[TheSpottedOwl]

Lemonade stands. Kids out playing during summer vacation, instead of being locked in day care centers. Pick up baseball games in the evening, with all the kids in the neighborhood playing.

School lunches that consisted of real food. The smell of real gasoline and cigar smoke at the gas station, on a hot day. Dick Sinclair's Polka Parade tv show. My dad would pick me up and waltz me around the living room when I was a toddler. Food didn't have warning labels. 5 cents for an ice cream cone at Thrifty drug store, 29 cent nail polish at Woolworths. Fireworks from the Red Devil stand on the Fourth of July.

When kids were kids, instead of a social problem. Remember when democrats were still Americans? Remember when time moved a lot slower? When Christmas decorations in stores didn't appear the day after Halloween? When we used our imagination for Halloween costumes, instead of buying them?

[hardhead]

And don't forget, Christmas decorations at that time included scenes from Bethlehem - with no apology.