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Does that sound like a line from a song?  You must be one of The Fantastics. Here's a few things to spark your ROM; do your children know how to hand crank an automobile? Do you remember the smell while running a mimeograph copier? Anyone here still us a Dictaphone?

Speaking of automobiles-does yours have bumpers? When I was a kid my Mother would do her grocery shopping, then go to the New West Florida Ice Co. ice house and drive home with a 20 pound block sitting on the front bumper supports.

Another use for the front bumper was to hang a leather water bag on so you'd have cool drinking water on long trips!

Wing windows needed to bring in fresh cool (?) air; did you ever drive with your doors slightly open to suck out the mosquitoes?

"Saucered and blowed"?  I haven't heard that for many years. Mother made percolated coffee in the mornings that was so hot that Daddy would pour some into the saucer, blow on it and sip it from the saucer. All this while reading the morning Tampa Tribune, and never spilled a drop.

Personally, I don't remember using a telephone with no dial. Every call was through a switchboard operator. I do remember we were on a four-party line. Not much privacy then. Life was/is good.