Just for Fun: Childhood Memories

Mimeograph!!
Ditto machine!
Yes!!!!!!! Thanks!

 

Ah memories of that stuff

...and no, I wasn't one of the ones who ate it ok

 

....and while on the topic of glue, CLAG was/is pretty popular too....

....But my favourite glue has always been THIS ONE

OOPS and I just noticed that it was PamelaK who forgot Gestetner/mimeograph/ditto....Must be my age catching up with me

 

Sitting on the porch watching a light snow fall with a quilt and my Daddy's arms around me.

Telling my best friend why Jesus was so special to me, and hearing her tell me she wanted "someone like that" in her life.

Mom teaching me the irish-jig in our kitchen.

Making peanut butter cookies with my grandmother.

Learning to fry chicken with my other grandmother.

Fishing the Colorado.

Canoing through the center of town lake.

Snow-cones at VBS.

Getting crowned "Queen With A Septer" at GA's.

Watching "Gone With The Wind" in its "television debut.

John Wayne movies from "McClintock" to "Hell Fighters."

John Kennedy coming to Texas.

Bible Drill!

John Kennedy's death.

John Glenn's "epic flight".

The first steps of man on the moon.

The first launching of the space shuttle.

Robert Kennedy's death.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I had a dream" speech, and later his death.

The teacher at the new school asking if anyone wanted to show the new girl around the school, and the hand of a girl going up. She said, "Let's be friends." (I was at her wedding, my daughter is named after her. )

The Beatles making it to the top, and the Beatles almost being chased out of business after they said they were bigger than God.

Elvis.

Barbie Dolls.

Banana Seat Bikes.

Silver-roller-skates with a key.

Learning to read by my grandmother holding me and pointing out words as she read classics to me.

Snuggling up next to various adults on lazy afternoons and reading comics with them. . .
Richie Rich, Dot, Archie... Peanuts... Lil' Abner.

George Beverly Shay singing "How Great Thou Art."

Red Skelton.

Bonanza.

Danny Kaye.

Bob Hope.

Bing Crosby.

Roy and Dale and Trigger and those Dale Even leather skirts with the fringe on them.

Getting up early to feed the pigs at my Uncle's and then racing to the barn to ride the horses.

Being the Daisy in the second grade play.

Seeing "The Sound of Music," at the Drive In with my Aunt and Uncle.

Family Reunions with all my mother's aunts and uncles at the cabin on the lake.

Slo Poke suckers.

Hard Fudge and divinity.

The escalation of and the end of Vietnam.

 

wiffleball in the backyard

football in the street

the Dukes of Hazzard

matchbox cars

nerf basketball inside

rubbix cube

going to see ET

joy for the last day of school

dread for the first day of school

going to Dairy Queen after a little league baseball game

fishing with my father

playing with my dog

 

I think I will be the youngest to post in this thread.

The Snorks
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Legos
the original Nintendo Entertainment System
ALF
The Cosby Show
Inspector Gadget

football in the backyard (while dodging the dog piles!)

slip n' slide in the summer

hockey in winter

massive snow ball fights

using scrap lumber to build swords

riding my bike through the neighbor hood

camping in Ontario with my family

 

Pajama parties

Collecting empty coke bottles and trading them in for Chick-O-Sticks and Boston Baked Beans

Putting peanuts in our coke

Riding bikes with my friends

Easter Baskets and new Easter dresses

Helping my Grandma plant flowers in her garden

Sitting on the screened porch during a summer thunderstorm

My best friend, Debbie!

Finding a gallon of old yellow paint and deciding to paint the outside of our brick house

Listening to "Aunt Bertha" on Saturday morning

 

Dr Bob, if you have some spare bandwidth and want to see Duck & Cover again you can grab it HERE

Funnily enough, parts of D & C were shown when I went to high school too...however it was in a documentary about what a half-decent sized nuke would REALLY do to a building if close enough


Which brings some more TV to mind: Whatever happened to all those nuke movies that were around when I was in high school like WW III & The Day After etc etc?

 

Another one just hit me, playing the recorder at school

I think I'ld prefer my Strat

 

Playing stick ball, which is like baseball, only w/six players to a side, rubber ball & broom handle bat, played in alleys between tall windowless buildings. (Balls hitting the buildings before they hit the street are still considered fly balls, catchable for an out.)

Playing tackle football in paved streets. (Blacktop was the worst)

"Stay outta the mud or you'll git POLIO & end up in an iron lung!"

"I Like Ike!"

Hank Williams Sr.(I'm 13 mos. older than Bocephus.)

Hula Hoops

Watching Gillette Cavalcade of Sports(Fri. Night Fights) with Dad. Archie Moore, Holly Mims, Tiger Jones, & Carmen Basilio were my faves.

Seems like I was born on a bike...Rode all over Huntington, WV and later Cincy in all kindsa weather.

Playing baseball, beginning at age 6.

Having a mastoid infection, absolutely the most painful experience of my life.

Having pneumonia.

Shooting my first squirrel when I was 8

"Party Line" phones

Howdy Doody, Winky Dink, Willie Wonderful, Lone Ranger, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Capt. Midnight, Capt. video & his Video Rangers, Flash Gordon, and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, among others, on good ole B&W TV.

First time I saw "The Ten Commandments" in 1956

Total eclipse of the sun, 1959

Deaths of Richie Valens, Big Bopper, Buddy Holly in a late 1958 plane crash.

Many others; too late at night for me to stay in 'nostalgia' mode. G'Nite & GOD BLESS!

 

Joe Nameth

Daddy's Brilcream(a little dab 'ull do ya!)

Daddy's Old Spice aftershave

Church services in church with no aircondition

Summers and school holidays on the Dairy Farm with my favorite uncle and aunt

Bart Starr

Don Merideth

Dick Butkus

Tom Dempsey's 63 yard field goal

LSU Tiger football and the line made famous--"Archie Who??"

Paul "Bear" Bryant and the Alabama Crimson Tide verses Charlie McClendon and the LSU Tigers

Momma's 1963 Ford Galaxee 500

Momma's 1971 Pontiac Catalina

Daddy's 1968 Chevy Pickup

Daddy's Ma Bell phone trucks

Rotary dial telephones

6 cent postage stamps

a nickle Coca-Cola

35cents/gallon gasoline

Backyard football--"All Against All" until and after dark

What was then called "The Boonies" is now suburban Baton Rouge

 

I remember getting a Ruff and Ready top and shorts for my 4th birthday.

Dad's Jukebox

45 and 78 records

chasing lizards

Jump rope

Hula Hoop contests

Cowboy hats and capguns with caps

Candy cigarettes, licorice pipes, wax lips and wax teeth, Valentine exchange at school, climbing trees in my metal rollerskates (the kind you adjusted with a key) lead tinsel and bubblelights, going with dad to cut a tree. Making paper chains (using paste) stringing popcorn.

Making mom ornaments from folded paper in a star and dipping in wax, adding glitter.

My first haircut the "pixie", looked like a boy and cried. Guess that was the in thing.

Getting homemade goodies for Halloween. It was safe then.

Homemade popcorn balls.

Dad making light as a feather divinity for Christmas.

Watched The Wizzard of Oz in black and white, we got to have homemade fudge that night and at Christmas.

Itchy petticoats, UGH! I would walk through the alley on the way to school, take mine off and stuff it between outbuilding walls and retreive it on the way home. Ha!

 

I can remember really really corny black and white science films at school.

Being smart alec kids we thought American kids were so unlucky having dead stupid names like Chuck ( everyone would starting making throwing up noises). These films were made around 1950 or so.


Oh yeah, Doctor Sumner Miller....wow ee what a brain.What a show, what a hair do!

 

Moving from the "little town" of 250 people to the "big city" of 15,000 when I was almost 5.

Going to kindergarten at the only one availabe (I think); the Episcopal Church Day School.

Cartoons: Popeye; Bugs Bunny; Yogi Bear; Quickdraw McGraw and his sidekick "Baba-Louie;" The Lone Ranger and Superman Hour.

Saturday morning skating at the only skating rink.

Being a Dallas Cowboys fan; eternal hatred for the Green Bay Packers and (old) Cleveland Browns.

Being a Houston Astros fan and their setting major league record for striking out batters (1969) [But later, reading some things that were really going on with that team in Ball Four.]

Riding my bicycle 1 1/2 miles to school.

Mowing my grandmother's yard-- about an acre-- and her paying me $2.50 to do it.

Saturday matinee at the local downtown movie theater [I remember, for some, The Jungle Book; the Shakiest Gun in the West; The Wild Country; Bonnie and Clyde; and a Disney short, a favorite I wish I could see again, but which is unavailable, The Hopi Legend of the Boy and the Eagle.]

Flooding tarantulas out of their holes (a cool hobby I still do if I find a chance).

The first wedding I witnessed, my cousin's; I was 8 and wondered if they would really kiss each other in front of the whole setup.

Trying for a year to 'teach' my parakeet to talk (no clue, of course, as to how to really do that).

TV shows: Gunsmoke; Beverly Hillbillies; Gilligan's Island; Mr. Terrific.

Cub Scouts (never 'graduated' to Boy Scouts).

Having to sit facing the corner for the rest of the day about 15 times in Miss ____'s 2nd grade (virtually her only means of classroom 'discipline').

71 A's and one B for all grades on report card in 3rd grade (maybe by 'cutting corners' the next year I got straightened out).

 

Elnora--I had exactly the same feelings about my "pixie" haircut! I felt like a boy and cried as well.

 

Gwen,

Wasn't that just awful. What was mom thinking?

I remember my oldest sister and mom wearing shirtwaist dresses and high heels with really pointy toes. School sis wore pleated skirts, cashmere sweaters and saddle shoes with bobby socks. She worked at the soda fountain to buy the clothes. She had a "bubble" haircut.

I remember mowing the yard with a push mower.

 

Elnora,

I think that's what brought on the hippie hairstyles of the 70's--we were all tortured as children with pixie haircuts.