(Note: The following is written by one of the “Urban Legends” program presenters from the Bookmobile Department. Therefore the contents may, or may not, actually be true.)

The “Chariot Age”:

After the stone-tablet-mobile, the next “evolution” of the bookmobile (and this is just a “theory” mind you) was the Scroll-mobile. Having domesticated draft animals (e.g. the horse) and inventing rudimentary forms of paper, this incarnation was far easier to operate - and as we all know, whether you were a scrollmobile associate or a modern day Bookmobile associate, you’re always interested in anything that’s far easier to operate - or far easier to anything for that matter.

There have been three “remains” of scrollmobiles located so far. All three were discovered at a dig in Middle Earth. One was a smaller one that archeologists believed was used mainly by children (or hobbits - they haven’t decided for sure which). The other two were larger “combination” vehicles which carried scrolls for all ages - as well as fiction and nonfiction scrolls. Unfortunately little more is known than the fact that one of the vehicles “bought the Villa” when it caught fire due to a hot coal from a nearby erupting volcano. And the other two scrollmobiles were lost to a severe regional toiletpaper shortage.

This brings us up to the middle ages when there were basically just six “books” in existence. So, during this time, a bookmobile was essentially a priest and a donkey.

[Note: For a brief time in the late 60s, bookmobiles were mobiles made of books.]

To be continued…