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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: nuku Date: October 19, 2020, 3:19 pm
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[quote author=jpcher link=topic=647.msg59189#msg59189
date=1603134858]
Oh, my, Gardensgrey! That brings back such memories! ;D
Doodling on the covers was a must! ;D
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My dad was a printer. He got us huge sheets of paper we used as
book covers that were ideal for drawing on. 😁
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: Soop Date: October 20, 2020, 7:13 am
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[quote author=nuku link=topic=647.msg59195#msg59195
date=1603138780]
[quote author=jpcher link=topic=647.msg59189#msg59189
date=1603134858]
Oh, my, Gardensgrey! That brings back such memories! ;D
Doodling on the covers was a must! ;D
[/quote]
My dad was a printer. He got us huge sheets of paper we used as
book covers that were ideal for drawing on. 😁
[/quote]
Not related to book covers (not a thing we did at my school),
but we always had heaps of paper. My dad worked in the data
centre for GM and that included a print shop. There was always
loads of scrap paper, a lot of it perforated sheets with the
holes down the side (we never had a problem finding paper to
make banners in my house).
He would also bring us damaged magnetic tape holders (plastic
covers about the size and shape of a film reel) to store our
treasures and his screws and nails. We had one of them filled
with old crayons and someone left it in the back window of the
car. We then had a film reel shaped block of multi-coloured wax.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: Oz Diva Date: October 20, 2020, 8:12 am
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Almost all schools in Australia require school uniforms. I used
to love buying stationery, but I don’t remember shopping lists.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: gramma dishes Date: October 20, 2020, 8:53 am
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I remember opening up brand new schoolbooks for the first time
and loving to just stick my nose into them and smell that
wonderful 'new textbook' smell! ;D
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: syfygeek Date: October 27, 2020, 12:56 pm
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[quote author=gramma dishes link=topic=647.msg59208#msg59208
date=1603202020]
I remember opening up brand new schoolbooks for the first time
and loving to just stick my nose into them and smell that
wonderful 'new textbook' smell! ;D
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And the thrill of seeing who had the book before you if was a
used book.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: TootsNYC Date: October 27, 2020, 1:24 pm
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we covered my kids' books back in the late '90s and early '00s.
You could buy stretchy fabric ones, etc., but I liked the paper
because I would re-label them so it was easier to tell what they
were at first.
(I wish they'd let us label the edges, so you could tell which
book was what from the top of your backpack)
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: Elisabunny Date: November 20, 2020, 8:47 pm
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I remember using non-preglued wallpaper scraps for my book
covers. They were pretty, very sturdy, and somewhat
water-repellent.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: lowspark Date: March 31, 2021, 8:34 am
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[quote author=Gardensgrey link=topic=647.msg59173#msg59173
date=1603118399]
Ritual of a bygone era: I started kindergarten in 1960. My
parents had 5 kids. For weeks before school started, they would
double down on stockpiling brown paper grocery bags. The first
evening after textbooks were distributed on the first day, we’d
clear the dinner table & the book cover production line would
start. My parents wielded the scissors, cutting rectangles out
of all those grocery bags. The rest of us would fold those
rectangles around the books, making sure to make deep pockets
for them to slide in. Most of the time, these brown paper bag
book covers lasted all year. Back then, there wasn’t such a
thing as a store-bought book cover, and later on, only a few had
these.
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Oh my gosh! I remember folding book covers! I had forgotten all
about that. They used to hand them out to us at school with our
textbooks and we were required to use them. They had the folding
instructions printed on them. We used to draw and write all
sorts of things on those book covers. Here's one I remember...
In case of fire, throw this in.
Boy, we thought we were clever! ;D
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: holly firestorm Date: April 25, 2021, 5:36 pm
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As I recall, we needed more than a notebook and pencils. And my
school had uniforms, so we didn't go shopping at Sears.
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Up until my joyful release I worked for the LA Unified School
District. Almost all the schools I know of wear uniforms. The
difference is, the girls can wear skinny jeans (in the school
color of course), not just knee length skirts.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: Snowfire Date: June 20, 2021, 9:16 pm
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I was also in California in Elementary/Junior High in the
60's/70's. Newport Mesa school district in Orange County. Girls
could not wear pants to school at all...unless it was raining.
It also seemed that it had to be raining at the principals house
because I knew several girls who were sent home to change to a
skirt, even though *it was raining at the school*. We also were
NEVER allowed to wear jeans. Shoes also had to have a heel
strap...because we couldn't run in a slip on shoe...but we were
not allowed to run on campus.
Lots of conflicting "rules". I was so glad to get out of that
district. The state I moved to had a much more relaxed dress
code.
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