Also spent hours in a library, waited patiently to use the phone and sometimes had to wait for the party line to get off their phone, were the first to see McDonalds, Burger King and other fast food restaurants start to spread throughout our cities, the last to start our school day with the Pledge of Allegiance, hitch hike to get somewhere, read a sports page that almost never mentioned a player's salary, buy a new car for under $5,000, go to the beach and not think to use sunscreen, shoveled neighbors walks for a dollar, deliver newspapers after school on our bikes, and believed that politicians had our best interests in mind when they voted on legislation.