Hello, Weeks after I made this backyard sandbox for our toddler son, we had just enough money to get one dump truck to go along with a garage sale dirt mover. He was good at moving most of the sterilized white sand from one spot to make a hill near his slide. The result was a soft landing spot for his legs when he came down the slide into the sand box. The dump truck did all of the “sounds” and actual loading and dumping sand, just like the large earth movers we saw down in the new road they were building nearby. Eventually, he would get his large umbrella on those sunny days, but his days were spent not in minutes, but hours, with a snack break during the digs. YRMV Jnaki We were surprised that when my parents came over for his 2nd birthday, they had the steel Tonka dump truck, the steel road grader with the front blade and the real sand mover with the opening bottom. Now, he was in 7th heaven during his custom sand box play. For the years he played in the sand box, he kept the Tonka Trucks and graders super clean and rust free. A truck wash and dry was at the end of every play day. Tonka Trucks as part of collection from @bowie Many years later, when we had a neighborhood garage sale, our granddaughter was instrumental in a lot of sales during the event(s). This one year, she was a great sales person and when a tall man came by, he was anxious that his grandson was coming for a visit and he had no toys for him to play with during the days. So, our granddaughter knew where we kept her dad’s old set of Tonka Trucks. So, she mentioned that she would sell the set of pristine trucks to him. The neighbor smiled at her and said he would pay any amount for the trucks. She thought about it and the little kid without any toys. Then, she said with a straight face and a smile, “twenty dollars and the deal is yours.” He could not get the money out fast enough with a huge smile. He even bought a large handful of her other sale item she created: “Fortune Pops.” Each individually wrapped Tootsie Pop had a hand made fortune wrapped around each stick. They were all made up by our granddaughter. Some were funny and some were very to the point about growing up. She wrote each one and attached each to the sticks. They sold fast and she continually sold them as people wandered in our sales area as a cool snack, a drop of a quarter and the sale was final. YRMV Both of those little kids are now in their 20s... Time flies when you are having fun...
1931 Cunningham Cathedral eight column carved hearse, built for CA Gould Funeral Home in Wakefield, MA.
Muppet creator Jim Henson with a Rolls Royce Silver Dawn at the time of his graduation from the University of Maryland - 1960
That first shot looks like an extremely bad AI image. It's not a doctored image of the other one you found. Look at the buttons on the shirt, the "New York" insignia. Nothing matches. Nobody would create this kind of crap in Photoshop. I wonder why anyone took the trouble to do that first image at all. Guess there are just too many idiots out there with nothing else to do!
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