The horse on the top shelf with the old baseball glove - is that Barney Google's racehorse?
Every toy has a story!
My grandfather bought Airstream trailers after his plane crash in 1956, later motor homes. I had great vacations with them, 49 states, Mexico, Canada. One trip to Nags Head NC I won that horse playing bingo
, I was 7. I found a better picture of it online and description:
"According to the legend, land pirates—also known as “bankers”—who lived in the area in the 1700s would hang a lantern on the neck of an old horse—a “nag”—and walk the horse up and down the tallest natural sand dune on the East Coast, which is now known as Jockey's Ridge State Park."
So an early "lighthouse" guiding ships at night so pirates could pillage after ship ran aground.
The horse became a mascot for grandparents cars, later RVs riding on the dash.
In 1968 before a vacation my grandfather wanted all rubber fuel lines replaced with steel before a vacation, but garage mechanic said it's a new RV, it'll be fine. Halfway on the trip a fuel line leaked, fire started, we all got out ok except RV was a total loss losing everything. Looking through the rubble somehow that Nags Head horse survived...the only thing that did.
Sorry for such a long story.
