RE: Remember When (kinda long)

[Dayton Dave]

 wiininkwe
I keep telling myself that one of these days I am going back to the very first house my parents bought and getting my " Superball"  out of the fence post in the back corner of the yard.  I was about 5 years old, and we were getting a new chain link fence.  In the right hand corner there was a drain, so there were two corner posts with a small section cutting off the corner of the layout.  I was walking along the fence line and bouncing my Superball on the open top of the small posts along the side.  When I got to the end where the larger corner post was, the ball slipped out of my hands and fell down the open pipe.  It is still there today, after 40 years!
 
 And I am not going to tell any of ya what the address is to keep ya ll from going and getting my prize toy!!!

[angelsmom10]

 Dayton Dave

 

ORIGINAL:  Dayton Dave
 
 I keep telling myself that one of these days I am going back to the very first house my parents bought and getting my " Superball"  out of the fence post in the back corner of the yard.  I was about 5 years old, and we were getting a new chain link fence.  In the right hand corner there was a drain, so there were two corner posts with a small section cutting off the corner of the layout.  I was walking along the fence line and bouncing my Superball on the open top of the small posts along the side.  When I got to the end where the larger corner post was, the ball slipped out of my hands and fell down the open pipe.  It is still there today, after 40 years!
 
 And I am not going to tell any of ya what the address is to keep ya ll from going and getting my prize toy!!!
 

I ve felt like doing that about our old house growing up.  Back then, we used to collect baseball cards and flip them.  Up in our attic, there were loose floor boards and we used to hide our stash of cards up there.  We also hid our money up there and at that time most of the coins were silver.  Well, time went by, and there were train tressels near the house and sometimes the house would vibrate.  Our cards and cash was in jars and they must have gotten knocked over and rolled; by the time we decided to go get them, they had rolled somewhere and we had always swore that we would tear up every board till we found them.  Now, I bet we d have a fortune in baseball cards alone.  Back in the 50 s and 60 s and all the rookie cards from the oldies.  I just keep dreaming and waiting for the house to be torn down, and then I ll be there and search[8D]

[forestwalker]

 wiininkwe
Transition years-Don t forget Hula Hoops,Waddle Boards,Flavor Straws,Abba Zabbas,Buckey Beaver,Sputnik shaped transistor radios with antenna wire to attach to window screen,One Eyed-One Horned Flying Purple Eaters,neighborhood gatherings to watch the first color tv on the block.Great Memories....Now it s Geritol,Carter s Little Liver Pills....

[wiininkwe]

 wiininkwe
Hahahahaha!!!    LMBO!!  I wasn t sure what reaction you guys would have when I posted this thread, but now I m really glad I did.  It seems that no matter what part of the country we re from, or even if we are exactly from the same era or not, we all have the same kind of memories, good ones.   I m noticing that no one has offered any depressing stuff, and that s great!!!  I m thinking that s a commentary on our abilities to make the best of things when things are not at their best.   You Go, PUTers you guys are the greatest!
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[angelsmom10]

 wiininkwe
Yeah, seems we all have the same memories, of 40 , 50 s & 60 s.  Wonder what the kids growing up today will remember....
 
 

[aw738]

 wiininkwe
I want all of you to know that I am only 28 years old and I can remember most of the things on wiininkwe s list. Maybe it was because I ve always lived in a rural area and we were just a little behind the times.

[labontefan]

 aw738
I attended my 35th high school reunion yesterday, so I m really into the " remembering"  mode this weekend! What a blast--all us " old fogies"  out on the dance floor doing the Twist! Right after doing the Electric Slide!  LOL!!
 
 My high school graduating class was pretty close (there were only 100 of us), so we ve had regular reunions--10th, 20th, 25th, 30th, and now 35th. At each reunion, we try to get information about the classmates and put it into a booklet that we give each person that attends. For the 10th reunion (in 1978), I typed the info up on my portable electric typewriter and we ran the copies off on a mimeograph machine!!  For the 20th reunion (1988), one of the guys on the reunion committee had one of the 1st Apple computers--the tiny one with about an 8-inch screen! He typed everything up in his word processor, and we made copies with a big Xerox machine where one class member worked. For the last couple, we ve had color covers for the booklet that I printed on my color inkjet printer. Quite a change over the last 25 years!
 
 I was checking out at Wal-Mart yesterday afternoon, and the lady in front of me had purchased a big container of Lincoln Logs! Kind of gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling to know they were still around...and still made of wood.
 
 Most of the people I work with are in their 20 s and 30 s so their memories are a lot different than mine. However, the guy that sits right next to me is only 3 months younger than me, so we can relate pretty well. We were talking the other day about TV--I can remember when we got our first one (black and white, of course!). We only got two channels. We had a huge antenna in the front yard that was taller than the house. In order to change channels, you not only had to turn the dial on the TV set, you had to go over to the window and throw a blade switch to change the line from the antenna!
 
 I live in a small town in a fairly rural area in Southwestern Virginia, so we re not always first in line for progress! We didn t get the dial system until I was in high school. Before then, we had the operator who said " Number, please?"  and our home phone number was 182. My grandmother was on a party line, and had a wooden phone on the wall! We had a coal-burning hot water heater, and a bathroom with one of those wonderful old bathtubs that stood on four legs.
 
 We once owned a  57 Chevy (red with a white top), but we didn t know it was a collector s item them, because it was only 1960! I learned to drive on a 1960 Dodge Matador with HUGE tail fins and a push-button transmission...and I got my driver s license when I was 15.
 
 If my mother hadn t been such a good housekeeper, I d probably be independently wealthy now. I used to love to read comic books (I called them " funny books" ) and would always beg my mother to buy me one or two when we went shopping. They were only 10 cents then (25 cents for the big double issues). I had two big cardboard boxes full of comic books that I kept under my bed...I had Superman, Batman, etc., from the 1950 s and early 1960 s! And I had an original Barbie doll---with the blonde ponytail and the striped bathing suit. When I got older my mother gave the comic books and the Barbie doll away! YIKES! I wonder what those would be worth now! LOL!!
 
 

[angelsmom10]

 aw738
My 30th reunion is in 2 weeks and it s funny, I too have a lot of memories flowing[][][][]-- boy do I miss those years

[Foxyladies]

 wiininkwe
I remembered eveyone of those things.....that means we must be about the same age.
 
 We use to babysit for $.50 an hour.
 
 I used to eat maryjanes and the squirrel nut candy at the movie house.
 
 Enjoyed your topic[]

[vjm1639]

 aw738
This is great!  LOL....I remember a lot of these...however, until I was in elementary school we lived in larger cities so even both my grandparents had real electric washing machines and everyone had a television..although, each house had ONE TV and it was black and white.    
 
 Check out this website for some of the old candies and foods that are hard to find now....  http://www.hometownfavorites.com/shop/index_dyn.asp.  Found it one day looking for something and it brought back memories of my Uncle s little store in Jacksonville Florida and getting to go in there as a child. Uncle Harley would give me a little tiny brown paper bag and tell me to get a quarters worth of candy. Good grief...that was 25 pieces of candy!!!  []