Before Legos, We Kicked It Old School With American Bricks
Elgo Plastics made American Plastic Bricks. They are associated with the 1950s, but you could still find them under the Christmas tree in the 1960s. They seemed so much more serious than the Legos that would eventually chase them from the field. Serious is somehow more fun, I think.
The Construction Toy Homepage has scanned a booklet that came along with the cardboard tube with the metal lid filled with red, white, and clear plastic interlocking parts, but I could have saved them the trouble and drawn it from memory for them.
Ah, the very first casement windows I ever saw were on my little plastic houses, along with the very exotic mediterranean style garage door and the faux jalousie windows. In case you wanted to make a house for Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow to live in.
