Hey... don't talk bad about Mr. Softee! Link to the "noise pollution" below. After a while it is obnoxious as a grown up, but as a kid in the 60's, sounds from heaven, IF you had the money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKNRG9hIxGQ
I remember street peddlers [[barely) and the junk man with a horse drawn wagon. I just must have caught the tail end of that phenomenon.
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