smokeywolf
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I'll bet there was a lot of competition among the suit & tie crowd to be in that picture.
Looks like "3 on the tree". That's the way I started.Pictured is Wake County Bookmobile driver and librarian India White, 23 July 1966.
White drove the Bookmobile all over the county for over 20 years. Her route changed daily but rotated monthly, visiting mostly rural locations in the county and homes of the elderly or disabled. She had dozens assistants over the years, many either not able to learn the routes or drive a manual transmission (one of the crucial prerequisites for the job).
A life-long resident of Raleigh, she devoted her entire career to the Wake County Library. White died in 2000 at the age of 92.
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Looks like "3 on the tree". That's the way I started.
Actually, they are alive and well here in the Yakima Valley. Libraries are few and far between here as the county is bigger than CN, and only has 5 in the towns. However 80% of the books are in Spanish and only 20% in English. It runs six days a week from when the roads are passable in March through about the last week of November.Bookmobile -- a great invention that is sadly no longer. Once a week, one used to come round to the neighborhood park and I'd either pick out new books to read or return the books that were read. Just thinking about it brought to mind checking out Jules Verne's "Mysterious Island".