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Remembering Shoe Shine Boys

The late 1800s and early1900s saw rapid increase in industrial growth in the new nation of America. Individuals like Rockefeller and his oil achievements, Carnegie’s steel accomplishments, Bell’s phone service initiatives and Edison’s lights lifted […]

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Remembering Beauty Shops

Today’s news, the recent clothing styles, your neighbor’s newborn baby, a new salad recipe, what’s the best medicine for rash, gifts one has recently received, the new pastor coming to the church, next week’s celebration […]

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Remembering Ferryboats

TRAVELING! Oh what a blessed opportunity! After weeks of masks, death reports, lockdowns, closures and a wealth of such confining experiences, the ideas of visiting, enjoying mass events with others and “taking to the roadway […]

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Remembering local postal service

                  In this ever-changing world of electronics, there exists a passel of objects slowly disappearing from our everyday world. The local and long-distance telephone operators, for example, softly faded from our regular use. Other items […]