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How about "Duck and Cover"? We had to quickly get under our little wood desks as practice for an atomic bomb attack.
I remember those drills, especially back in the mid 1950s. None of us ever questioned how a simple wood desk would protect us from the monstrous atomic bomb.
Most of my classmates in elementary school had the identical set of encyclopedias in their homes. That was our one resource we would go to to research for a homework assignment. The teachers were not impressed if you just copied from the encyclopedia, so we would try so diligently to “mix up” the wording of the encyclopedia entry in writing our assignments. The teachers were not fooled at all. Assiduously moving a few words around didn’t hide anything, not when twenty five other kids were doing exactly the same thing.
Nowdays kids have a world of resources to pick from, not one solitary entry in an encyclopedia.
The World Book Encyclopedia was the internet of the early 60s.
The World Book Encyclopedia was the internet of the early 60s...
I remember our local grocery store selling each edition of the encyclopedia weekly in the mid 1950s. We'd buy the "A" book one week, then the "B" book the next and so on.
As a child of the 60s, I read all 20 volumes cover to cover. It opened my eyes to an incredible world of science.
Growing up in the early sixties I remember these being at the end of one of the grocery aisles and each week or month they would put out the next volume. Not sure if they were give away's or like the free glasses at the service stations with fill-ups.
I remember when TV show seasons started in September (right after Labor Day) and ran through the next May. Each season had 36-37 episodes. None of this 10-12 episodes per season like you see today.
Things that would baffle younger people today?
My grandmother's firstborn son died from measles.
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