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Re: LEGO History - 40 years ago today.....
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Fri, 4 Feb 2000 18:06:43 GMT
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Gary Istok skrev i meddelandet <389AFA00.1491EA53@umich.edu>...
> Folks, today is an important day in the history of LEGO.
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> My German LEGO collector buddy Kurt Richter, whose birthday it is today
> (Happy Birthday Kurt!) told me recently that on his birthday - February
> 4, 1960 - 40 years ago today, a very important event happened in the
> history of LEGO. It was the great wooden toy factory/warehouse fire
> that destroyed the wooden line of LEGO toys.
It's also *my* birthday (although I was born 1954) :-))
A little nitpick:
> ... LEGO bricks (LEGO Mürsten in Danish) ...
No way! 'LEGO Mursten' - no dots on the U, that would be a German letter, not
in the Danish alphabet.
> [...]
> These early bricks, like the
> earlier 1949 versions were easily differentiated from today's LEGO.
> That was because the tubes underneath the bricks (that hold the bricks
> firmly together) didn't come into being until 1958.
Thanks, that gives me a time frame for the old bricks my wife got from her
cousin as a child.
> A fan of LEGO since 1960. (No I was nowhere near that warehouse! I was
> 6, living in Detroit, recently having emigrated with my family from
> Germany.)
I have also been a LEGO fan since 1960 (I think), although my Dark Age has
been long, I didn't come back to LEGO until my kids needed them - about 1990
(I think).
--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
BlockCAD: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/proglego.htm
Gallery: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/gallery.htm
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