Take a Break From Today's Madness With Author's Collection of Fond Memories of

Times Past

LONG BEACH, Calif., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Marta Hiatt would like to
take you on a sentimental journey back to a time of Model-T Fords,
telegrams, stay-at-home moms, radio days and manual typewriters.

Hiatt's nostalgic collection of fond memories of life in the early
part of the 20th Century provides a sharp contrast to our frenzied
modern world. She has compiled hundreds of personal stories of "the
good old days," in her new book, vividly illustrated with 250
photographs that bring the stories to life. Remembrances of Times Past
(Northern Star Press, $15.95) is available on line, including at
www.northernstarpress.com

"After my sister reminded me of the hours we once spent helping mom
pull the laundry through a wringer," Hiatt says, "I spent five years
collecting stories from friends and relatives and, as a practicing
psychotherapist, acquired many stories from my client's childhoods."

In discussing "Sex and Social Mores," Hiatt explores the changes from
Victorian prudishness to personal vibrators, and from corsets to
Wonder Bras. She recalls: "The first airline stewardesses were hired
in 1930 and were all registered nurses who wore uniforms that came
below the knee. By the '40s stewardesses were no longer nurses, but
were young and beautiful, were fired if they got married, were over
thirty-five, got pregnant or gained weight. They also had to wear a
girdle on the plane."

Marta Hiatt, who is also author of Mind Magic, Techniques for
Transforming Your Life, compared her childhood to life today:

* You have a cell-phone, we had a party-line, and everyone on our line

could listen in, usually surreptitiously.

* You send email, we sent telegrams.

* You play your music on a pocket-size iPod, ours came on 12-inch vinyl

records.

* If you want information, you just Google it, but we had to search

through index cards at the library.

On the book's cover Art Linkletter says: "'Remembrances of Times Past'
will appeal to both a younger audience who will sometimes be amazed at
the way things were, and older people whose own memories will be
stimulated by reading these interesting stories, and viewing the
photographs about the past. It's a great book!" SOURCE Northern Star
Press