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Subject: Re: What were you reading in 1968?
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 15:08:21 -0400
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On 7/30/2024 2:18 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <v88j68$84c$1@panix2.panix.com>,
> Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> 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
>>
> 
> They started out pretty prosaic with just a motorcycle, but eventually
> Tom was doing Skytrains, through-the-walls "Television Detector"s
> and electric bullets.

Don't confuse Tom Swift Jr & Sr. Tom pere started with 'Tom Swift and
his Motorcycle', in the first series, 1910-1941.

In 1954 we get Tom fils, That's the one I remember, with the series
continuing up to 1971.

The third seriew, 1981-1984, is ambiguous whether we're dealing with
Jr, or Tem Swift III.

The latest series (6th) brings us up to 2022, so 'Victor Appleton'
(sometimes V.A II) has been cranking them out for over 120 years. :-)

pt