Since this is a Browns site, I thought about a "remember when" in terms of sports. I remember a time before free agency when team rosters were mostly consistent. Players moved less and you had time to form a "relationship" with players. players then felt like part of a family. AS a kid it was an awesome feeling, and I knew 90% of NL baseball players and a lot of NFL guys. .
I am not saying free agency is not good for players and owners weren't doing what they could to keep players under their control. But it made me feel different about the team I cared about. The contracts now make the players more unapproachable and less real sort of like TV or movie stars.
Non sports, the penny candy thing was a huge memory for me. From age 8 until I retired 4 years ago, I have had a job of some sort. I don't know how many of you know about the old weekly news magazine, The Grit. It is/was published in Williamsport PA. My weekends until I was 13 were spent selling these things in local/bar restaurants about 5 times a day every F, S & Sun. When I first started I would get about $5 a week of which my mom took it for me to save and I was given a dime each week to spend. I grew up in a small town, about 1,300 people in NW Ohio and we had 2 dime stores. I went "uptown" Saturday night, and it took me about a 1/2 hour to figure out how to spend it. It is a great memory of mine.
We had a milkman, bought eggs direct from farmers, actually watched my mom butcher a turkey for Thanksgiving. We knew where 90% of our classmates lived and nearly all had both original parents and we addressed them as MR & Mrs. It wasn't until high school age when a few we were comfortable calling them by their first name. It made me feel solid growing up.
Mom hung our clothes out to dry, she made homemade bread and baked goods & homemade noodles, sewed ripped clothes.
Sorry this is so long but there is a lot more if I took some time.
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