The bananas are ceramic. 

The other fruits are light weight plastic 

Chadwick Dolly Foods

produced in the 60's.

More Dolly foods on the counter. 

German food boxes on shelves.

The Batwing scooter is by Hallmark 

and part of the Sidewalk series

 Kiddie car collection (not an ornament but

 full Ginny size instead)

The vegetables are mostly Dolly Foods.

Oh! More customers!

What if an every day wagon could become a 

Flash Strat-o-wagon

 and catapult you from Earth to space

 and back to your favorite store??? 

This vintage Vogue Ginny square dancer transitional boy

 and my repro blonde Ginny wearing 

a 1956 Kinder Crowd outfit 

have just landed from outer space 

and parked their matching space craft!

 This red metal version Flash Strat-o-wagon 

is an example of Wyandotte Toys

All Metal Products Company was an American toy company

 founded in 1920 

and based in Wyandotte, Michigan for most of its history. 

It produced inexpensive pressed metal toys under the Wyandotte

 brand name,

 and was the nation's largest manufacturer of toy guns for several

 decades in the 20th century.

 The company's slogan was "Wyandotte Toys are Good and Safe." 

To keep costs down, the company used scrap and surplus raw

 materials whenever possible,

 often manufacturing their toys from scrap metal obtained from

 local auto factories. 

In 1929 the company added girls' toys and toy vehicles, 

as well as lithographed novelty toys in 1936. 

Metal toys were banned during World War II because the metals

 were needed for the war effort.

 The company survived by producing wooden toys and die-cut

 cardboard  "build your own" play sets during the war.

In the early 1950s, All Metal Products Company moved from its

 site on Sycamore and 14th St. in Wyandotte to Ohio,

 hoping that closer proximity to Ohio's steel mills and cheaper

 Ohio labor    would help the company cut costs. 

The effort was not enough to prevent All Metal Products

 Company from going bankrupt in 1956.

Today "Wyandotte" toys are highly sought after collectibles,

 and since they were made mostly of metal many continue to

 survive today. 

The toy guns and airplanes produced before WWII were simply

 constructed from pressed metal 

and often painted in bright colors such as red, yellow, silver and

 olive green. 

Because of their simplicity these toys can often still be found in

 good condition.

   Wyandotte toys produced after WWII can be easily

 distinguished from pre War toys

 by the elaborate lithograph markings that decorate them. 

These toys were manufactured using much thinner metal, and

 weigh less than the pre War toys.

This blue metal version Flash Strat-o-wagon 

is also an example of Wyandotte Toys

I had to have them both!

Side view: The wagon part is 6" long 

and the handle is 3"

Side view: The wagon part is 6" long 

and the handle is 3"

Romance can be out of this world!

Time to fold up shop...literally!

Thanks for landing here! 

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