Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 16, 2020

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 5 years ago

    my parents used to have a set of encyclopedias that was printed clear up to the Reagan administration

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    wiatr  almost 5 years ago

    I have World Books from 1960 with 19 more years of updates.

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    Ontman  almost 5 years ago

    I recently introduced some of my nieces and nephews to the wonder of a record player. Vinyl is making a comeback.

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    zerotvus  almost 5 years ago

    wikipedia on paper…..

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    Breadboard  almost 5 years ago

    Just goes to show everyone that knowledge was always at your fingertips even 50 years ago !

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    Doctor Toon  almost 5 years ago

    I did use the encyclopedias that my parents bought, but looking back I didn’t use them nearly enough

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    Caldonia  almost 5 years ago

    Just say that they’re dust catchers.

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    sheilag  almost 5 years ago

    Funny thing is, my parents bought us kids a set of the World Book Encyclopedia, and they are the 1968 editions… I read those things constantly, including the “Year Book” updates they would issue. I think my mom still has those cream and dark green books… they even had gold lettering and gilded edges on the pages… :-P

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    nyssawho13  almost 5 years ago

    Those were the days when one could “Look THAT up in your Funk and Wagnall’s.” ((Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In))

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    rhpii  almost 5 years ago

    I read the entire 1967 World Book set over a summer between my 4th & 5th grade year. I just couldn’t put them down.

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    I'll fly away  almost 5 years ago

    I remember when my folks bought a set. i used them quite a bit through school- the time that land forgot: children actually reading real words and not txt. (shortened to make my point)

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    I'll fly away  almost 5 years ago

    Oops, I missed the shift button on the “i”.

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    sfreader1  almost 5 years ago

    My grandkids already know what encyclopedias are. They don’t use them, but they definitely know what they are. Actually, I think they might enjoy looking through them and find interesting tidbits of information, but that is too much work, I guess.

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    Alberta Oil Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Gave up my set when we moved.. had to down size.. tough call though.

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    KEA  almost 5 years ago

    I finally gave my 30 volume Encyclopædia Brittanica away because I got tired of moving it, but it was traumatic

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    anomalous4  almost 5 years ago

    I used to spend hours reading the 1967 Encyclopedia Britannica. So did my kid bro, who “inherited” the set when mom remarried & moved away. I’m jealous.

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    tinner2000  almost 5 years ago

    I have a set from 1937.No I’m not that old ,I got ’em in 1974 out of an old building basement.

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    Sassy's Mom  almost 5 years ago

    We used to have my grandmother’s old set from the 1920s. It was arranged in a completely different way. You’d have to go to one book, which was an index, and it would tell you which volume and page number. It wasn’t alphabetized at all. I suspect it was a way to keep costs down. When there was new knowledge they wouldn’t have to reprint the whole set, just add a new volume and reprint the index book. Sometimes, you’d have to go to more than one volume to get all of the information! It was kind of frustrating. It even contained a few short stories!

    I wish I knew where that set went!

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    Johnny Q Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    When I was little we had a set of ART LINKLETTER’S PICTURE ENCYLOPEDIA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. (Some of the illustrators also worked on EC horror comics!)

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    sb.3237  almost 5 years ago

    Our Friends of the Library organization has sold several sets online. There are people out there that want them!

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