Category: Talkin ‘Bout My Generation
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Home Ec Memories
Exploring Home and Family Fleck, Fernandez and Munvez 1965 This book showed up in a book donation and I had a blast flipping through the pages. From what I could tell, it is a refugee from a high school and it is practically showroom new! WorldCat shows holdings in mostly…
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The Teen I Want To Be
The Teen I Want To Be: Secrets To Modeling, Make-up, Fashion, Hair Styles Green 1985 Submitter: The real title of this should probably be “The Teen My Mother Wants Me To Be.” She’s trying to claim this was a school project but judging from the writing inside I was in 6th…
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Babysitting 101
When Teenagers Take Care of Children: The Official Guide for Baby Sitters Kraft 1965 I would have guessed that this is even older than 1965. The pictures are adorable, but really old fashioned (even for cartoons!). The worst, though, is the section on first aid. Librarians: please give your teen…
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Fresh Fly Flavor
Fresh Fly Flavor: words & phrases of the hip-hop generation Fab 5 Freddy 1992 Submitter: I found this book yesterday in our reference section and can’t stop laughing about it! It’s from the early 90s and it’s a guide to hip hop slang! It was written by Fab Five Freddy,…
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I want to be a “likable teen”
Your Home and You Greer and Gibbs 1960 This book is ten different kinds of awesome! I want to sit around drinking milk and playing records. Ah, the good old days! I was lucky enough to trip on it at our library’s used book sale. I have no idea how…
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TV Trivia Teasers
TV Trivia Teasers: 1004 Totally Tubular Brain-Twisters Casey 1984 Submitter: Found this gem while weeding our TV collection. Not only are all of the TV shows and movies in the questions from the 40s-early 80s, among those featured in the “Photo Teasers” are Rock Hudson, George Burns, Shelley Long and…
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