What were some toys for kids?
To start with there was very little money for toys in the 30’s and people had a very hard time to eke out a living. But people were inventive. Boys would carve out guns from wood. Scooters were made by dads with an orange crate box resting on a 2 x 6 board and roller skate wheels on the bottom. There was wooden wagons for boys and wooden table and chair sets for girls. Boys who were lucky enough would get a mechano erector set. This was a set of metal slats with holes placed strategically to accept a nut and bolt. You could design a crane or other types of equipment. Girls would play with porcelain faced dolls but most of the time we played on the street. We would have games of baseball, hide and seek and any other game we could invent. Bolo bats became quite popular and we would save any pennies we could scrounge to buy one. Cheap ones cost 10 cents and the deluxe model cost 25 cents. We had a lot of comic books (used) and traded them with our friends. There was what was called Big Li
