What would you find in a house of the 60s or 70s. Mine are shag carpets, crochet dolls to cover TP

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57. In the 1960s my mother bought the 100th anniversary Encyclopedia Britannica

I kept it out of her estate. I'll probably never use it, but it is still sentimental to me. When I came home from college, Mom & Dad would have me look up information in it for them. They weren't stupid, just didn't get the index system that was new to that edition. Since I majored in Library Science, they used my knowledge to find things for them.

We also got free articles from EB if we couldn't find the info in the encyclopedia. I got one on Elvish from Lord of the Rings and one on the genetics of color in horses. My Dad asked for one on the state of world phosphate mining - a few months later he got a letter asking him to write the article. He was one of the very few independent phosphate mining engineers in the world at that point and had worked for the Peruvian and Brazilian governments to help with their mining operations. He turned down the commission from EB - he wanted to find out what he didn't know, not provide them with what he did know!