Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days [Hardcover]

Ken Tate (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2005

This 48-page gift book features the nostalgic writing of Ken Tate, editor of Good Old Days and Good Old Days Specials magazines, Good Old Days books and the author of the Looking Back e-letter. The book also features over two dozen of the best-loved covers of the magazines by artist John Slobodnik. "Grandpa, tell me 'Bout the Good Old Days!" Tate takes his grandson - and the reader - back to the magical age of his youth. Those were days when the pace of life was slower and a whole lot less complicated. Slobodnik's paintings and Tate's reminiscences reflect on a time when the year was measured with the passage of the seasons, not the passage of nanoseconds as it is today. This book will be loved by anyone who lived in those days, or anyone who sometimes wishes they had.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: House of White Birches (August 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592170838
• ISBN-13: 978-1592170838
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,498,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars This is nostalgia at its best!, September 8, 2005

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Armchair Interviews (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days (Hardcover)

I don't know anyone who doesn't, at one time or another, think about or talk about 'the good old days.' It seems to be part of our nature, especially as we age, to recall bygone days with grand affection. It's another form of 'comfort food.'

Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days has almost two dozen stories celebrating and reminding us (and in some cases introducing us) about a time when life was less complicated and slower paced. It was a time that we want to believe we savored the 'here and now' and not the 'what is coming.'

There was a 'catch' in my throat as I read the story about kite making (there were no kite kits back then). My heart skipped a beat reading about Fourth of July celebrations in the 'good old days.' It wasn't about fireworks; it was about patriotism we lived daily. Oh, how I long for that. My eyes misted reading about berry picking. That was something I did with Grandma Dockan. What fun we had 'working.' And I yearned for my father, long gone now. I can see his face, eyes crinkled with laughter when he and my mother put out cookies and milk for Santa. I always wanted to catch Santa. I never did. But I did hear reindeer hooves on the rooftop one year.

This spectacular book is made better by the paintings from Good Old Days Magazine. Artist John Slobodnik's paintings are magnificent. They draw you in and place you smack dab in the middle of the story.

Armchair Interviews says: Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days is one of the best gift books we've seen. The good times and even the tough times were tempered and made better with family, friends and faith. It is a book well worth reading and keeping. It is a book we need in these difficult times.

4.0 out of 5 stars cute book, October 8, 2010

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This review is from: Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days (Hardcover)

this is a very cute book. How ever not like a typical good old days book. The book is much smaller and the stories are a lot shorter.A good one for grandma to read to her grand kids.