Summer of Cigars 2022: Saturday, September 3 (Labor Day Weekend)

Saturday, September 3, 2022

Labor Day Weekend is here. School starts next week. As always it all went too fast. 


I think of that first summer of cigars in 1982. Walking up to Salk Drug Store on Lyndale Avenue to buy Swisher Sweats and Dots.

My cigar intake was much more sporadic and infrequent back in 1982. I would go for months and sometimes a few years. 

Lighting up became a little more frequent once I moved out on my own. I'd sometime walk up to Golden Leaf in Calhoun Square for a cigar and then drive around smoking it in my Toyota Corolla. I liked how the car smelled the next day. 


There's a bunch of other stuff I remember about the summer of 1982: the above album; Twilight Zone the movie seen with Mom, Dad, Sam, and Pete at the France Avenue Drive-In; my bicycle accident and the hospital stay that resulted from it; watching Brideshead Revisited on PBS; staying up late because I couldn't sleep or because I would sneak one of Dad's Swisher Sweets; watching NBC Overnight with Linda Ellerby; being friends with Philip P. and sleeping-over at his house just about every Friday for the 1981-1982 school year and then having a falling out with him in June; Kim Wilde's The Kid's In America; going to see ET with Sam and Pete at the Skyway Theater in downtown Minneapolis and bringing our own popcorn; John Cougar's Jack & Diane; playing video games like Pac Man, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Mrs. Pac Man at Great Games video arcade; Mom hearing rumors that Great Games was actually a drug front; lining up quarters on the video games;



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