Do You Remember When?

[Larry_Fout]

I remember streets of the brightest red brick. How beautiful they looked to me.

Those awful push mowers with the rotating blades. It wasn't too difficult to find people willing to let you mow their grass.

 

[Under_His_Shadow]

I remember streets of the brightest red brick. How beautiful they looked to me.

Those awful push mowers with the rotating blades. It wasn't too difficult to find people willing to let you mow their grass.

Yeah, I remember mowing lawns with those too Larry! I also remember shovelling snow off people's sidewalks with what was actually a coal/scoop shovel for 25¢ a pop, or sometimes I'd get 50¢ if the walk was really big!

 

[Under_His_Shadow]

I remember playing "King on the Mountain" with the neighborhood boys on snowdrifts in the winter, and sucking on icicles for a little drink of water, and how I felt kind of "mystical" and awed, watching Oral Robert's tent meetings on Sunday afternoons on our b&w TV.

 

[Larry_Fout]

I remember playing King of The Hill and getting demoted often to scribe

We also used to watch Oral Roberts. Around that time there were many revival tents going up here and there. I can remember visiting them and recall the aroma of the tents as a mildew mixed with musty sawdust.

Any body ever go to the Circus? Now there was something special for me as a child !

 

[Under_His_Shadow]

I remember playing King of The Hill and getting demoted often to scribe

We also used to watch Oral Roberts. Around that time there were many revival tents going up here and there. I can remember visiting them and recall the aroma of the tents as a mildew mixed with musty sawdust.

Any body ever go to the Circus? Now there was something special for me as a child !

Yes, we had small circuses come to our little town once or twice a year, and 1-2 carnivals every year too! The carnival took up our entire "main" street, which was a whopping 2 blocks long!

 

[Larry_Fout]

The circus, in our small town, was a major event. Seemed like a parade of cars, vans and trucks. They always set up in the same place every year. Hired local people to help setup the tents etc.. I can remember wishing I was big enough to help set up the big tents.

 

[AngelDove1]

Wow! what flash backs you guys are sending me to......

I member this lady called Helen,she use to go round up neighborhood kids and have bible study at our home.I never will forget her.thats whan I 1st found out who Jesus was.I must have been but 8 yrs old.

then when my girls were bout 3 & 7 yrs old...I did the same thing in our home.

 

[Larry_Fout]

I member this lady called Helen,she use to go round up neighborhood kids and have bible study at our home.I never will forget her.thats whan I 1st found out who Jesus was.I must have been but 8 yrs old.

then when my girls were bout 3 & 7 yrs old...I did the same thing in our home.

That's really amazing !!!

 

[MyLilyintheValley]

I got a New Testament Bible from school for learning scriptures.

 

[AngelDove1]

I got a New Testament Bible from school for learning scriptures.

Wow! cool.
How exciting for you ....

 

[mightywarrior77]

What do you remember when?

I remember when we rented our first apartment for $55. a month. And it had two bedrooms too.

and...

Riding my bicycle to Saturday movie matinees at the local theatre: Roy Rogers, Johnny Mack Brown, Red Ryder, and many more.

There was a place next to the theatre on Main Street where we got flavored fountain drinks ...my favorite was cherry coke..(now they are back but in cans).

Mom using a ringer wash machine and drying all cloths on a cloths line out side.

Dad driving a Hudson. (long extinct now)

Mom bought me a used bicycle (my first) for $5.00 and painted it herself with house paint. I loved it!

We didn't have television but everyone listened to the radio...especially the soap operas like, Stella Dallas and John's Other Wife (no kidding) as well as Lux Radio Theatre and Auto-lite's program..Suspence.

When everything happened at train stations and we went to meet the soldiers coming home from W.W.II.

Collecting tin cans, rationing sugar, and no nylons available during W.W.II.

Working in an office without a computer but only a file cabinet where everything was kept in file folders.

I could go on and on...but it's your turn...and you don't have to go back so far as I did...just what YOU remember when.

Hello, I really enjoyed your story. I remember going to the movies seeing Rex Allen. I thought he was my Daddy! Me and my sister was there and when I saw him I yelled out, "There's my Daddy." Good memories though. God bless you!

 

[Larry_Fout]

Welcome MightWarrior. Lots of good memories being shared here. I think one of the first movies that had a big impact on me was an Audie Murphy WWII movie where he really played himself. He was a great man with a true a love for his State (Texas (yahoo y'all)) and of course for his country.

One of his remarks:

“The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.”

 

[MyLilyintheValley]

I remember playing King of The Hill and getting demoted often to scribe

We also used to watch Oral Roberts. Around that time there were many revival tents going up here and there. I can remember visiting them and recall the aroma of the tents as a mildew mixed with musty sawdust.

Any body ever go to the Circus? Now there was something special for me as a child !

I remember those tent meetings too. My sister's eyes were crossed and she went through the prayer line and Oral Roberts prayed for her and her eyes uncrossed and they haven't crossed since. Praise God

 

[Larry_Fout]

Another food delicacy that, I'm sure is still made but probably not as popular were, candied apples. You could get them in several different varieties. My favorites were the hard red cinnamon flavored and the caramel.

 

[angelwind]

this may sound gross but I remember outhouses
Someone else might have posted it, I didn't go back through all the posts.

You guys are sharing such good memories...My Aunt Dehlia had one, an out house...out of town on her grape vineyard ranch...and she had a large wooden windmill to pump up water.

She also had a big metal tank along side her barn...(no horses)...but in this tank were gold fish...lots of green moss...wow, I had not thought of that in years.

 

[angelwind]

Ok...here is another one for now...I remember in my home town...a rural, farming, ranching town in my childhood...well in the old Mongontmery Wards store...they had these high wires fixed high above the shoppers...they used to shoot some kind of metal thing across them...some kind of messages I gues...it always fascinated me as a kid. LOL

My dad called the store "Monkey Wards".

 

[Hackett]

I do remember Monkey Wards. That store seemed sooo big. I also remember the popcorn stand just inside the door.

 

[Hackett]

Another food delicacy that, I'm sure is still made but probably not as popular were, candied apples. You could get them in several different varieties. My favorites were the hard red cinnamon flavored and the caramel.

Yes indeed. I lost a couple of baby teeth on caramel apples. What fun memories that brings.

 

[Larry_Fout]

Monkey Wards, as I think I've said before, was the first ultra modern store in our town. Several floors with 'escalators". I don't remember the wire above the shoppers. I do remember some stores using the air tubes to transport metal or plastic capsules from dept to dept. I thought those were obsolete until recently the banks in our town are using them at the drive thru.

They used to have fishing contests in the store. They set up a huge tank like a big swimming pool stocked with fish and if you could catch a marked fish you got some sort of prize.

 

[angelwind]

I do remember Monkey Wards. That store seemed sooo big. I also remember the popcorn stand just inside the door.

wow...I can smell that popcorn...LOL