The Tinkertoy Construction Set is a toy for children. It was
designed in 1914—six years after the Frank Hornby‘s
Meccano sets—by Charles H. Pajeau, who formed the Toy
Tinker Company in Evanston, Illinois to manufacture them.
Pajeau, a stonemason, designed the toy after seeing children
play with sticks and empty spools of thread. Pajeau partnered
with Robert Pettit and Gordon Tinker to market a toy that would
allow and inspire children to use their imaginations. After an
initially-slow start, over a million were sold.

The Cabbage Patch Kids doll brand set every toy industry sales
record for three years running, and was one of the most popular
lines of children’s licensed products in the 1980s and has
become one of the longest-running doll franchises in the
United States.

Cabbage Patch creator Xavier Roberts, below, copyrighted his
design in 1976 and sold the rights to company Giant Coleco in
1982. Dolls that were made prior to the Coleco handover are
worth the most.

Lloyd N. Morrisett Jr. (November 2, 1929 – January 22, 2023)

(AP) – Lloyd Morrisett, the co-creator of the beloved children’s
education TV series "Sesame Street," which uses empathy
and fuzzy monsters like Abby Cadabby, Elmo and Cookie
Monster to charm and teach generations around the world,
has died.

Morrisett’s death was announced Tuesday by Sesame Workshop,
the nonprofit he helped establish under the name the Children’s Television Workshop. No cause of death was given.

In the aftermath of World War II, the General Assembly
of the United Nations voted to establish the United
Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
(UNICEF), an organization to help provide relief and
support to children living in countries devastated by
the war.

Mr. Moon began as a radio show in the early 1950s and debuted
on  KOIN-TV November 16, 1953, one month after the station went
on the air. The final show aired in 1958.


       
Ed Leahy (below) played Mr. Moon and Wonder Bread was one of
the sponsors of Mr. Moon.