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Wham-O Super-Book: Celebrating 60 Years Inside the Fun Factory, by Tim Walsh, paperback, 192 pages, 8.5 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches, 1.5 pounds, Chronicle Books, list price: $19.95
It takes all kinds, but, really, what could prepare any mind for a life inside the Wham-O toy factory? It helps if your name is "Spud" Melin, one of the many nerd entrepreneurs who, over the decades since 1948, have stocked toy chests around the world with such inimitably strange playtime obsessions as the SuperBall, Silly String, the Water Weenie and the Wham-O Air Blaster. Tim Walsh's picture-heavy history of the California-based (where else?) company will provide a nostalgic kick for Mom and Dad, an object lesson in geek enterprise, and, for Junior, the seeds of the next million-dollar idea: Hula Hoop, The Video Game!
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