While doing research on the Internet, I came across an article which indicated many brands that were favorites in the mid-1900s are re-inventing, re-positioning and, in some cases, re-introducing these once top-sellers in an attempt to entice a new generation of consumers to buy their products. In the meantime, they seem to be overlooking the [...]
The longer bickering and hostilities rule in our nation’s capital the longer it will be before America gets down to business. For months, the economy has tried to struggle back. The stock market has been up, unemployment has stopped rising, consumers are starting to buy albeit cautiously. Yet there’s something lacking as this jobless recovery [...]
What pre-boomer can forget being given the distinction of licking and pasting a kitchen drawer full of S&H Green Stamps into the collection books so Mom could go to the redemption center and turn them in for merchandise rewards? It could have been Top Value, Triple S, Plaid or Blue Chip stamps. For many years, [...]
We pre-boomers grew up in a time when there was no doubt that this country was the world leader in virtually everything we could think of. Our generation was born between 1930 and 1945, so we saw results of what a united people are capable of doing. Rising from the ashes of the Great Depression, [...]
As a pre-boomer growing up, I collected all kinds of stuff. Stones and sea shells were the first items I stored away. Toy soldiers and emblems from WWII were the fun part of the war. Later it was coins and stamps. As I got into sports, my collection of baseball and football cards was a [...]
