Cardboard Box Added to Toy Hall of Fame

Times Dispatch ^ | 11-12-2005 | BEN DOBBIN

[Cagey]

A cardboard box. The best toy Santa ever made.

[firerosemom]

We used to play in the cardboard boxes from moving days, which for us military brats, occurred roughly every 3 years!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Especially the really big ones!

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Cagey]

I died and went to Heaven.

[11Bush]

Those aren't homeless, they are just reliving their childhood.

[manwiththehands]

Visions of Dan Ackroyd on SNL hocking his Halloween costumes.

[stumpy]

Squishing the sides down so it was no longer square, crawling in and getting a push down a long hill. What memories.

[Cagey]

LOL

[Alex Murphy]

A cardboard box. The best toy Santa ever made. You don't need a roomful of toys - all you really need is the box! And some imagination....

Spongebob: Imagination! (makes a rainbow appear with his hands)
Squidward: I have more imagination [tries to make a rainbow like Spongebob does but can't] in one tentacle than you two have in your whole bodies!
Spongebob: That's great Squidward!
Patrick: Now all you need is a box.

[Tanniker Smith]

Every time some on the block got a new fridge, we got a brand new clubhouse for the dozen or so of us. And we got tired of that, we'd roll around inside of it. And when it started to fall apart, we'd rip it open and (I am not making this up) line the cement steps of the stoop to the second floor and make a slide out of it.

(We would even play "Niagara Falls in a barrel" in those things!)

Somehow we lived. Even without safety belts and airbags.

[Eastbound]

Here's an oldie I took years ago. Fits right in here:

"G'nite, Chet!. G'nite, Dave!"

[metmom]

"Especially the really big ones!"

....from wahers, dryers, and refrigs. My kids got more mileage out of those than almost any other toy they owned.

[calljack]

Very good.
No kidding, I agree with this.

[bvw]

Saw kids maybe 12-15 yo using cardboard boxes to slide down hills in Pittsburgh this August.

[jocon307]

What a cute picture. Great post, and kudos to these museum folks for recognizing this.

[Eastbound]

Thank you, jocon. Yup, Cagey. A good find. Thanks for posting.

[Rate_Determining_Step]

I had a good supply of those as a kid. Local appliance store, nice steep hill. All in the heart of the city.

Now, the appliance store has been taxed out of existence and the hill was graded for a multi-use "urban village" unit.

[Jemian]

I remember a Mr. Rogers episode in which he shows us how to cover a shoe box with construction paper. Wow! What a world of possibilities that open up.

I do think a slinky and a yo-yo should be included at that museum. I can still do a few tricks with my yo-yos.

[Hank Rearden]