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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
- Thread starter Richland123
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Corollary to hat etiquette for @GwenOnBass.
Well, hardly see anymore. There was a time when most homes had encyclopedia libraries. Encyclopedia Britannica etc. Door to door encylopedia salesmen.
I grew up reading my eldest sister's "Children's encyclopedias" from the mid 1950s. So much was out of date by the time I was reading them (early 1970s and on). They were quite exquisitely put together with very well done illustrations, photography plates, art, and 'how to' guides. They really were from a different world. Everything was written as if to an adult, but of subjects that children would be interested in. All the maps, and flags would be so hideously out of date now. They taught me a lot of ancient history, art, geography, the natural world, literature, religions, and culture. I was actually chastised by my school for only reading these books, and not the trashy Puffin/Penguin-published children's fiction they espoused. The encyclopedias were a little jingoistic, but you have to account for the era.
Strangely, not much at all on dinosaurs aside from the plate, and description of Mary Anning finding an ichthyosaurus while digging in the dunes.
For any young whippersnappers around here, the dinosaur craze wasn't really a thing until much later. I remember getting collectable cards in boxes of teabags that showed brachiosaurs living in swamps to 'support their weight.' Of course, we know better now.
Not my set:
If we will talk about the Golden Book series, I will bring up this book that we had at our house, and which my mother read to me in the late 1950's
Little Black Sambo: Invalid Link Removed
Little Black Sambo: Invalid Link Removed
I have eaten many times at the original Sambo's restaurant in Santa Barbara (now called 'Chad's'). They had all the artwork from that book all over the walls. Weirdly, it wasn't named after the book. The restaurant's name was made from the original owner's names.
Someone in the family handed down that book to us as well, and the board game based on it. The character game pieces had long been lost, however, so the only time we tried to play it, we used wooden (!) Teeko pieces instead.
I never much cared for the story, as the notion of tigers that melted down into butter - even to my young mind - just seemed too absurd.
Nothing like a toddler telling you the book you just read them is ridiculous to get it permanently shelved.
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This is one of the books my maternal grandmother, an English teacher, used when she taught me to read. By any objective measure, I turned out all right anyway.
Better than you would have trying to put melted tiger butter on your toast.
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Better than you would have trying to put melted tiger butter on your toast.
That's pancakes, IIRC.
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Y'know, now that you mention it, I think so.
Been a long time.
Red buttons on yellow britches
(and I have not held that book in a lifetime)
I open the car door for my wife all the time. On a related note, I recently saw a man stand up at his restaurant table when his wife got up to leave the table. He also stood when she returned.
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Still open doors for ladies, however, I also inform them that, "now they know that I know what do do, don't ever expect me to do it again!"
Of course Little Black Sambo would be banned today.
Of course Little Black Sambo would be banned today.
