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Message: [QUOTE="JRRRJ, post: 2338623, member: 1303"] I remember being sent to Buck's grocery store (the back of the Bucks' lot abutted the back of ours) with a quarter when I was 5 to buy Mom a pack of Raleigh straight cigarettes. Got to buy a handful of candy with the 4 cents change. The interior of Buck's was about 15'x25'. I remember when there was a cent symbol on typewriter keyboards. I remember walking the half-mile to Globe Hollow swimming hole when I was 5 or 6 for my first swimming lessons. I remember riding over pretty much all of South Manchester and Main Street on my bike before I was 10. I remember going under the chain-link fence to explore the abandoned Nike Hercules (anti-ballistic missile missiles) site on the Glastonbury/Manchester border. I remember riding my bike with a friend down Hartford Road & Silver Lane, past my Uncle Eddie's restaurant in East Hartford and over the Founders Bridge to go explore the brand-new stores on the brand-new Constitution Plaza in Hartford. We were about 11 and no one gave us any serious guff over it, except for not saying where we were going. I remember driving with my Dad down Main St in East Hartford, still a foot or so under water from flooding by hurricane Carol. (1954 -- guess it really impressed 3-year-old me) I remember when an $1100 scholarship was a nearly free ride at UConn, including a dorm room in Storrs Hall. I remember my massive excitement when I got to be on the Ranger Andy TV show. (Age 8?) [/QUOTE]