Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 16, 2020

my parents used to have a set of encyclopedias that was printed clear up to the Reagan administration

I have World Books from 1960 with 19 more years of updates.

I recently introduced some of my nieces and nephews to the wonder of a record player. Vinyl is making a comeback.

wikipedia on paper…..

Just goes to show everyone that knowledge was always at your fingertips even 50 years ago !

I did use the encyclopedias that my parents bought, but looking back I didn’t use them nearly enough

Just say that they’re dust catchers.

Funny thing is, my parents bought us kids a set of the World Book Encyclopedia, and they are the 1968 editions… I read those things constantly, including the “Year Book” updates they would issue. I think my mom still has those cream and dark green books… they even had gold lettering and gilded edges on the pages… :-P

Those were the days when one could “Look THAT up in your Funk and Wagnall’s.” ((Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In))

I read the entire 1967 World Book set over a summer between my 4th & 5th grade year. I just couldn’t put them down.

I remember when my folks bought a set. i used them quite a bit through school- the time that land forgot: children actually reading real words and not txt. (shortened to make my point)

Oops, I missed the shift button on the “i”.

My grandkids already know what encyclopedias are. They don’t use them, but they definitely know what they are. Actually, I think they might enjoy looking through them and find interesting tidbits of information, but that is too much work, I guess.

Gave up my set when we moved.. had to down size.. tough call though.

I finally gave my 30 volume Encyclopædia Brittanica away because I got tired of moving it, but it was traumatic

I used to spend hours reading the 1967 Encyclopedia Britannica. So did my kid bro, who “inherited” the set when mom remarried & moved away. I’m jealous.

I have a set from 1937.No I’m not that old ,I got ’em in 1974 out of an old building basement.

We used to have my grandmother’s old set from the 1920s. It was arranged in a completely different way. You’d have to go to one book, which was an index, and it would tell you which volume and page number. It wasn’t alphabetized at all. I suspect it was a way to keep costs down. When there was new knowledge they wouldn’t have to reprint the whole set, just add a new volume and reprint the index book. Sometimes, you’d have to go to more than one volume to get all of the information! It was kind of frustrating. It even contained a few short stories!

I wish I knew where that set went!

When I was little we had a set of ART LINKLETTER’S PICTURE ENCYLOPEDIA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. (Some of the illustrators also worked on EC horror comics!)

Our Friends of the Library organization has sold several sets online. There are people out there that want them!