24 Duncan Street
24 Duncan Street was the address of the storefront throughwhich O.M.'s workshop in the Celestial Department Store was connected to Earth, existing "from 1 February 1921 onwards" — as stated in an advertisement in one issue of The Druimport Entwister. (PROSE: "Notices & Classifieds" [+]Part of The Druimport Entwister No. 276, Loading...{"namedep":"Notices & Classifieds","1":"The Druimport Entwister No. 276 (short story)"})
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"O.M.", short for "Old Man", is a nickname of the titular character from The Toymaker [+]Loading...["The Toymaker (TV story)"], an episode of Lost in Space, where he was played by Walter Burke. The Toymaker depicted O.M.'s Workshop as containing gateways to various inconspicuous-looking toyshops on various planets, including one on Earth, although the Earth shop was shown to have closed down by the series' present day of the late 1990s. This is presumably the shop at 24 Duncan Street, "open from 1921 onwards". The detail of the shop having opened in the 1920s adds a further parallel to the villainous Doctor Who Toymaker, shown in TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"] to have once disguised his Celestial Toyroom as an innocuous-looking toyshop in 1925.
