Queens Library
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“Age appears to be best in four things—old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
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1936 Olympic Diving Trials and now (2013)
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We are big fans of today’s Google Doodle. Let the wild rumpus START!
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Who remembers when watching movies on Friday nights meant playing a VHS (perhaps one checked out from the library) in a VCR?
Pay $2,500 for a VCR? That’s what you would have had to drop for the first model, which went on sale on this date 38 years ago, in 1975.
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Who remembers these?
Has the joy of reading really changed much over the years? The expressions of wonder and curiosity on the faces of the readers pictured in these 1960s vintage Queens Library prints, made available by the tireless archivists at Queens Memory Project—a collaboration between the Archives at Queens Library and Queens College—bear a striking resemblance to those of our young customers in 2012.
