“How did we live without cell phones?”
Recently, I’ve heard this question a lot, regarding the Hurricane Sandy disaster in New York City, managing schedules and whatnot. The question reminds me of when I was a child, listening with awe to my grandmother recite all the things that had not been invented when she was little: automobiles, airplanes, TVs. She seemed hyper-aware of the passage of time, all the changes she had witnessed over her long life (she died in 1987, at age 96).
After her death we uncovered a family scrapbook dating back to the 1800’s rife with German newsclippings I might one day manage to decipher. Pasted to one page was the following clipping. The year is not noted–I’m guessing it was circa 1950.
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