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100 1 $aEmmons, Charles F.,$d1942-
245 10 $aBack in our day /$cby Charles F. Emmons.
260 $a[Place of publication not identified] :$b[publisher not identified],$c2016.
300 $a158 pages ;$c23 cm
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505 0 $aIntroduction: Living in midcentury Erie, Pennsylvania -- Playing outside: In praise of dirt and sand -- Toys and games: The world is a toy; life is a game -- Telephones: Number please? -- Radio: A sentimental journey -- Television: Doubling our pleasure -- Scary things: Danger and the disappearing sun -- Mom's and Dad's humor: "That's a joke, Son" -- Christmas: "Look! A nut!" -- Snow: Storm central -- Halloween: Trick-and-treat -- Vacation: School deprivation -- Aunt Grace: A pity to grow up -- Food: A tale of beans -- Clothing: The Emmons Collection -- Shopping: If you've seen one indoor shopping center, you've seen the mall. -- Cars: Beep! Beep! -- Doctors and dentists: "Can you lick your weight in wildcats?" -- Salesmen: "Kringle Krunch, Mr. Crest?" -- Why I loved school (usually): 68 years and counting -- Language: Us kids with no accent -- Sports: "A bloop and a blast" -- Gambling: You can't lose (if you don't play) -- Church: The heathen in the pew -- Etiquette, manners, civility: No thank yous -- Today: Welcome to the future.
520 $aThis memoir is a nostalgic look at life in Erie, Pennsylvania, mostly in the late 1940s and 1950s. The author, born in 1942, relives the simpler time of dial telephones with cords to keep them from disappearing, TVs with 5 knobs and 2 stations, and a downtown shopping area. If you lived then and there, you will remember. If not, it will seem like a foreign country. One in which children actually played outside, were not afraid to walk two miles to school, and were only beginning to develop a youth culture outside the control of their parents. This is an individual's personal story seen mostly through rose-colored glasses. --Publisher's description.
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