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by Dick Burdette

Portsmouth, Ohio in the 1940s and early '50s awakened each weekday to the sound of factory whistles, the rumble and clatter of freight and passenger trains. It was a place of lunch pails and coal buckets. Front porch swings and backyard clothes lines. Iceboxes and wringer washers. Neighborhood shoe repair shops and mom & pop groceries. It was a time of the eagerly awaited mailman and the evening newspaper. Eight-party telephones. Of gathering around...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479176826
• ISBN13: 9781479176823
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"