I remember space being everywhere when I was a kid. It was the go-to feature for all our stuff.
Here's the type of paint box I would have had.
This is one on the Spanish auction site and has beautiful graphics, which capture the hope and dreams of space travel we all shared back then.
Did you have a paint box like this?
I had a large metal paint box with a boy and girl in space helmets (but no spacesuits) riding a giant paint brush through space. Some time ago there was a post on a vintage toy shop in England, and the exact same paint box was shown in the window. Wish I still had it.
ReplyDeleteI remember that box Paul. Space fever gripped the world in the Sixties. I wonder if the new drive to visit the Moon will lead to renewed kids' excitement?
DeleteI will always see the future of space in those pretty primary colors as seen in this paint box, and in so many toys and models and movies of the day. Why spaceships all ended up in drab white, I'll never know...
ReplyDeleteha ha, yes I know what you mean Zigg. You should have been in charge of the colour palette of rocketry!
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