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SALEM, OR — Nostalgia hit hard this week for 42-year-old Brent Halverson, who fondly remembered a simpler time when seatbelts were optional, ashtrays were full, and his mother hotboxed a two-door Nissan Sentra like she was training for a Marlboro Light 100s endurance event.
“We didn’t have iPads or air conditioning,” said Halverson, eyes misty with secondhand emotion. “What we had was a crank window, a cassette of Fleetwood Mac’s Greatest Hits, and the thick, meaty aroma of burning Marlboro Light 100s swirling through the cabin like we were brisket.”
Family trips during the late ’80s, according to Halverson, consisted of seven-hour drives to Klamath Falls with
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