In the 1940s and ‘50s, Tommy Glasco had a second-hand store on East Liberty Street.
Just inside the front door was a glass jar filled with used dentures and anyone who needed new choppers could just step inside and try the used false teeth on for size. Or maybe swap old dentures for new ones, or for something else in the Wooster store.
As long as Tommy was in business, the denture jar was on display.
Here are more interesting facts from past ‘Bits and Pieces’ columns.
For a period of time, Wooster had two proud entries in the Guiness Book of World Records. One was local celebrity Vernon Craig (“Komar the Hindu Fakir”) who on July 24, 1971 spent 25 hours, 20 minutes and 15 seconds lying on a bed of nails in the front window of the Wooster Chamber of Commerce offices on the square.
Therapists Are Reckoning with Eco-anxiety
With no training, counselors feel unequipped to handle the growing number of people anxious about the climate emergency
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Andrew Bryant, a therapist based in Tacoma, Washington, felt helpless the first time climate change came up in his office. It was 2016, and a client was agonizing over whether to have a baby. His partner wanted one, but the young man couldn’t stop envisioning this hypothetical child growing up in an apocalyptic, climate-changed world.
Bryant was used to guiding people through their relationship conflicts, anxieties about the future, and life-changing decisions. But this felt different personal. Bryant had long felt concerned about climate change, but in a distant, theoretical way. The patient’s despair faced him with an entirely new reality: that climate change would directly impact his life and the lives of future generations.
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Andrew Bryant, a therapist based in Tacoma, Washington, felt helpless the first time climate change came up in his office. It was 2016, and a client was agonizing over whether to have a baby. His partner wanted one, but the young man couldn’t stop envisioning this hypothetical child growing up in an apocalyptic, climate-changed world.