Whatever Happened To...

[L Verge]

This is totally off the wall, but most of us have probably received quite a few emails focusing on things that were common place to us oldies back in the 1950s and 60s. From hoola hoops to milkmen, they bring back fond memories (most of the time). However, one of my best childhood memories never shows up on these lists. BOOKMOBILES!

It was such a treat to have my mother drive us two miles or so to the nearest stop for our county bookmobile every two weeks. I don't even know where the closest lending library was to our home in those days - we just depended on the library coming to us on four wheels. Do such things still exist in rural areas?

And, what ever happened to pop beads? Mary Lincoln may have had her seed pearls, but we had our pop beads. Am I really showing my age now?