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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What were you reading in 1968?
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:39:01 -0500
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On 7/29/2024 12:23 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Jay E. Morris <morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
>>
>> I would have been checking books out of the small town school library so
>> anything I was reading in 68 wouldn't have been published in 68. Or 67,
>> or 66 and maybe a couple year before.[1] Well, there may have been the
>> rare exception in the drugstore revolving book rack that I convinced Mom
>> to buy.
> 
> My elementary school had a small library but one that had been
> excellently-curated some time in the 1920s and not really updated
> since then.  I thought this was very cool and read a lot of Jules Verne and
> souvenir booklets from the Sesquicentennial.
> 
> Then I discovered that in the attic of the school were stacks of books
> that had been removed from the library, including a full set of the
> original Tom Swift books.  These probably didn't have quite the effect
> that they would have had on the original readers, since the idea of
> building your own cars and airplanes was not as farfetched as when the
> books were originally written.  But I think this might have made them
> more appealing since they were relatively achievable fantasies.  I have
> since then built my own car out of scrap parts.
> --scott

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