My parents bought this in 1962 it seems ( the first book of the year is for 1962) when my oldest brother was nine. We all used this up until the 1980s. I ended up with it and I can't part with it even though I seldom use it. I did pick up the 1963 book of the year a few weeks ago and read about the JFK assassination.
shareI own a small dictionary from my grandmother that's from the late 70s. I used it until the early 2000s. Very handy, otherwise I had to go all the way upstairs to the computer.
shareI have an encyclopedia for all the players in Negro League Baseball. This is what they actually call it. Please don't shoot the messenger.
shareThat’s awsome. The reference collection
shareNo encyclopedia set at our house. I suspect my parents thought they were too expensive, and hey, there's always the library.
I do, however have an Atlas from 1910. It's a small book, about 5 by 7 inches, 125 pages. At the back of the book, it has a listing of the principal cities of the U.S., which was any place with a populations of 5,000 or more. In 1910, Miami, FL had a population of 5,471, much smaller than say, Davenport, IA at 43,028.
It also has a list of principal world (outside the U.S) cities. Back then, London's population of 6,580,616 was the largest city in the world. Anyone care to guess what the second largest city in the world - NOT counting U.S. cities - was at that time? Tokyo was #3 at 2,186,079.
The small town we grew up in never had a library. It was so backward in many ways. I can see why my parents bought it as they were determined that their kids be better educated than they were.
Paris.
That makes sense if you don't have access to a library.
Paris is correct! 2,763,393. Why would you know that? I might have guessed Rome, a measly 575,000, though. Vienna, Austria is listed at 2,085,888.
I still have my baseball, football and basketball trading cards from the late 80s to about mid 90s when I stopped collecting. Last year I went through all of it for the first time since probably the late 90s. Im praying the trading card industry makes one last big run in society before im dead, ha. But Its funny that I kept the Derek Jeter rookie cards. I dont even know why I would have kept those in the early 90s because Jeter wasn't Jeter yet in those years. Had to be just because of the Yankees and the words "hot prospect" or "top prospect."
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