Posted by Bret4207 on February 19, 2014 at 04:53:50 from (64.19.90.196):
In Reply to: What Do You Miss? posted by Trkr on February 18, 2014 at 14:43:16:
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You're a lucky man. You had your mom till she was 93 and still have your dad. You did almost twice as good as I did. I know it hurts now and I'm sorry for that. It'll pass.
What do I miss? I miss the days when going on a 50 or 100 mile trip required the whole family making preparations, getting the car serviced, packing a picnic lunch (pre-McDonalds) and if you were lucky getting a mess of new comic books to read on the trip. I miss the peanut roaster in the aisle of Sears just past the tool section. What a smell! I miss the months looking forward to Christmas, the Sears Big Book and Montgomery Wards catalogs. I miss watching first run shows of Lassie, Walt Disney, Gunsmoke. I miss AM radio stations in every little town that would talk about people you knew and would play a record you requested. I miss the excitement of 4th of July celebrations, the somberness of Memorial Day, I miss seeing a small parade on Veterans Day and seeing a man who climbed Kettle Hill with TR and the Rough Riders. I miss older men smoking pipes and tussling my hair, ladies that wore hats and gloves to the A+P grocery store and whole communities filling the area churches on Sunday mornings. I miss log trucks passing our house every 10-15 minutes. I miss how every town had a hardware, a drug store, 4 or 5 babershops, a news stand, a couple of hotels and restaurants, a local newspaper and a fire company, 2 or 3 car dealers, chainsaw dealers, a tinsmith and a lumberyard, a bank and an appliance store or 2. I miss the stores staying open til 9PM on Thursday night because that was the day the mines and mills paid the workers. Now all the mills are gone and only 1 mine is open.
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