Scrapbooks are full of memories and also interesting information. In sorting through the contents of boxes I have found scrapbooks I made 40 years ago and more. To think that young women today think they have stumbled across some new activity. From what I can tell its just a much more costly activity today! No stickers or designer paper in my old scrapbooks. Simply hand drawn pictures and hand written notes. There is lots of cards and memorabilia in them and very few if any photos.
It is very interesting seeing how people signed their cards. Also it is interesting to look back and see who the cards are from. Lots of people who were friends, but whom have faded out of my life over the years. There are some sad or bittersweet memories found inside really old scrapbooks. Lots of wedding invitations from the early 70's and to the best of my knowledge only one marriage is still intact. Not a good commentary on the children of the 50's and 60's. Or at least not a good commentary on the people I befriended. Fortunately I can say that to the best of my knowledge only a very few friends represented in these scrapbooks has died.
Now for a bit more trivia fund in looking through these scrapbooks: Hotel rooms in NYC could be found for $30 a night and in Watkins Glen for $16 a night; Broadway tickets could be had for $6.50; Guided tours of the UN cost 50 cents. All this in fall of 1971. Disney World in 1972 cost $5.95 for an 11 attraction ticket book and one day in the Magic Kingdom (of course all there was there was the Magic Kingdom); parking there cost 50 cents a day; You could visit and take a bus tour of the Kennedy Space Center for $2.50. Also in 1972 Cypress Gardens was still in operation.
I still have more scrapbooks to go through. They can't be kept and I guess why should they. They represent ancient history at this point and there will be no room for them in my future. If there were photos I might think other wise, but you know its interesting how Hallmark cards have not changed over the decades other than the price that is....in 1972 a special card cost 50 cents!
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oh gosh, I don't know if I could part with scrapbooks even without pictures. I have some that are like those you describe (though much more recent). My mom started one for me as a child and it has a pitiful picture of me at age 5 or 6 with my arm in a cast and my raccoon puppet (named Rocky...get it?) with his arm in a sling. It is surrounded by get well cards.
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