Middle Aged Memories
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I think it may also be that we like thinking back on "simpler" times.
I was going through a box of doilies given to me a few months back by my 99 yr old aunt. There was a doily made bye connecting four rubber mason jar seals. The rubber is quite rotted, but it was funny that we had just been talking about the method.
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I have enjoyed reading this threads this morning. Thanks so much to all for posting pics ... Wow sure brings back lots of memories.
I had an eight track player in my car when I was 18 and I could remove it at night ... Some one might steal it (lol)
I had orange fishnet stockings with the garter belt .. Very cool
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The hot pants I remember more were 70's era, bold corors, patch pockets, more like these...
When I went looking for that picture, I found another blast from the wearable past...sauna pants, which reminded me of that jiggling belt machine for weight loss. My friends grandma had one of those jigglers. It would get your circulation going and just make you itch.
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I was reminiscing the other day about going to a Fall Fair and the act in the Bandshell was Tony Orlando and Dawn ... I had never heard of them and it was free ...
I took my drivers test at 16 in a 1972 Dodge Monaco. I was telling one of the 30 something's at work and she googled it ... Couldn't believe how big it was. Try parallel parking it on your test.
I was 17 when seat belt laws came into effect in Canada. Hard to believe it has been that long ago here.0 -
I sw Tony Orlando and Dawn at a State Fair...Tie A Yellow Ribbon...they must have been doing the fair circuit.
Haha! You are so right about parking those huge "boats" of cars. I also remember driving (not for driver's test, thank goodness) a car with manual (not power) steering. Remember that hand over hand turning. What a workout.
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I used to borrow my BIL truck .. It was manual steering and manual transmission with 3 on the column ... Shifting as you turned .. Now that was fun.
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This one's going to separate the middle-aged from the youngsters...
Remember having to do Air Raid Drills in school? For me it was only a few early years in elementary school and I don't remember when they stopped. There was no official announcement that we were done with all that. While the nice "fire drill alarm" was just a different and longer pattern of ringing the school bells (and then you went outside on a nice day,) those air raid sirens were like air horns that blew your eardrums out and signaled a nuclear meltdown and our school had to go into the basement where all the boiler pipes were. When I see filmed versions of people cowering in the London Blitz, I think of my school basement.
If your school didn't have a basement boiler room, it looked more like this.
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Eli - I lived in Hawaii from 1961-1963 (4th-5th grade). You talk about somewhere that had air raid drills. That's where I remember them from. We moved there from Albuquerque and moved back to El Paso and I don't remember drills at either place. Not that Albuquerque or El Paso are lacking in military bases. Hawaii was fun; the sirens had different codes for possible attack, imminent attack and tidal wave. One day the siren went off and it was one of the attack warnings. NOOO - sorry we hit the wrong button. It was for a tidal wave warning. No basements to go into - Duck and cover drills. I bet someone is clever enough to be able to post the jingle. Bert the Turtle (no kidding that's his name) singing Duck and Cover. Google Duck and Cover song. What good did the authorities think it was going to do?
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Here's a link to duck and cover.
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That's a different one from the one I found and much earlier and much longer. The one I found was only the song, no narrative. Thanks for the link. What a piece of propaganda. Makes it sound like a bad windstorm only.
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It's an error, and I forgot about it being there. I'll try to get it gone...
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I was at Mardi Gras SO long ago, they still gave out some glass beads, and I didn't have to take my shirt off for them. The beads weren't all gold, green and purple either, they looked interesting.
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Mardi Gras. That's a bucket list item for me.
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I loved Nawlins when I was there in the 90s, but it was crowded then and it wasn't even Mardi Gras.
Laissez les bons temps rouler
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My mind has been on a lot of other things lately, but I was just thinking of how most of my friends in elementary school had some kind of plastic St. Pat's pin to wear for the holiday. A lot of them said, "Erin Go Bragh" which you don't see on too much of the green stuff you buy nowadays. Maybe "Kiss Me I'm Irish" has replaced it.
I don't remember the part about getting a pionch if you didn't wear green when i was a kid. Then again, I always had something green to wear.
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I had a small jewel encrusted clover pin (Well I thought it was a jewel).
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Oh, jealous of the jeweled clover pin. I just remember wearing something green. Since I grew up mostly in SW and Texas St. Pat's Day not such a big deal. Darn it, no parades or drunken festivus activities. And when my DD was in school it nearly always fell during spring break week. Almost as if the schools planned it that way. Elimar - very politically to kiss in schools. You'd get suspended even with a drunken holiday excuse. Or maybe that's your plan!! And I'm plenty Irish, great grandparents named Kelley.
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Forgot to post in time for Easter but...When I was in high school, my girlfriend and I got a special Easter job at the local shopping mall. We had to wear satin bunny suits (but these were like jumpsuits, not sexy ones) and we roved around handing out coloring books to the kiddies. The suits had satin hats with them, but also there was one giant rabbit head. My friend wore this one afternoon and made a little kid cry. That was one scary, big bunny head. Haha!
Years later, I could (honestly) use "I used to be a bunny" as a pick-up line. My boobs just never supported the claim.
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LOL!
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I don't know when bunnies became animated & walked around malls, etc., but I'm glad it wasn't when I was a kid. That would have been freaky.
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I know there is a book thread, but what are some of your favorite books you read as a child? As a teen?
I liked The Incredible Journey, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and the Encyclopedia Brown books in Elementary school.
As a teen, I read a lot of science fiction: The Illustrated Man, Slaughterhouse Five, Dune; and LOTR Trilogy too.
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Books by Enid Blyton, Phyllis A. Whitney, all those wonderful horse books by Marguerite Henry, The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, really, whatever I could get my hands on. We were fortunate that we lived next door to our library, and the librarian got to know our reading preferences, so that when we showed up on Saturday afternoon, she would put our next read into our hands.
As a teen, I loved the novels of Nevil Shute, Susan Howatch, Harold Robbins. My mother was an avid reader, and even though she was very strict with us, we were completely uncensored in what we chose to read.
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I remember reading the Bobbsy Twins, The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew. Also the Cherry Ames nurse series. Then I discovered scifi--Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, etc. I like Earl Stanley Gardiner's Perry Mason series and other mysteries. Currently my favorites are Mercedes Lackey (the Valdemar novels) and Janet Evanovitch (the Stephanie Plum novels).
Both my parents were readers, too, and had an extensive library. Very little was off limits, so I read a lot of different genres growing up.
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I read Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames and Sue Barton as a child. Also the Black Stallion books and Marguerite Henry. We had the Doubleday childrens books series. Some were short stories others were Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz. I still have most of the Cherry Ames and I do have my Misty of Chincoteague. I remember a door to door salesman coming and offering Highlights magazine. I was sooo disappointed when DM said no to it. The funny thing is I don't even remember reading it as a child so how did I know I wanted it.
My mom was a prolific reader, Doubleday book club member. Housework in the morning, reading in the afternoon. But then again this was TX and NM b4 air conditioning so that makes sense. As a teenager I read anything she had. I think she had one of the censored books but I didn't read it. Might have been Robbins. Read Gone with the Wind, all the Daphne du Maurier books. Magnificent Obssession which is a great movie.
I remember when my GM staunch Baptist took my cousin (wild girl) to see Pillow Talk. You talk about scandal. Oh my. Why my aunt didn't take her is a mystery.
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Oh yes, the Highlights magazine. My dentist had the subscription and even as a kid I was in there way too often so read lots of those. Besides always trying to find the hidden pictures, for some reason I was a big fan of the "Goofus and Gallant" comic. Without Goofus and Gallant, I might not have had any manners at all!
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Someone accidently sent a subscription to our house a few years ago and I tried checking with neighborhood parents to match the name on the lable with no luck. So I tucked them in a drawer for future use. I got them our for my FGKs the other day and they were kept busy for a couple of hours.
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When I was a kid, it seemed like we got several of those "gift item" catalogs on a regular basis, like Fingerhut, and Spencer Gifts, and there was one other I forget, Harriet something. I liked looking at those cover to cover. Think mom let me order some of the junk once or twice. I say junk because rarely did it turn out as cool as the picture. It would be fun to look through one of those (circa 60's) again.
Oh, I just remembered something retro from those catalogs...dickies, those fake turtlenecks. Hahaha...dickies!
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