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When the sun is shining, the S.M.A.P. can treat it all as a game, like trivia questions. Who played second base for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1940? Pete Coscarart, that's who. What did a haircut cost in those days? Fifty cents. And a Hershey bar? Five cents. When the S.M.A.P. reads that E.T. earned $17 million over the July 4 weekend, he remembers paying 25? to see Gone With the Wind. In fact, he remembers when Gone With the Wind's gross of $40 million established a record that was expected to stand forever, like Ty Cobb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Nothing Is What It Used to Be | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

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