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Title
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1971_Sackson_328_November 04.jpg
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Creator
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Sid Sackson
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Date
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1971
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Type
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image
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Format
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.jpg
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Source
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Box 1, Object 9, Sid Sackson collection
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Language
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English
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Coverage
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1971
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Rights
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The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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transcription
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English
9/30
9/29
9/28
9/27
9/26
THURSDAY 4 NOVEMBER 1971
308th day - 57 days to come
Rcd. a poster invitation to a party at "The Sign of the Dove" in
celebration of THE GODFATHER GAME. It was RSVP
and I called to say I'd be there.
Rcd. a second copy of Childcraft Catalog (see 9/22).
Thinking of symbols for RESTRUCTURE and came up with the
following possibilities. The number of lines on the design
corresponds with the number of pcs. The symbol following
each is the way it would be written.
[A detailed diagram shows six boxes filled with rectangular and circular symbols, each with anoth (different) symbol alongside.]
Jerry D'Arcey called from Kennedy Airport. Then, after picking
up his package of games which were sent to Newark by
mistake, he came here about 5. Stayed overnight and
left about 9:30 the next morning for Parker Brothers.
Asked Jerry about Frank Thibault and told him that I owed
Frank a letter, but Frank never sent me the copy of CONTIGO
he said he would.
CONTIGO looks good with 3M. They had been looking at another
strategy game, but when they decided against it,
the track was open for CONTIGO.
A year or so ago he submitted a kid's game to Schaper
Lakeside and to Schaper called SHAKE A LEG. Both
companies rejected it, the latter saying it was like
COOTIE. Now [illegible crossed out] Garrity of Schaper says they are
coming out with a Marvin Glass thing called SHAKE A LEG.
The game seems somewhat different from Frank's, but
makes use of a descending marble timer which Frank
used in his game. Frank will check with Garrity when he is
in Minneapolis. Jerry thinks that someone at Lakeside may
have told Marvin Glass.
Frank has an item, TILT BINGO, which Jerry thinks is
great. Got only a rough idea about a "Bingo" type board
mounted over a bowl so that balls can be tipped into
the bowl. Object to get five in a row. Schaper and Parker
both rejected it, but the latter asked him to resubmit it
for consideration next year.
Jerry is not doing well this year at all. Last year he made
$32,000 on {Illegible crossed out] PLUG A JUG - this year so far
about $500. THE HOOKER is down from several thousand
to several hundred. (THE HOOKER, incidentally, is an old
idea he sold to Rathcon, never saying it was his original
idea.) The IMPUZZABLES are good for a few thousand a year.
Jerry showed me some of the things he was showing to Parker
and then, if not bought, to Schaper and Lakeside. Some were
crafts and some were children's games. The others are: -
CHERRY GO ROUND. (Really a children's game but we played it.)
There is a {illegible crossed out] bowl cover with a flat disc in
(cont on 9/30)
