This could have meant any number of things, and all of them were awesome, so I grabbed my virtual letter opener and read the email immediately. What it contained was a link to pictures of pollution from the 1970s, including images of the Jamaica Bay area, which is where I lived when I was a little girl. Some might look at the photos in this collection and think, "Wow, New York was a real shithole back then." Others might think, "Boy, we've come a long way." As for me, my only reaction was, "Where the fuck was that ice cream truck?"