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Post #160311 by PapeToaTane on Fri, May 20, 2005 8:53 AM

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  • Slip-n'-Slides and Water Wiggles!
  • A&W root beer floats
  • The smell of a well-oiled baseball glove
  • The drum-circles at Venice Beach
  • Tide-pooling at Paradise Cove, Malibu
  • Pixie-Sticks and sunflower-seeds in the North Venice Little League field dugouts!
  • Kool-Aid stands (10-cents a cup!)
  • Dodger games when Koufax or Drysdale were pitching
  • Pacific Ocean Park's roller-coaster
  • Body-surfing at lifeguard station 29
  • Flexi-Flyer or clay-wheel skateboard rides down steep hills (watch out for little rocks!!)
  • Foster's Freeze ice cream cones
  • Throwing a nasty curve with a Whiffle-ball
  • The sun burning through morning fog at Bay Street, Santa Monica Beach
  • The 3-D, multi-media peep-show at the SM Pier arcade - the one that had the belly-dancer and smelled like perfume! Woo hoo!! 1960's version of porn!
  • Virgin Mai Tais at Don the Beachcomber, Malibu
  • Kelbo's on Pico!!
  • Sears Tuff-Skin jeans with the double-knees
  • New Keds! Or, Red-Ball Jets!
  • Trading-in Blue-Chip or S&H Green Stamps for a plastic Winchester-style cap gun!
  • Riding Schwinn Sting-Rays through the dirt-mud at Pen-Mar Park (pissed the groundskeepers right off!)
  • Cotton Candy at the Long Beach "Pike"
  • Three great bowling alleys: El Dorado, Jefferson Bowl and Samoa Lanes (great old palm-tree carpeting!)