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As you look at the items, keep in mind that this was a time when Franklin Roosevelt was in his first term as president, the Depression was in its fifth year but Prohibition had recently ended, Adolf Hitler declared himself the fuhrer in Germany, Flash Gordon was a new comic strip, Babe Ruth signed a huge $35,000 contract, Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed, the Lindbergh baby kidnapper was arrested, John Dillinger was shot to death only nine months after being arrested in Dayton, Donald Duck made his debut and Sophia Loren, Brigit Bardot, Hank Aaron and Charles Manson were born….
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Did You Know…
Those who were born in the 50’s 60’s ,70’s and early 80’s are the last generation who played in the street. During our childhood we “walked” over a mile a day when we played & played “hide & seek” outside at night with no worries or fear of anything bad happening to us.

We are the first generation who played video games and the last to record songs off the radio onto a cassette tape. We learned how to program a VCR before anyone else, we were the first to play from Atari to Nintendo…We are the generation of Tom & Jerry, Looney Toons, & Captain Kangaroo. We traveled in cars without seat belts or air bags, lived without cell phones and caller ID. We did not have fax machines, flat screens, surround sound, I pods, Facebook, Twitter, computers or the internet, and through it all we had a great time.

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