Nostalgic thoughts (made by a 1983 child) after looking at a 1948 map of New Castle County:

Dialing '1191' & hanging up would make your phone ring

'Hardy Boys' books

The 'ammonia odor' from Diamond Ice & Coal Ice Plant on 11th Street & Bancroft Parkway (heavens!)

Playing baseball without adult supervision

'Ring worm' epidemic

Air-raid drills

25 cent allowances

The 'tanning odor' from Amalgamated Leather Co., Front Street & Maryland Avenue

Slingshots

NYT has a nice profile of Syracuse here. Let's go do that weekend someday. Adam, Zamboner gets a shout out!

I find it sad in this day and age that the only reason certain people come up on a Google search is for their obituary. That's how I found out about my grandma. I missed the funeral. It was my second week of college and she was practically dead anyway due to Huntington's disease. It is so cold and unforgiving of me to say that. At the moment a calming has set across my body. I cannot tell if it is rage or sleep deprivation. But the more I remember my foolishness for not going to the funeral, the more I feel ashamed and intensely apologetic to the rest of my family. I need to go to my grandfather's funeral.

WALTER SAUCHAK

"MeMe" May 12, 2006, age 86. Beloved husband of the late Joyce. Dear father of Wayne (Kirsten) Sauchak, Thelma (Brian) Williams, Shelley (Larry) Bickner and Terry and David Sauchak. Loving grandfather of Eric, Heather, Leigh, Christopher, Brianna, Kyle, Daniel, Cassandra and Robert. Also survived by three great-grandchildren. Brother of John (Nina) and Tom (Dolores). Brother-in-law of Howard (Sonia) Knapp. Veteran of World War II U.S. Marine Corps. Funeral service at McFarland Foss Funeral Home, 5401 Schaefer Rd., Dearborn, Tuesday 11 a.m. Visitation Monday 2-9 p.m. Burial Glen Eden Cemetery.

Is this the twilight of the Golden Age of Ursa? Can it be true the hybridization of bears in the wild is causing actual depletion? Are these hybrid offspring fertile? If yes, than the decline of the Great White Bear is upon us. If no, than what has science brought us?

I'd say the Wholpin was just a DVD journal, but how many of you scientists have been in the ocean?