By hanshotfirst on Skatehive
As one of the old men of Hive, I often find myself reminiscing about my youth. The other day I wrote about taking the bus and train from the suburbs of Chicago to Wrigley Field in the city. That particular story took place when I was around 13 but I started doing that when I was ten years old. Now I can't imagine a ten year old crossing the street by themself let alone taking multiple public transportation methods into the city without an adult. But today I am thinking about something else... what I used to be able to buy with a nickel/5 pennies/.05 USD. And thinking back, there were a ton of options. First I have to start by pointing out one of the weirdest and most amazing things from my childhood. We had a candy store directly next to my grade school. I mean it was touching the "playground" (black cement with some things painted on it). We would have to go past it in order to get the bigger concrete sports play area (apparently concrete was softer back then because there wasn't a sh