It may be true what he says José Miguel García Varela, owner of possibly the best collection of vintage toys from Spain: toys are for older children, the older and more enthusiasm ago. Small now dazzles with television, computer or console, while dedicating little time and less interest to current toys, for more specialized and sophisticated they are. So things are. So called much attention to the ‘big kids’ exposure to these days runs Cantabria, from five different points, anyone traveling to miss a detail. 140 toys and over 60 comics, stories and comics, none after the 60s, when the plastic unseated the tin and imagination overflowing shoebox succumbed to the remote controlled car.
Five thematic
Called the ‘Around Town’ was inaugurated this week in Los Corrales de Buelna one of five exhibitions of antique toys, and simultaneously rotating display the Obra social Caja Cantabria in several of its regional centers. These samples are composed of a total of 140 toys, all original, and belonging to the first six decades of the twentieth century. They include animals, characters, kitchenware, music, home movies, beach and variety of vehicles for land, sea and air. They are made of tin, papier mache, wood, terracotta and most of the materials that were used until the advent of plastic, so find bearings, mechanical and electrical. Abound manufactured by Spanish companies, but they also include a selection of foreign toys.
It then lays out the same, about 60 comics and stories from the same time, causing people to identify with these toys do likewise with the reading that accompanied them. This inauguration was accompanied by a talk on the subject, which conducted the Cantabrian José Miguel García Varela, collector and owner of these toys, which houses a collection of over a thousand pieces, accompanied by Manuel Muñiz Castro, head of Caja Cantabria Assistance Centers.
In addition to the current exhibition can be enjoyed in the yards, the other themes are party, golf, sea and air, and rail home. Will rotate every 15 days for all persons who wish to see. Those who do not have that opportunity may turn to the major exhibition prepares for Christmas. The five subjects united and more on the palace of the Obra Social de Caja Cantabria, Santillana del Mar.
And as secretly, hiding in the sample evolution of the toys and, with it, children. The transition from entitlement to a special day, unique gifts to take the whole year, of the Magi to Santa Claus and the whole company; broken sleep for a couple of cowboys and Indians red-eye to the play. So, for people who come each day to the exhibition, be glimpsed very, very homesick.
