This is a feature that we would like to include in future issues of The Vision Paper. We will simply call it “A Walk Down Memory Lane”. It is an invitation to our readers to share with us some of their good memories of days gone by. Send us a letter or an email and take us for a walk down your memory lane and help us recall times when the world was a little different.

We want to remember playing hide and go seek at dusk; sitting on the porch; Simon Says; Kick the Can; Red Light-Green Light.

Lunch boxes with a thermos; going home for lunch; penny candy from the store; when a quarter was a decent allowance; when you would reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.

Remember when you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped without asking, all for free all of the time? When you didn’t pay for air; when laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?

Remember when any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid thought a thing of it? When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and they did?

Remember when no one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition and the doors were never locked? And you got in big trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no one ever had a key?

Remember playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? Back then baseball was not a psychological group learning experience...it was just a game!

Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals ‘cause no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?