Kerrys Toy Room pt. 1

Monday, February 25th, 2008 @ 12:41PM

By popular demand!

Everytime I meet FOP’s, I always get the same requests.  First is ‘shut up’, second is ‘I want to see whats in your toy room’.  Lets start with the oldest and most cherished item in my collection.  From 1970, Billy Blastoff!  The First American Boy In Space!  Now He Walks!!  I saw this in the Montgomery Ward catalog when I was just just a little little kid.  I told Mom thats what I wanted from Santa.  She was concerned that I was not old enough because it was reccomended for kids older than me.  Also, she worried, ‘Santa may not be able to afford that’.  Which, made no sense to me at the time because obviously Santa must be richer than god!  I mean, how else can he just give and give every year?!  Surely there was a diamond mine at the North Pole.  When your a kid you dont think about whether your family is poor or not.
Anyway, I never gave up hope and ‘Santa’ somehow made it happen. Billy had alot of accesories..that sadly I have lost.  He used to walk, but i broke his plastic feet so many times they fell off.  I tried taping them together (this was pre Krazy Glue) but to no avail.  So, my Billy is handicapable. (?) I left some batteries in his backpack and they leaked and rustec the inside of his backpack, so he no longer works.  Tooo bad! He has a little gear, well, in his ass that turns when you flip his switch. (!) The gear connected to a wheel in the seat of his various Lunar Rovers and Rocket cars and mad him go!  Just the best toy ever! 
The reason it is so important to me personally is, I found out later my mom took several sewing jobs just to pay for Xmas that year.  Worked at night in her sewing room hemming pants and sewing church dresses for people around town.  I will never part with this.
More Toy Room Later!!