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It’s funny, I never made the connection that it might be “linkin’”. School early on taught us about Lincoln and the fact that he was born in a log cabin in Illinois.

Those toys were fun, but it was difficult to build a theatre out of them.

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I had these as a kid. I was too young to get the connection to Abraham Lincoln until I was older and learned about him in school.

I had that exact box, and a larger set that were actually called Lincoln Logs. Some were in a paper tube & some in a metal tube. https://www.randrauction.com/auction-lot/1950s-lincoln-logs-4cf-in-the-original-containers_1414e61a3f

Because you're not from the US and you weren't taught that Abraham Lincoln built a log cabin with his bare hands?

I'm not sure if that's true, it's just what the toy is named after.

Also the band Linkin Park, is named after a park called Lincoln Park, IIRC it's in Chicago? Searched it and yes, it's in Chicago — the band named for the park is from California. Though I suppose there may be other parks named for Lincoln, but Lincoln the president is from somewhere in the midwest.

Also, there are descendants of Abraham Lincoln alive today and they look just like him. He seemed like a bizarre type, like people don't look like that, but I guess they do, or they can.

I'm curious whether that was intentional. The wiki article doesn't give any background on the choice of name, so I'd say it's entirely possible that the name is a play on Lincoln/linkin'.

It's also super cool that they were invented by one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons! One biographer claimed that Frank's middle name at birth was actually Lincoln and his mother changed it, so there's a possibility of that being an inspiration for the name as well.

Great post, thanks!

LinkedIn Logs

The amount of shit LinkedIn users say could support a whole house.

I'm Canadian and even as a kid I always understood them to be named after the president. Then again old cartoons kinda taught alot of history, not always 100% accurate but they gave you enough to understand it.