L. Allen Company, which began not as a producer of toys or sporting goods, but as a manufacturer of farming equipment. I pleaded with my wife that I wanted it for my granddaughter but it’s for me because we had them and Speedways in the sixties growing up so I was prompted to check on the history of the sleds. Agricultural implements were a seasonal product and every winter the factory would churn out Planet Junior products only to lay off staff during the slow summer months.

The Flexible Flyer line was sold once again in 1993 and production moved to Olney, Illinois, then to China in 1998. I truly hate to see buildings like this left to deteriorate only to be torn down and replaced with something that will last only a short time compared to this building. I’m sorry we weren’t able to connect, as some of the history recounted is, to my knowledge, incorrect, as my father, Herbert Bernstein (1916-1994), a Center City realtor and investor, was the one who bought the Allen buildings, in 1971, I think, from the sled company successors, with the hope of reviving them.However, Allen’s new patent for a steerable sled would change his life and propel his company into the national spotlight.

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