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New Delhi: Students of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan are participating enthusiastically in the India Toy Fair 2021. The total number of registrations from KVS is approx. 3.5 lakhs.
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the India Toy Fair on 27th February 2021. While inaugurating the Fair Prime Minister Said, there is so much strength hidden in the toy industry of our country. Increasing this strength and increasing its identity is a big part of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat campaign.
Three KendriyaVidyalayas from all over the country have been selected to display their Stalls in the Fair. KV JNU from Delhi Region, KV No. 1 AFS Gurugram and KV IIT Kanpur are displaying their unique toys in this fair.
Ever since moving to Kalamazoo I ve been on the lookout for an awesome store to nerd out in. We have a few shops in the area that have some cool stuff, but there s a particular kind of store we had on the east side of the state that I ve been searching for, and I ve finally found it. Rocket Comics at
4235 Portage Street in Kalamazoo has exactly the feel I was looking for, but not just me. Rocket has a steady flow of customers daily, mostly in part to the fact that this POC family owned business thrives on forming a relationship with the customers.
Legends & Legacies
Thirteen year old boy with his model train in 1942 photographed by Marjory Collins. Library of Congress/Courtesy photo
Those of you who were not alive in the 1950s may be connected to toy trains through Thomas the Tank Engine. Thomas revived train toy sales that had rapidly declined beginning in the 1960s. The decade of the 1950s was the height, and I was one of the many boys who delighted in them.
Toy trains go back to the 19th century, and the first electric toy trains appeared in America in 1897. Interest in Aspen increased when The Aspen Times ran an article “Electricity in Modern Toys.” Since Aspen homes had had electricity for the previous two decades, having a train for a child that was powered by electricity including lights was an easy step. But no model train was advertised until 1919 when the Kay Stores Company offered “trains that run on tracks.”