This
week at Flashbak, I remembered a funny toy from the disco decade, and the
Carter Era, specifically.
Here’s
a snippet and the url (http://flashbak.com/cardboard-politics-remembering-amy-white-house-play-set-55855/)
“Although
Amsco virtually cornered the market for cardboard playsets in the 1970s with its
play sets from The Waltons, Space: 1999, Planet of the Apes and Marvel Comics,
Toy Factory had an entry in the game too.
And
an unusual entry at that.
Not
long after the presidential election of 1976, Toy Factory released its
over-sized “Amy at the White House Play
Set.”
In
this case, the titular Amy is actually Amy Carter (1967 - ) of the Carter
family.
Young
Amy joined her father, President Jimmy Carter, mother Rosalynn Carter, and pet
cat Misty Malarkey Ying Yang at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in early 1977. She was just nine when she moved into the
White House, and was the first child to live there since JFK’s kids in the
1960s.
Over
the next four years, Amy was seen roller skating in the White House, and
inhabiting a tree house on the South Lawn for sleep-overs with friends.
This
toy, however, also gives Amy a lemonade stand, a bicycle, and a table. It also
provides card-board cuts out of her commander-in-chief dad and First Lady
Mom…as well as her secret service agent detail.
The
Toy Factory play set also offers cardboard versions of the Washington Monument,
the Presidential limo, the Rose Garden, a helicopter, and a bench…”
Please
continue reading at
Flashbak.
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