Thanks for the memories everyone. I could relate to mostly all of them. One of my fondest memories was when my dad took me downtown (we walked everywhere in those days) to buy me a pair of roller skates that you wore over shoes with a key to tighten them, and he allowed me to wear them all the way home, pulling me along as we went. I used those skates every day in the summer for a couple of years, still have the key but not the skates.