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 When Melanie and I got married in 1983,
part of her dowry included some of the toys she had as a little girl. A Hasbro Lite-Brite
was one of them. Our kids played with it when they were young, but somewhere along
the line during our many household moves, it disappeared. We probably donated it
to the Salvation Army at some point - a lot of our stuff has
 ended up there. About a month ago we started
watching for a good one on eBay that didn't cost too much.
Finally, there was a 1967-vintage Lite-Brite in like-new condition up for auction that
we got for around $45. It has a nice box, scads of plastic light pegs, the instructions,
and some of the black paper patterns. The 25 W bulb appears to be an older
style GE type - and it works! The Lite-Brite is now on display like all our other
old stuff that we had as kids. It's been really nice collecting it all, and the
cost is not bad compared to drinking, smoking, or doing drugs - neither of which
either of us does :-)
The catalog page is from the 1969 Sears Christmas Wish Book, page 465.
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