Do you remember when...

The mail was delivered twice a day by someone with a heavy leather bag strapped over their shoulder? And you knew his name?

The newspaper came twice a day? The Mirror, the Herald express, the Daily News? But never ever a Los Angeles Times! That was a Hearst paper and my mother would never allow that paper in her house. The Daily News and Mirror were morning papers while the Herald was the evening paper.

News Magazines were popular? We would get the Time and the Life magazines. Mother always said that Time was for people who couldn't think and Life was for people who could not read.

Story Magazines were common. Such as Colliers, Blue Book and etc? Even Cosmopolitan was a literary magazine at the time, filled with short stories...Yes, I read them all and I went to the library whenever I could. Why? Because reading is learning and that is why some people would ban some books.