was an avid Hardy Boys reader. I think at one time I had them all in hardcover as a kid.
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Same here. The Hardy Boys and the Shortwave Radio Mystery sparked my interest in ham radio. I got a degree in Electrical Engineering and am now 75 and retired. I owe my career to that Hardy Boys book.
I still have all the Hardy Boys hardbound books from the original series. I think there were 58 of them. They are in a box somewhere.