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I remember...
Mom making our lunches for school - peanut butter sandwiches in waxed paper.
One cent would buy candy or gum.
Silver coins were used, there were two kinds of dimes in circulation and half dollars were regularly seen and used.
Nobody knew what Science Fiction was.
Making a black and white TV with the help of a family friend; still only got a couple channels.
Spending the entire day away from home and nobody worried, "Just be in before dark."
The whole neighborhood would report what you did to your parents.
Mittens connected with yarn that went up one arm of your coat and down the other.
Developing my own pictures for fun.
My first calculator which cost $100.
My first new car that cost $3,336.
The music from the Ice Cream truck.
Outhouses.
Then, when I was older and living in South Korea...
Missing the gas shortage and Nixon's resignation because I was overseas.
Crowded trains and buses (now its crowded roads because there are so many more cars).
Being able to get lunch for 100 won.
Spending time in the market and seeing/smelling all the fresh farm food, fish, etc.
The music from the truck that emptied the outhouses.
Outhouses.
Dean
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