Does this thread make anybody else wish for the "good old days"! (Minus polio, please....)

I remember walking into Roos Bros. department store (later Roos, Atkins) with my mother when I was seven. She left me in the sporting goods section while she shopped for her teaching wardrobe for the next school year, and I pestered the clerks about all the guns they had, culminating in one of them letting me look at and HOLD an S&W M&P 2" .38 Sp.....

This was in downtown San Francisco, CA.