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Do you remember?

The soda fountain in the local drugstore - Cherry Coke, Root Beer in a frosted mug or a lime phosphate for 5 cents. They also carried Sports Cars Illustrated in their news stand. I wish I still had the issue with the story of the newly built Stovebolt Special.

Great radio programs that allowed us to use our imaginations-
Sgt. King of the Yukon
Lone Ranger
The Shadow
Bobby Benson and the B Bar B Riders
Twenty Questions
The Mutual Game of the Day with Dizzy Dean

Groceries deliveried in collapsible wooden boxes.

Non-synchro transmissions. I learned to drive in a '34 Ford truck. The truck was only 19 years old at the time.

One more wonderful memory - Helping Parnelli Jones and crew roll his Chevy powered sprinter back on to the open trailer after an IMCA dirt track race at the ND State Fair. They were having a problem with worn valve guides that day. I later read that Parnelli said that day nearly caused him to quit racing. He thought he'd never be brave enough to beat Jim Hurtibese, who was not lifting an inch while going into the huge clouds of dust at every corner.

Uncle Tom McCahill's road tests in Mechanix Illustrated- 1953 Studillac, anyone rember that?

The "Model Garage" series in Popular Mechanics. Gus Wilson was the cranky old master mechanic who could not be stumped.

The awful jokes on the last page of Boy's Life magazine. My folks hated the arrival of every issue!