I got into toy collecting as a way to re-connect with my youth and get back some of the toys I had back in the day. They recall days of playing in the bedroom or outside in the backyard with my friend's, waging wars and setting up camp or building roads. With a Roundy's supermarket ( small by today's standards, more of a corner store than anything else) and a Rexall drug store kitty-corner from the house there were enough opportunities for mom to buy cheap bin toys or rack toys. During the Christmas season the Roundy's would carry Deluxe Reading and other brands playsets and I had several awesome sets as a kid! Then there were the shopping trips by bus to the downtown area: Woolworth's, Walgreen's, W.T. Grant's, The Boston Store, Gimbels - I'm droolin' here thinking of all those toys hahahahaha
All that being said, one of the toys that stood out in my memory was this rocket from Processed Plastics Co. which came out around the mid-'60s. I finally latched on to a carded piece to add to the collection and after all these years of remembering this as a 'spaceship' I now realize PP marketed it as a 'Surface to air missile'! hmmm, it's still a spaceship to my 12 year old mind :-). It has three stages topped by a spring loaded missile. The missile gets pushed down onto a spring loaded plunger in the top section which latches on to those two trigger arms. When released it takes off with a vengeance! whoopeeee The whole thing measures 11 3/8" (28.89cm) H. I'll be settling in for a few days with Processed Plastic stuff so stay tuned to this station :-) Enjoy! Opa Fritz and Oma Bettina
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