Middle Aged Memories

My parents drove from CA to CO in a stationwagon when I was a few months old.  They went tot the furniture store and picked up a refrigerator box, cut it down (10 inch sides) and placed it in the back of the car for me to ride in.  Car seats were only for the convenience of letting the baby see out of the window.  They were not a safety device.

I find it sad now that these young mothers can place their baby in a moulded seat, carrry the seat to the car, snap the seat into the car seat, go to her destination, grab the plastic seat out of the car snap it into a set of wheels and stroll away.  what happened to body contact, cuddling, and holding?  maybe babies should have a handle installed at birth for their parents convnience.

They have found that in orphanages overseas, that babies tend to have attachment disorders because they do not get held for the sake of being held.

We were in the church nursery Sunday and I had three of my little ones who rotated turns on my lap, one on each knee at most times.  I get as much out of that as they do.  Amazing how sitting in the floor with them close and a hand around them or one right up next to me can keep them calm.  They love the touch.

When I helped out at my grand-daughters preschool, we were sitting in a circle on the floor. Several little ones managed to wiggle their way to sit right next to me. I always held my kids and I could see these kids wanted to crawl in my lap. Maybe I have that new grandma smell!

smithlme, ha-ha-ha "new grandma smell."

Tiddly Winks, Jingle Jump and the magic man where you pulled grey stuff up from the bottom of the board with a magnetic wand and gave him hair and facial hair. How about razzles gum and big buddy gum and pixie stix. The cool toys you got in cerial boxes and cracker jacks. You could get a set of glasses or a place setting of dishes for filling up with gas at the gas station. And they looked under your hood and washed windows. The photo booth, 4 pictures for a .25. Getting your feet measured when you went to the shoe store. Its so nice to go back.

Is Big Buddy gum the one that was a rope about a foot and a half long?

Nevermind.  The one that I was thinking of (that one cool teacher allowed us to keep in the pencil space of our desks) was called Bubs Daddy.

A brand new Vega $3,333.00 and a car bed for the daughter - 1975 bliss.

I'm having a middle-aged memory about my first "Mr. Potato Head."  It was a REAL potato!  The toy first came out with only plastic parts and you had to use your own real potatoes, the plastic potato came out a little later.  (I made Mr. Apple Head and Mr. Banana Head on occasion.)

Sure enough, I found a picture!

I recently found a nostalia candy shop and picked up a few treats for my daughter. I've been surprising her by giving one or two things a week and she's having a lot of fun trying "old people" candy. I picked up the following:

- BB Bat suckers

- Candy Buttons (dots on white paper strip)

- Razzles

- Gold Rush gum

- Thrills gum (taste like soap) 

- Wax moulded soda cans with liquid inside

It brought back so many memories of going to the store on Saturday night's in the late '60s/early '70s with my 25 cents of allowance and buying all sorts of candy!

Sherri 

We got our allowance on Saturday mornings.  Then a 7 block walk to "The Quick Shop"  to pick out our penny candy.

Did you ever go on pop-bottle drives as fundraisers?  Then when we were finished we'd take a pick-up truck full of bottles to the store for redemption.

Our store was Buds Variety. We used to ride our bikes down to Buds to turn in our pop bottles and buy candy. We'd put all the bottles in the little baskets on our bikes that went over the front handles. Sometimes we stop to hunt for snakes at the Dairy Queen woods on the way home.  Lots of fun!