Remembering The Past

[Fawnbuster]

My dad came unglued and about spilled his beer when my oldest sister came in wearing a shirt with this ironed on it. He made her go change lol.

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[Fordup]

We had dinner together every Sunday afternoon, my grandparents would come over and we'd all get together. I remember there were times I was mad because we were out playing and I had to go home and thought I was missing out on something better. Boy I'd love to be able to have those Sunday dinners with them all now. ?

We did also. My mom could cook up a cows tongue that was out of this world with like a cream sauce on the veggies . The butcher would basically give them to her for free. We always sat at the table and ate together.
Card games of war could go on for days.

 

[Fawnbuster]

I have a costly confession to make...before I was into baseball or even knew any names of players, I got a Mickey Mantle rookie card in a package that i.bought for the chewing gum inside. I was like Mickey Mantle? Who wants a rookies card!? He lasted a few days attached to the spokes on my bike.

 

[Fordup]

I have a costly confession to make...before I was into baseball or even knew any names of players, I got a Mickey Mantle rookie card in a package that i.bought for the chewing gum inside. I was like Mickey Mantle? Who wants a rookies card!? He lasted a few days attached to the spokes on my bike.

I had a Mickey Mantle card also in a box with about 200 other cards. When we cleaned out my parents house after they passed they were nowhere to be found. I think my mom gave the whole box away ?. I would scour the roads on my bicycle for empty glass coke bottles that people threw out of car windows. 5 cents each deposit bought all my baseball cards. Wish I still had them.

 

[Fawnbuster]

I had a Mickey Mantle card also in a box with about 200 other cards. When we cleaned out my parents house after they passed they were nowhere to be found. I think my mom gave the whole box away ?. I would scour the roads on my bicycle for empty glass coke bottles that people threw out of car windows. 5 cents each deposit bought all my baseball cards. Wish I still had them.

My sister's couldn't figure out how I always had candy and comic book /toys money, we lived off a busy street so one day I would pull my wagon west, the next time I go east, and like you I went thru the ditches and filled my wagon with bottles and went to a local grocery at whichever end of the street I went. A bag of candy, a couple of comic books and a balsa wood planes each time. I would tape bottle rockets to the wings and blow them up. I earned a merit badge for cleaning up in the process during my scouting days.

 

[9zero1790]

My sister's couldn't figure out how I always had candy and comic book /toys money, we lived off a busy street so one day I would pull my wagon west, the next time I go east, and like you I went thru the ditches and filled my wagon with bottles and went to a local grocery at whichever end of the street I went. A bag of candy, a couple of comic books and a balsa wood planes each time. I would tape bottle rockets to the wings and blow them up. I earned a merit badge for cleaning up in the process during my scouting days.

smart kid!

 

[Fawnbuster]

One funny wagon story. Winter time, fresh wet snow so I am outside just after dark alone, making a snowman and snow fort. My youngest sister Annie came storming out of the house and asked me where my wagon was, my other sisters tormented her into running away
After she retrieved my wagon she filled it with her stuff and clothes and pulled it thru the snow down our long driveway and sat under the street light. When my folks got home they stopped and talked to her, they drove up and she pulled the wagon back to the house She stopped and looked at me and said " I was running away and you didn't even care" I didn't even stop rolling my snow man and told her " you weren't going anywhere, we aren't allowed to cross 38th street ?

 

[dtech]

I have a costly confession to make...before I was into baseball or even knew any names of players, I got a Mickey Mantle rookie card in a package that i.bought for the chewing gum inside. I was like Mickey Mantle? Who wants a rookies card!? He lasted a few days attached to the spokes on my bike.

Did you play tossing baseball cards against a wall ? I remember playing it now. The chewing gum was flat in the shape of a baseball card.

 

[Big Blue]

One thing I can say is it did make you tougher and you had to think for yourself back then. There was no internet to look things up when you got into a bind working on your car. We used paper maps to travel and you'd better have a really good wingman if you were going long distance. No remote control was one of the worst. My dad would say "boy, go change the channel" us kids were the remote. ?

That's how my son learned his numbers. "Hey Marshall, channel 5"

 

[Synfulz]

Yes times were much simpler and uncomplicated. I still watch Andy Griffith and Leave it to Beaver. Gee Wally why all the fighting?

 

[Grumpaw]

No ones brought up.....
Playing marbles....for "keepsies"
Cord thrown tops, the wooden ones with the steel tips.
Wooden yo-yo's.
Duncan later came out with the colored plastic tops and yo-yo's, in the 60's, but by that time I had outgrown them.

 

[Atitagain]

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My sister was spoiled and got Buster Brown shoes. I got stuck detailing them. I could do a great spit shine on patent leather. Back to the original topic. And I did nothing to my ranger today.

Yes, but do you remember the jingle, "Hi, I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe, here's my dog Tag, he lives here too". 75 years young and still remember that, SICK.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

More blasts from the past.

I would stay up late and watch this guy. Evil little me

 

[AzScorpion]

Annie reminded me of this one last night. Remember decorating the Christmas tree with those huge light bulbs? Then your parents would pass out boxes of tinsel and you'd all throw it all over the tree. It was so messy and you'd find tinsel all around the house in June.lol So glad they did away with that stuff.

 

[FerdRanger]

and the tinsel was lead based dipped in mercury!!

ok, I exaggerated slightly

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