Memories

[MrJim]

Just a place to note favorite memories from your life, maybe your childhood, maybe things you did on vacation, maybe stuff you'll never do again...

 

[MrJim]

Whe I was a kid we neighborhood kids would spend a lot of time in "The Woods", a small forest at the end of the street. We had forts and treehouses; there was a small pond where we found a dead chicken once, and then some weeks later spotted a fox-it scared us and we ran straight home from there

My kids live in town with no daily access to any place like "The Woods"~~they're missing out

 

[Rhamiel]

i am spending more and more time thinking about St.Augustine Florida, we went on 2 family vacations to Florida and both times we stoped in St.Augustine, it is a very nice city and I might want to live there one day.
Mr.Jim this is a lovely thread, very peacful

 

[MrJim]

Thank you~

 

[MrJim]

My dad's a chef~I've a lot of memories of his culinary creations. He especially liked having the family around for holidays and doing the whole spread. He can do anything from the fancy stuff to excellent steaks on the grill. I never learned any of it (my little brother did); I don't even own a grill. Sure would like one of those steaks..

He had a unique way of cutting up a chicken I've not come across anywhere. That part of the breast where the soft cartilage is; he cut it so there was an even amount on each side and the piece was shaped kinda like an arrowhead~~that was always the first piece I would grab for~~he had some interesting beer-batter recipes. Wish he didn't live so far away

 

[A New Dawn]

Whe I was a kid we neighborhood kids would spend a lot of time in "The Woods", a small forest at the end of the street. We had forts and treehouses; there was a small pond where we found a dead chicken once, and then some weeks later spotted a fox-it scared us and we ran straight home from there

My kids live in town with no daily access to any place like "The Woods"~~they're missing out

We had a place like that, Mr.Jim. It was a field between our row house and the creek behind us, with a sand pit that we loved to play in, and at the end of our row of houses, the field ended in a wild hill. Dixie Hill it was called. When I was in 4th or 5th grade, they tore down the hill and built an elementary school and the parking lot and basketball/tennis courts were built where the sand pit was. I was sad to see it go.

 

[A New Dawn]

i am spending more and more time thinking about St.Augustine Florida, we went on 2 family vacations to Florida and both times we stoped in St.Augustine, it is a very nice city and I might want to live there one day.
Mr.Jim this is a lovely thread, very peacful

My family had a family reunion in St. Augustine, FL this year. It was very nice.

 

[MrJim]

I remember sitting in the car with my brothers while my parents went into the courthouse to vote for George McGovern (1972). My little brother, who was 4 at the time, said when they came back to the car "Nixon is going to win"...I was almost 8 y/o...

I remember during Watergate having Sesame Street and Saturday morning cartoons interrupted...

I remember my father's comment about Watergate. I expected there to be some kind of "I told you so" regarding Nixon~he said "Son, they're all crooks; Nixon just got caught." Guess I know where I got my cynical attitude toward politicians

 

[ContentInHim]

MrJim - there had to be 30 children in my neighborhood where I grew up - all within say 4 years of each other. We fielded whole baseball and football teams. One family had a huge backyard with no windows nearby - we spent hours and hours playing back there. My mother had an old brass school bell to call us for dinner. One night my brother and I didn't want to leave the "game" so we didn't return in time for dinner. When we did go home, there was dinner waiting for us on the kitchen table, stone cold after a couple of hours and none too appetizing.

It was a different time then! Kids got punched, hit with rocks, tattled on, etc. and no one felt the need to sue over damages. LOL! Also, every parent looked out after ALL the children, not just theirs!

 

[MrJim]

MrJim - there had to be 30 children in my neighborhood where I grew up - all within say 4 years of each other. We fielded whole baseball and football teams. One family had a huge backyard with no windows nearby - we spent hours and hours playing back there. My mother had an old brass school bell to call us for dinner. One night my brother and I didn't want to leave the "game" so we didn't return in time for dinner. When we did go home, there was dinner waiting for us on the kitchen table, stone cold after a couple of hours and none too appetizing.

It was a different time then! Kids got punched, hit with rocks, tattled on, etc. and no one felt the need to sue over damages. LOL! Also, every parent looked out after ALL the children, not just theirs!

That sounds like the good old days~we didn't have thirty, only about 10 or so, but everything else reminds me of summers as a kid

 

[MrJim]

Until about my last year at home we only had 4 channels. The ABC stations didn't come in very well, so we didn't watch much, which at that time primarily was "Happy Days" and "The Six Million Dollar Man". Sometimes the weather would suit and we could watch "Six" but not always...

Favorite shows growing up~Carol Burnett Show, Black Sheep Squadron, Bob Newhart Show, Six~~IIRC Carol Burnett & Newhart were on Saturdays, Black Sheep was on Tuesdays, and Six was on Sundays. Funny the things ya remember..

 

[MrJim]

Lot of kids starting school this week~I always looked forward to that. I didn't go to kindergarten for some reason, started in First grade. I was placed in the lowest reading class since I didn't get screened or whatever in K. Mrs. Alex was our teacher; she was an older lady (like about 115 y/o ), once her wig fell off in class. I'm not sure how alert she was about things, but it was a high school student teacher that spent a couple weeks in our class that noticed I could read pretty good (thank you Sesame Street) and I went from the "Pug" reading group to the highest reading group "Dick and Jane"...there's someone I wish I could thank for taking time to notice, wonder if I'd done as well in school if she wasnt' there?

 

[edie19]

first thing that came to mind when I read the thread title - visiting my grandparents and sitting on the front porch swing with my grandfather

 

[edie19]

Until about my last year at home we only had 4 channels. The ABC stations didn't come in very well, so we didn't watch much, which at that time primarily was "Happy Days" and "The Six Million Dollar Man". Sometimes the weather would suit and we could watch "Six" but not always...

Favorite shows growing up~Carol Burnett Show, Black Sheep Squadron, Bob Newhart Show, Six~~IIRC Carol Burnett & Newhart were on Saturdays, Black Sheep was on Tuesdays, and Six was on Sundays. Funny the things ya remember..

I think we had 3 channels (2 VHF & 1 UHF)

We got our first color t.v. (coincidentally) on my 18th birthday. The t.v. that it replaced had a loose connection in the on/off switch and we kept the t.v. on by leaning a yardstick against the switch. If someone ran through the living room the yardstick would fall over and the t.v. would turn off.

 

[A New Dawn]

I think we had 3 channels (2 VHF & 1 UHF)

We got our first color t.v. (coincidentally) on my 18th birthday. The t.v. that it replaced had a loose connection in the on/off switch and we kept the t.v. on by leaning a yardstick against the switch. If someone ran through the living room the yardstick would fall over and the t.v. would turn off.

I think we had 3 VHF and 1 UHF channels.

I remember watching The Wizard of Oz every year on our black and white TV. I didn't even know there was a color part. LOL. I did not see color TV till I went to college and the dorm lounges had color TV in them.

And I remember banging on the TV to make it work. LOL.

 

[edie19]

I remember watching The Wizard of Oz every year on our black and white TV. I didn't even know there was a color part. LOL.

Me too!!!!!

I remember when color t.v. first became commonplace it would say before the shows something along the line of "now in living color."

I didn't even notice that shows were black and white because that's all I knew.

 

[Philothei]

Thanks for the thread Mr. Jim

My favorite from my childhood is our day trips to different near by beaches in Athens...The beautiful sunsets and playing with my cousins at the beach...

Also flying kites on "clean Monday" (starting of the Lenten season for Pascha) when all the family gathered together Also the last day of Mardi Gras when all of us kids were dressed up with different costumes... Unlike today we dressed "sherif" "texan" and "harlequin" We had so much fun throwing confetti and sherbatins everywhere ...


Also easter time was the most special... Eating lamb after the long fast....

I am getting hungry suddenly....lol......

 

[GreenMunchkin]

Going to a friend's birthday party in the coutryside when I was about 6, and I remember all my friends were at my house so our parents would drive us there in a convoy, and it was summer, and the front and back doors were open and there was this amazing breeze that was flowing through the house. Was so excited and happy. That's a lovely memory

What a fab thread, Jimminy!!

 

[A New Dawn]

I remember we were very poor folk, and could only afford 3rd or 4th hand cars, and they didn't run well at all. We used to pray our car to start on Sunday mornings so we could make it to church.

 

[MrJim]

I remember we were very poor folk, and could only afford 3rd or 4th hand cars, and they didn't run well at all. We used to pray our car to start on Sunday mornings so we could make it to church.

I remember an uncle that always drove the same kind of cars~~one old black station wagon used a nail instead of key in the starter