Middle Aged Memories
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I go to the Cracker Barrel in my own city every once in a while, just for the chicken & dumplings. I bought some Blackjack gum there last time at the general store.
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I've been to Cracker Barrel but never noticed the candy. We don't have them around here, we go when we are travelling. Yummy fried okra!
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I got bottlecaps last night. I havent had them for weeks, I should say years.
I love Cracker Barrel. I dont get to go much because noone in my family likes it.
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Ack! How have I missed coming back to this wonderful thread? Elimar and Meece - That is funny about the mix up - way back a page or so. Obviously I don't see well. Still thought I'd answer even though my Mom's picture isn't up anymore. Her Mom had gorgeous pictures of her taken several times, so I have lots but nothing special she was just sitting in the garden.
I love the paint by number- I wasn't ever very good but like Mary, my sister ended up an artist as well. www.frandecker.com
I had a tiny record player which was billed as the world's smallest and I kept it for years thinking it was something really amazing.. wonder if it is still around - sigh, I doubt it.
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Mary- Just looked at your sister's site. Wow, those are amazing - I can't imagine how long it must take her to do those - such detail. Thanks for sharing.
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Somehow, I missed going to the website that Mary posted earlier, but now I took a look. Stanzie, both you and she have very talented fine artists in the family. I loved how colorful the works of both artists were! About all I can do is a little pencil sketching...'cause don't feel too intimidated by something I can erase if I screw up.
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Just catching up with this thread. What beautiful art your sisters create Mary and Stanzie. My daughter asked for one thing when her grandparents passed away a couple of years ago and it was for the fisher price record player they had from when their youngest child was little. My two grandsons love playing with it. And, btw, I love the chicken and dumplings from cracker barrel! I never did paint by number, I could barely draw stick figures! I didn't do well in my art class in middle school!
Don't ask why I thought of this but I remember streakers in the 70s. When my 8th grade class went over to the high school to see where we would be going to school the following year, one of the seniors decided to streak past as we were walking into the building. What an awakening for this naive 13 year old! That fall, I went to a Michigan State Football game and there was a streaker during one of the quarter breaks. LOL! At least I was "used" to it by then!
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Streaking! My girlfriend streaked an outdoor event hosted by a radio station. She cut her foot on some glass and had to get stitches. That was so 70's.
Also in the 70's, remember how big CB radios were? Not just for truckers. I hung around with a group that liked to go camping. They all had vans with CB's in them, so we would caravan out to the wilderness, going crazy on the CB's the whole way. The truckers never seemed annoyed, they probably laughed at how idiotic we were.
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I do remember CBs. My dad had one and my hubby (who was my BF at the time) had one. I hated when he talked on it but I loved listening to the truckers. I loved the movie and the song Convoy!
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Hi to everyone, just found this site. I live in southern ireland - cracker barrel here is a type of cheese. Did anyone ever have a David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust Hairsyle?
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Welcome BernieEllen. I didn't have that hairstyle but I sure loved listening to David Bowie when I was a teenager (I still love listening to him)!
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I wasn't too fashionable with hair or clothing, but the 'Bowie" was popular during my high school time, for boys and girls too; with the "Rod Stewart" option as it grew out. Hehehe!
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Dorothy Hamil hair for me!
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who is Doroth Hamil?
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Dorothy Hamill was an Olympic ice skater from the US. She has a cute sort of layered wedge hair cut - short and was copied like crazy. Me, I had a Peter Tork haircut! Love and adore, Ireland - one of my favorite places on earth!.
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Heeere's Dorothy...
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I did have a Dorothy Hamil haircut. Does anyone remember pixies? My mom MADE me get one! I was so upset and hated it. I couldn't wait until she said I was old enough to grow my hair out (that was when I could wash and brush it by myself)!
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yep that's it elimar, that is what my hair was supposed to look like...mind you i had very curly hair and i was attempting to blow dry it with the crappy 5 watt blow dryers we had at the time...what a mess...i ended up looking more like Bozo because the frizzy hair would just stick out...what a complete mess. i would love to have that hair right now...sigh...0
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suz, I, too, was tortured to get the pixie in third grade. With short bangs! The boy I liked made fun of me. A boy I didn't like told me I looked cute. My mom used pretty much the same reasoning as yours. (To be fair to my mom, I remember having a giant snarl in the back of my hair for DAYS in the second grade. My self-grooming skills were not up to the rigors of long hair yet!)0
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Even to this day, just the mention of the term pixie cut makes me shiver. My mother also MADE me get this style for years, she said it was because it suited my "small face" but I believe that since I was the youngest of six, she was just tired of looking after hair! The thing that I hated the most was the razor, which alway seemed to be dull because the hairdresser tugged so hard! I also hated having my neck shaved. I have a very low hairline in the back that I attribute to having had that area shaved so often. I toyed with the idea of a Dorothy Hamill when I was in high school, but I was going through my "I'm keeping my hair long just to spite my mother" stage. Aren't teenagers wonderful?0
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I, too, HAD to have a Pixie cut for years and years and years, until I could pay for my own haircuts. So, as a teen I grew my hair long and to this day it is never shorter than waist length, usually hip length or longer. And yes, that was one element in my choice to "refuse" chemo. The fact that the research shows chemo generally isn't helpful for early stage bc doesn't seem to stop the docs from "recommending" ("ordering" would be a better term) it.
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My mother made me have a pixie from about 3 to 5. Must have been the same thing about being able to take care of my own hair.
In eighth grade my mother felt my hair was too heavy and was giving me the bad headaches I was having, so she took me to the highest priced salon in town (I am sure it was to bribe me to go through with it) and the stylist cut my waistlength hait into a Toni Tenille! Yuck! I hated it.
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Oh NM - very cool you have long hair!!!! Oh, I did NOT know that about early stage and chemo!!! Wow! That is kind of huge isn't it.....
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Hi stanzie, i loved the peter tork think. You are welcome to my place in ireland anytime. I live rural. Very rural. Six miles for a pint of milk. 15 miles to town. you can scream and no one will hear. Love it. You all talk about things i have never heard of - makes me laugh.
I used to love Roy Rodgers
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I used to love Honey West. She had a pet ocelot.
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I'm sure some of us are old enough to not only remember, but actually have gotten, the vaccination for Smallpox. Girls got theirs slightly higher up on the arm so it would be covered if you wore a short sleeve shirt. All the kids in my class had the scar on their arm.
The widescale vaccination was discontinued in 1972.
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I remember, and still have the scar, but I have to look for it to find it now.
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I have a giant scar, it's over one inch in diameter. When I was a teenager, I was embarrassed to wear sleeveless tops because of it. I'm over that now.
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Yep, I have the scar and it was the topic of discussion a couple weeks ago. DS came back from overseas and showed me his. It is manditory to have if you serve overseas, or so he said. DH, DS and I all compared the scars. I noticed mine a lot more when I was young, but never gave it a thought.
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