BITS & PIECES
Jun 01, 2021
3 minutes
Ice Cream With Dad
On Saturday afternoons in the late summer and early fall in 1938, my dad and I would walk three blocks from our house to our local drugstore for our ice-cream treat. On our walks, the trees on each side of the street were covered with late summer/early fall leaves, brown and crunchy under our feet. Sometimes Dad whistled as we walked.
When we came to the end of each block, we waited for the traffic signal. Each signal change was announced by a distinctive ding!, which I loved.
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