Friday, March 20, 2009

1974 Children's Palace Toy Circular


Children's Palace is a well known Toy chain to anyone who grew up on the East Coast, these castle themed stores were eventually bought up by Child World in 1977 and ran until 1992 when they finally closed their doors, leaving many a 70s kid in mourning.

typical children's palace store, click here to see more vintage toy stores

This 1974 Toy circular shows a retailer in it's prime, many fully colour pages showing all the hot toys of the day. Familiar brands like Barbie, G.I. Joe and Big Jim along with TV greats Batman, Spiderman, Sesame Street, the Planet of the Apes and Rodney Allen Rippey?

Visit the 1974 Children's Palace Circular Gallery





Other Toy Flyers and Circulars from the 70s


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3 comments:

  1. Wings12953/20/2009 8:27 AM

    Great post! Such memories...

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  2. wee673/20/2009 9:58 AM

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  3. wee673/20/2009 9:59 AM

    With each page, I fell deeper and deeper into my time traveling fantasy of being able to go back and simply walk around one of these stores.

    I remember we used to drive by one these headed from Philly to the Jersey shore. My mom would rebuff my pleas to stop with, "Its just a toy store."

    CLEARLY, Mother, it was much more than just a toy store

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