It's funny as you get older how your mind drifts back to the past sometimes. I was just sitting here and my mind started to wander back to a corner candy store on Ave U and E. 18Th St. There was a gas station across the street that my dad once worked in as a mechanic. Anyway, this was your typical candy combination grocery store of the day. Very colorful ! All the old Pepsi and Coke signs.7 Up sign with the thermometer in it. All the old fashioned bowls and jars full of sweets.The kind of place you were very comfortable walking into. I remember how we would go in as kids and linger forever making up our minds to buy candy. Yet the owner never got angry or yelled at us.The old timers were great !... Just a different time and place. I would stare at the 2 ft long liquorice sticks and then buy a box of candy cigarettes and a roll of candy dots ! Right outside the store the pavement was packed with what seemed like thousands of bottle caps. We would dig them out, take them home, melt and fill them with some colorful wax or crayon and then shoot a great game of Skelly ! .... Strange thoughts to be having in 2009. Don't you think ?
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