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Memories of Growing Up in the 40's and 50's (and since, even)
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Posted on 01/04/2003 12:12:42 PM PST by Dakotabound
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To: imhere
I remember the Buster Browns, and also those x-ray machines...you stood on the platform with your feet inside the machine, press the button on top and you'd look at x-ray pictures of your feet to see how they fit into those new shoes.
To: Vinnie
We had Hot Shoppes in Washington. I think McDonalds bought them out.
They had something like a present day Big Mac, that along with fries and an orange freeze was something like a buck and a half, and you got to keep the orange freeze glass if you wanted to.
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posted on
01/04/2003 4:23:03 PM PST
by
VMI70
To: Dusty Rose
Maybe we should start a "47 Caucus!" Count me in. An idea, yes. From the sheer numbers of us, we must have some clout.
To: FITZ
Fitz:
You are right, we lived in Flagstaff Az when I was about 8 or 9 and it was winter. We put cardboard in our shoes and walked to school. Then we would take out dry cardboard and put in the shoes. By the time we went home we would change that cardboard three times. I remember also living in Texas, and having the "itch". We had to take baths in a copper sulphate soulation of some kind. It was really bad. While we lived in Texas, the snow would pile up all the way to the roof on the north side of the house. I don't want to return to those days myself. I still think we now live in the best of times. (if only we could get rid of some of the democrats.)
The very best to you and yours.
Semper Fi
Tommie
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posted on
01/04/2003 4:25:37 PM PST
by
Texican
To: EnquiringMind
We only went out once or twice a year,we had nothing,but generous relatives (with not much more money than we had),gave us a treat once in a while.
This was the forties in a neighborhood in Boston and no one had much but I still have pleasant memories of those days.
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posted on
01/04/2003 4:31:08 PM PST
by
Mears
To: Dakotabound
I don't normally recommend anyone spend money, but if you EVER have the chance, read a series of books called 'Stories and Recipes of the Great Depression of the 1930s'. Not only are the recipes good and 'frugal' but they are interlaced with stories on how the people got by. The book was written by Rita Van Amber and is now managed by her daughter Janet Van Amber Paske. In the inside cover of the cookbook it gives an address and phone number. I GORONTEE you will not be disatisfied with the books. If you can read them wihout bawling, you are one strong SOB! Van Amber Publishers, 862 E. Cecil Street, Neenah, WI 54956 - (920) 722-8357. It will make you appreciate your parents and grandparents more and what they sacrificed to make the country better.
To: RnMomof7
The ice man was also a pleasant memory.All the boys would jump on the back of the truck and take chunks of ice when the man was inside filling the old ice boxes.
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posted on
01/04/2003 4:34:22 PM PST
by
Mears
To: Dusty Rose
Your mom and I agree we do only Butter ..once you see oleo sans color..you desire butter:>)
To: Conservababe
Wow, how to describe a mangle. The ones we had were operated sitting down. The mangle had a big padded cloth-covered roller and a metal plate that curved to the roller's contours. The item of clothing was placed between the roller and the hot plate and, using knee controls, you caused the roller to press down on the clothing. The roller would turn, and the person operating it would control the direction of the piece of clothing. It was a real art to make the roller go up and down while turning the shirt, for example, without causing any unwanted creases. Here's what they look like:
To: Mears
I too remember the ice man
It used to be your life was touched by all sorts of people . There were all those folks that brought stuff to you..ice, fruits,bread and milk..there was Jewel tea man and the fuller brush man..
You got to know these people ..kids today have no such touch stone..
When I grew up we had a neighborhood food store that was in a 10 x 12 store front, a butcher and a baker ..we knew all their names..We got all dressed up to go "downtown " to pay bills and shop
Fond memories of many people now gone
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To: hardhead
Hardhead,..Thanks,...I'll see if I can get em!
Willie,...o.k.,...how about 'Mushmouth' and 'The Kielbasa Kid'...?....(Cleveland T.V.)
:-)
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posted on
01/04/2003 4:47:25 PM PST
by
maestro
To: Conservababe
Wow! Forgot about that!! Remember "Spoolies"? Those little pink things we used to curl our hair? I will NEVER know how we managed to sleep on those things!!
And, yep...I'm one of the group!!
To: Willie Green
Hardhead,..Thanks,...I'll see if I can get em!
Willie,...o.k.,...how about 'Mushmouth' and 'The Kielbasa Kid'...?....(Cleveland T.V.)
:-)
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posted on
01/04/2003 4:53:22 PM PST
by
maestro
To: RnMomof7
We got all dressed up to go "downtown " to pay bills and shop We lived "downtown" and I remember being slightly amused that my Grandmother got herself all decked out for her Saturday foray.
She always wore a hat as well.
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posted on
01/04/2003 4:54:31 PM PST
by
don-o
To: Vinnie
I remember seeing those. We had another White Castle style burgerette in my hometown aside from Krystal which goes way back too.....they were called Dime Burgers.
I'll look to see who came first.. Krystal or White Castle.
To: GrandMoM
Sounds like a fine daddy to me.
To: Conservababe
Wasn't Dairy Queen a Texas originator? Like the old Stuckeys...they were on every hwy interchange.
To: Redleg Duke
How sad is that......
To: tubebender
I would like to have been there. I came of age at the end of the muscle car apex and my folks relegated me to an old MGA that I paid for.....no MOPAR 440s or SS 396 for me....sigh.
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