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LizzieMaine said:I was riding home from work tonight and passed an excavation pit in the middle of the street with flashing LED pylons around the perimeter to keep the unwary from falling in -- and I had a flashback to when I was little, and they used to ring such pits with these round black metal things about the size of a cantaloupe with a flaming wick in the top. I used to think they were bombs, but they were just a very old form of safety light. I haven't seen these, or even thought about them in ages, but when they came to mind it got me thinking about other vintage things that just seem to have quietly disappeared in the past 45 years or so --
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Around here, those were called "smudge-pots". As a kid, I had a strange fascination with them!
I really miss the weekly pictorial magazines like Life and Look. As a kid, I looked forward to these every week for their coverage of news items and the personal interest stories. I learned *so* much about world events and pop culture from these magazines.