Quote Originally Posted by spitfire
My dad was one of those back alley guys selling the really old fake books in the early 50's. He was in the Navy in San Diego selling them to make a little extra cash. I think he probably had to buy them, then resell them for whatever he could get for them.
Interesting story. It would be interesting to see which standards (-from the period covered) were included then that aren't so common now, and also, what's NOT there that now is assumed to be "must know."