Clicking off labels with a Dymo label maker, Ann Page sandwich spread (tarter sauce) jars with the lids screwed under the cellar steps to hold nails, screws, sundries, etc., big chunky gas meters that would wheeze and tick when the furnace came on, grinding your own coffee at the A&P, steam locomotives pulling a train past the crossing, Marx toys made in Erie, PA., Riding in a Studebaker or Hudson Terraplane with the scary electro floor shift, cast iron water heaters, real laundry detergent that burnt your hands pink from the phosphates, bells ringing when the ice cream truck drove up the street, walking home from school to eat lunch, $.99 tool bins at the 5&10 variety store & tube testers at the drug store, x-ray machines at the shoe store to see how your foot fit inside the shoe, thermometers with real mercury inside them, car hop service at Big Boy eat & park, 3 on the tree stick shift...gee whiz these things are dating me so bad!