But somehow the Pee-Chee wasn’t left behind in favor of flashier options-probably because kids knew that hacking the face of their folder themselves was a far superior personal statement to choosing between the plastic unicorn binder and the plastic race car binder. Of course, the school supply aisle was probably as diverse a few decades ago as it is today, lined with Trapper Keepers of a thousand neon faces. Naturally, I had to look into the history of the Pee-Chee, which as far as I could recall had come in just one color and design. And here I’d thought the pulpy paper pockets had been a part of every American’s back-to-school memories. I had that realization all over again recently while reminiscing about Pee-Chee folders, encountering a completely blank stare from a New York-native friend who had never heard of them. Growing up in Denver, I called sugary, carbonated beverages “pop.” When I moved to California for college and all the coastal kids called it “soda,” I realized just how much geography defines even the most quotidien bits of our lives (I now call it “soda,” too.). To use spoiler tags use the following format: (/s "Daft Punk are robots.A Pee-Chee folder art hack-afros, hairy legs, and frying eggs (image: Greg Narvas, Flickr)
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