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Post by hokiewoodchuck on Mar 15, 2012 17:05:29 GMT -5
Dang.....y'all are some oooold folks.....(snicker, snicker, snicker)
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Post by gunsey2u on Mar 15, 2012 21:10:10 GMT -5
Age is a state of mind.
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Post by gunsey2u on Jun 10, 2012 20:23:03 GMT -5
Ok folks, so let's ressurect some old memories further and keep this topic going, it's fun to see or hear what people remember from days gone by.
How about sitting outside and looking up at the stars? Maybe at the outdoor movie theater when it would be too hot for everyone to pile up in the car? You could take a blanket and sit next to your parent's car in the space next to theirs if it was empty and you could use the speaker for that space. That worked out well because us kids always had to talk and giggle about something.
We lived on a millhill until I was 8 yrs old. We had sidewalks on a double street with a boulevard in the center that was filled with crepe myrtle trees. The flowers on these trees were our "wedding" flowers and we put on a wedding production at least once a week and used different people in them to be fair. Only thing was, we could only get one guy in the whole neighborhood to act out the groom part (poor boy). The sidewalks were an endless source of entertainment. We could use them to rollerskate on, ride our bikes on, ride our trikes and wagons on them too. We played hopscotch in the yards and softball behind the houses in a field behind our street. We also had a bus line right by our street and could go to the movies up town or go to the skating rink or bowling alley from our location. The Fairground was in walking distance from our house as was the annual Christmas Parade and nearly all the mothers on our street would walk together with us kids to each of these events. Our churches were within walking distance as was our school. I entered 1st grade the year that the health dept. started coming to the schools to vaccinate students. That was truly a good thing. Wintertime or early spring caught everyone wishing that these measures for public health were in place long before they actually began. Seems that every neighborhood had its own hotdog counter or hamburger stand. We had three of them in our neighborhood. These items tasted so good back then. The owners of such places were there long after we matured and had children of our own. There is one family resturant still going that is famous for family ties-Holmes Lunch in Arcadia SC. My parents and the owners were about the same age when these stores opened. Some of the children of the owners have kept the lunch running but there were three generstions of folks during my time of going there. I have great-grands that I have taken there so that makes four generations of just my family that have dined there. The amazing thing about the elder Holmes men was that they seemed to know everyone by their first names or at least knew who your folks were. Does anyone remember Bobby Crump and the Varsity Drive In? All of our area schools had their school banners displayed in his eatery. Before the Varsity, (same building) was Doug brooms and the tower on top was used to play favorite radio stations. Do any of you remember all the curb hops at any of these drive-ins? We had one that worked pretty much all of the drive-ins and his name was "Lulu". As you might suspect, Lulu was a little odd but really lots of fun. People used to ask for this curb hop because he really knew how to get the orders right and gave the best service amid all the joking around and kidding that went on. I was told that he was the highest paid carhop in our city at his leaving (no one ever knew what happened to him or where he went). There was an eatery named Lamottes, one of our oldest. My brother had his first job there while still in high school.
I'll quit and give someone else an opportunity while I revisit my memory for some fun stuff. ;D
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Post by gunsey2u on Jun 13, 2012 15:41:50 GMT -5
Where's Pink? I love her stories. Anyone else have a great memory of their growing up?
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Post by pinkpanther on Jun 17, 2012 15:08:47 GMT -5
Here I am......but brain is empty today! HEeeee Excepttttttttt, I just read where Hokie called us Old Folks.....back in March.....Now how did I miss that so long ago....and how dare him to call us that! Which one of those Remember When things gave us away the most, Hokie?
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Post by gunsey2u on Jun 17, 2012 21:52:17 GMT -5
Pink, Hokie-mo ain't that far behind us in age and who cares how old we are anyway? We're just on here to stay in touch with who-ever, no agenda other than being social-right? There's some mighty nice folks on this forum and age isn't a consideration for those of us that just love to talk and have fun.
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Post by gunsey2u on Oct 25, 2012 17:11:24 GMT -5
I found this thread to be a thoroughly enjoyable one. Started to make it a part 2 one but decided against it, as the replies posted will give others ideas about what they remembered.
Anyway, here goes a little more of what some of you may remember.
I don't know why our schools are having so much trouble keeping up but does any of you remember school as being more motivational than it is now? I sure do! Remember having to pick a topic off of the board that your teacher had supplied and making an essay out of it? Most of the time i didn't think any of them were interesting but that was the point I guess. You had to research most of her topics to "learn" something new so that you could be able to write about it.
Does anyone remember a time when President elects didn't have to go thru the degree of opposition that they do now? Do I remember that the election of a new president was a highly respected event and that people on both sides of the fence were actually decent towards one another? I do remember that the opposition usually involved members of crime syndicates that didn't want things stopped like the sale of alcohol or the practice of prostitution stopped but i don't recall exactly what trouble was reigned on our political members. because of their views on such issues as these. As a kid you didn't get in on too many discussions about elections or politics. i guess that I'll always remember the talks about "who was crooked and who seemed ok". Remember when the train bearing the body of Pres. Roosevelt rode thru Spartanburg? Remember people gathered along the tracks for miles so that they could get a glimpse of his casket, as it was in view thru the window of his coach? I was an infant then but I remember my parents talking about it. My Dad was a Democrat then but thru the years he changed his party choice to that of Republican and it was right before Ike was announced as a candidate. He liked Ike and so did I.
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Post by Jack Frost on Oct 26, 2012 16:58:20 GMT -5
I graduated from a private school, and my child is home-schooled. And yet, the vast majority of my property taxes every year go to pay for this crappy public school system that I want nothing to do with. Whoops, this ain't the political board... Anyway, I didn't enjoy school very much back when I was in it, but I look back rather fondly of it now. I had great teachers who cared (otherwise there's no way they would be working for the low pay that my school gave them!)
When I was born, Reagan was President, lol. The first election I remember at all was the first Bush. I remember the '92 election well, and it was rough. My dad took me to meet Ross Perot at an event. Definitely not as rough as elections today, with satellite news networks and the internet. George Washington himself could not get elected today!
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Post by gunsey2u on Nov 14, 2012 12:59:23 GMT -5
Ok...I just thought of some of the problems that today's children have and compared them to days of my youth. Granted, we had different problems then that aren't problems at all today because of progress in alot of fields, especially medicine.
It is generally acknowleged that we have an obesity problem across America, young and old. Alot of things are different in daily living that contribute to this like diets, exercise, work. As a kid I grew up to eating all of my meals at home. These meals were adequate but not elaborate. Today these meals would be elaborate based on what I know that some kids have to eat at home and at school. a typical breakfast for me went something like but not the same everyday. Hot cereal (oatmeal, grits, cream of wheat) homemade bread, preserves or jam/jelly. you got bacon or sausage on the weekend with grits and eggs and half of a grapefruit and of course homemade bread with jam/jelly/preserves. We got milk from our cow and Dad and Mom drank coffee. Sometimes we would get juice. Lunch was usually a sandwich and tea or milk with a piece of fruit-usually an apple or oranje. We always had graham crackers or cheeze-its to munch on. Supper was on the stove when we got home from school but we waited on Daddy to put it on the table as Mom would be working 2nd shift. There would be some kind of stew, chicken or stew beef and potatoes/cornbread or chicken and dumplings/biscuits and hot apple fruit. We had things like fresh turnip greens and pintos and cornbread, fried cabbage with beef sausage, field peas and cornbread, pickled beets and onions and cucumbers. Mom canned alot of the vegetables we ate. Fresh meat was not always on our table but our Grandpa raised hogs up in Chesnee and we got all the sausage and pork we could use from him every winter. Mom had a cow and chickens. we had chickens on sunday so much when I grew up that it's always the last choice when I have it now. Dad used to fish alot and would bring home bass, crappies and catfish. He also hunted and used to bring home rabbits. Mom quit cooking rabbits long before I got out of grammar school. She said there were too many "wolves"?? in the meat. Not sure if I got that right but she said it was hard to clean them well enough to get the wild taste out of them. Funny thing about the diets we had back then. There wasn't the problem of obesity like there now is. High blood pressure is showing up more often now in kids than it was then. i do realize that a life long consumer of hog meat will render a person with BP problems but that mostly shows up in a person's middle age years. I have children with BP problems that were diagnosed after they were in their thirties. Grands after they took their first sports physicals. I know what their diets consist of too. Fast food is the culprit in almost every one of them. Family history on the other side is the other.
Children do not get the right kind of exercise unless they motivate themselves to get it or are involved in sports that require a certain input anyway. As kids, you almost had to be getting some kind of punishment that required you to stay in the house after daylight as we would be out until dark unless we were made to come in for meals. Rainy days were terrible but we found things to do to occupy our time. We didn't demand a different place to wait on the rain to cease either like the movies or skating. We didn't have to be entertained all the time. We had Sunday school lessons that we could work on. I can remember when my sister taught me how to tell time and tie my shoes, roll my hair, play crazy eights card game or old maids, checkers and monopoly. No TV until after I started first grade and I was the youngest of four.
We all finished high school and all of us had very good paying jobs for the times. Some of us got extra schooling but we paid for it ourselves. I was the only one that did this. Two sisters retired from the telephone company and my brother worked for Mclean Trucking until his death at 41.
All of us own our own homes. Two sisters have owned two homes each, brother owned three homes and I have owned three homes. I can't see today's college grad getting to leave his parent's home and go to work at a decent job until this economy turns around. Based on the availability of jobs at present, that will be some time. It's not like they have forever to start homes and families either.
Changing with the times has not always been easy and will forever be a challenge. For me, there has been an easier time, much more interesting even if it was a challenge.
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Post by apache on Feb 8, 2013 15:31:24 GMT -5
Gas stations that pumped your gas!! And checked your oil and whoo hoo washed your windows!! returning your coke bottles for a deposit!! we were recyling before it was cool!
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