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Do you remember travels with Al Bell?

Chances are you do.

Remember how Al Bell would show up at school, open his suitcase and out would fall the whole world – right there on the auditorium floor. For a lot of school kids he was a first experience with faraway places.

Al Bell appeared in auditoriums in nearly every Iowa community of his day.

The fascinating contents of his suitcase made such an impression that nowadays, Bell’s visits are still fresh in the minds of grown up and a little nostalgic kids.

With Al Bell, you traveled first class – but paid economy. Back in the 1950 and 60s, a trip around Al Bell’s world only cost you one thin dime.

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