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#11
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 965
Ah the good old days...............
My prized possession was a little record player and I played the same songs over and over. (Also had a huge crush on one of the guys on the show "Emergency" and spent much time daydreaming about running away to California ) )
My prized possession was a little record player and I played the same songs over and over. (Also had a huge crush on one of the guys on the show "Emergency" and spent much time daydreaming about running away to California ) )
#12
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: new york state
Posts: 10,307
I remember all of this. I also remember popping tar bubbles in road on hot summer days. Playing in the old wash tub as well as the creek. Playing outside in winter was fun. Do kids today even know what a snowman or angel is? I did grow up making and having fun.
Just remembered playing with paper dolls to.
Just remembered playing with paper dolls to.
#13
Identified with most items/behaviors listed ... and I grew up next door to LA in Pasadena, CA .... guess I'm a lot older
#14
We only had TWO stations, and PBS sometimes!
I fondly remember leaving the front door and windows open all night so the cool air coming through the screens could help us sleep. We just had fans. Now it doesn't even cool down at night and it's not safe to leave your door open.
I fondly remember leaving the front door and windows open all night so the cool air coming through the screens could help us sleep. We just had fans. Now it doesn't even cool down at night and it's not safe to leave your door open.
#15
We only had four TV channels that we had to get up to change. I remember walking everywhere. I remember having to duck under our school desks for drills or run out in to the hall and cover our heads, safety patrol and getting in to trouble for trying to look in to a barber shop window. (Girls weren't allowed) Milk at school was 5 cents. I had saddle shoes that I hated and crinolines The list goes on and on.
#16
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: The other Milwaukie, Oregon
Posts: 1,913
I remember those things too,, except we called the creek a crick. I had roller skates with a skate key and we had a party line. I loved paper dolls! We played with brothers and sisters because we lived in the country on a farm and our nearest neighbors lived a mile away. And those kids were dumb anyway! We played school or house and even sometimes church (my sisters and I took turns being the priest!) most days during the summer. I babysat for 25 cents an hour. Oh well...I also belonged to the generation that would never amount to much because of rock'n roll.
#18
I remember the old wooden screen doors and how they sounded when they opened and banged shut; 10¢ paper scrapbooks that we filled wth clipped pictures from movie magazines of our favorite movie stars; watching my mother use a wooden pole to pick individual pieces of clothing from the scalding hot, sudsy soap water to feed through the wringer of the washer to prepare for rinsing; movies for a quarter on Saturday where we saw the current newsreel, sometimes not one but two cartoons and two full feature films; I cashed in pop bottles I found for a nickel a piece and when I got a quarter I could buy either an Archie or a Donald Duck comic for 10¢, a double decker Gem City ice cream cone for 10¢ and a Reese's peanut butter cup for a nickel; canned goods stacked in rows on an inclined shelf and you took the bottom one and the next one in line rolled down and took it's place; soda fountains and nectar sodas; frost malt machines; big chocolate malts that came in heavy, tall, fan folded paper containers; waiting your turn at the meat counter in the grocery to get hand cut meat and nothing came prepackaged; playing jacks; Audobon (sp?) Society pamphlets we got at school on a regular basis highlighting a single bird in gorgeous color and telling us all about them; stores run by locals, not conglomerates; gym class and our blue bloomers!!!
#19
I was never spanked with a belt or a switch but the flyswatter was my mom's "friend" and she wasn't above using those paddles that had a ball attached to them once the elastic string broke either! My dad never spanked me. He just sent me to my room to think about what I did wrong and by the time he got in there to spank me I was crying so hard he couldn't do it. My world revolved around my daddy. I was his fishing/hunting/mushroom gathering buddy.
#20
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 279
I remember sledding down hills on pieces of cardboard, ice skating on the river, catching tadpoles in the quarry,catching butterflies and having them mounted, telephone party lines, along with all the other things mentioned. But my favorite was watching American Bandstand with Dick Clark. My favorites on their were Kenny and Arlene!
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