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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

This Week In '66

 


With Lynn Peril

As the 2021 holiday gift-buying season reaches its consumerist crescendo, let’s take a look at some of toys of 1966. 

 

Jane Kass, “NY Toymakers Zoom in With Batman Playthings,” Newsday, March 8, 1966, 55. 

 

Wisman, Jon, “Merchants Looking Forward to Record Sales; Christmas Toys Already Selling Fast,” The Tampa Times, September 5, 1966, 18. 

 

“Toys Have Domestic Look,” Arizona Republic, November 24, 1966, 3. 

 

“Women Pack for Santa Claus,” Tallahassee Democrat, November 13, 1966, 23. 

 

Alice M. Gallagher, “What’s New for Children,”  Parents’ Magazine, February 1966, 22. 

 

Christopher Klein, How Johnny Carson Saved Twister, History.com 

 

Chuck Foley obit

 

“Wild New Game,” Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York, May 22, 1966, 69. 

 

“Protests Aired at Toy Fair,” New York Daily News, March 8, 1966, 45. 

 

“Moms Picket, Protest ‘Hate Toys’ at Exhibit,” New York Daily News, March 8, 1966, 102. 

 

“Banish-Hate-Toys War Rages Again in New York At Annual Toy Fair,” The Evening Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, March 9, 1966, 4. 

 

“Unhappy Mothers Picket Toy Fair,” Great Falls Tribune, March 9, 1966, 4. 

 

“U.S. Toymakers Go Big on Batman; But Robin Slighted in Offerings for Next Fall,” The Windsor Star, March 9, 1966, 16. 

 

“The War Toys Issue,” Tyrone Daily Herald, March 15, 1966, 4. 

 




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