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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal Andres, post: 4152395, member: 20537&quot;]I&#039;m creating a thread of vintage photos and ephemera relating to children and the toys they used to roam around in during the 20&#039;s and 30&#039;s. It was actually a vintage postcard&nbsp; of a boy in a pedal car that caused me to sign up for Antiquers in the first place.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll use the power of celebrity in my first post to capture all your attention right out of the gate.</p><p><br /></p><p>The car in the photos was the property of Shirley Temple, gifted to her by actor and dancer Bill &quot;Bojangles&quot; Robinson who she affectionately and respectfully referred to as Uncle Billy. The gift was special and she kept it her entire life. As an adult the car remained in her 2.5 car garage next to her car and her husband Charles&#039; car. After her death, the car along with a life long collection of artifacts from her career, were auctioned off. This Dreyer Junior Racer brought $34,000 at auction 5 years ago. In her 1988 autobiography &quot;Child Star&quot;, Shirley wrote &quot;painted pure white with a red leather seat and chrome hood ornament of a leaping antelope, it was powered by a one-cylinder unmuffled lawn-mower motor...On my first solo run of studio grounds, Uncle Billy crouched on the back, showed me how to start, and we leaped forward. Veering into a nearby Fox publicist, I snagged a long tear in his trousers. My first traffic accident.&quot; Eventually Fox insisted that she take it off the lot.[ATTACH=full]332510[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]332511[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]332512[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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