Chatted with a retired librarian about those old bookmobile stamps

I was digging through a pile of donated books at the library sale my town puts on twice a year when a retired librarian saw me flipping through a 1972 field guide to mushrooms. She pointed out the date stamps inside the cover and said those were from the county bookmobile that used to run routes out to the farms around here until 1985. Has anybody else run into old library stamps or bookmobile marks in their thrift store finds that made you wonder about the book's history?

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abbyl4914d ago

Wait, bookmobiles stopped in 1985? My county still had one running until 1992. Saw the stamps in an old cookbook once.

kim.stella13d ago

Ha, @abbyl49 you're lucky! My county's bookmobile pulled out in '83 and never looked back. Those stamps in cookbooks are like little time capsules from a bygone era. Makes you wonder what other hidden gems are tucked away in old recipe collections.