Blank stationery pad - Fort Knox, Kentucky. A black and white drawing at the top shows a tank, guns blazing, three soldiers with drawn bayonets crouched behind.

The cardboard backing for the stationery pack reads:

"This Stationery was prepared especially for you. Use it freely and write home often."

Bean Publishing Company, Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

Postal information is listed below:

First Class Mail - 4 cents (there is no longer a "cents" sign on a keyboard)
1 oz. - 1-8 sheets stationery with envelope.
Air Mail - (You used to have to buy this separately) - 7 cents. 1-8 sheets stationery with envelope.

Talk about spelling it out.

We talk, from time to time, in my writer's group about future worlds - how to imagine them. Some people question the imaginations of others from time to time, saying that they don't believe the world would change that much in just 30 years. I quarrel with that idea. I don't think 1963 could have imagined 1993 for all the tea in China (which saying is now just as passe' as the 4 cent stamp).