Middle Aged Memories

I know I'm older than most of you, but here are some memories.

I was the only girl in my neighborhood full of little boys. Even though I was a bit older, they always made me be the Indian when we played cowboys. I finally convinced my Mother to buy me a cap pistol so I could be "equal".

We're talking early 1950s here when we only had a radio - no TV. And we listened to The Lone Ranger, Sgt Preston of the Yukon, Fibber McGee & Molly, Burns & Allen, Roy Rogers.

When I was sick & missed school, my Mother would make homemade clay with flour & salt & water - years before PlayDoh. I'd listen to Our Miss Brooks and My Little Margie and play with my paper dolls

When my Grandparents came to visit, their favorite was the Guy Lombardo show. And of course after we finally got a TV - Lawrence Welk. Remember those little Lennon Sisters?

My step-grandma introducing me to Shakespeare. Se started me off with Romeo and Juliet. Ever since then, I love reading his works.

Every Thursday on my local morning news they show a commercial from the past that are suggested by viewers. Some remember and others are before my time.

I haven't read through the entire thread so I am sorry if this has been mentioned, but I remember (70s) riding my bike with my friends while we all pretended to smoke our candy cigarettes.

Also, at Christmas, my mother always had that super hard "ribbon candy".

I remember helping my mom bake and make candy for Christmas. My mother would make me prep the cookie sheets for her peanut brittle and gather the ingredients for her other recipes.

SoulShine1969.......OMG! You are so right about the ribbon candy! When I was writing my post I thought about that but had no clue how to describe and also wondered if it was just ours. Good to know it wasn't. I laughed at your grandmother could just have brought out the same dish of it every year. I don't remember anyone ever actually eating it at my house either and now I wonder if my mom did that. You were cool with your "cigarettes"! I never thought of doing that to look like smoke.

These are such great old memories. I need to go through and read the entire thread.

Here's another one........sitting by the radio for hours and hours just hoping to hear your favorite song played. Then, grabbing the cassette recorder and recording it off the radio as it played. Of course, maybe that was just me!

CM, I did that too!

Covering your school books in brown paper bags.

Native, I had no choice. My mom was very frugal. Plus it was nice to customize it the way I liked to do it.

I love Vermont Country Store. I get the Old Goat pain reliever for my arthritis.

I loved the last day in elementary school. It was always a half day!

Speaking of Campbell's soup, just a little interesting tidbit I learned a while back:

Apparently Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup was originally marketed as Campbell's Noodle Soup with Chicken, and didn't sell well until a radio broadcaster slipped up and called it Chicken Noodle soup and people began buying the soup in droves to find out just what a chicken noodle was. Or so goes the story.

A lot of household name American food products have interesting histories. Corn Flakes began from a messed up batch of wheat biscuits during the sanitarium movement.

WC3...What interesting stories! Did you stumble upon these are is there a cool website where you can read all about it?

Add me to the list that loves The Vermont Country Store. I just got my daughter some Snoopy sheets from there. They are so well made and she loves them.