Remember When?
Read all About it: Adventures of Delivering the News
The challenges and thrills of a paperboy's early-morning route.
It's time for another edition of Remember When? Thanks to everyone for the feedback on the last few columns. Many of you mentioned that my description of Mrs. McWilliams was "dead on." This time around, Remember When? is going to be about some headline news... literally, and retroactively, of course—let's go! It's the early '80s, and I want to make you about 11 to 14 years old, and you are... a paperboy! By the decade of the Yuppie, paperboys (or girls, at least somewhere) were far, far removed from their historical cinematic representations. They were no longer found on every urban street corner, with earth-tone clothing and Buster Brown derby hats shouting "read all about it!" or saying "mista, do you want a papeh?" Suburban sprawl …
Chris DeCroce
8:34 pm on Monday, February 22, 2010
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