Wonnie

That's true! And when the engine hit a certain pitch you knew you could shift without the clutch. I, also, remember our rotary phone number....Taylor 5709 and my cousin's started with Baldwin. Oh, the memories....remember walking a mile to grade school and having to go home a mile for lunch and back to school and then home again in the evening. We used public transportation until I was a freshman in high school and then Dad got a brown and apple green Chevy....don't think anyone ever liked the color but it was available immediately and he didn't have to wait.
I remember collecting soda pop bottles for the $0.5 you got at the store for each one returned until I had a quarter and that would buy me an Archie or Donald Duck comic, a double decker ice-cream cone and a candy bar. I remember almost never going to the doctor...Mom took care of everything...and when you needed a doctor he came to your house. What a novel idea!!!!....no spreading of your germs to 25 people sitting in a waiting room. I remember air raid sirens and volunteers walking along the streets yelling , "Lights out. All lights out." I remember newsboys standing on the corner yelling, "Hear ye,hear ye, Read all about it! The war is over" :Oh, my goodness, what these kids have missed. I loved every minute of it. I'm 73 years young and proud to say that what others read about, I lived.