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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 20:07:15 -0500
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On 7/29/2024 7:53 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> 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

Oops !  I meant to give this URL for "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb9F2DT8iEQ

Lynn