My brother and I could walk to school, there was a pizza joint down the street with a cigarette-scarred Asteroids machine, and the corner Optimo sold comic books.
This declaration is blazoned on a giant 1950s Cold War-era rocket fuselage, fully equipped with laser lights and a smoke machine, on the corner of N 35th Street and Evanston Ave North.
One of the most exciting things that a well-produced play can do is serve as a time machine, giving modern-day audiences a privileged glimpse of a corner of the lost world of the past.