“Magnificent Nature Guides”
It’s 1952.
DISCARD
On the back flyleaf, stamped in red: DISCARD.
“In the Nostalgia District”
The Brady Bunch in in a townful of use-book stores.
“Pat talks to teenagers”
“For your own future enjoyment I say go bowling, or to a basketball game, or watch a good TV program (like the Pat Boone Chevy show!), at least for a while.”
Organization man?
Three photographs found in a paperback copy of William H. Whyte’s 1956 book The Organization Man. Was the man in these photographs an organization man?
Department-store Shakespeare
In 1965, a suburban department store’s book department carried at least one work of Shakespearean criticism.
The Wheel of Information
Five tiers, eight hundred books, forty-five years on the job.
The dinner hour
When was the dinner hour?