2000.2.233

c.1970
8 in HIGH x 10 in WIDE
(20.32 cm HIGH x 25.40 cm WIDE)
City of Oakland
2000.2.233


A Toy Train, large enough to carry passengers in its two open-sided cars, is moving toward the camera at left, powered by a make-believe, rubber-tired engine. The front of the engine has an anthropomorphic "happy face," with eyes, nose and mouth painted on the front of the "boiler." An engineer has one hand on one of the controls, and a Jack in the Box clown is between the two cars behind the engine. The cars are filled with grown-ups and children, and the cars in which they are riding have striped canopies overhead. To the rear of the last car there is a mock, striped depot, with a saluting, mock soldier appearing in its doorway. Signs above and near the entrance to the depot read "Toy Train Depot" and "Train Ride 15 c[ents] Get Ticket on Train"

Used: City of Oakland

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