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BACK IN MY DAY: Aug. 25, 1835

You buy the morning paper and read it on the stoop. Your neighbor leans over the fence to ask if you saw the part about the bat people and the temples of sapphire.

source: Great Moon Hoax in The New York Sun, 1835

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BACK IN MY DAY: Aug. 24, 2006

Your kid comes home from school and asks if the poster over the bed is wrong now. You look at the nine painted circles and the little one at the end and tell him to leave it.

source: IAU reclassifies Pluto as a dwarf planet, 2006

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BACK IN MY DAY: Aug. 23, 1989

You stand on the highway shoulder and take the damp hand of a stranger. The line of people runs past the birch trees and out of sight.

source: Baltic Way human chain, Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania, 1989

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BACK IN MY DAY: Aug. 22, 1902

You stop on the sidewalk as the horseless carriage rolls past. The president lifts his hat and the engine leaves a smear of oil smell in the afternoon heat.

source: Roosevelt's first public appearance in an automobile, 1902

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@wsbtv BACK IN MY DAY: December 30, 1961

A classified runs thirty five cents per line. Minimum is a dollar fifty. Deadline Tuesday ten pm.

Today you post it free in seconds.

source: The Atlanta Inquirer (Atlanta, Ga.) 1960-Current, December 30, 1961: classified advertising rates

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@thestate BACK IN MY DAY: January 18, 1911

The paper wants ten young cows fresh to pail. You have to apply in person.

Today milk just sits in the cooler.

source: Edgefield Advertiser (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-Current, January 18, 1911: wanted ten young cows

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BACK IN MY DAY: Aug. 21, 1911

You shuffle forward in the gallery line and stop at an empty space on the wall. A small printed notice is tacked beside the bare hook.

source: Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre, 1911

[Boo @IzaBooboo]

Subsidizing the for-profit grocery stores to keep them in business while the government grocery stores sell groceries below their costs is quite the plan to turn everything into a government grocery store.

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BACK IN MY DAY: Aug. 20, 1938

You sit in the bleachers peeling a peanut. The ball goes over the wall in right and your soda is already warm.

source: Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, 1938

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚: A 16-year-old Tennessee girl has been charged with assault after running onto a football field in the middle of a game and tackling a middle school player.

She has also been banned from school property.

We have never seen anything like this 😳

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BACK IN MY DAY: Aug. 20, 1938

You sit in the bleachers peeling a peanut. The ball goes over the wall in right and your soda is already warm.

source: Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, 1938