By Kristian Day
3/3/2021
Millennials can be split into two groups: those of us born in the 1980s and those born in the 1990s. The 1980s-born kids still had a chance to enjoy life before the Internet, which included climbing trees, renting videos from a store, and trying to steal our old manâs Playboy. Then there are the 1990s kids. They were the ones who drove us nuts because they never had to work a day in their lives. They never knew the stress we had going to school while they stayed home or attended daycare with the other school-free brats. By the time they got into school, their computer labs had color screens (versus the green command line of our day). They will never know the struggle of playing âOregon Trailâ the way we did.
FAIRFIELD â For about 30 years, the fire raged inside Walter Day.
But today, he s simply looking for another home for his passion â and his collection.
Day, a Fairfield native, has been looking to unload his vast collection of business cards, some 2 million currently in his possession. The oldest card he s owned as part of the Business Card Archives, is from 1900, and is reflective of his love of history. I remember I was in ninth grade in civics class, and John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Day said. The teacher said how historical those newspapers would be. Then I d see two old Civil War newspapers from 1863 and 1864. I was just so hypnotized by those. They were the most valuable things I d ever seen.