These leather bookmarks you get at touristy spots used to be very popular. I’m not sure if they still are. I got a lot of them back in the 1970s in the UK. This one I got at the Halifax Citadel, which is a neat place to visit.
Book: 1959: The Year Everything Changed by Fred Kaplan
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I had one of those leather bookmarks! I remember it because of the end where it is tasseled. No clue what was on it though.
Did someone important die in 1959, is that why everything changed then.
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That design was used a lot for bookmarks from tourist spots. I have lots of them.
“It was the year of the microchip, the birth-control pill, the space race, and the computer revolution; the rise of Pop art, free jazz, “sick comics,” the New Journalism, and indie films; the emergence of Castro, Malcolm X, and personal superpower diplomacy; the beginnings of Motown, Happenings, and the Generation Gap—all bursting against the backdrop of the Cold War, the fallout-shelter craze, and the first American casualties of the war in Vietnam.”
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Yawn, so nothing really important then. Not like a celebrity being born….
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Simon Cowell was born in 1959. He not famous enough? Weird Al Yankovic. Val Kilmer. Jason Alexander. John McEnroe. Morrissey. Wim Hof. Flavor Flav. That’s an all-star line-up!
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Wonder why the author didn’t lead with all that? Probably would have made his book a bestseller…
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Nice bookmark, nice to see a clock tower, Mons Meg AND the outfit I wear to the shops in one place.
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Do you have to take off the headdress to get in the doorway?
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It retracts automatically, or you can wind it in. But I need notice because my head expands to fill the inside…
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That sounds like the sort of condition you should have someone take a look at.
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It a national trait, that why we have hats shaped like that, so our heids can fit in.
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