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Published on 12/08/1999 All articles from this issue

Vintage toys still gathering bids at silent auction

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Special to the Town Crier

Do you have a little girl who would jump for joy if Santa left her a doll house this Christmas? Or a young lad who would love to climb into the cockpit of a toy airplane?

Highest bidders during the American Cancer Society's Los Altos Discovery Shop's December silent auction will enable two youngsters to receive these gifts.

The airplane is a scale model of the Grumman F3F Gulf Hawk, the last Navy fighter biplane from just before World War II.

The ranch style doll house, which revolves on a lazy susan, is occupied by a doll family.

A Los Altos Hills engineer built the doll house for his daughter and the airplane for a grandson. After a family member became a cancer statistic this year, the daughter and son agreed to donate the heirloom pieces to the Cancer Society for this year's Christmas fund-raiser.

The items are featured in the Discovery Shop windows. Bids, which were close to $200 for each item as of Dec. 1, will end on Saturday, Dec. 18, according to manager Ardy Bazarian. "The Nov. 21 fashion show netted the Cancer Society $4,000 during the hour and a half of shopping that followed the show," she said.

The Discovery Shop, 243 Main St., Los Altos, is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and during December, Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. For more information, call 949-0505.