Retail therapy: Who’s ready for a ‘Monday Night Shoppers’ revival?

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You would remember Monday Night Shoppers if you were around between 1957 and 1975. That was the 18-year run of the weekly back-page UL feature that put the spotlight – well, okay, a circle – on customers in the downtown business district. But you should also know that this back page feature was front page news when it started.

Remembering drive-in theaters: The most fun you could have in your pajamas

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It was June 30, 1940, when the first drive-in theater opened in the Queen City, only it wasn’t called a drive-in. Barney J. Williams, who wanted to link the place to his other amusement enterprise, tinkered with the name a bit and called his new cinema the ”Pine Island Park-In Theatre.”

Letters from Eric G., a NH man incarcerated for life in a California prison (part 1)

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The handwritten letter was from Eric G. who was born in Rollinsford, NH, and claimed his mother died in a one-car crash when he was only six months old. Eric said he knew nothing about his mother’s family because his father had taken him out of state immediately after his mother’s death. He and his father lived all over the U. S., eventually finding their way to California, where he committed murder and was likely to spend his life in prison.

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