Don Gale: Remembering skate keys and other good things

I ran across a skate key the other day. It was in the junk drawer, that small drawer in the kitchen where we toss items that don’t have a designated “home.” The junk drawer also has a year or two accumulation of rubber bands from The Tribune, a ball holding assorted pieces of twine tied together and a few marbles from bygone days.Today’s families don’t have junk drawers. They have junk rooms, usually called “storage rooms,” where hundreds of items wait f