Summer of 1976

A Coke and a Smile – Join the Pepsi Generation — The Uncola — catchphrases that captured summer at its best. Nothing beat an ice cold soda on a hot summer day when sitting at my front stoop.  Open fire hydrants cooled the steamy tar.  Cars honked to shoo away teenagers that anxiously waited to douse them.  Abba’s Dancing Queen blasted from boom radios.  Mothers looked out the windows to watch their kids striking leftover fire pops from the Fourth of July celebrations.  All felt right the summer of Rocky and bell bottoms.  Maybe, just maybe, Papo would finally notice me.