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Old Lego colors —Kevin Wilson
Gary's question about the red stripe reminded me of something. Take a look at those pics of the old sets: note the preponderance of red and white, and then yellow. My memories of my childhood lego in the 60's/early 70's are that the blue bricks we (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.general)

	Re: Old Lego colors —Chris Ernest Hall
	(...) My early 70s of Lego were that red, white & blue were common, whereas black & yellow were rare, and other colors unheard of, except for green trees and baseplates. I think I had a few grey bricks of some kind, but they did not become at all (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.general)

	Re: Old Lego colors —Anders Isaksson
	Kevin Wilson <70641.507@compuserve.com> skrev i meddelandet <373A3D5F.B68B7A79@c...ve.com>... (...) Well, in my old Idea Book (from ~1960), (URL) can see a lot of blue pieces. I know for sure I had them too, but never as many as reds and whites. The (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.general)

	Re: Old Lego colors —Ed Jones
	(...) Not sure about LEGO, but American Bricks were predominately red with a few white. No blue, yellow, black. A few windows and doors, but no roofs. (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.general)

	Re: Old Lego colors —Selçuk Göre
	Kevin Wilson <70641.507@compuserve.com> wrote in message <373A3D5F.B68B7A79@c...ve.com>... (...) My first set was a 1968 Universal set (033 - not in lugnet database yet) given to me in 1975 or 1976. Since it was my only set till 1979, I'm strongly (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Old Lego colors —Kevin Wilson
		(...) I think that's right. My old lego had no colored plates of any size, but we did have white plates (with square holes underneath) in 4x8, 6x8 (just one) and 2x8. There were also some 4x8 with curved corners. I used to think there were smaller (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.general)

			Re: Old Lego colors —Gary R. Istok
			(...) Even though LEGO plates came out in 1963 (1x1 & 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 in parts packs 521, 520, 519 and 518 respectively), parts packs were the only way to purchase them at the time. The basic sets back then only carried the 2x8, 4x8, 6x8 and the (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.general)

			Re: Old Lego colors —Simon Robinson
			I remember back in about 1970 when I inherited my sister's old Lego, there were lots of red and white basic bricks. I also recall there were some pinkish bricks. I recall being puzzled about them, and assuming they were incredibly old bricks that (...) (26 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Old Lego colors —Gary R. Istok
		(...) One thing that we need to remember was that in the late 50's and thru much of the 60's LEGO consisted mainly of TOWN sets . And in both Europe and USA/Canada (Samsonite) TOWN consisted of the Town Plan system. The (Samsonite) Town Plan set (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.general)

			Re: Old Lego colors —Tom McDonald
			(...) in (...) I only have one piece which I would consider "very old": it's a 1x1 round without a bottom circumference notch. I think it managed to come home with me "accidentally on purpose" when I was much younger. It is red, or close to it now, (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.general)

			Re: Old Lego colors —Tore Eriksson
			(...) This may explain why my black bricks with the old font generally grips better ans are less misshaped than my red and white ones. Maybe... :/ /Tore (25 years ago, 6-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)

				Re: Old Lego colors —Gary R. Istok
				(...) Tore, It is quite possible that by the time LEGO made black bricks, they started producing the ABS plastic bricks. It's possible that maybe none of the black bricks were made of Cellulose Acetate, which warped over time. Even Cellulose (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)