OCLC’s memorial article (illustrated) is worth reading. [PDF]

[quotes] [google] [wikipedia] [NY Times obit] [OCLC announcement]

Books and articles

His writing on library automation and book publishing had a great influence on my own outlook and ideas.

Most important is his book, The Evolution of the Book (Oxford University Press 1998). Fantastic history of the book with ideas for the future.

The Collected Papers of Frederick G. Kilgour, great reading, once online in scanned GIF files (!), are apparently now offline. [archive] [buy]

“Interlibrary Lending Online,” Dr. Kilgour’s entry to the Pioneers of Information Science Scrapbook (Oct 1998) by Dr. Bob Williams. [more]

Some people out there made airchecks of this stuff and now you can get it on the nets. Get an MP3 (circa 1988) from Wainstead’s (hopefully growing) online archive of shows.

The first WCSB broadcast from the Cole Center Thurs. 10/16/08 was Brainwash

Google

Michigan

Blind Pig, Ann Arbor

Ohio

Cleveland

The Nine of Clubs was the “progressive” place to be … but by the time the 90s kicked in it became the Alter House, and then it was gone. Featured on the “Lost in the 80s” site: Lost in Cleveland - The Nine of Clubs. Urban archeologist James Teitelbaum published a memoir of his time there.

Columbus

Crazy Mama’s (High St., across from the OSU campus) and Mean Mr. Mustard’s were the places to be. Mark Gunderson used to have a page about these places and all sorts of 90s Columbus GenX goodness, long gone [archive] that also included a list of good thrift shops, with descriptions and ratings. [archive]

Cincinnati

Bogart’s

Sudsy Malone’s “Rock ‘N Roll Laundry and Bar,” a club that was in a laundromat…

Bowling Green

Washington

The Store Room was a Seattle club/bar on Westlake Ave with awesome shows and one of the best “grunge” comp CDs ever, Here’s to the Losers (1991?) [ftp (!) review] (The Store Room’s mentioned in Mudhoney’s first newsletter and the CD was reviewed in Review Addict late 1990s)

Crocodile Cafe: The Croc’s closed

Canada

Discussion of old Victoria clubs

Oversaw ghostwriters for many lines of children’s books, including The Hardy Boys, The Bobsey Twins, The Ted Scott Flying Series, Nancy Drew, and others. Founded and run by Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) [more], a writer himself who’d created The Rover Boys series for boys. As ideas and plots for various series books came to him much faster than he could possibly write them he had the idea to industrialize it, creating many childrens series books by contracting writers for work-for-hire based on the various outlines, plots and notes that he provided. The first series to be produced in this manner were The Bobbsey Twins series (first book in the series was actually written by Stratemeyer himself in 1904; the first sequels came in 1907); eventually the Syndicate branched out to various mystery and action-adventure series. [wikipedia] [Keeline’s stratemeyer.org] [google] [Jan 2009 blog article] [more]

Although some of the series books were very popular, they were not always (or immediately) so. Stratemeyer researcher and collector James D. Keeline analyzed the early sales figures of the Franklin W. Dixon books. [more]

Stratemeyer is the subject of Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Deidre Johnson (Twayne’s United States Authors Series 1993). [buy]

Syndicate authors included Lilian Garis and her husband, Howard R. Garis; Mildred Wirt; Leslie McFarlane. [more]

Mildred Wirt

Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson (1905-2002) wrote the Nancy Drew series as “Carolyn Keene.” Lived in Cleveland and later Toledo, Ohio. [obit] [timeline] [bio] [profile] [wikipedia] [1993 photo]

The Mildred Wirt Benson Digital Collection

Leslie McFarlane and The Hardy Boys

The Hardy Boys series by “Franklin W. Dixon” was ghostwritten by Leslie McFarlane (1902-1977), a Canadian writer. [google] His life and work was eventually detailed in The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Marilyn S. Greenwald (Ohio University Press 2004): “Embarrassed by his secret identity as the author of the Hardy Boys books, Leslie McFarlane admitted it to no one — his son pried the truth out of him years later.”

James D. Keeline’s “The Writings of Charles Leslie McFarlane“ (illustrated)

“The Man Who Was Leslie McFarlane”

“A reluctant author of bestsellers”

Remembering Hardy Boys author Leslie McFarlane (CBC broadcast and radio interview, Oct. 7, 1972)

“Library acquires first editions of Hardy Boys books” has an early don’t-miss photo of McFarlane

The Hardy Boys Unofficial Home Page

The Hardy Boys, an illustrated article.

Author of several poetry collections including Sandusky & Back and the 1958 chapbook Cobras and cockle shells: modes in recent poetry.

His work was posthumously collected in Over West: Selected Writings of Frederick Eckman, with Commentaries and Appreciations (National Poetry Foundation 1999). [GoodReads]

Bio page online at The Frederick W. Eckman Collection, MS775, part of the Center for Archival Collections at Bowling Green State University.

Son, Tom Eckman (also a poet), and his infant daughter were both among Charles Whitman’s victims during the sniper attack at the University of Austin on Aug 1, 1966. [pdf] [html]