“The beauty of it was making whatever you could dream up”
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That’s how it was when my kids were young-—60s and 70s.
We dumped the boxes of Legos and let them go at it.
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When I was young, there were no Legos. We had Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, and if you were the STEM-type, the go to toy was Erector sets.