....now, where was I......

.....oh, yeah.....

Those things we've left behind in 40 years....

--Curles Neck Dairy (their milk was our milk in elementary school!)
--Siegels Supermarket (complete with blue chicken!! Thanks for the reminder, Bro!)
--Kelly's
--Burger Chef (and Jeff, too)
--Azalea Mall (that one hurt!)
--Trainham Chevrolet
--Beaverdam Ford
--World Championship Wrestling
--Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
--one word "mimeograph"
--MacIntosh
--Commodore 64
--Beta
--LaserDisc
--the one-minute network television commercial
--Beaverdam Advent Christian Church
--Lums and Bonanza restaurants (though Bonanza lives elsewhere)
--fax paper (roll it!!)
--topping your gas tank
--the gas tank under the back license plate
--"clickers". Wanna know what they are?
--"visible" Scotch tape
--25 cent Coca-Cola bottles
--No three-point line in college basketball
--The Washington Senators
--The Montreal Expos
--The Seattle Pilots
--The Buffalo Braves
--The Kansas City/Omaha Kings
--The ABA (including the Virginia Squires, Carolina Cougars and Kentucky Colonels)
--The California Golden Seals
--The Kansas City Scouts
--The Minnesota North Stars
--The WHA (including the Winnipeg Jets)
--The World Football League (can you say "Shreveport Steamer"?)
--The United States Football League (the Washington Federals??---actually, did you watch the first USFL Championship Game? If so, who won? Tell me the final score!)
--Ray Bentley's Midnight Movies
--Ridge Cinema
--The Ashland Theatre (SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
--Chelsea (the first non-alcoholic beer....what?!!??)
--real country music (HA! Did I just say that??)

and....finally.....

--my youth.

Yikes!