She then followed the global trade of recycled merchandise — used T - shirts, old - fashioned shoes, discarded Coke advertisements, the old technology of
Kodak camera shops — to far - flung places in Eastern Europe, Africa, Cuba, and Mexico.
I was proud of the
Kodak camera I bought with money from my paper route, my favorite car was GM's Corvette, and when my mom
shopped at Eaton's she used to buy me ice cream at the nearby K - Mart.