Middle Aged Memories

lilylady

I love this thread-it always makes me smile. And praise God for you computer girls that can always find a picture.

 A couple of pages ago i saw a picture of what was then called Sugar Crisp-my absolute favorite cereal. It is now called Super Golden Crisp-still full of sugar. Also now professes to contain whole grain. My best friend let me know she just saw on a wb site it is the absolute worst cereal out there. Second place goes to Captain Crunch with Crunchberries.

  We grew up as a Ford family and always had the Country Squire station wagon. To this day I can remember the beating me and my brother got for peeling off the "wood" on 1 side of it. The decal had a ;loose place on it so we peeled it all the way off. That was in the days where you could paddle your kids in the front yard without someone calling the police.

lwd

OH, THERE'S MY ZIP IN HIS YOUNGER YEARS!  Thank you so much.  He looks so YOUNG and HEALTHY.  It just makes me cry to see it.  I might have to pull him out of a box and put a diaper on him today!  He probably needs one due to old age and incontinency, lol.  And maybe I'll bandage his forefinger where I chewed on it!  And hold him tight!

And the gimp - definitely the same plastic straps.  The ones I learned to do were a square pattern.  I remember when just starting the cord the straps were so long they got all tangled up.  Thanks for the memories.

Yes, and I made the gum wrapper chains, too.  Love all of you guys.

Lane

lwd

I forgot about Zip's hat!  Long gone!  All I have left is the faded T-shirt, and, of course, the built-in boots.  I used to stick a pacifier in his mouth, and it fit perfectly and stuck there.  Oh, more memories flooding back.

Lane

elimar86861

LWD,  Sound like you got some good training with Zip.  When you had your own babies, were you known to feed them bananas quite often?

Meece

LOL!!!

lwd

Ha, ha!  Bananas!

Meece

I hope not too many bananas, it might make for fewer dirty diapers, but an uncomfortable baby.

lwd

So true, Meece.  Wow, it's been so long since I've changed a diaper!!  Funny how now we're talking about babies and diaper issues!  Well, I guess those are Middle Aged Memories also!

Have a good day.  Lots of rain here in CO overnight, and we needed it.  It looks so green this morning.  Love the springtime!

Lane

Meece

We care for the newborn to 8 or 9 month olds at our church nursery.  Last week, a mother asked if it were too big of an imposition to have me feed her baby a jar of carrots.  It has been sooo long since I've spooned pureed food into a baby's mouth!  Luckily the little one was very tolerant and didn't mind the occasional carrot eyeshadow or rouge when she made rapid movements as I steadied my hand straight toward where her mouth was supposed to be. (Well, it had been there a millisecond ago!) Diapers I could do in the dark, but I'll need more practive feeding.

Anonymous

Remember when linoleum used to look like this?  It's easy for me to remember since my Dad still has this on the stairs going to the basement!!...took the pic today when I was at his house.

Meece

Wasn't that the stuff that could get slicker than ice when you used soap on it?

I still remember the pattern on my grandmother's kitchen floor.

lwd

Yes, VERY slick!  I haven't seen this pattern in decades, but the patterns and colors were beautiful......not that we'd choose them these days.  I think my Grandparents had something similar.  I love these reminders of the past.   

Anonymous

Fortunately my father never cleans the basement steps off....that's what I was doing yesterday, just sweeping the dust and cobwebs off of them.   When I moved into my house the countertops were linoleum....sort of a dark blackish gray which I think was called gun metal or maybe it was battleship or maybe I am just imagining this and never knew the name,  and then there was a red fomica (but it was probably before Formica that they got this) back-splash. The cabinets were painted white and had red plastic handles.  The floor was also linoleum and looks like small bricks, black, yellow and a rust color.  An older couple had lived here and they were the original owners.   There was a broom closet and a cupboard in the wall that housed an ironing board.   I was quite taken with it actually because I love old things that evoke memories, but I had to update it all to be functional.  The ironing board cupboard made a great place for spices.  

Yesterday as I was unloading drawers at my father's,  I found some of my grandmother's aprons and the material bags that they used to hang on the clothesline that held the clothes pins. Going to my Dad's is always a trip down memory lane.   Remember those little cloth things that held rolls...they had pockets in them?....found one of those also.

elimar86861

My old house had a broom closet.  Inside of it was the milk chute.  I could crawl in and out til about age 10.  I guess they did not fear midget burglers back in the day.  (Apologizing to any little people B/C sisters, for my political incorrectness.  Not apologizing to any B/C burglers.) 

Marybe, if you need an update for your old clothespin bag, nowadays you can use it when you walk a dog, and keep plastic bags in there for pooper-scooping.  I have one that velcro's onto a belt, but it's exactly like a clothespin bag.

lwd

My mom's house had an ironing board cupboard in the kitchen.  You opened the door and folded down the ironing board, which was built in.   It was GREAT!

dutchgirl6

I lived in a house that had an ironing board cupboard in the kitchen that I used for spices, just like Marybe.  My current laundry room is kind of cramped, I would love to find one like that.  Sometime the old ideas just made sense.

Meece

I miss having the ironing board cupboard.  It made it so handy to have the ironing board ready, but also readily hidden!

Anonymous

Here is a pic of my former ironing board cupboard, which now is home for some of my spices.....much more practical for me since I never iron unless forced to.  Let's see, if this was a Sat morning about 55 or so years ago, I would be watching Howdy Doody or maybe Sky King or The Roy Rogers Show.   Does anyone remember Jet Jackson?....I think it was an early space age show and seem to remember he had a sidekick named Denny or maybe I am getting confused with Sky's niece, Penny.   LOL.  Memories get muddled these days. 

Meece

Does anyone remember "The Thunderbirds?"

MinusTwo

How about Sky King and Sargent Preston of the Yukon on the radio.  Or Nelson Eddy & Jeanette Mc Donald.  How about Gail Storm. Or Our Miss Brooks.  My folks held off on buying a TV for a long time. Don't remember these Thunderbirds, but wasn't there a rock group by that name?  Maybe it was a local thing.  Or maybe I'm thinking of Thunderbird wine.

luvmygoats

Oh, I remember the Thunderbirds.  Marinonettes and badly done ones at that.

DH walked by and brought up Clutch Cargo and Space Angel though for some reason he doesn't remember the Thunderbirds.  I remember Space Angel only vaguely and Clutch Cargo not at all.  Maybe these were boy shows though I do have brother just younger than me.

Anonymous

Thunderbird wine and Ripple....oh, the things we used to drink.   Do you remember a wine called Annie Greensprings....it was like Boone's Farm which I am amazed to still see in the stores.

I liked Gail Storm...she was in two shows wasn't she?  My Little Margie and then was there one called Oh Suzanna, or was that someone else.  I also remember a show called December Bride with Spring Byington (sp?).  I also liked Dobie Gillis....his friends had very unique names  Maynard G. Krebbs (sp) Chadsworth Osborne Jr. , Zelda Gilroy was it? and who did Tuesday Weld play, Edwinna someone? 

About the only radio show I  remember was Helen Trent and my grandmother used to listen to it.  I know my parents always talked about listening to Jack Armstrong, all American boy, LIttle Orphan Annie and I think maybe Dick Tracy.  I think maybe FIbber McGee and Molly were on the radio also, but I remember the tv show. 

elimar86861

My fave marionette saga was Supercar.  The only names I remember are Mike Mercury, Dr. Beaker, and Mitch.  That is the monkey.  Loved that monkey.

                     

                               .......Surpercar.......it's the marvel of the age........

Meece

I don't like marionettes or claymation, but used to watch Gumby & Pokey.

schatzi14

Otter..

Just saw your posting about Ipana toothpaste. How strange! My DH and I were just talking about ole Bucky the other day and the yellow tube. LOL I can still remember the taste. Wonder why there is nothing similar these days. YUM 

elimar86861

Another one, in the "make your own playthings" that was my childhood, was smashing down tin cans sideways, so they could be worn as "high heels."  Even the boys in my neighborhood were not above doing this for fun.  It's another one of those things that I don't know if it was widespread, or if it didn't extend beyond my neighborhood.   If you think walking in them was a sprained ankle waiting to happen, imagine jumping rope in them. 

Paula66

Eli we did the same thing with cans.  I know this is gonna sound gross (but we did split worms in half to fish) but we would take the lightning bugs (firefly, depending where you live as what they are called) we caught and would pull the light up part off and wear them as jewelery.  I know I know gross, but when your a tomboy gross isn't a word, oh cool was more like it.   LOL the funny thing is I wore more lightning bug jewelery back then, compared to the amout I wear now.  Only a nose stud!

Meece

Well at least you don't have a lightning bug bottom on your nose!  We don't have them out here and I have never seen one, but I am sure that as a child I would have worn lightning bug jewelry as well.

elimar86861

Hard to believe there haven't been any memories in the last month or so.  I've put so many memories on here already, it makes me wonder if I am more nastalgic than the average person or just have a good memory for things I did 40 years ago?  Is that one of the early signs of Alzheimer's...remembering 40 years ago, but forgetting to buy dog food at the store this morning?

Anyway, as a teen I got into making macrame (who didn't!) but I also got into working with leather in the most basic way.  I had some tools for doing designs on belts and wallets, and would go to the Tandy store to get my leather and leather dye, and buckles.  I wonder if I still have those leather tools somewhere?  They could be so handy in the post apocalyptic world.

Eph3_12

After my Gran went to Mexico, in '74, to visit her brother who snow-birded in Guadalajara, she came back with jute & a book & ordered me to learn to macrame!  I made quite a few plant holder sling things but that was my extent of any kind of crafting until I became a scrapbooker about 12 years or so ago!