Old Toys R' 'Us ; Nostalgia's Not What It Used to Be but Hamleys Store Should Bring Back the Child in Everyone
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THEY say that virtually everybody above a certain age remembers where they were when the news of President Kennedy's assassination came through. I certainly do.
I remember it because I made a connection in my four-year-old mind between the smiling man in the back of the open-topped car that I had seen, as I sat on my father's shoulders, on Drumcondra Road some months previously. Just as my father remembered, at precisely the same age, seeing Michael Collins only weeks before he was killed at Beal na Blath.See the full content of this document
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Old Toys R' 'Us ; Nostalgia's Not What It Used to Be but Hamleys Store Should Bring Back the Child in Everyone
But the strange thing is that my most vivid memory of that fateful day, when all the grown-ups were thrown into a deep gloom, was that I was playing with my Dinky cars behind the sofa in the drawing room.
I remember particularly the Ford Zephyr (of which, I reckon, there were more Dinky models than the real thing in...See the full content of this document