nostalgia – Page 5 – The Coal Speaker

March 15, 2025 THE COAL SPEAKER

Sara Gilbert was on the big picture. What did the big picture exist?

Pretty sure this existed in my school. Maybe yours, but I can’t find any traces that it did.

I am on a mission to find and buy presidents’ heads. Let me explain.

I’m talking about those iconic, oversized heads of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln that used to adorn classroom walls in the early 1900s. You know the ones—giant oval cutouts that loomed over children as they tackled their studies, offering a silent, patriotic presence, and in the case of honest Abe, a slightly melancholy and distinct stare..

But everyone I talk to says they are gone for good…

November 29, 2024 THE COAL SPEAKER

AND THEY’RE….HOME! BLACK FRIDAY BECOMES A SHADOW OF ITS ONE SELF

All of this is not to say that corporations won’t make money on Black Friday and that people are done Christmas shopping. Quite the opposite. Companies have slickly entered the market place of ideas in the tech era, making often even larger profits than when we all got in cars and went to malls. But what we will lack are the fun images.. the frivolity of fights and battle scars cash register wars. Those days are gone.