EMBLEMATIC

of a time gone by. Like so many things I notice as I get older, there are more signs emblematic of times gone by.

Hood ornaments. When's the last time you saw one? The last I can recall was the jaguar on the 2000 Jaguar.

Oh, there may be something stuck on the front of cars, but they sure aren't emblematic (Ok, I've overused that word) of anything. Maybe a cheapened logo of a company that makes parts and components in 5 different countries. Yes, that's the state of the industry today. Gone by.

Gone bye. Gone buy. They all apply; pick one.

How about the top 40? I remember when Featherstuns' in MTV reproduced the Top 40 weekly. They had a display in their store of the top ten records of the week.

Can anyone name ten songs currently on any top 10 list? I wonder why not? I wonder why when I change stations on my car radio whether FM or AM, I get a ton of oldies. Why do kids of this generation sing the songs of ours? We certainly didn't know our parents and grandparents songs. What few we did know, we didn't care for. Gone by.

Finally, remember when if you worked hard and saved you were rewarded? If you overspent or didn't save you went broke. Or before bailouts and stimulus programs? When we were capitalists instead of socialists?

Me, too. And I miss them all. To top it off, I remember when we got a hole in our jeans, we had our Moms sew them up. We certainly didn't buy them like that as they do today. (If you had any doubt about how the world has passed me by Sonny Boy, that should cement it.)