Posted on 09/02/2014 2:38:46 AM PDT by beaversmom
Fun ruiners!!!
We used to do that to the HS newspaper, they even had ads to rip on and they were kind of popular.
In 60 plus years never heard of it. Also never missed anything by not hearing of it...........
lol! I love it. :)
Never saw them in central PA.
Leni
Up thread, a FReeper in Pittsburgh had them.
Everyone used them (and drew on them) in Portland OR. I still remember the design before the current one, at least partly.
That’s a great list, I remember a bunch of these in CT, a lot which went bankrupt in the ‘90s like Ames, Bradlees, Caldor, some of them I even remember going bankrupt in the ‘70s like W.T. Grant, Two Guys, even E. J. Korvette. I spent a lot of time at F.W. Woolworth buying “Coke Floats” and candy and eating at the lunch counter. I bought a lot of Atari cartridges and soft pretzels and LPs at Caldor in the early ‘80s. Good store, lots of high school kids worked there.
Now in NC (and just about everywhere else) it’s just Target (2 within 2 miles) and Wal-Mart and that’s about it for better or for worse.
There’s a cultural and linguistic divide in Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh is solidly in “pop” country, while eastern and central PA are part of “soda” land. Despite being in an “East Coast” state, Pittsburgh and environs are solidly part of the industrial Midwest. It may be a legacy of the time when rivers were used for transportation: most of eastern and central PA drains into the Atlantic by way of the Chesapeake Bay, while the rivers at Pittsburgh drain to the Gulf by way of the Ohio and Mississippi. Why this would extend to the reach of marketing of a type of folder sold to school children in the mid-20th century I don’t know.
A bunch of Koreans! A branch of my old bank was run by Koreans. Laos, Vietnamese, Cambodian. I live in a predominately Jewish area. About a mile from where Bush lives.
Does anyone remember the “gag” book covers? With titles like,
“Teaching Your Pet Alligator to sing Grand Opera” by Prof. P. Anno Scales
“Thirty Years of Exploring the Grand Canyon on a Pogo Stick” by I.M. Maimed
“Recipes For Crumbs” by Betty Cracker
I remember Pee Chee folders from the second grade. Kids liked them because they depicted high school sports and carrying one made you feel sort of grown up.
Until I saw this article, I had concluded that teachers add at least one imaginary item to those lists and then watch the Walmart via closed circuit television and watch as the poor, harried parents try to find a "Pee Chee" folder.
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