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Curses!

September 28, 2018 Holly Entertainment 10 comments

Toasts: The Complete Book of the Best Toasts, Sentiments, Blessings, Curses, and Graces Dickson 1981 Submitter: Well the title of that book went downhill quickly. Just weeded this from our public library today. My favorite curses were the ones about

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70s TV for the Kids

September 12, 2018 Mary Kelly Entertainment 12 comments

TV’S Top Ten Shows and Their Stars Herz 1976 For the over 40 crowd, can you remember these shows? (Extra points for the under 30 set.) This is another example of youth nonfiction from yesteryear. There’s nothing really special about

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Burt Reynolds Revisited

September 7, 2018 Mary Kelly ALB Announcements, Celebrity Gossip and Advice, Entertainment 5 comments

Burt Reynolds Hotline: The Letters I Get…and Write! Reynolds 1972 Late yesterday afternoon, I heard that Burt Reynolds passed away at age 82. You can read the NYT obituary here. I was a teen in the 1970s and Burt Reynolds

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Mouthing Off

May 30, 2018 Holly Entertainment, Ha Ha Ha? 15 comments

Mouth Sounds: How to Whistle, Pop, Click, and Honk Your Way to Social Success Newman 1980 Submitter: We recently stumbled upon this book in our public library stacks and are unsure how this book slipped through a previous weeding project.

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Osmond brothers

1970s Pop Culture Fun

April 24, 2018 Mary Kelly Entertainment 8 comments

Osmonds and the New Pop Scene Robinson 1972 I am sure if you are of a certain age you will identify with some of these “new” pop scene acts. Extra points if you can name everyone on the cover. Although

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We're Going to Make You a Star

We’re Going to Make You a Star

March 21, 2018 Holly Celebrity Gossip and Advice, Entertainment 14 comments

We’re Going to Make You a Star Quinn 1975 Submitter: [This book] was in our collection and requested via [interlibrary loan]. We opted to withdraw it rather than send it along. How embarrassing! Love the television. Holly: The TV has a

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Incredible Internet Guide to Star Wars

Star Wars on the Webz

January 10, 2018 Holly Bleeding Edge, Entertainment 8 comments

The Incredible Internet Guide to  Star Wars Weber 1999 Submitter: Found in 791s when pulling material for a display. I guess people were excited enough about the Phantom Menace in 1999 that a book collecting all the Star Wars fan

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TV & Video of the Future!

September 11, 2017 Mary Kelly Bleeding Edge, Entertainment 7 comments

TV & Video Electronic Revolution Irvine 1983 Direct from the 1980s: cutting edge video and television. To give everyone some historical context, video cameras were just starting to become mainstream when this was published. When I got married in 1982,

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