Views: 299 Holiday Memories are great history. Call it our Vintage Toys Advent Calendar – New Day – New Vintage Toy, so make sure you bookmark and come back to see the next classic. Maybe you even had one! Special… Read More »Holiday Vintage Toys Advent Calendar
Views: 98 We all know the feeling. Say the words board games, and something instantly pops into your mind. With the holiday season bringing family and friends together, it is almost guaranteed that a board game will hit the table… Read More »American Board Game History
Views: 935 New Jersey has been shaping America’s toy box for more than a century. It began in Cinnaminson with Samuel Leeds Allen’s 1889 Flexible Flyer sled and in West Orange with Edison’s talking doll, the first to speak on… Read More »Vintage Toys Are the Best History Ever – Playing, Collecting, Remembering
Views: 18,845 Isn’t it interesting how history becomes a part of history? Take, for example, pay phones. When you were using them, you never thought about it, and then they’re gone and not just gone……totally gone. Then you see them… Read More »Jersey’s History with Bar Room Shuffleboard
Views: 1,823 It was a Friday night, and the parents saved their night out for Saturday, so they wanted to do something social on Friday night to unwind. I remember my mother asking to set up the card table as… Read More »Retrospective: Games We Remember our Parents Played
Views: 2,263 What better way to share New Jersey’s local history then with games. In an effort to create a fun and entertaining teaching method, the Mr. Local History Project presents a number of interactive puzzles and games for kids… Read More »Program Pilot: Local History Games/Puzzles
Views: 6,714 Nominate your top 5 favorites for our American HO Greatest Slot List. Isn’t it great when you get to go back in time and do things you did as a kid? I remember the times when I would… Read More »Slot Cars and Motorsports History