{"id":2769,"date":"2017-12-03T13:28:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T18:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2017-12-03T13:28:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T18:28:50","slug":"25-days-of-holiday-trainvertising-3-walking-in-a-wooden-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/03\/25-days-of-holiday-trainvertising-3-walking-in-a-wooden-wonderland\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Days of Holiday “Trainvertising” #3: Walking in a Wooden Wonderland"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEGO makes a Christmas card for its employees each year, and this was the example made to celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary in 1982. It is filled with vintage LEGO goodness, including loads of wooden toys, 1:43 scale Chevrolet trucks, early LEGO building toys and some 1980s LEGO sets under the Christmas tree.<\/p>\n

If you look closely, the box of wooden toys contains a special steam engine. Those Chevrolet trucks would also look mighty nice on an O scale layout. LEGO produced wooden toys from 1932 through 1960, following a fire that destroyed the wooden toy warehouse. The plastic Chevrolet trucks were made between 1952 and 1957.<\/p>\n

These images originally appeared in the\u00a050 Years of Play\u00a0<\/em>book, a LEGO history book given to LEGO employees in 1982.\u00a0The book is hard to find, but you can read the digital version online via Brickset.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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LEGO makes a Christmas card for its employees each year, and this was the example made to celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary in 1982. It is filled with vintage LEGO goodness, including loads of wooden toys, 1:43 scale Chevrolet trucks, early LEGO building toys and some 1980s LEGO sets under the Christmas tree. If you … Continue reading 25 Days of Holiday “Trainvertising” #3: Walking in a Wooden Wonderland<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1025,"featured_media":2772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[360,361,362,231,230,363,364,353,358,365,354,78,366,235,359],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-1930s","tag-1940s","tag-1950s","tag-1980s","tag-230","tag-automatic-binding-brick","tag-chevrolet-truck","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-card","tag-fabuland","tag-holiday","tag-steam","tag-technic","tag-vintage","tag-wooden-toys"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LEGO-Christmas-Card-1982-crop.jpg?fit=1287%2C907&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8egNP-IF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2771,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/2771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}