PAGE V. THE OLD FOLKS HOME
Step back into the good ol' days
for a little while.
Funny Books
Collecting comic books or funny books as we used to call them, and reading them was a big thing in the old days.
"Just about every kid (and a lot of parents) had a cardboard box for their collection of comic books. They would carry their box to visit with a friend or two and swap books. They only cost a dime but that was almost an hours pay for some men and you may not be able to buy more than 1 or 2 a month, so collecting and trading them with each other was a major way of seeing new ones."
Pulp Magazines
Collecting and trading Pulp Fiction Magazines was almost as popular among some grown up as comic books were to their kids.
"Printed on cheap wood-pulp newsprint to keep the prices
low, the pulp fiction magazines were the literature of the working
class for the first half of the 20th century
"
CLICK HERETo View A Brief History And Some Links.
HEY, How About The Old Movies
Click On The Poster
For The Movie Page
The Days Of Radio
Almost everyone listened to the radio in "The Good Ol' Days," There were "Radio Shows, just like TV show except without the pictures. The dialog was written in a way to describe the scene and the announcer usually set the scene before the action started.
Click on the Old Radio below to listen to some
of the sound clips on the "Old Time Radio Show."
"Mothers listened to the soap operas during the morning and early afternoon. The kids claimed the late afternoons after 3:00 PM for the juvenile serials, like Jack Armstrong, Little Orphan Annie, Terry and the Pirates and Dick Tracy. The whole family gathered around the radio in the evening like a scene out of "Walton's Mountain" to listen to Charlie McCarthy, Baby Snooks, Lux Radio Theater, Mystery and Your Hit Parade.
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Are you, Still Young, Getting Older, Don't Tell Your Age or are you Older Than Dirt???
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Web Pages
The Background Graphic, is the Pennington / Milam General Store
and Post Office in Pine Island / Prairie View Texas, Texas.
Buster Milam and Tommy Garrett on the bicycles,
Lucille and Chalista Milam in the car. Circa 1914.
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