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Subject: Re: What were you reading in 1968?
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:53:15 -0700
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On 7/29/2024 3:39 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 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
> 
> "Johnny Cash - One Piece at a Time (Official Audio)"
> 
> https://www.ttgnet.com/journal/2024/07/29/mon-july-29-2024-busy-day-today/
> 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jOMcAlO7rQ


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