My Favorite Childhood Memory is.....

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  • my3girls
    my3girls Member Posts: 3,766
    edited February 2011

    I am so glad, so many of you are enjoying this thread.  I really thought with all of the downside of BC, we needed a little travel back in time, to relive some happy memories, that is why I started it!

    NANCY....I love the drive in movies!! We still have one in my town, and a few in my area! I made it a point to take my kids every summer at least once. We did the same thing, in the pj's...and the back of the station wagon! Those nights were such great memories for me!  I have been to SAO Schwartz...I think the slide is gone. : (  How much fun that had to be!  I love NYC.  I work for an airline, so I love to take, even a day trip there!

    STANZIE....you have to find that drive in this summer and GO!!!  I have to agree with you...this is a different time and place....I think it's sad that so many children will not experience the simple things that we did!

    KEEP THE MEMORIES COMING!!

    XXOXO

    LISA

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  • my3girls
    my3girls Member Posts: 3,766
    edited February 2011

    whoops....I meant FAO Schwartz!

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  • my3girls
    my3girls Member Posts: 3,766
    edited February 2011

    Foots...when money was tight, when my girls were little...we did pork and beans often! They do taste better with the beans!

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  • tracie23
    tracie23 Member Posts: 598
    edited February 2011

    I grew up in Arkansas and I loved playing with my friends and riding my bike all day long.... we would stay out all day until dinner time or the sun set. This is a great thread .... Thank you

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  • my3girls
    my3girls Member Posts: 3,766
    edited February 2011

    Tracie...I remember those long summer days.....when the street lights came on...we had to come home!

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  • tracie23
    tracie23 Member Posts: 598
    edited February 2011

    my3girls: I can just see it and it seems so nice... waking up and smelling fresh cut grass, running through the sprinkler what I would give to be doing that right now. My girlfriend and I used to pretend the Bee Gees were our boyfriends... it was a fight for Barry or Andy ( poor Robin) LOL

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  • my3girls
    my3girls Member Posts: 3,766
    edited February 2011

    Tracie...glad you like the thread.

    I have to say, I liked Andy.  I also had a crush on Davie...from the Monkeys! lol.  Also batman....so funny.

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  • Stanzie
    Stanzie Member Posts: 1,971
    edited February 2011

    My kids found the old Batman on TV last week and we all were dying of laughter! So hilarious!

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  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited March 2011

    I remember sleeping late in the summer waking up with the aroma of coffee perking.  The sound, perk, perk, perk, was so comforting and the smell so delicious.  We have definitely lost something with the coffee makers now a days.

     And watching fireworks on the fourth of July

     And playing kick the bucket after dark

    And roasting marshmallows

    Thanks for bringing those memories back.

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited April 2011

    I remember being a little girl born and raised in the city (Philadelphia), and these are the things we did........no ipods, no video games, no Wii, no cell phones, just us and the good outdoors.............

    Hopscotch, Kitty in the Corner, Buck, Buck, Freeze Tag, Red Rover, Double Dutch, Roller Skating, Skates that you put on your shoes, and tightened them with a skate key........Penny Candy....Tastykake's when they were 7 cents, and you got 3 in a pack.........Your swimming pool was the garden hose......Everyone ate dinner together.........Families all lived in the same town........Saturday matinee's, Catching lightning bugs.....Punks to keep the mosquitoes away in the summer............

    Guess I better stop now, I'm getting lonesome for the good old days.

    Guess I better

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  • Stanzie
    Stanzie Member Posts: 1,971
    edited April 2011

    I know!!! I so worry about all the technology our kids are overwhelmed with..... Teenagers are even harder to try and get away from technology. Trying to remember what all I did as a teenager??

    OK, so what are punks?  I could use something for mosquitoes!

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited April 2011

    Stanzie............I'm from Pa., actually there is a very thick weed that grows in the swamps called "cat tails"........you pick them, dry them out, and when they are dry you can light them, and they put off a smoke that keeps the mosquito's away. They are thick in size.

    Now that is the old fashion version of a Punk........The newer ones are very narrow, stiff, and have a wood like stem....You can buy them in a pack, light them, and the do the same thing, only our version was "cost free"....Leave it to the older generation to find a cheaper way.

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  • jan508
    jan508 Member Posts: 1,330
    edited April 2011

    I remember my Dad coming home from work.  I'd be outside playing and I would watch him park his car and I'd run and he'd catch me and raise me in the air..then he gave me a dime for a fudge pop.

    Love and miss my Dad!!!

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited April 2011

    Stopping the Popsicle man with a dime and getting a big

    icecream cone.

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited April 2011

    Going to my Brownies Group, I felt so big

    being in I thought big girls group. Thats when

    You went to help people at their homes and

    now they dont as much.

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited May 2011

    We would play jump rope, rich man, poor man, baker man,

    theif Dr, lawyer, Indian Chief and You were going to marry

    the man whenever you missed

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited May 2011

    I remember making my hand print in 1th grade and

    put I love you mom and our teacher had them finished

    for Mothers day

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited May 2011

    I remember playing kick the can and

    hide and go seek alot.

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited July 2011

    Watching the Addams Family and Micky Mouse

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited July 2011

    Finding a rock that is like chalk and draw on the sidewalk

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited July 2011

    Watching Sheri Lewis and her puppet Lamb chops

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited July 2011

    Going in the car to the A&W Rootbeer Drive-in and

    watch the lady skate to us to get our order.

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited July 2011

    Watching the light of the airplanes coming in, We lived on Airforce bases

    alot.

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  • bkc
    bkc Member Posts: 320
    edited July 2011

    Moving our arms up and down to make the truck drivers honk for us.

    Crawling on top of the barn roof on a clear night to lay down and count the stars

    Camping out in the back yard and telling ghost stories to see which of us would get scared first and go running in to Mama.Once one of us started screaming and running we all took off for the house and then would pretend we just needed to go to the bathroom or get a drink

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited July 2011

    I remember camping in the back yard, I have 2 brother and

    they would scare me to go get the cookie and water.

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited July 2011

    Trying to catch fireflies and then we let them go

    all at once. It was a beautiful sight.

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited September 2011

    Seeing the stars at Girl Scout camp, as

    we sat around the fire and sang.

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  • Leah_S
    Leah_S Member Posts: 8,458
    edited September 2011

    Hey, Foots, I also went to GS camp! Singing around the campfire is hokey to some people but I loved it. I think it's what started my love of singing.

    Leah

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited September 2011

    Remember when the Girl Scout cookies were 75cents a box?

    I love to remember learning to skate and lost my skate key.

    found it later.

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited October 2011

    Walking on the beach, not worrying if there

    was glass or litter were you walked. Not all

    beaches are like that yet.

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