Dorri Partain- September 23, 2020
- 2 minutes Read
Remember This? Protractor & Compass
Cool tools for school, useful for math class and art class too. The protractor was first used by mariners to create or read maps and navigational charts as early as…
- Dorri Partain
- September 16, 2020
- 2 minutes Read
Remember This? Art supplies
Dorri Partain Contributor When the “father of the American Christmas card” needed art supplies for his young daughter, he started a campaign to bring art instruction to all American school…
- Dorri Partain
- September 9, 2020
- 2 minutes Read
REMEMBER THIS? School boxes
Dorri Partain Contributor Can you fit all your school supplies inside a cigar box? Elementary school students in the 1960’s often used empty cigar boxes to corral the array of…
- Dorri Partain
- September 2, 2020
- 2 minutes Read
Faces Of Northeast: Margarita Freidman
Our Face of the Northeast this week is Margarita Freidman, a new resident in the Pendleton ArtsBlock, 2300 Independence Ave. Margarita settled into the newest apartment building on Independence Avenue…
- Dorri Partain
- September 2, 2020
- 2 minutes Read
Remember This? Driver’s Education Text Books
Dorri Partain Contributor Teenagers, would you like to study a 438-page textbook before you obtained your driver’s license? This high school textbook was written by the American Automobile Association (AAA)…
- Dorri Partain
- August 26, 2020
- 2 minutes Read
Remember This? Commemorative Stamps
Dorri Partain Contributor The 100th Anniversary of professional baseball was commemorated with this six cent stamp issued in 1969. In 1868, team promoter Harry Wright filled his10-man roster for the…
- Dorri Partain
- August 19, 2020
- 2 minutes Read
Remember this? Darts
Dorri Partain Contributor Play baseball indoors, in any weather, with this special-designed dartboard. Added to the reverse of a standard numbered-wheel design board, it offers players more variety than a…
- Dorri Partain
- August 12, 2020
- 2 minutes Read
Remember This? Yogi Bear
Dorri Partain Contributor Hey, hey, hey, it’s Yogi! Whether Yogi is a catcher with the New York Yankees or a bear snitching pic-a-nic baskets around Jellystone Park depends on your…
- Dorri Partain
- August 5, 2020
- 2 minutes Read
Remember This? The Lone Ranger
Dorri Partain Contributor Who was that masked man? The Lone Ranger began his quest of law and order as a Texas Ranger, serving along with his brother, Captain Dan Reid…
- Dorri Partain
- July 29, 2020
- 2 minutes Read
Remember This? Baseball Trading Cards
Dorri Partain Contributor When a nickel would buy six baseball trading cards and a stick of gum, a new collectable hobby was born. In 1938, four brothers purchased a candy…
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