Plastic shopping bags at large markets are being phased out by law in San Francisco. I encountered my first plastic grocery bag on my first day of kindergarten. A Stew Leonard’s bag was being cleverly re-used as an art smock, with the bottom cut open and the handles sitting on the shoulders of a five-year-old. Stew Leonard’s (“the World’s Largest Dairy Store”) displays walls of photos of its customers holding the iconic bag in front of landmarks. And some pour soul(s) actually scanned them into a database so they could be viewed online. While I couldn’t find any of myself (I know I was in a few Girl Scout trip shots but I don’t know who submitted them or where they were taken) I found some 30+ year old photos of my best friend snapped in Williamsburg with her mom’s Instamatic (no I’m not going to link to them, she’d kill me).