1986 Playskool Flashlight
I think I was about nine the first time I started playing with flashlights. There for a few years, there was something fascinating about the batteries and lights and I even went so far as wiring things together and cobbling together working flashlights using whatever broken and battered scraps I could find. The time I figured out that touching wires to each end of a battery could actually make things happen was magical.
I guess flashlights aren’t exciting to kids today, not with iPhones and iPads in the hands of little kids, but this ad from the December 1986 issue of Working Mother tells me I wasn’t alone in enjoying flashlights back in the eighties.
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