{"id":222,"date":"2026-07-13T21:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victorhess.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:33:17","slug":"no-cell-phones-in-1958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhess.com\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"No Cell Phones in 1958"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/victorhess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-13-2026-09_38_53-AM-1-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victorhess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-13-2026-09_38_53-AM-1-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/victorhess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-13-2026-09_38_53-AM-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/victorhess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-13-2026-09_38_53-AM-1-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/victorhess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-13-2026-09_38_53-AM-1-600x400.png 600w, https:\/\/victorhess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-13-2026-09_38_53-AM-1.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"227\" src=\"https:\/\/victorhess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-13-2026-09_34_28-AM-1-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victorhess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-13-2026-09_34_28-AM-1-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/victorhess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-13-2026-09_34_28-AM-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/victorhess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-13-2026-09_34_28-AM-1-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/victorhess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-13-2026-09_34_28-AM-1-600x400.png 600w, https:\/\/victorhess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-13-2026-09_34_28-AM-1.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Wesley Club in 1958 used various tools that would fill a huge table. As I remembered my youth in 1958, a bicycle would get me to the library where I found vast information with help from the Dewey Decimal system. You could get an instant photograph if you had a Polaroid camera. You could listen to whatever music you wanted if you just had that record. You could mail a letter and within a week or so get a reply. You could watch anything you wanted as long as it was on one of three TV stations and only at a specific time (and you better start watching from the beginning.) Photo albums took up a lot of the book shelf. Well, I could go on. All that I just mentioned fits on my cell phone today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wesley Club in 1958 used various tools that would fill a huge table. As I remembered my youth in 1958, a bicycle would get me to the library where I found vast information with help from the Dewey Decimal system. You could get an instant photograph if you had a Polaroid camera. 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