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Random Topics / Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Last post by Mr Apnea on Today at 10:15:41 PM »Mary C. K.
Will be traveling to Boston.
The fantastic forum still lives:
https://www.fantasticforum.com/1res/
Looks like #artbell is no more over on EfNet. Spent a lot of time there back in the day. http://www.efnet.org/
There is also an art bell subreddit on reddit that still gets traction.
Did some looking around at the 'other places'................ this truly does seem to be the last of the AB related 'GAB' boards.
I only know abouts Azz's place and BellGabs latest failed kaboom! Perhaps there are others?
The unfettered, unchained, and never to be realized KSMGAB is on so much ice.
In today's mail I got a Montgomery Wards flyer.
a) I had no idea Wards was still in business, b) that they still had a mail order business, and c) I've never shopped there or bought anything from them ever. I haven't seen a Wards store or thought about them in decades.
*In Podunk growing up, we had a Wards, a Sears, and later a K-Mart. My dad hated Wards, reason never explained - probably his father bought something from them in about 1930 and it broke or didn't work right, or maybe never came in the mail, who knows. All my friends had things from Wards. When I got my first car one of the things I did was stop at the Wards store and look around inside to see what it was like. It was like Sears. Lol.
Anyway, it was weird seeing it in the mail, I'll have to flip through it one of these days.