#Fan Mail

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Illustrated placeholder card for Athlete Address Books
Books 1992–1999

Athlete Address Books

Paperback directories of celebrity and athlete fan-mail addresses — PO boxes, team offices, agent contacts — that made the rounds through school book clubs and mall bookstores, fueling the ritual of writing letter after hopeful letter in the quest for an autograph.

Video thumbnail — 1995 Nickelodeon Stick Stickly Nick In The Afternoon
TV 1995–1998

Stick Stickly

Nickelodeon's summer host was a popsicle stick with googly eyes and a jelly-bean nose. He wanted you to write to him, and he sang you the address to prove it — which is why a generation can still recite a PO box in Manhattan.