Why Every Family Needs a Code Word (wsj.com) Posted in GD for wide applicability, namely everyone.

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7. My grandmother had the phone numbers of each contact written on an index card.

I don't know who did the artwork to identify each person, but I do recall it was clever, often funny. Mighty long ago.

One uncle ran a gas station with a big "Sparky the Horse" on the roof, and it was on the card.



Here's the gas station, from MIT archives, and my Uncle Richie.
Source: https://dome.mit.edu/handle/1721.3/35514

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Blast from the past.