[Leica] Lego (WAS: IMG: V. with phone)

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

I have DUPLO and LEGO bricks over 35 years old, purchased for my elder son,
who is now 40 years old. They went through my younger son, a few nephews
and nieces, and now his elder daughter, my granddaughter, now 5 years old
has been playing with the DUPLO stuff for close to two years now. The LEGO
is stored in a few suitcases (there really is quite a lot!) which probably
need to unpacked soon. I have two other grandsons, both under 1 year old,
who are crawling into the queue....

Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 12:12 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> Sonny’s post triggers me to tell this story. Back in the 1960s, as a small
> child in Communist Poland, my best friend was the daughter of some friends
> of my parents. We were the same age, both born in 1960. My earliest
> childhood memories involve sitting on the floor in their apartment, playing
> with her Lego bricks—an unimaginable luxury in mid-1960s Poland.
>
> Beata and her parents emigrated to Denmark in 1969, and we followed suit
> in 1972. The Lego bricks went to Denmark too, but by the time we were
> reunited in Copenhagen, we were more interesting in teenage kind of
> things—learning to smoke, growing long hair (in my case), rock music etc.
> So the Lego bricks sat in storage.
>
> Fast forward to the 2000s. Beata got married and started the procreation
> business rather late, in her late 30s/early 40s. She has two children, a
> boy and a girl, now aged 16 and 18 or something like that. But when they
> were small, they played with the very same Lego bricks with which we had
> played 40 years earlier!
>
> And yes, Beata still has them, so who knows—maybe a third generation will
> take them over in the next decade?
>
> I have sent this story to a senior manager at the Lego company in Denmark
> (whom I had met in connection with my work) and she loved it, of course. It
> is attachment like this that makes Lego one of the world’s most powerful
> brands.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
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> > On 19 Jul 2019, at 15:54, Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > You left out reading!
> >
> > But some Legos in our house are thirty-five years old and are in regulare
> > use by another generation.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Sonny
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> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:17 AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Really, my comment was more to do with indoctrination via toys.  Do we
> >> suggest toys to mimic adults(in past practice dolls for girls and
> erector
> >> sets for girls) or toys to stimulate basic skills and thinking like
> legos,
> >> blocks, puzzle toys, random items that allow the child to develop
> >> creativity and imagination as well as basic skills and understanding
> about
> >> physical reality.  Don't get me started about reading versus video.
> >>
> >> But, back to the image posted, I believe this is a fine portrait and
> good
> >> subject to learn a new lens.
> >>
>
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