{"id":29780,"date":"2024-10-06T01:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T05:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=29780"},"modified":"2024-10-06T01:18:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T05:18:26","slug":"remember-those-tom-swift-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/remember-those-tom-swift-books\/","title":{"rendered":"remember those Tom Swift books?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A typical ‘Tom Swift’ book cover<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. From time to time an article in our journal was not about cameras, photos, or photographic history. An example in issue 17-3 is the article on the Tom Swift book series. The book illustrated is of interest since it is a tale about a “photo telephone” which predicted the now ubiquitous ‘smart phone’ with its colour camera, digital imaging and ability to send any photo anywhere in an instant.<\/p>\n

Ev describes how he came to get the material for this article as follows, “In a small, shabby office in downtown Manhattan, a man named Edward Stratemeyer, something of an inventor in his own right, kept a close watch on the trends of popular interest. Stratemeyer was a writer of juvenile literature, but to describe him simply as an author of childrens books would be a massive understatement. He was probably the most prolific author of successful juvenile books, or for that matter of books of any kind, in publishing history.<\/p>\n

“The above, written by Arthur Prager in American Heritage, December 1976 began an excellent article on Stratemeyer, a copy of which was sent by Patricia Belier (our most prolific East Coast contributor) to our Curator.”<\/p>\n

Note that Pat is the daughter of the late Bill Belier, an early PHSC president. I have read a few of the ‘Tom Swift’ books myself. A neighbour had a small library of these little gems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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