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Author: Joy Henley Publisher: ISBN: 9780578720890 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Ah! Another busy, frolicsome day on tap with a garden hose! No frills required! The water games and pitchers of sugared Kool-Aid were endless. It did not take much to keep a heyday kid busy and happy. Remember your heyday of growing up in your hometown? The 1960s was a time of hamburgers, french fries, Five and Dime stores, the first kiss, record hops, mood rings, lightnin' bugs, wax lips, foot-long Coney Dogs with slaw, John, Paul, George, and Ringo and soda fountains. Life seemed at its best! Whether you refer to the era as "the good old days" or "back in the day," everyone has or will have a heyday! Many of the memories are such a part of us that people still talk about them 50+ years later!The heyday is more about feelings and emotions than an actual place. It was a land where childhood fueled the imagination and blossoming teen years took on a life of its own with unique social behaviors and norms. Grandma may have worn go-go boots, bright blue eye shadow, no bra, and a mini-skirt clear up to her?well, never mind! Or Grandpa could have been a bad boy on a motorcycle! This book can take a young reader to the brink of culture shock! After a cross-country road trip from Seattle, Washington to Muncie, Indiana, what does it feel like to go "home" after decades? Are there ways you can help create a heyday for the children and grandchildren you love, starting today? Wherever your heyday occurred, get ready to laugh, remember the groovy days, and embrace some emotional reminiscing. From music to old fashioned Christmas celebrations through child eyes of wonder, to some way-back recipes, hang on for the ride! Be prepared for some "I forgot about that" moments!
Author: Joy Henley Publisher: ISBN: 9780578720890 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
Ah! Another busy, frolicsome day on tap with a garden hose! No frills required! The water games and pitchers of sugared Kool-Aid were endless. It did not take much to keep a heyday kid busy and happy. Remember your heyday of growing up in your hometown? The 1960s was a time of hamburgers, french fries, Five and Dime stores, the first kiss, record hops, mood rings, lightnin' bugs, wax lips, foot-long Coney Dogs with slaw, John, Paul, George, and Ringo and soda fountains. Life seemed at its best! Whether you refer to the era as "the good old days" or "back in the day," everyone has or will have a heyday! Many of the memories are such a part of us that people still talk about them 50+ years later!The heyday is more about feelings and emotions than an actual place. It was a land where childhood fueled the imagination and blossoming teen years took on a life of its own with unique social behaviors and norms. Grandma may have worn go-go boots, bright blue eye shadow, no bra, and a mini-skirt clear up to her?well, never mind! Or Grandpa could have been a bad boy on a motorcycle! This book can take a young reader to the brink of culture shock! After a cross-country road trip from Seattle, Washington to Muncie, Indiana, what does it feel like to go "home" after decades? Are there ways you can help create a heyday for the children and grandchildren you love, starting today? Wherever your heyday occurred, get ready to laugh, remember the groovy days, and embrace some emotional reminiscing. From music to old fashioned Christmas celebrations through child eyes of wonder, to some way-back recipes, hang on for the ride! Be prepared for some "I forgot about that" moments!
Author: Milton A. Masing Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738501116 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 136
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From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this "golden age" can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks, and assembling crowds of local children only too happy to pose for a picture. These images, printed as postcards and sold in general stores across the country, survive as telling reminders of an important era in America's history. This fascinating new history of Muncie, Indiana, showcases more than two hundred of the best vintage postcards available.
Author: E. Bruce Geelhoed Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738507330 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 140
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It was the publication of research conducted by Robert S. Lynd and his wife Helen Merrell Lynd in 1929 that transformed Muncie, Indiana into the barometer of social attitudes, customs, beliefs, and behavior in the American heartland. Recognized as the most widely studied mid-sized community in America, Muncie has attracted researchers and historians for nearly a century. A town which prospered in the 1920s, and survived the economic hardships of the Great Depression, Muncie has grown to become a prospering business community with a strong link to its rich past. Muncie: The Middletown of America explores the evolution of Muncie in a series of over two hundred black and white images. Spectacular photographs unveil Muncie's past, from the Ball Brothers, whose glass-making company gave the city its reputation in the 1880s, to exciting high school basketball and volleyball contests in the 1980s and 1990s. Striking imagery enables the reader to connect to the past and visualize how Muncie developed to where it stands today.
Author: Keith Roysdon Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439658331 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 149
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Explore the notorious and unusual side of Muncie's history. Muncie is the classic small American city. But for much of the past two centuries, the city fell victim to murder, corruption and the bizarre. Mayor Rollin Bunch went to prison for mail fraud, while his police commissioner faced a murder rap. Viola "Babe" Swartz ran a brothel out of a truck stop that was raided by police at least a dozen times but ran for sheriff in the 1974 primary election. June Holland, of the locally famous Holland triplets, killed her neighbor for refusing to sell her house.
Author: Rick Yencer Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 150359016X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 179
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Muncie in 150 started as a look at the communitys sesquicentennial celebrated in many ways by the summer of 2015. The story about Middletown USA evolved into history in the making with several events that offered once in a lifetime experiences for the people and leaders of the community. As Europeans moved to the Midwest after the 1818 Treaty of St. Marys with Native Americans, Muncie grew along the banks of the White River until railroads charted the course for trade, commerce and later industry in Indiana. The communitys post Civil War development along with its turn of the 20th Century industrialization offered progress at every turn along with a growing higher education and health care system making it a regional center. Many of Muncies celebrities are featured like that cat from Albany drawn by Jim Davis and his associates who are looking to China for the next market for Garfield.. Theres also the tragedy of National Football League star Dave Duerson who was an All-American and won two Super Bowls. Duerson took his life and had his brain used for research into chronic brain trauma. Theres also some reads on whats happening in Muncie today like a no contest city election and a failing school system. Muncie in 150 offers a view for those here and there to a community in the Midwest that always puts quality of life and place before crime and poverty.
Author: Joy Henley
Author: Joy Henley
Author: Milton A. Masing
Author: E. Bruce Geelhoed
Author: Keith Roysdon
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Author: Central Indiana Gas Company (Muncie, Indiana)
Author: Rick Yencer
Author: Charles F. Coldwater
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Author: Rick Yencer