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As luck would have it, I parked next to this car and it's menagerie at Costco the other day. I was so blown away that I had to take a pic.
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Apologies for continuing off topic. Back in the day, books just had a different place in our lives compared to today. My parents had real bookshelves with very heavy books on art, history, culture, etc. Beautiful bindings, leather covers, colored plates, embossing. Some were antiques. A prized possession was the Encyclopedia Britannica, for the three kids in school. 30 some odd volumes at ten pounds each covering every topic known to man and the go-to resource for school projects. Today, most bookshelves don't hold books and "books" are electronic. Encyclopedias are now wiki. I miss the heft and musty smell of a good book.
 
We had the set of World Book Encyclopedias.
The initial set plus all of the annual update editions filled up an entire one of those metal screw together book shelves.

I grew up with that set on the shelves, along with a HUGE dictionary roughly 9 inches thick with a print date in 1949 that sat on a pedestal on top of the book shelf. I had developed a habit of putting my finger on a random word as I passed by and look at it, then flip to another random page as I continued to where I was headed. There's words in that dictionary that now hold an entirely different meaning. I attribute that to folks misinterpreting words because they're too lazy to study and learn.
 
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