Posted on 04/20/2012 12:46:56 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
...what was the most POSITIVE Nostalgic memory all of you have from your Childhood.
Never having to lock the doors to the house. Fresh milk delivered to your door. Accidently walking in on Jenny Smith in the bathroom and seeing my 1st uncovered breast...and liking it! Even the kick to the groin was worth it!
playing in the creek behind the house and fried bread and eggs
Too funny you two. You’re killing me here. (that is if you are joking.) If you are not. Well hell I have huge respect for making it to where you are today growing up like that. That is a huge accomplishment. And if it is just ironical humor to bust on the request in the title—that is hilarious.
Blowing stuff up with M-80’s
M-80’s were the best!
Sledding down the curves of Republican Mountain and then having hot cocoa and cinnamon toast at the cabing in Georgetown, Colorado
haha!
I amso remember the Simo-Cast of WCCO Minneapolis on WHO Radio Des Moines of Herb Carneal and Frank Quilici brodcasting Twims games(DAMMIT WHY IS MY SCREEN GETTIN ALL FUZZY)!
Every day of hunting and fishing with my Dad.
How about those Dodgers?
The moment, after an embarrassing length of time, that I finally learned to ride my bike. Joy!
My mother spent time in an orphanage in Northern Kentucky.
She was also abused.
The look on my mom’s face when she kissed us goodnight.
Getting Mattel toy pistols and rifles that shot actual plastic bullets.
Being able to wear my Cub Scout uniform to school, with my official CSA pocket knife proudly dangling from my belt. (Try that today).
Playing mumblety-peg (pocket knife game), unsupervised for hours with my friends.
Coolest memory was a trip to Los Angeles when I was in 13, and having my dad manage to get me to Desilu studios where he finagled my visit to see a rehearsal of the Dick Van Dyke Show, and then got me a seat in the audience for the filming a few days later. During the rehearsal, I got to walk into the Petrie’s living room set, and got autographs from all of the cast members, including Mary Tyler Moore who signed hers “lotsa love.”
1st: That Ronald Reagan became the 40th President of the United States.
2nd favorite childhood memory: That Jimmy Carter had to sit front and center and listen to this..One of, if not the greatest inaugural address ever given.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-kTC7cYvWM
I was 16 at the time so legally I was still a child, but seriously, I cannot think of a better time. My father was crying when all this happened and I NEVER saw him cry before in my life he was so jazzed. He absolutely hated the Kennedys and Democrats with a passion, felt JFK deliberately let the Russkies take advantage of the USA and felt the Kennedys gave the Catholic Irish a bad name. Reagan he said vindicated us lol. There was a lot of celebrating I can tell you that. Best time EVER.
Yep. I also was the first girl on my little league football team (until age 9 and the uniforms didn’t fit anymore. puberty came early, heee) and riding on a BMX team. I LOVED football, playing it, watching it, whatever. Looking back, I wonder if the neighborhood was convinced I was a future lesbian, LOL! Little did they know I’d end up being a mom of four kids. HA!
Did you see the famous scene that got cut? Now available in a $30 set?
We didn’t have a car, but my Dad worked for the NY Central Railroad, and the family could ride the train for free. We’d take a day trip every now and then on the weekend. We’d first take the train to Buffalo, NY and go to the zoo. We’d eat the lunch my mother had packed for us, then get back on the train, and go to Niagara Falls. It was a full day, and we wouldn’t get back home until after dark.
My uncles coming home from the War!
I was about 7 and one of them was still single. He took me swimming at a public pool because none of his friends were back yet and he didn’t want to go alone.
I told him I could swim (I’d read about it in a book and had never actually tried it in real life.) He plopped me into 4 feet of water, and I went down like a piece of lead. He picked me out, shook the water out of me, and taught me the basics in the kiddie pool for the rest of the afternoon.
He allowed me to lie on a towel next to him in the sun while he talked to big girls. I felt like a
movie star on a date with a real sailor!
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