Originally Posted by
PenniF
Wonnie....we lived much of the same life !!!!
We rode the streetcar to the next town on Saturday to spend the day at the movies...just me and my brother - i was 9 and he was 5 !!
Catching fireflies on a summer night....or playing "ghost in the graveyard"....IF you were allowed to stay out after the street lights came one... Hanging clothes on the line in the yard - and using the clothes prop to raise the line up once the weight of the laundry caused it to sag.....buying hot dogs that were actually made at the local grocery store and strung together like other sausages - and they went "snap" when you bit into them. I was lucky enough to grow up in the town of West View -- where we had OUR VERY OWN amusement park....raking leaves or shoveling snow from walks and steps for 25 cents a house...catching crayfish in the crick....
You know....words of that song really do hit home..... "" it's not just a different time, it's a different world ""
Oh, my gosh, PenniF, you brought back more wonderful memories! I had forgotten about the clothes props and catching fireflies at night. And we had an amusement park nearby, too. The roller coaster was wooden and when it sped up and down the track the whole thing would shake something awful. Didn't have a creek to catch crayfish in growing up (lived in the city) but we live in the country now and have a creek running through our front yard ....WITH CRAYFISH!!! My father always told me that you could go anywhere and be anything through the magic of books and he was right. I loved my books and I "traveled" all over the world on the back porch laying on the glider.