
Back Then
Simple Pleasures and Everyday Heroes
Archie P. McDonald(Author)
State House Press
Will be published approx. on 31. August 2005
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-880510-81-0 (ISBN)
Description
These stories by a noted Texas historian recall a time when a kid could go to the picture show with fifteen cents in his pocket, purchase admission for nine cents, and have money left over for popcorn. Those times were not necessarily better - ""It was simply my time,"" says the author. In ""Back Then"", McDonald draws on his reservoir of experiences to write about shoe shines and men's hats, corner drug stores and neighborhood groceries, first cars and full-service gas stations, favorite hymns and Vacation Bible School, house calls and hometown heroes, John Wayne and the Big Bopper, war rationing and spinster aunts. He tells about presidents and teachers he has known, music and books he has enjoyed, his first garden and his first time to eat in an integrated restaurant. Admitting to being ""older than dirt,"" McDonald remembers Butch wax, Howdy Doody, Studebakers, Packards, mimeograph paper, and other icons of days gone by. ""What seems to emerge,"" he says, ""is a kind of report of what it was like to live in Texas, or the South, a half century ago.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Abilene
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
10 b&w photos
Dimensions
Height: 186 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
236 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-880510-81-0 (9781880510810)
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ARCHIE P. McDONALD is the author of numerous books dealing with various aspects of Texas history, including Back Then: Simple Pleasures and Everyday Heroes (State House Press, 2005).