Middle Aged Memories
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In grade school, we always said The Pledge Of Allegiance first thing each morning. I can't remember exactly when we stopped. I don't know if it was when we got to a certain grade, or if they stopped having it in public schools all over at the time.
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I remember saying the Pledge every school day, too. I don't remember if we did it in High School or not, though.
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We had an intercom system in high school and the pledge was lead from the main office every day. In grades K-4, maybe through 6, we also sang one patriotic song after the pledge. Pledge, song, roll call and lunch money collection, first thing EVERY day. Then we got to do "sharing" aka show and tell.
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Also in the grade school years, if we went to a friends house to play, we didn't ring the doorbell. Instead, we went to their porch or door and "called them out" by name. I look back and find it totally charming now. Somehow, this practice did not carry on to the generation after us.
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I was shopping in the fashion district on Saturday and saw that they were selling "clackers" all over the place.
I remember the calling out of your friends. And waiting for everyone to come out after dinner... We always ate dinner at 6:00 and when the dishes were done, we had at least an hour to play hide and seek, mother may I, red light green light or other games.
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Bernie ellen- how interesting you have not heard of so many of these things... but then I'm sure we wouldn't have heard of many of your childhood toys. I do one day so want to go back to Ireland - it is one of my favorite places on earth and everyone was so nice - just a lovely country.
I didn't grow up in a neighborhood with a lot of kids which I missed that kind of interaction. I had hoped it would work for my kids but even though there are children around - somehow the ages and personalities don't mix. I love hearing stories like that though.
We had one family across a busy street who had kids (well they were raising the kids- their parents were killed in the Orley Plane Crash) anyway, there was a big field and we would meet them there and make up stories and play. Besides the big field there was a fish pond, tennis courts and then along closer to the beautiful old home( which was torn down - termites) which was build early 1900 it had an old swimming pool and statures and there was an overgrown shrubbery maze with a stature in the center. The couple who lived in the home were elderly and had let things fall into disrepair but they were always so sweet to us as Trick or Treaters on Halloween. I wish I had taken pictures but I was pretty young and never thought about it.... maybe the pictures in my mind are more magical than reality.
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This thread is sort of languishing lately, sorry to see that.
Well, today I'm thinking of the Soap Opera that I began watching during the summers home from college, and continued to keep up with until about 10 years ago. I heard the network is doing away with it next week, so I have to give a shout out to...
If anyone else was a fan, I loved the character Brooke, and the Tad character too. Also, way back when they had the romance of Cliff & Nina.
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elimar- I loved this show. I remember one summer when traveling with my Mom and sister we planned the whole trip so we were near a tv for this show - LOL! I hadn't seen it in years but heard Carol Burnette was going back on as a tribute - it was a couple of weeks ago I think. Anyway, I could still keep up! Very sad it is being cancelled. At least Erika finally won her emmy a few years back. But loved Tad when he was younger and funny!
Don't want this thread to disappear either!
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I watched this show for a while during the Tad and Dixie romance days, I thought that she was one of the prettiest actresses on tv at the time.
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Dixie got better looking as her hair and nose changed.0
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Oh really??? She changed her nose? Oh shoot wonder if I can see if before it goes away or is it already gone....
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I can stil remember the word "As sands through the hourglas.." as I was lying in my room supposedly taking a nap. That was my Mother's soap. When my kids were little we recieved 3 stations because we lived out of town. The wind down time during their naps was limited to soaps so I chose Guiding Light, & The Young & The Restless. I'll bet I could catch up on them now as well, if they are still on.
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I'm pretty sure that The Young and The Restless is still on, I was channel surfing one day this summer and sure enough, there was Nikki, Viktor and the whole Genoa City gang.
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I love reminicing and I had forgot about the "calling out" I was thinking too about how I used to spend the night with my GF's they were sisters and I fell right between them in age. We would play until the street lights came on Mother May I and reinacting the Wizard of Oz and they always tried to make me ToTo! I remember when the oldest of us stayed outside during the Wizard of Oz because she wanted to talk to a boy!!! I was disgusted LOL
Remember Creature Feature and Saturday nights Sci Fi?
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Wax lips.........candy buttons on paper..................string licorice.............roller skates with keys...............wax bottles................candy cigarettes..................when the newspaper was 5cents.....................when yo could sleep with your downstairs windows open.............no a/c................a coal furnace that you had to shovel the coal into................wringer washers..................clothes lines...................ugly gym suits................wow, those were the days
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Hi duckyb1, oh those were the days. Sure do miss them. But looking forward to new memories. SharonH
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Wax lips were always my favorite!
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Sharon and Paula...........I'm long passed middle age.........If my age right now was considered "middle", I would be living to be 152..............now we all know that isn't happening, but it gives you a good idea how old I am.................truely don't qualify for "middle age status", but thought a trip down memory lane would be fun...............hugs, and have a gread day.............
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Ducky, you can always relive our middle aged memories from the standpoint of a different age. It's all in your mind. I am just now wrapping mine around being middle aged and I have been in the middle many years!
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I was walking down memory lane with my new hair stylist yesterday. We were talking about home perms. My mother used to perm hair for our neighbor, my grandmother, and us girls. She used Lilt foaming perms. I remember the ammonia smell that filled the kitchen... and the rest of the house. I loved to watch her spray the foam on the rollers and watch it dissipate. I also used to take the little sponges and make shirts for my troll doll.
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I got the Toni home perm at least once. It wasn't foam, it was the two liquids you mixed together and once combined could blind you for life (or at least thru' the boy-watching teenage years) if it trickled into your eyes.
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It could be worse. They could still be using electricty to perm hair.
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I remember that ad. I think the bottom twin has the Toni. Her bangs look more poodle-y to me?
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Hello all you Middleagers, I am feeling younger than springtime thanks to my R&R in MO so thought I would check in with the younger crowd. Maybe this is due to my bald spots filling in with black hair....my friend said maybe I am going to be like Benjamin Button...yeh, right. I got a perm twice in my life.....once when I was in about the 6th grade and again when I wanted to fit in with the style at the time and had just chopped off my long tresses.....both were pretty bad results. Ah, what price we pay for beauty. I had trolls and gave them names.....Benji, Chole, Pansy and Oppie....I even knit little sweaters for them. (Now why can I remember things like that and do so poorly on Trivial Pursuit? You whupped our asses on that one, Elimar.) We found one of them up in the attic at my dad's a few years ago and the dog promptly chewed all the hair off of it and ripped out the eyes which ruined any chance of selling it on Ebay for me.
Have a good day everyone. I am going to try to come up with a good mystery pic to post one of these weeks. Marybe
Ooops, wrong thread.....the mystery pic is on Middle aged women with BC. My chemo brain acting up again!
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Marybe, it must be my Middle-Aged memory of all these many, many things and more that gives me my Trivial Pursuit edge.
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Did I miss a game of Trivial Pursuit?
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Meece, I had the opportunity to meet some of the ladies a few weeks ago (part of the ChrissyB journey,) so we did have an actual game one night. So, with my extensive trivial knowledge (and getting lucky on a super easy sports question) I managed to claim victory. Marybe wants a rematch, and I want some more salt water taffy (that we were eating that night) so one of these days....I'll have to beat her again. Aha-ha-ha!
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Ah, I thought it might have been a virtual game.
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