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calendria

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Play-Doh kids' classic wasn't invented to be a toy
« on: July 13, 2021, 05:05:21 pm »
 :cat:

 :glasses-nerdy:   ???

https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/kids-pets/a20074233/play-doh-originally-purpose-wallpaper-cleaner/

Play-Doh Originally Had A Very Different Purpose

But it turns out it was a wallpaper cleaner, first. Back in the late 1920s, a man named Cleo McVicker convinced the parent company of Kutol, a failing Cincinnati soap company, to let him and his brother, Noah McVicker, try and turn the brand around,
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McVicker’s son, Joseph McVicker, eventually decided to rebrand the wallpaper cleaner as a children’s toy when he found out that his sister-in-law had used it at the nursery school she ran as an inexpensive material for the children to make Christmas ornaments with in the early ‘50s.
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Re: Play-Doh kids' classic wasn't invented to be a toy
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2021, 09:37:26 pm »
My kids and grand kids all like  it. Will probably get some for them soon.

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Re: Play-Doh kids' classic wasn't invented to be a toy
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2021, 06:25:42 pm »
Thanks for the info-i used to love playing with play doh(i love the smell of it)

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Re: Play-Doh kids' classic wasn't invented to be a toy
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2021, 10:05:11 pm »
That's cool.

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Re: Play-Doh kids' classic wasn't invented to be a toy
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2021, 04:20:45 am »
Interesting story....often times, great inventions get discovered "by accident"

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Re: Play-Doh kids' classic wasn't invented to be a toy
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2021, 10:36:03 am »
Amazing i t started as as a cleaner when it always seems to make a big mess in my home!  LOL

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Re: Play-Doh kids' classic wasn't invented to be a toy
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2021, 04:20:31 pm »
How very inventive. I love it!  :heart: :star: :heart:

Seems as though there have been many accidents that became big hits. Including penicillin; fortunately for us.  :highfive:

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Re: Play-Doh kids' classic wasn't invented to be a toy
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2021, 03:04:16 pm »
How interesting!

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Re: Play-Doh kids' classic wasn't invented to be a toy
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2021, 05:10:21 pm »
I was always a big play- doh fan growing up

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