Since we’re apparently – at least here in the cradle of the car
industry – blowing right past “recession” into raging depression (in
every sense) I think toy libraries are an idea whose time has come
again.
In San Diego, a toy library started in 1937. Works
Progress Administration workers (part of Roosevelt’s New Deal) cleaned
and repaired 2000 toys that had been collected by the Veterans of
Foreign Wars. Many of them came from a department store that had
burned down.
The first toy library opened at an elementary
school in the city, and soon there were 9 within the city of San Diego
and 14 around the county.
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