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Coming home from school, grabbing a cookie and a soda and watching the local kids' show or vintage cartoons/Three Stooges every afternoon.

Cliquot Club Ginger Ale and Bonomo's Turkish Taffy.

Monster movies (usually classic Universals) on "Horror Incorporated" on Saturday nights.

The local "good neighbor" radio station: WCCO (home of the Twins, farm reports, local announcers I still remember like Franklin Hobbs, Joe McFarlin, Randy Merriman, Roger Erickson & Charlie Boone, Steve Cannon) almost always on in the background. Truly local media, period.

Riding my bike through the quiet streets of my little working class Minneapolis suburb on a Sunday evening and wondering who lived in all those houses and what they were doing.

Spending hours in the public library that was only three blocks away and the park which it sat in.

Monkeying with my slot car tracks in the basement while listening to CCR and the Beatles on the local top 40 station.

Above all, a strange sense of permanence and security that comes only with youth - that most things would remain just as they were.