue. The glue tasted good...

<span style="color: #990000">Wow, your family had money for sure! Mine could not
afford the white glue so we mixed flour and water and made paste.
We got our sticks from the corner trash cans.

d </span> :lol:
 
Tinster said:
TR6oldtimer said:
All my family could afford was popsicle sticks and white glue. The glue tasted good...

<span style="color: #990000">Wow, your family had money for sure! Mine could not
afford the white glue so we mixed flour and water and made paste.
We got our sticks from the corner trash cans.

d </span> :lol:

yes flour & water and a few drops of mom's bleach to prevent moldy glue
 
Wow! You guys are telling your age! Glad I don't remember any of that stuff. Not that I'm not old enough, I just don't remember!
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