By C.J. Hirschfield
“I’m a sane person,” Lela
McKenna assures me. “I just have a singular obsession with Fairyland’s Magic Key.”
No kidding.
Lela – one of Fairyland’s most
active volunteers – still has her very first key, which she believes she
acquired in 1968. “It’s yellow, and it has the original tag,” she says.
Children’s Fairyland’s iconic
Magic Key made its debut a decade earlier, in 1958. It unlocks the many
storybook boxes in our park, releasing musical stories tied to our fanciful sets.
For generations of Bay Area kids, the Magic Key has represented positive
memories of time spent with loved ones in our little urban oasis.
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| Lela McKenna, volunteer extraordinaire. |
