Please tell me What were you doing????????????????

VickiTN · April 2006

Carrie,
Thank you....I finally got my husband to take a picture of me today on the digital camera and I'm really proud of myself for figuring out how to size it and then post here! Those are my azeala bushes that are blooming!

Your grandparents and mother look like movie stars!

hugs,
vicki

csp · April 2006

O/T here is a picture of Denise I took today.

She wanted me to take some pics of the spring flowers I planted for her last fall while she was in treatment.

I think she looks like a movie star (but don't tell her I said so)lol~

Next time I am at her house I am going to put it in her Avatar for her.

hugs,

Carrie

VickiTN · April 2006

You're right, Carrie - she DOES look like a movie star - a very beautiful one! The flowers look pretty, too! Thanks for sharing the picture!

hugs,
vicki

Deese · April 2006

Ahhh shucks! Vicki, there's a lot of Hollywood in your picture too (very pretty)! Did we miss our calling?

Denise

jz20022001 · May 2006

Hi everyone, I was born on 6/16/51, so I'll be 55 this June. We went to a Catholic school in Northfield, IL (northern suburb of Chicago). One year our teacher (a nun) decided that everyone should dress up as their patron saint for Halloween. So naturally everyone was dressed as a priest or a nun. My mother tried to get me to use that for trick or treating. I told her "No way", so poor mother made me a second costume for after school.

I was the oldest of seven kids, so it was always a zoo around our house. My Dad took a job at Kaiser Aluminum at the end of 6th grade, so we took the oceanliner "The United States" for the move. As we were walking around the deck we met the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. I had no clue who they were but my mother told me after they spoke to my parents. A year later in history class our teacher told me, "Edward VIII was king but he abdicated to marry Wallace Simpson. He is now known as the Duke of Windsor." I said, "We met them on the ship." The teacher asked if they were beautifully dressed and my dad said, "I'm sure they were."

We moved to London in July of 1963, just a few months before the Beatles became popular in the U.K.

Kennedy was killed while we lived there and Churchill died. We went to Trafalgar Square to watch Churchill's funeral procession.

Catherine

Sierra · May 2006

Yes, it is time for a song

Ill say..
and Yes.. Denise is beautiful
I love the way she wears her hat
and her complexion also looks
very clear and lovely

Hugs to all of you

Sandra1957 · May 2006

1957 also.

When you mentioned garter belt with stockings, I thought of the belt with sanitary pads for the monthly visitor that would pinch and shift. How horrible was that when you are trying to be cool?

beachcottage · May 2006

So so
happy to
see this thread
again

I love the pictures
Carrie and Deese your
mom is a cutie pie
and Deese I love your
picture...Looking great
you are...

when i get
my new
computer
my friend Carrie
is going to help
me get some pictures
posted here

I just had
a flash this morning
a gift from my dad
a view master...rembemer those?

Having puppet
shows in the back yard
using a large
box as our stage
cutting out windows
and decorating the box
like a house ...

oh those garter
belts...we have
come a long way

I am on
my way out
to tag sale
always looking
for great vintage
jewelry...getting
harder to find

xoxo
~~Patti~~

beachcottage · May 2006

I picked up
my niece yesterday afternoon
from her friends
birthday party ...pizza party

She had a goodie bag
and pulls out jawbreakers...those plastic soda bottles
with liquid and bazooka bubble gum

I thought of
all of you

What was in those
wax bottles? Colored water
with sugar and dye?

Have a great Sunday
xoxo
~~Patti~~

csp · May 2006

Oh ewww the dreaded sanitary belt!!
And the napkins were so big and thick ewwww...
Patti,
I have a broch and a pair of clip on earrings that were my grandma's the stones (Not real) are like rainbows when the light hits them , I don't wear them I just like to look at them.

I use to love to get into my mothers and grandma's jewelery
box and try on thier things on I use to get my grandma's hats and she always would wear an apron I loved putting those on too.
Wonder why we don't wear aprons anymore?

hugs,
Carrie

denisa · May 2006

does anyone remember "Dark Shadows" with barnabus and angelique? i was addicted.....

christineK · May 2006

We were pretty young, but my dad used to do the Barnabus "laugh" Bwaaa Haaa Haaa Haaa.

csp · May 2006

Lets post our old photos , Patti is going to be off line getting a new puter
She asked me to start us off with this handsom picture of her Dad.........

my dad...looks like something straight out of our gang...spanky and our gang that is...
xoxo
Patti

csp · May 2006

Biker Babe......

This is a picture taken in 1958 of My father and I

in Bermuda. Rarely did people drive cars there as the roads are

so narrow the Island is only about 3-5 mi. wide.

My parents did'nt own a car and use to ride with me inbetween

them.

I Will post more when I get them scanned . Excited to see

all your pics too!!!

Hugs,

Carrie

beachcottage · May 2006

Thanks Carrie..BTW I loved
the picture of your mom
and grandparents several
posts ago....

I love this picture of you
and your dad

I will see you all
in a few weeks~~

Denisa I was a huge
Dark Shadows Fan....

beachcottage · May 2006

Nothing is more memorable
than a smell~~

One scent can be unexpected,
momentary and fleeting~~

yet conjure up a childhood summer
beside a lake in the mountains.
Diane Ackerman

I thought this
quote belonged here

getting ready to post
some old pictures soon~~

xoxo
Patti

csp · May 2006

Patti,
I love that it is so pretty you made me think
of how the smell of mint gum and fresh air remind me of my grandmother and the first time I smelled the rose called Peace I was sure that is the way heaven must smell.

Looking forward to seeing your pics!
hugs,
Carrie

evilelf · May 2006

Born in 1954 grew up in San Diego CA.
-
-Going to the Saturday matinee for 25 cents, dad giving us a quarter for pop corn, drink and having a nickel left over for penny candy
-Going to drive ins and taking our own pop corn, sitting in the back of the trucks and watching all the other older kids making out in their cars and making all kinds of yuck sounds
-Watching Ed Sullivan introduce the Beatles
-Being a girl scout and meeting the Governor of California---Ronald Regan and shaking his hand He really did have a nice smile
-Watching American Band stand and dancing at home
-Watching my parents do the jitter bug and the dances of the times
-Listening to my parents yodel
-Having roller skates that fit your shoe with a skate key
-Made our own skate board--- using a 2x4 and the skates above
-Going to the roller rinks and doing the hokey pokey and doing the whip.
-Playing --- red light---- simon says--- red rover
Going to Sav-on drugs and getting a chocolate chip cone
-Buying 45s and 78s of the beatles
-Going to Oregon House California and spending the summer with my grandparents and visiting the state fair where I seen the first double farris wheel
-White go go boots
-White lipstick
-Hair poofed (teased up really high)
-Hair long and straight
-Self pearcing earrings.
-Earrings that dangled and could be changed out with other bright colored balls
-Bright blue eye shadow
-Blue mascara
-Short shorts (later hot pants)
-Bermuda shorts
-Mini skirts Midi skirts maxi skirts
-Sizzlers loved them
-Playing spin the bottle
-Playing truth or dare
-Candy was----- wax lips, finger nails, coke bottles candy necklaces
-Taco bell, macdonalds jack in the box
-Big bell bottoms--- regular bell bottoms
-Outfits that had the backs cut out of them.
-Braless, not that I had much then
-Ouija board
-Fish nets with garter belts later panty hose
-Kotex that went from belly button to middle of back and the belt that kept it in place
-Sting ray bikes and pulling wheelies and riding down the road to see who could ride the farthest on 2 wheels
-Putting on that self tanning stuff that turned you orange
-Using baby oil to make your legs shine
-Hip huggers and halter tops
-

beachcottage · June 2006

evilelf
loved reading
your post~~

Cinnamon toast....we ate
lots of cinnamon toast
in our house
and my grandmother
was a big SOS fan
Sh*t on a shingle
toast with
chipped beef..creamed chipped beef

xoxo
Patti

Anonymous · June 2006

I was born in 1956. Just the other day, because of the smell of freshly cut grass and the way the sun was beating on the sidewalk as I was walking into the hospital for my herceptin, it made me think of childhood and I remember

- wearing saddle shoes -- white with the blue band and my mother using white shoe polish to keep them "clean"

- wearing skorts in summer

- being in my swimming pool most of a summer day

- colouring books and a box of Crayola with the 64 colours

- connect the dots colouring books

- Besty McCall dolls and other paper dolls

- my Chatty Cathy doll

- Toni home permanents (& my mother NEVER timing that right -- I'm sure I was the first white girl with an afro in 1966!)

- pink spongy curlers

- my mother giving me "kiss" curls with bobby pins

- watching "Mary Poppins" at the theatre and singing "Supercalafragalisticexpialadocious" until I drove my parents insane!

- chewing a whole package of Thrills gum (shudder!!) and saving it on my bed table so I could chew it the next day (what was I thinking?!?)

- shoestring licorice and penny candy (some things were 3 for a penny!)

- big coolers in stores with ice and water to keep soda cold (and how Orange Crush tasted so much better then)

- going to birthday parties and getting a "goodie bag" in a little plastic basket

- homemade cinnamon toast -- with butter, brown sugar and cinnamon

- plasticene and home made play dough with flour, water, food colouring & salt that my mother kept in an old mayo jar (until it would dry out)

- homemade birthday cakes with money inside

and mostly, being innocent, taking life for just what it was without question and being happy in my little world. That little girl is still somewhere tucked safely inside me -- she comes to the surface every now and then, just to say hello.

csp · July 2006

This is my sister and I when we were 2 and 3 yrs.old
sitting on our grandma's couch......

Carrie & Denise

Sherry I had a chatty cathy too , and sponge rollers

and I forgot all about the home made play dough

I use to love barqs soda pop my father would bring it home
one of each flavor yummm!

In the winter our Mom would make a mixture of PDQ and carnation evaported milk and put it in an tupperwear container so when we got home from school we could make instant chocolate milk.
Notice our shoes Sherry...
and hey who cut our bangs !!

Carrie

beachcottage · July 2006

dolls you
are...both of you
then and now

I have to figure
this picture posting tomorrow
time to post our old photos

xoxo
Patti

Anonymous · July 2006

Carrie, I love the photo of you and Denise!! And I love your shoes. I can still smell the Kwiki polish my mother used ~ a liquid with an applicator that had a long handle and a "ball" on the bottom ~ and the smell!! You could probably have inhaled it to get high!!

I was up until past 3:00 a.m. last night, couldn't stop my brain and all these things from the past came floating to the surface and I actually got up and wrote them down. They may have been shared here already but here's what my insane mind was thinking about last night ~

- singing songs as a young girl, hanging around with my friends ... "ring around the rosie", holding hands, skipping in a circle and falling in heaps to the ground; "here we go round the mulberry bush"; "miss polly had a dolly"; "polly put the kettle on"; "I'm a little teapot" and doing all the movements...do children today even know those songs? Do they still sing these things?

- singing "Puff the Magic Dragon" and just liking the song ~ not having any clue whatsoever as to what it meant, or why my mother thought it "inappropriate young lady"!!

- watching programs like "Romper Room" and singing the songs and doing exercises like "bend and stretch, reach for the stars, there goes Jupiter here comes Mars", only I thought Jupiter was "you better"; and at the end of the program, the teacher would hold up the big mirror that was all covered over and as she sang it would move in swirls and she'd say in a sing song voice "romper, stomper, domper do, tell me, tell me, do I see you?" and the thing would open to her face and I'd hope and pray she'd say she could see me, but she never did ... I had no idea my mother would have had to write to the program to have my name said and I never told my mother I wanted to hear my name ... (first lesson I wish I had learned much much earlier in my life ~ speak up if you want/need something, no one reads minds!!).

- watching "Captain Kangaroo" with his friends Grandfather Clock, Mr. Greenjeans, Teddy Bear and Bunny Rabbit.

- loving to watch "I Love Lucy" re-runs, and watching Shari Lewis, Petticoat Junction, my mother's 15 minute soap operas which would be on at lunch time ("Search for Tomorrow" and "As the World Turns"), "The Patty Duke Show" and being amazed that there were 2 people who looked so much alike!!, and "The Real McCoys".

- cartoons like "The Flintstones", "The Jetsons", "Popeye", "Beany & Cecil"

- eating Jiffy Pop popcorn

- all the commercials on tv with their cute jingles ~

Pepsodent
Brylcreem
Bromo Seltzer
Alka Seltzer
The Ajax White Knight
Aqua Velva
Oscar Meyer Weiners (which we couldn't even buy in Canada!)
and the Frito Bandito

When I sing some of these jingles or songs from old tv programs my kids think I'm slightly nuts but they laugh along with me and I'm glad my "past" can be a source of entertainment!

csp · July 2006

Sherry,
We must be close in age as I share your memories too

My Mother would set up the ironing board and remove her dampened laundry from the refrig. and get her spray startch
during the soap opera's, for lunch she would often make
mrs. grass soups ,We thought because of the name and the green spices in it we were eating grass and we liked it

D you remember the song cecil use to go around singing
R-a-g-g-m-o-p-p- ragmopp

I taught my kids some of the songs of my childhood , but maybe because they had more to entertain themselves with they did'nt go around sing them as much as we did?

I taught my little granddaughter bend and stretch

Red light Green light was a big one in our neighbor hood
Mother may I, and red rover,red rover . How about hop scotch You would see them drawn all over the side walks,
or chinesse jump rope.

Thank you for the reminders again Sherry,
so fun to go back again.

hugs,
Carrie

Mena · July 2006

OMG Patti...bogarting? hahahahaha I'm still bogarting hahahaha...did you know it's an antiangiogenetic? Yup. Got the reports right here hahahah....

Great thread...fun reading...I can relate to a lot here...wore the mood rings, platforms, split-six packs while listening to Pink Floyd in my friend Vinny's loft...so many memories my head is swimming...hated dodge ball and disco...

"Smoke on the Water"...now that's in my head forever...oh, hahaha anyone remember The Good Rats?

Anonymous · July 2006

I DO remember singing r-a-g-g-m-o-p-p "Ragmop"!! I'd forgotten that!

We played red light, green light, and Mother May I and Red Rover ~ all summer long. Hide and seek and tag of course and "truth or dare" ~ that was mostly the older, teenagers who played that so if you were "allowed" that was really an entry to another world. First time Ronnie Hawkshaw was dared to kiss me I nearly passed out...little did he know I was madly in love with him...then again maybe he did!

I remember going to cottages and barbecuing over a pit, or an old, round barbecue on legs that you had to use charcoal briquettes and light them with ligher fluid. If you didn't have just the right amount and were too heavy handed, "poof" it would explode. Or not enough and you waited forever to eat! Singing all those old camp and girl guide songs around the fire at night, roasting marshmallows and how you'd hope to light them on fire to get that just right burned taste...the gooey taste...

My parents smoked and had lighters that worked using flint that came in a package...

And ironing ~ oh did that bring back a memory. My mother would also roll up the shirts and put them in the refrigerator and then sprinkle them with water she had in a soda pop bottle that had a cork lid, with aluminum top that had holes for sprinkling ~ and her trusty can of spray starch.

I can't believe sitting here going over those old memories and thinking to myself as a kid while my mother and her friends would do that ~ how "old" they were and like how could you possibly think back like that!! And here I am!!

beachcottage · July 2006

love reading
this wonderful thread

bogart...hey
it's my turn to bogart

turn up the volume
for a blast of the past
http://www.lovethissite.com/sunshine/

"A window was something you hated to clean,
And ram was the cousin
of a goat.
Meg was the name of my girlfriend,
And gig was a job for the nights." author unknown

xoxo
Patti

Mena · July 2006

smiling ear to ear and
dancing in my
chair
what a wonderful way to make my
day

Patti, you're so kind I wouldn't mind you
bogarting my
friend
I was sad earlier but that you managed to
mend
with song and sunshine both bright and uplifting

thank you for your daily
gifting...Mena...xo

beachcottage · July 2006

smiling
and singing
with you mena

ok
friends
time
for a little
tic tac

tic
tac
toe
three
in
a
row
http://www.ishaah.com/index.cfm?action=Tictactoe

xoxo
Patti

Mena · July 2006

Ok Patti...It's a scam hahhaha...although I did try.

Now, how about a game of Spit...the card game...do you remember it? I was National Champion. Of course, back then I had my own nation.

If not, how about Spud?...the outdoor game during which you throw the ball up into the air and call out a number and everyone runs and that's all I can remember hahahaha...Mena...xo

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