Re: Nostalgia What is missing
Mutual of Omaha's “Wild Kingdom”.
Inflatable “Green Dinos” at Dino gas stations.
24 cent a gallon gasoline (I have a business contact in the middle east, and he pays 22 cents, now)!
Drug stores with shake & burger bars.
Burma Shave Signs.
Making “Tar Babies” summers, out of the melting asphalt on the street in front of our house.
Having a “Flat Top” haircut and not being in the Marines.
Homemade rubber band guns.
Having Tarantula vs. Scorpion showdowns in the back yard.
My pet squirrel (she adopted me).
Road side fruit and vegetable stands.
Skinny dipping with girls and no one thinking anything bad about it.
Homemade Fireworks.
Weeny Roasts.
Samores.
Running naked through the yard with the whole neighborhood, and jumping through the sprinkler.
Sandboxes.
Standing in the back yard with my Zebco and a rubber practice plug casting for hours into a inflatable pool so Gran Dad would be proud when we went “fishin” with his old friends.
Explaining to the “Texas Power and Light” man why there were so many practice plugs hanging from the line behind our house.
Sticking my hand into the "fishin worm" jars at my Gran Dads hardware store.
Nails by weight racks at the above mentioned store.
Going to the feed store to look at baby chicks.
Evaporative coolers and the smell of wet coconut strands.
Horny Toads.
“Boot and Saddle” shops where they made yours to order.
The joy of finding my first Playboy, full of pictures of women covered in suds, on a seldom used dirt road. What a treasure it was.
My secret box, that everybody knew about, that held my treasures.
Burning “Army Men” and listening to the “silch” noise the melting plastic made, and then explaining to mom what all those little black spots were all over my bed room left over from the smoke from the burning plastic.
Having a chemistry set, and making smoke and stink bombs.
Reading spy books under the covers at night with a flashlight.
The first girl that went with me to the movie theater and set in the balcony with the older couples. She was sweet! Still makes me smile when I think or her.
Writing letters on paper.
Sea Monkeys.
Potato Guns.
Ant Farms.
