Aug 24, 2013
At 99, Brookline Toy Store Owner Says the Kids Keep Her GoingBy Brock ParkerBostonGlobe.com

Brookline, MA – The price of the penny candy is up to 10 cents, but not much else has changed at the small toy shop Ethel Weiss has been running near Brookline’s Coolidge Corner for 74 years.

Instead of video games, children looking for toys in Irving’s Toy & Card Shop will find what Weiss calls old-fashioned toys such as Slinkys, Silly Putty, wood paddle ball, green army men, and finger traps.

Weiss would know a thing or two about old-fashioned toys.

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