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Lunch Boxes	Remember how appetizing those lunches were after sitting in thewarm coat room all morning? The limp lettuce on the soggy tuna fish sandwiches, wrapped in wax paper, were especially memorable!

The Coat Room at school	Home of the jacket, the rainboots and the lunch box. Remember how they always smelled of old tuna sandwiches and mold?

Cruisin' "E" Street	Remember when gas was a quarter a gallon and you and your friends could cruise the strip for hour on end for a couple of bucks?

Pickup trucks and dump runs	Riding in the back of a pick-up truck with the wind in your hairafter a dump run. I LOVED dump runs. People throw away the coolest things!

Purges	Remember when parents believed that there were few ills that a dose of cod-liver oil, and a hot-water enema couldn't cure?

Push Mowers	Remember those? No engine, no gas, no exhaust? Remember the pleasant sound the blades made as you pushed if forward in short bursts?

Air conditioners	Remember when the closest thing to an air conditioner was a drive in the car with the windows down?

Remote controls	Remember when you were the only remote in the house? You changed the channels on the TV,adjusted volume & moved the "rabbit ears" around until the picture came in clear?

Fridge-adairs	Looked like an electronic version of the "Ice Box". It was bulky, didn't hold much, and weighed a ton. Like the "Ice Box", the cooling unit was on top.

The Ice Box	Before refrigerators there lived the ice box. The size of a small fridge, Iceboxes had cooling units on top which held a block of . It kept food cool...sort of..

Alphalfa	The smell of freshly mown hay?

Drive-In Movies	Going to the drive-in movies with your folks? Remember the speakers that hung on the window?

New shoes	Remember how special new shoes smelt when you were a kid?

Enchanted summer nights	Remember how magical the world became when you played outside onthose endless summer nights of childhood?

Mud Pies	The sound a metal spoon makes when you stir dirt in an old metalpot when you were "cooking" for your dolls?

Ice-picks	Remember when every home had at least one ice-pick?

Defrosting the Fridge's tiny freezer	Remember when defrosting the fridge entailed 2-3 hours of boiling water and chipping at the ice with a hammer and screwdriver?

Grease jars or canisters	Remember when almost everyone kept a grease canister on or nearthe stove for bacon grease?