property lawyer, the couple filed an application for the girder and panel trademark and set up their business, bridgestreet toys, out of their suburban boston home. as soon as you apply for the trademark, you re entitled to use the tm. once you go through the entire process and it s done you use the little r with the circle called registered. that means it s now complete. with the old kenner designs long gone, paul was in charge of producing the new sets from scratch. reverse engineer them and look at the literature and what could be built with it and what parts should we do first. bridgestreet toys have carved out a niche in the toy industry based on their brand name. but they are quickly winning over a new generation of architects and engineer who is love the retro product all over again. i love the hydrodam. there is so much you can do. and it s water, you know.
i built roads and bridges with that. nearly 50 years later when paul and carol were searching for a christmas gift for their son, paul thought about buying him his favorite childhood toy. paul senior looked at me. he said you know, i had this toy when i was a kid called girder and panel. i don t think it s manufactured. i vnlts seep it since i was a boy. girder and panel was a construction set that had budding engineers assembling miniature buildings and bridges, but when kenner stopped manufacturing it in the 1970s the set disappeared off the toy store shelves. i went on ebay and found a vintage set. and ordered it. and thought oh, this will be fun. i ll give it to paul sr. for christmas. it came. i looked at it. it s like this sinlts going to be for christmas. so i got it out, we set it up on the dining room table. i took a look and i was like this is the coolest toy i ve