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This single image evoked more of a response than any other in a long while, I did ask the question; What is your favorite piece?

It is something that everyone has in common, memories of a time past, good times often unrecorded as it was before the technology allowed such frivolities as selfies and posting of ongoing events. I wonder, would we have done that back in the 60’s/70’s had social networks been available?

Back then Google it meant going to the library and looking up various books and then finding an appropriate passage or answer to the question at hand, if you were lucky you had an encyclopedia that may have possessed some clue to the query.

Today we are bombarded by imagery and a constant source of information, good bad or otherwise.

40 years ago Photographs were mostly taken on vacations and holidays, they were in mounted in frames and installed on a piece of furniture or in photo albums where we would sometimes reflect upon telling family stories about the people in those images, kids would hang on to every word of the story in anticipation of the funny yarn that was being spun along the way.

It is safe to say that times have indeed changed and that growing up today our children will have very different memories than the ones we have had. In some ways they are passing us by as the technology has become so advanced and in other ways the best part of living has passed them by as children don’t have time or the luxury of being children any longer.

But on this busy winter day a simple photograph of some familiar hunks of cheap tin stopped every one of us for a moment, together both separate and apart we remembered some bit of our youth and maybe brought us a smile.

SB