When I was in my early twenties, I went with a friend to the local goodwill store to look for some clothes. I was not really looking for anything but I came across a suit jacket that was a very fifties style and I thought it was cool so I bought it. When I walked out of the store I put it on and when I reached into the pocket there was a little smaller pocket inside and in it was two ticket stubs. They were for a play in San Francisco sometime in the early fifties. I kept those ticket stubs in that jacket and would pull them out and try to imagine who it might have been or what the circumstances were around the man who wore that jacket to the play. I wondered if he had planned to keep them to remember the night or if years later he forgot they were in there when he gave the jacket away. That is what I like about ticket stubs, I have a box of them which I can open and look at to remember some of the shows I have gone to and the good times I had. Nowadays I either have my tickets on my phone or a printout from my home printer, how am I supposed to look back at that? I can open my little box of treasures and see the ticket stub from Stevie Ray Vaughn at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium in 1985 and remember how he blew me away! I looked this morning and saw that  1984 thru 1985 I went to a lot of concerts. Now I would probably have to keep the text link on my iPhone for the one I went to last night. It just isn’t the same. I get I am older and more prone to nostalgia but I think it is harder to keep memories like those these days! I guess I could buy a shirt or hat but I already spent the farm on the tickets, I don’t need to also purchase the neighbors farm in merchandise.