Another smell from my younger days - The bar and grill. They don't call them that anymore. There was a smell that eminated from a bar and grill - probably just stale beer and booze - but I loved it. You walk past a bar these days and they don't smell. They used to leave the door open back then for the smell to get out. Nowadays it's costomary to leave the doors closed and the windows covered up, the reason being that you can't look in to see what kind of place it is, you have to walk in and then you're more likely to stay for at least one drink. And the smell is gone. I don't know what happend to it, but I miss it.

And the names - the one I passed everyday going to school was Geary's Bar and Grill. They were always named after the owner. Now they have sexy names like Strawberry's, Cherry's, Peach's, or Kitten's. Or names that imply antiqueness: The Rusty Nail, the Rusty Hinge, The Rusty (anything). Or trendy sounding names - Club something or other, Magic (or better yet, Magique), Pulse, or anything to show that it's now a bar and grill.