Omg Judi. You brought a big smile to our faces. We have asked everyone we know in N.J. , PA, and AZ if they had a sheeny man. No one ever heard of them and they swore we must be making him up. WE had a sheeny man too. Must be something that is only found in MI. Thanks for the memories and insuring that Ken and I are not nuts. Ha
.Carole
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I remember:
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astitchintime
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Re: I remember:
As I read thru the posts, I remember doing so many of those things...
I remember picking peaches, coming home and helping to can enough to have 2 jars each week for the entire year, then to do the same with every kind of fruit and vegetable you could think of...
I remember thinking it was odd that my friends didn't know about pulling weeds or having to wash the fingerprints off the woodwork when company was coming..
I remember being sent to the market to buy bread, milk and eggs with a quarter and knowing I better bring home every penny of the change.
I remember saturday morning cartoons, Bonanza and Lawrence Welk..
I remember Sunday school, Sunday supper after church and homemade ice cream...
I remember after school snacks, homework and setting the table for supper, just to be told that since I got all my homework done already I could help dry the dishes and never thinking it was unfair...
I remember learning from my grandma to make sure the back of my needlework looked as nice as the front because thats the way is was supposed to be...
I remember how powerful I felt as grandpa taught me to drive a nail into a 2X4 and to use all the tools in his workshop...
I remember how being the middle kid made me feel as if I would never be alone...
But most of all, I remember always feeling loved and safe...
thanks for reminding me to remember how blessed I was...
I remember picking peaches, coming home and helping to can enough to have 2 jars each week for the entire year, then to do the same with every kind of fruit and vegetable you could think of...
I remember thinking it was odd that my friends didn't know about pulling weeds or having to wash the fingerprints off the woodwork when company was coming..
I remember being sent to the market to buy bread, milk and eggs with a quarter and knowing I better bring home every penny of the change.
I remember saturday morning cartoons, Bonanza and Lawrence Welk..
I remember Sunday school, Sunday supper after church and homemade ice cream...
I remember after school snacks, homework and setting the table for supper, just to be told that since I got all my homework done already I could help dry the dishes and never thinking it was unfair...
I remember learning from my grandma to make sure the back of my needlework looked as nice as the front because thats the way is was supposed to be...
I remember how powerful I felt as grandpa taught me to drive a nail into a 2X4 and to use all the tools in his workshop...
I remember how being the middle kid made me feel as if I would never be alone...
But most of all, I remember always feeling loved and safe...
thanks for reminding me to remember how blessed I was...
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maryq
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Re: I remember:
I remember Friday Nights Watching Gunsmoke and having popcorn and Soda Pop... which was a real treat because Mom never believed in Soda Pop. My Dad was out of town a lot but always home on Friday night.
I remember having Peanut butter toast and cocoa for supper on Fridays - not just during Lent because all Fridays were "meatless" in those days.
I remember getting my first Bra with my Mom at Montgomery Wards.
I remember roller skates with keys, but I didn't have that kind.. only my friend did, but then she only had 1 brother--I had 5.
I remember mowing the lawn with a push mower--and with out a motor on it!
I remember having only 1 phone in the house, and early on we had a party line, so you had to wait until somebody else got off before you could make a call.
My Grandma always had gum in her purse.. Beemans, but she only gave a 1/2 a piece at a time! I still have the key to her apartment. I remember spending time there as a girl, going shopping, and remember this big fluffy petticoat she bought me.
So many great memories.. I could go on for hours
I remember having Peanut butter toast and cocoa for supper on Fridays - not just during Lent because all Fridays were "meatless" in those days.
I remember getting my first Bra with my Mom at Montgomery Wards.
I remember roller skates with keys, but I didn't have that kind.. only my friend did, but then she only had 1 brother--I had 5.
I remember mowing the lawn with a push mower--and with out a motor on it!
I remember having only 1 phone in the house, and early on we had a party line, so you had to wait until somebody else got off before you could make a call.
My Grandma always had gum in her purse.. Beemans, but she only gave a 1/2 a piece at a time! I still have the key to her apartment. I remember spending time there as a girl, going shopping, and remember this big fluffy petticoat she bought me.
So many great memories.. I could go on for hours
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cindyg
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Re: I remember:
What a great thread!
I remember:
Playing in the lawn sprinkler. We had a sand box and my granny (who always baby sat us) would go out and check it for snakes before she'd let us go play in it. Daddy would take us to the beer joint with him sometimes and sometimes we got to take a friend. There was a small aisle in between the ice cream freezer and the comic book rack and we would sit there and read the comic books while having our ice cream or Grapette. We always played outside unless it was raining and we were never bored because we had hopscotch, jacks, balls and trikes and bikes and a neighborhood full of kids our ages. My mother dressed us up for church in the most frilly and full dresses because of the starched petticoats and we had Patten leather shoes and wore socks that folded down and had lace on them. My granny would let me sit on the floor between her legs and she would brush my hair for the longest time and I would get so relaxed and I never wanted her to stop. We had a grocery store made of cardboard and a little play cash register so we played "store" until the store refused to stand up any longer. My parents had the radio on in the kitchen every morning while we were eating breakfast. Every evening my sister and I would sit at our little kid's table and eat dinner while watching Kitterick or Howdy Doody on TV. I remember our German Shepherd being very sick and laying in his hole - daddy picked him up and went away with him and then he came home very upset because he had to have Butterball put to sleep - I was too young to know why daddy was crying but I sure know now. More often than not our Christmas tree was so crooked that mama and daddy had to use string and nails to put between the tree and the walls so the tree would be reasonably straight and not fall over. And then there was the pedia-dentist whose name I don't recall but his nurse's name was Nurse Doolittle. Everyone's house smelled like cigarette smoke. We lived in the same house until we were out on our own and it did have a bathroom with toilet, sink and bathtub/shower. I never saw an outhouse until I was 21 yrs. old. We had a rotary phone and a party line for several years. When our black and white TV acted up we just had to slap the side of it and it would be OK then. I remember the squeak and slam of the screen door. We didn't have air conditioning until I was about 9 or 10 so we had an attic fan and I loved to hear it running when I went to bed and loved to feel that breeze coming in the open windows - of course it was also sucking in pollen, etc. so my allergies acted up all the time. We loved to play dress up and Vicki's (my BFF) grandma worked somewhere (????) where she could buy formal dresses cheaply and she would bring them home for all us girls to play with and my mom would give us her old high heels - we thought we were so glamorous. We could hear the ice cream man's musical truck from several blocks over so we'd run in the house for money and then stand out by the road until the ice cream man would finally come down our street - I loved banana popsicles. That's enough. Oh, I remember that at noon every Friday a very loud siren would blow from downtown and we could hear it way out where we lived in the suburbs (12 miles north of downtown) - I think it was a civil defense thing.
I remember:
Playing in the lawn sprinkler. We had a sand box and my granny (who always baby sat us) would go out and check it for snakes before she'd let us go play in it. Daddy would take us to the beer joint with him sometimes and sometimes we got to take a friend. There was a small aisle in between the ice cream freezer and the comic book rack and we would sit there and read the comic books while having our ice cream or Grapette. We always played outside unless it was raining and we were never bored because we had hopscotch, jacks, balls and trikes and bikes and a neighborhood full of kids our ages. My mother dressed us up for church in the most frilly and full dresses because of the starched petticoats and we had Patten leather shoes and wore socks that folded down and had lace on them. My granny would let me sit on the floor between her legs and she would brush my hair for the longest time and I would get so relaxed and I never wanted her to stop. We had a grocery store made of cardboard and a little play cash register so we played "store" until the store refused to stand up any longer. My parents had the radio on in the kitchen every morning while we were eating breakfast. Every evening my sister and I would sit at our little kid's table and eat dinner while watching Kitterick or Howdy Doody on TV. I remember our German Shepherd being very sick and laying in his hole - daddy picked him up and went away with him and then he came home very upset because he had to have Butterball put to sleep - I was too young to know why daddy was crying but I sure know now. More often than not our Christmas tree was so crooked that mama and daddy had to use string and nails to put between the tree and the walls so the tree would be reasonably straight and not fall over. And then there was the pedia-dentist whose name I don't recall but his nurse's name was Nurse Doolittle. Everyone's house smelled like cigarette smoke. We lived in the same house until we were out on our own and it did have a bathroom with toilet, sink and bathtub/shower. I never saw an outhouse until I was 21 yrs. old. We had a rotary phone and a party line for several years. When our black and white TV acted up we just had to slap the side of it and it would be OK then. I remember the squeak and slam of the screen door. We didn't have air conditioning until I was about 9 or 10 so we had an attic fan and I loved to hear it running when I went to bed and loved to feel that breeze coming in the open windows - of course it was also sucking in pollen, etc. so my allergies acted up all the time. We loved to play dress up and Vicki's (my BFF) grandma worked somewhere (????) where she could buy formal dresses cheaply and she would bring them home for all us girls to play with and my mom would give us her old high heels - we thought we were so glamorous. We could hear the ice cream man's musical truck from several blocks over so we'd run in the house for money and then stand out by the road until the ice cream man would finally come down our street - I loved banana popsicles. That's enough. Oh, I remember that at noon every Friday a very loud siren would blow from downtown and we could hear it way out where we lived in the suburbs (12 miles north of downtown) - I think it was a civil defense thing.
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auntjana
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Re: I remember:
This is so fun!
It has brought back many memories of things that I did!
I remember 13 cent Twinkies. The times that I would lay out in the empty field near my house and fly my paper kite for hours at a time.
I grew up in the city - I-80 was just 2 blocks from my house and we would go down and stand on the overpass and "honk" the trucks - wave to get the trucks to honk at us. We were not to far from San Francisco, so on Sundays we would take a ride over the bridge that my Dad built and through Golden Gate park to see the buffalo, deer, rhododerns, and the tulips - with the windmill at the oceans edge. At the end of Golden Gate Park was Playland at the Beach with the very best merry-go-round! I always got a ride on that merry-go-round! Then we would get one box of Yum Yum popcorn - a caramel popcorn to share. There are many hills in San Francisco and if you knew how to drive as you went over them, you could make your stomach feel like it was coming out of you - we called it "go funny".
During school times, we would jump rope - "double dutch" - 2 ropes turning at the same time in opposite directions - loved that! Or play Chinese jump rope - rubber bands hooked together in a long circle, that two people put it around their ankles - you then had to jump and catch the band with your feet and do tricks with it - not falling or touching the rubber band as you finished. We would scrounge the neighborhood for all the rubber bands that we could find!
Then there were the trips around the neighborhood gathering up the glass pop bottles to redeem the deposit - 2 cents on the little ones and a nickel on the big ones - then we would go to the little store and get a Charms Lollipop - they were big - and had a sticker inside that you could win a free lollipop - the red ones were my favorite.
We played hopscotch by the hour too - had a "hoppi-tah" - a round flexible plastic disk with marbled colors - we would look for hours at the variety store for just the right one and if we lost it, boy were we sad!
I had a hula hoop too - couldn't do that now! LOL
Took my old skates that clamped onto you shoes and made my first skateboard with them. My parents went and got me a regular skateboard a little later.
There was a gas station that you got stamps at - not Blue Chip or Green, and you could get things at their store - I got my first tennis racket with my Mom's stamps and would hit a tennis ball against the garage door for hours too.
I was always outside doing something!
Oh yes, my Mom would bake bread and sell it to help support my brother on his mission, he served in Austrailia in 1962, so every morning before school, I would help get the bread kneaded and raising - then when I got home in the afternoon, we would bag it up and deliver it to the people that Mom had the orders from. I still make that bread. For a treat when I got home, she would save me a scrap of dough and fry it up in oil, then I would put butter and jam on it with a glass of milk - we called those scones.
This is a very small part of what you have brought back to my memory - I guess like all of you, we could write a book - we all should - especially for our families to know of all these fun things that we have done in our lives - our family history!
Hugs
Jana
It has brought back many memories of things that I did!
I remember 13 cent Twinkies. The times that I would lay out in the empty field near my house and fly my paper kite for hours at a time.
I grew up in the city - I-80 was just 2 blocks from my house and we would go down and stand on the overpass and "honk" the trucks - wave to get the trucks to honk at us. We were not to far from San Francisco, so on Sundays we would take a ride over the bridge that my Dad built and through Golden Gate park to see the buffalo, deer, rhododerns, and the tulips - with the windmill at the oceans edge. At the end of Golden Gate Park was Playland at the Beach with the very best merry-go-round! I always got a ride on that merry-go-round! Then we would get one box of Yum Yum popcorn - a caramel popcorn to share. There are many hills in San Francisco and if you knew how to drive as you went over them, you could make your stomach feel like it was coming out of you - we called it "go funny".
During school times, we would jump rope - "double dutch" - 2 ropes turning at the same time in opposite directions - loved that! Or play Chinese jump rope - rubber bands hooked together in a long circle, that two people put it around their ankles - you then had to jump and catch the band with your feet and do tricks with it - not falling or touching the rubber band as you finished. We would scrounge the neighborhood for all the rubber bands that we could find!
Then there were the trips around the neighborhood gathering up the glass pop bottles to redeem the deposit - 2 cents on the little ones and a nickel on the big ones - then we would go to the little store and get a Charms Lollipop - they were big - and had a sticker inside that you could win a free lollipop - the red ones were my favorite.
We played hopscotch by the hour too - had a "hoppi-tah" - a round flexible plastic disk with marbled colors - we would look for hours at the variety store for just the right one and if we lost it, boy were we sad!
I had a hula hoop too - couldn't do that now! LOL
Took my old skates that clamped onto you shoes and made my first skateboard with them. My parents went and got me a regular skateboard a little later.
There was a gas station that you got stamps at - not Blue Chip or Green, and you could get things at their store - I got my first tennis racket with my Mom's stamps and would hit a tennis ball against the garage door for hours too.
I was always outside doing something!
Oh yes, my Mom would bake bread and sell it to help support my brother on his mission, he served in Austrailia in 1962, so every morning before school, I would help get the bread kneaded and raising - then when I got home in the afternoon, we would bag it up and deliver it to the people that Mom had the orders from. I still make that bread. For a treat when I got home, she would save me a scrap of dough and fry it up in oil, then I would put butter and jam on it with a glass of milk - we called those scones.
This is a very small part of what you have brought back to my memory - I guess like all of you, we could write a book - we all should - especially for our families to know of all these fun things that we have done in our lives - our family history!
Hugs
Jana
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Tess
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Re: I remember:
This is so much fun, I thought I'd comment again..
catching lighting bugs in a jar and then letting them go
I remember when phones came to this area-I was about 13. Everyone's phone was rotary dial and black
5 cent candy bars. We always got the largest--The Big Time. Remember that candy bar?
10 cent soda, my DH can remember pop for 8 cents
June meeting at the church. Now this was a huge affair. Everyone got a new dress, shoes and a bonnet. Preaching went on ALL day and lunch was brought from home. A big pot luck luncheon.
Can-can slips--50 yards of net, starched stiff. When we sat down the net would stick to our legs and make prints on our skin. Those things made your dress stand out and oh my we thought they were beautiful
going to Grandma's and walking on top of the rail fence.
playing marbles and winning the cat eye marbles
making mud pies behind the house
attending the West Virginia state fair each year. Staying late to watch the fire works.
Later yrs going to Grandma's house to watch Tarzan on Sundays
catching lighting bugs in a jar and then letting them go
I remember when phones came to this area-I was about 13. Everyone's phone was rotary dial and black
5 cent candy bars. We always got the largest--The Big Time. Remember that candy bar?
10 cent soda, my DH can remember pop for 8 cents
June meeting at the church. Now this was a huge affair. Everyone got a new dress, shoes and a bonnet. Preaching went on ALL day and lunch was brought from home. A big pot luck luncheon.
Can-can slips--50 yards of net, starched stiff. When we sat down the net would stick to our legs and make prints on our skin. Those things made your dress stand out and oh my we thought they were beautiful
going to Grandma's and walking on top of the rail fence.
playing marbles and winning the cat eye marbles
making mud pies behind the house
attending the West Virginia state fair each year. Staying late to watch the fire works.
Later yrs going to Grandma's house to watch Tarzan on Sundays
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grammiequilts
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Re: I remember:
this thread could go on and on for ever...I remember getting 25 cent allowance and walking down to the "Top Hat" where you got 2 hamburgers, a ssmall bag of chips, and a coke for 50 cents we had lunch there when ever we could....saved for 2 weeks to get that. walked there alone and never felt unsafe.
Also was able when I was 12 to go downtown Detroit on the bus....have lunch at "Greenfields Cafeteria" and walk through the J.L. Hudson company and wish I was rich so I could buy all the pretty hats and dresses. They has an elevator with an operator you had to tell her what floor you wanted.
Also was able when I was 12 to go downtown Detroit on the bus....have lunch at "Greenfields Cafeteria" and walk through the J.L. Hudson company and wish I was rich so I could buy all the pretty hats and dresses. They has an elevator with an operator you had to tell her what floor you wanted.
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fabricgirl
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Re: I remember:
I remember getting a nickel and walking to the corner store buying an Ice pop and sharing it .
I remember the junkman driving through the neighborhood on Saturdays he use to sharpen knives and buy junk.
I remember playing outside until the streets lights came on .
I remember going to the park in the summer and playing most of the day going to the movies on Saturday and being able to watch the movies most the day.
Lois
I remember the junkman driving through the neighborhood on Saturdays he use to sharpen knives and buy junk.
I remember playing outside until the streets lights came on .
I remember going to the park in the summer and playing most of the day going to the movies on Saturday and being able to watch the movies most the day.
Lois
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KATHYSQUILTS
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Re: I remember:
My first memory was a feeling of loss I was 3 1/2. I was really close to my Grandmother & then she was gone. And I just did not understand why I couldn't go see her. She was always turning my noes like a radio knob. She said I talked too much.
When I was between 8 & 11 in the summers I would go visit my Tata, a great aunt. She had fruit treats the 1st I had ever seen. I live in a city. She made me cucumber sandwiches with mayo not Miracle Whip & best of all was mushroom picking. Tata would cook them we would eat them with butter. As 1 of 6 children & the oldest girl I loved this one on one time.
Trash was burned, rags were saved along with cans & glass. Then taken someplace & sold.
My first radio was a 'transistor radio'. It had a very large battery, maybe 2x2x3.
SNOW...my 3 decker house was on a little hill so the basement in the back was above ground. When it snowed we would pile it up to the porch railing. then slid down on our butts with cardboard. If the snow was just right we could make an Igloo. Best of all was sledding at Green Hill Park. The hill was really big...I checked it out a few years ago as a grown up. It's still big. Now you can't be alone in the park. Would ice skate there too.