Timeless Toys press kit, 2004

File — Box: 1, Folder: 5

Staff Only

This series contains a press kit and transcripts of interviews performed by Tim Walsh during his research for Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them. Interviewees included:

•Betty James, co-developer of Slinky, 7/2/02 •Steve Levine, son of Uncle Milton’s Ant Farm inventor Milt Levine, 6/10/02 •Eddy Goldfarb, inventor of Kerplunk, Battling Tops, etc., 6/14/02 and 9/20/02 •George Atamian, manufacturer of Sea-Monkeys, 5/23/02 •Bill Rhodenbaugh, manufacturer of Play-Doh, 10/31/02 •Joe Rhodenbaugh, son of Bill Rhodenbaugh, 10/31/02 •Kay Zufall, developer of Play-Doh, 10/31/06 •Stephen Mullaney and David J. Mullaney, grandsons of Wiffle Ball inventor David N. Mullaney, 7/31/02 and 8/7/02 •Hank Paine, owner of the Connecticut Store (Wiffle Ball), 8/13/02

A copy of Tim Walsh’s The Playmakers: Amazing Origins of Timeless Toys (the first imprint of the renamed Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them) is available in the library stacks at the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play at The Strong.