Since I put up so many little pine cone elves, snowmen, Santa's etc. around my house, it's good to have at least a couple of things related to the birth of Christ.
I still have the box for this thing, and it's pretty battered. It has a reasonable facsimile of it on the outside of the box. What's interesting is the Hills price tag on it!
Marked down from 34 cents to 18 cents – now that's a bargain!
What fun it was as a kid to go to Hills out in South Lorain (especially on the way out, if Mom bought us a frozen coke or box of popcorn)!
Anyway, I still like to look at this thing up close and enter its little world. Actually for something that old and made in Hong Kong (it's No. 427T in case you're wondering), it's pretty nice.
Give the photo a click for that 'you are there' experience!
Our family loved the old Hill's store, especially the law-away program!
ReplyDeleteMy mother used the layaway program a lot too! I guess that whole concept is making a comeback these days.
ReplyDeleteAnd while she was busy putting stuff in layaway, we kids could wander around and look at the toys!
Hills was great. BTW, we had one of those nativities for years.
ReplyDeleteI love your nativity, and the fact that you still have the original box.
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of those plastic nativity scenes. They passed them out to us at catechism in the 60s, at Christmastime. The sets started out pretty neat looking then got cheaper and cheaper.
ReplyDeleteI need a Shepard and a lamb. Those 2 pieces fell off a while back. Mine is exactly like this one.
DeleteSpecifically the 2 lambs in front!
DeleteI still have the one that my grandparents gave me many years ago
ReplyDeleteHi Carol,
ReplyDeleteI would check on Ebay to see if you could find one you could use for parts. (There's one for three bucks on there right now, but – you guessed it – it's missing the shepherd and one of the two front lambs!)