My whole life I was told that they were called “Linkin’ Logs” because they link up and this morning I learn this?
It’s funny, I never made the connection that it might be “linkin’”. School early on taught us about Lincoln and the fact that he was born in a log cabin in Illinois.
Those toys were fun, but it was difficult to build a theatre out of them.
I can smell that picture, iykyk
I have anosmia so I guess idk.
The kind of wood used, kiln dried sugar pine, smelled as sweet as the name sounds.
You’d open the box and it was like a blast of air freshener.
i’m so sorry. that is one of my greatest fears.
Oh yeah 100%. I actually bought a tote of them a few years ago from a second hand store. I was thrilled because it’s a couple sets all thrown together. There’s a castle with a catapult and boulders, a couple frontier buildings, bits of another set
They absolutely smell the same as they did many decades ago when I had some as a kid
I’m curious whether that was intentional. The wiki article doesn’t give any background on the choice of name, so I’d say it’s entirely possible that the name is a play on Lincoln/linkin’.
It’s also super cool that they were invented by one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s sons! One biographer claimed that Frank’s middle name at birth was actually Lincoln and his mother changed it, so there’s a possibility of that being an inspiration for the name as well.
Great post, thanks!
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