Back In My Youth,

that is in the 1950s/60s,

making models from plastic kits was all the rage, boats, planes, cars, houses and trains all made at the time by 2 main players in the UK boys shop market, Airfix and Revell, there were hundreds of kit makers, but these are the two I remember buying most, times have of course changed, I now read that a Japanese city just West of Tokyo is responsible for 80% of the plastic model market, Shizuoka City, home to toy model makers like Bandai and Tamiya, prides itself as being the plastic model capital of the world, 

inspired by these plastic models, or puramo, the city recently launched an initiative to install puramonuments around the city that range from signage to functional post boxes, that I have to say remind me so much of the kits that I played with, 

the design for the new monuments was inspired specifically by the assembly kits that came in grids of interconnecting plastic rods that had to be clipped to free the individual pieces, 

so far the city has installed three puramonuments: a post box in front of city hall, and two signages, one in front of Shizuoka Station and the other outside the Twin Messe event venue where the Shizuoka Hobby Show is held each year in May, one city making 80% of the plastic model market, amazing!