Ok everyone let's get away from all of the DEPRESSING STUFF...

20 April2012 | US Navy Vet

[US Navy Vet]

...what was the most POSITIVE Nostalgic memory all of you have from your Childhood.

[ctdonath2]

Standing on Hurricane Pass as a teen. That or making a 25 mile backpacking trip in the same area at 5 years old.

[CatherineofAragon]

LOL

[stylin19a]

Even tho we are from different states, Your mom, and my sister and me are soul mates.

Thought I let go of all that. guess not.

FreepRegards.

[CatherineofAragon]

Breakfast outside in the early summer mornings, after my dad went to work. My cousins lived next door, and we all got together and ate at our redwood picnic table. I will never forget how the huge mimosa tree in the yard smelled at that time of morning.

[eccentric]

Discovering the Finney County Public Library!

[apillar]

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.

My dad was almost the opposite, he was a life long democrat who had voted straight ticket since he cast his first vote for FDR. Reagan was the first Republican he ever voted for because Carter was just so that awful, I remember right after he voted, he walked in the door with this hangdog look on his face and said like he was confessing to a murder, "Well I did it, I voted for that damn Republican." The GOOD news is by 1984, he was driving around with Reagan bumper stickers on his truck and talking about Reagan like he was the second coming of Christ. Then after the Iran Contra deal, he got so angry at the Democrat party for the way they treated Reagan, he went and changed his voter registration and voted Republican until his death in 2000, just after Bush won the election (almost a blessing he didn't live long enough to see Obama get in).

[RC2]

A friend of mine and I use to sneak into Desilu all the time. Then we had to outrun the guard dogs.

[stylin19a]

it is ironic. cause it was the first thing that came to my mind when I read the title of this thread.

[GOP Poet]

No disappointment either way my FRiend.

[Chuckster]

How about those Dodgers?

If we are talking about the Brooklyn Dodgers...

[Little Bill]

My old Man was a WW2 Vet, Coastie, one day he decided to teach me to swim. The course involved tossing me in to a very cold lake in Idaho about 20 feet deep, sink or swim.

To this day I Shower rather than bathe.

[Ax]

Riding a tobaggan down “Rupture Ridge” at Rouge Park in Detroit. And cherry bombs. And hammerheads.

[Nepeta]

Listening to the Cincinnati Reds on the radio in with Dad in his garage, while stealing nips of his beer while he pretended not to look.

Pete Rose was King, I was 7 & Mom was horrified - which made it even more enjoyable for Dad & me.

Good times, miss my old man.

My Dad knew a guy who had season tickets right next to the Reds dugout at Crosley Field. Sometimes he'd give tickets to my Dad. You could look right into the dugout and see Rose et al spit.

Before everybody had air conditioning, the whole neighborhood sat outside on their porches in the evening, usually listening to Reds games. We knew all of our neighbors.

[autumnraine]

It still amazes me that people are surprised that women like myself, Sarah Palin and those conservative women who love their men AND love hanging out with them actually exist, you know?

So we like tough stuff, doesn’t mean we aren’t women. We’ll just be the ones who make it (and their families too) if the proverbial sh*t ever hits the fan.

[autumnraine]

Awww, that sounds like a very touching memory.

[geege]

Giving my parents a hard time that I had to come inside and take a bath after playing out in the street all day....

[Responsibility2nd]

I’ll always remember Uncle Frank and his amber stains. And the neat shots of Seagrams he would let me sip. And the stories he would tell me. And the smells we would smell. And the things he would show me. And the funny things we would do in the dark that he told me never to mention to anyone.

~~Barry.

[Bitsy]

Richie Kaufman on his birthday to be on the Howdy Doody

Lucky dog! I loved Howdy Doody

[GOP Poet]

How can you let go of that? Especially on a thread like this. I think that is understandable. As mentioned it is a huge accomplishment to get where you are today. Truly. Good memories for you came later. For some of us idealists the best are in the past. You have something many do not have. Gratitude. shirley. Shirley? :-D. (and a good sense of humor.)