It was the lady on the bag and the name.
Pennington White Bread (mainly orange bag) toast and margarine. Not Blue Bonnett, but some other smiling woman brand.
Wooden screen doors, smelled like mown grass, warm and calm in the summertime, neighbors with the hood up on their Mercury Commuter, Carling Black Label at a card table in the breezeway car port, Lucky Strikes. Body by Fisher. No seat belts. Post war expansive. My dad didn't like Ike, he wanted Adlai.
Yellow and black and chrome convertible ford, and a broken hillerich and bradsby louisville slugger baseball bat, just the handle, wrap it with tape. Sears catalog, Montgomery Ward's. Corn in the summertime, nobody really worried.
kool aid. black and white tv.
i was a kid, we were all kids then.
Alice and Jerry, and Dick and Jane and Spot, not to forget Sally.
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