Oh yeah, A&W at the drive in!
elevator operators
bathroom attendants (you give them a nickel, they give you a towel to dry your hands...)
the "beggar nuns" in penn station
no Velcro (I try to remember how the BP cuffs I once used worked without)
cap guns (the sound, the smell, the red roll of caps)
the milk man
the egg man
the knife sharpener (ding ding)
the fuller brush man
smell of shoe polish
little girls hair done in ringlets
bobby socks
fish net stockings
for the 'hoods' (later 'greasers') the pointy boots with the metal (like taps...oh I forget what they were called, clickity click down the asphalt)
going steady
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