Middle Aged Memories
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My parents were at work, so my house was locked up when I came home from school. In third grade, I got my own key to let myself in after school. I felt pretty grown up when I got that key, and was on my own for about two hours til they came home. Back then it wasn't an issue for CPS for an eight year old to be home alone, it was called giving your child responsibility. Like I said, those were different times.
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When I was growing up the routine was to lock the front door when the house was empty so people would know we weren't home, and to make sure the back door was unlocked in case they needed to get in. Both doors locked only when we went on vacation. Very different times, indeed.
As a kid I was often sent "down to the shore" or "out to the back field" to play. The "shore" was the little cove across the way from the house, on neightbor's land, and the back field was a big former hay field no longer in use, also neighbor's land. Both were out of sight of the house. All the neighborhood kids usually got sent to one of these places, It would have been so easy to kidnap any of us, but that was almost unheard of back then.
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Oh what our children have missed...
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I grew up in a rural area until I was 9. We played outside with the neighborhood kids until well after dark. We played down in the ravine where my uncle hung a huge cable over a large tree limb. We swang on that for hours. I was quite a tomboy. Climbed trees and raced the boys and usually won. I tried to get my boys to play outside more when they were little, but it was just too hard to compete with tv and video games. I agree with Meece, oh what they did miss. . . but, I plan to play with my grandson outside lots when he gets to this world.
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I am already planning on buying olittle garden tools for my house so when my grandbaby comes to visit we can garden together.
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I remember finding a red balloon once and it was like a friend to me. Some bullies in the neighborhood threw rocks at me and my balloon and it popped. Then, all the balloons in the city came to where I was and took me on a ride through the sky.
Oh wait, that might not have been me. It was the French short film, The Red Balloon, that I saw many times on t.v. when I was growing up. I just wanted fly up with balloons like that too.
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I remember that film too. It always made me sad when the balloon burst. But, I could never figure out the point of the movie.
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We actually saw it in school when they used the reel to reel projectors, and when we saw th eprojector in our room when we entered it we were so excited no matter what they made us watch. We all thought The Red Balloon was dopey.
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I forgot to post this on Veteran's day when I thought of it It was pretty common to go to a Veteran's Day parade or one on Memorial Day and see some of the guys representing veterans from Pearl Harbor. I'm not sure if it is just Navy, but they got to wear Hawaiian shirts, out of distinction of serving over there. There aren't so many of those vets anymore. My kids did get to see a small group of them once.
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My little town didn't have a Veteran's day parade but did have a Memorial Day parade (and still do). The vets marched and wore uniforms or their hats or some representation.
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Not that it was that long ago, but the other day I was thinking about my favorite crazy t.v. commercial that disappeared overnight: Miss Cleo, from the Psychic Friends Network.
Who can forget her Jamaican accent "Coll me now...fo' ya free psychic readin'."
The FCC and ten states sued the PFN for fraud and false advertising; Florida sued Cleo...then it came out she wasn't even Jamaican! She's doing tarot readings in Florida now.
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I rememeber one. Isn't this the dog puppet from the commercial?
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I think we had that posted on here way, way, back. That's FARFEL!
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I went on a walk today and found some hickory nuts. Remember that t.v. commercial with the naturalist guy, Euell Gibbons...where he said the cereal tasted "like wild hickory nuts?" I think it was Grape Nuts.
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It was. Something like "Did you know many parts of the pine tree are edible?"
I heard, probably urban legend, that Euell Gibbons died of massive stomach ulcers.
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I googled Euell Gibbons and found several mentions of his death of a heart attack and Marfan's syndrome. I do remember his commercials though. Always wanted to try that stuff but wondered what it really tasted like.
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After I posted, I Googled it too. Aneurysm or complications from Marfan's is what I found. I think I tried it once and it was like eating little pieces of gravel. You really had to let them soak in the milk as I recall.
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Thanksgiving Day Parades. I never went as a kid, just watched on t.v.. Don't think my parents were up for a crowd scene/standing for hours in cold weather. When I was grown/single I went twice and once viewed the parade from a three-storey building (eye-level with the balloons.) Another time, a friend and I went down to the parade staging area the night before, climbed on the floats and took pictures of each other on them. He-he-he!
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Meece, I never heard many parts of Pine tree can be eaten. I still remember the place where I was borne is surrounded by nine rows of mountains full of pine trees. Every year we celebrate traditional new years in the month of April. The day used to be a big celebration for each and every family with grand feast. After the feast, everyone climbs up the hill to pray for longivity of life and on way back everyone brought scented pine leaves for memory. t was so nice that time. Being the lone daughter amongst 7sons, I was a pampered child in the family.
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How special to be the only daughter.
I was talking with my mother, remembering watching "Queen for a Day" with her. I only remember the winners weareing a cape, crown and winning a prize. I began to wonder how long the show aired and did I actually watch the reruns.
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Yes, i was very young when it went off the air.
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My DDs and I were shopping this weekend and I saw a small silver tree at Target. I remembered my Mom and Dad's "living room" tree from the 60s - the silver one with the color wheel! That was our fancy tree and the real tree was in the family room!
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We had those trees in our classrooms in grammar school, but only the one in the cafeteria had the colored wheel.
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My uncle used to wear green pants and a red shirt every year at Christmas. He was very predictable in his mis-matched holiday fashions. Did anyone in your family have a holiday "outfit" like that?
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I don't remember a holiday outfit worn by anyone in the family. I do remember making a Christmas Tree in school one year--everyone made construction paper wreathes (like Chinese laterns but shorter) that were piled up and stapled together. We decorated it with construction paper chains and ornaments. I think this was in second or third grade. We all thought it was wonderful!
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The construction paper chains of red and green, stuck together with paste which turned your finger red and green as the color transfered from the paper.
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I remember making paper trees too. One way was the standard roll of newsaper, cut strips into it and telescope it up. Spray paint it green for Xmas. Put paper ornaments on it. The other way involved those old t.v. guides, with every page being folded down on diagonal, then attach front cover to back cover. Again, spray paint green, then some glue and flake soap for snow. That actually looked kind of good.
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I made a tree decoration in kindergarten. We took a toilet paper roll and covered it with foil wrapping paper and a pipe cleaner at the top held it on the tree. My mom had me place it on the tree every year and ----- are you all ready????? I still have it and we still put it on our tree - 45 years later. My brothers and my kids tease me mercilessly.
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Aaaw! Some very nice things can be made out of toilet paper rolls (like tree angels, too.)
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