I remember when....
09-10-2010, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by stitchinwitch
It needs to be said - in this day,. we have all seen the awful life that the average person endures, I wouldn't trade the 50's and 60's with anyone. It is quite sad that our grandchildren could not experience the innocent times that we had lived back when ---- remember when everyone was quaranteened from polio? We all managed, didn't we? The family unit was BIG, morals were high, and life was so much better, wasn't it?
09-10-2010, 05:40 PM
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I remember spending my summers at my grandparents apartment house in brooklyn . they owened all of it. The pushcart men would show up and fresh fruit was sweet. I must have been only 7 or 8 and would take the two buses to get there. It was safe going by myself then,and I had a brown sack with some cloths and I spent all summer there. My great aunts taught me to sew and gram was good at everything. That was in the late 40s and early 50s. Travel in new york was very differant than now. Kids could travel alone and it was safe.
09-10-2010, 06:23 PM
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Does anyone remember Hallo shampoo in the ribbed glass bottle?It smelled so good and made your hair shine.Or playing hop scotch on the road because there were only one or two cars going by all day and they would'nt try to run you down like they do today!!!!!!
09-10-2010, 07:16 PM
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"Halo everybody, Halo~ Halo is the shampoo that glorifies your hair, so Halo everybody Halo.............remember the jingle??
Originally Posted by lorraine43
Does anyone remember Hallo shampoo in the ribbed glass bottle?It smelled so good and made your hair shine.Or playing hop scotch on the road because there were only one or two cars going by all day and they would'nt try to run you down like they do today!!!!!!
09-10-2010, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Grandmother23
Originally Posted by cjomomma
When I was a child we lived in Firebaugh Ca. back then it was a small farming community and everyone knew each other. If you were a child and you were seen goofing off or doing something you shouldn't be doing your parents would know about it before you got home. My favorite memory was that every summer there was a snow cone truck that Would drive around each neighbor hood and the snow cones were only a quarter each. There was always a long line of kids waiting for their turn. For a quarter you would get a great big snow cone and it tasted good not like the flavored ice in a cup you have to take out a loan to get these days.
Did anyone have a "fog truck" for the mosiqtoes (sp)? We used to run after the truck. God knows what we were "sniffing" then (this was over 40 years ago). Swimming in the ditch when we had a really big rain, as they were really deep on the sides of the road. :mrgreen: :shock: :roll: :?: :-(
09-10-2010, 11:24 PM
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I remember felling so grown up, the first time i bought my own candy bar, with money I earned. I still remember the taste of that 'big hunk". They never tasted so good again. I was 8.
09-11-2010, 02:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Grandmother23
Originally Posted by QuiltingGrannie
Growing up in a small town ---
* It was BIG news when our garbage man married one of the
So many memories....
* It was BIG news when our garbage man married one of the
So many memories....
09-11-2010, 02:42 AM
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Does anyone remember:
Breck shampoo and hair setting gel products? Breck came in a glass bottle with a lid that had a slot in it to make it a 'piggy' bank. I still have it! - with coins in it!
Green Stamps? Mom saving them and us putting them into the books so she could go buy things.
Breck shampoo and hair setting gel products? Breck came in a glass bottle with a lid that had a slot in it to make it a 'piggy' bank. I still have it! - with coins in it!
Green Stamps? Mom saving them and us putting them into the books so she could go buy things.
09-11-2010, 03:17 AM
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Originally Posted by QuiltingGrannie
Does anyone remember:
Breck shampoo and hair setting gel products? Breck came in a glass bottle with a lid that had a slot in it to make it a 'piggy' bank. I still have it! - with coins in it!
Green Stamps? Mom saving them and us putting them into the books so she could go buy things.
Breck shampoo and hair setting gel products? Breck came in a glass bottle with a lid that had a slot in it to make it a 'piggy' bank. I still have it! - with coins in it!
Green Stamps? Mom saving them and us putting them into the books so she could go buy things.
Some more? White Bucks, Argyle Knee Highs, Penny Loafers, Bernard Altman Cashmere Sweaters, Sweater sets (a short sleeved pull-over sweater and a cardigan in the same color), mint green sweater and a navy blue skirt,Poodle on a felt skirt, crinolines (who wore the most) ammo boxes (leather - from WWII purchased at a local army surplus store) to use as purses and they were too small, the high school homecoming parade and your parents letting you use the big family car and you decorated it all up and drove around showing it off and then loaded your friends in the car and was in the parade; drive ins, drive in movies, necking. Oh, I could go on forever. But I can't. I am 72 years old (in one week and one day) and I have to get back to my quilting. Reminiscing is so neat! Keeps one young, eh? Edie
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