Nostalgia

Jess and I were talking about how she heard that Massachusetts has drive-ins that are still open. We have really missed going to the drive-in since we moved from Idaho, and so I thought it would be fun to find one of them and go to it sometime this summer! I started looking online to find one and fell across this site.

http://www.drive-ins.com/

We were surprised at how many drive-ins are still open! Even Hawaii has one. This got me thinking about how many things that are really cool just kind of fall away in our society today. What other things am I forgetting about that I loved growing up? I don't mean fads like Kriss-Kross (although I do still love Jump Jump), but things that were more lasting.

I have a hunch one day I will miss the Idaho I grew up in. It's already so different than what it was for me as a kid. I remember racing Popsicle sticks down the rain gutter. Or sticking apples at the end of sticks and seeing how far we could fling them (Jacob still holds the record at over a block!). Things have changed so much in the last twenty years. Kids don't cruise the town on their home-made bikes (that didn't have any brakes) anymore. Now they play video games. Even spud harvest is gone. In it's place: fall break. An empty shell of what once was. At least the July 4th fireworks are better than they used to be. Thanks, Melaleuca.

I really hope that as I continue to age and better understand the world that I will recognize when change is an improvement, and when it is a loss. I hope that there will always be cheap drive-ins. What other relics of time past would I love if I gave them a chance? Let me know some of your favorite previous era left-overs. Maybe I could find my next infatuation.