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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (100571)	1/16/2008 11:13:30 PM
From: ChanceIs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

>>>Polaroid was in the nifty 50.<<< When I was a boy, next to the Monopoly set we had "The Big Board," a game not unlike Monopoly where you bought stocks instead of real estate. Every time I bought Polaroid I won. You had to get lucky and land on it in order to buy. In mid October 2001 (remember because it was shortly after 9/11), I was driving south from Maine and heard on the radio....."Today Polaroid filed for BK protection." A milestone - end of an era. You gotta pay attention to nasty things like the development of the digital camera. Ooops. So much for buy and hold. Most people wouldn't recognize one of these. My Dad got one for our family trip to the New York World's Fair: