A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....09-19-06....Do You Remember?

DollyCali and all of the Finest AT the Finest | September 19, 2006 | DollyCali

[DollyCali]

I remember when the vans came out.. all the "dads" would not permit their daughters to date anyone with a van..

chuckle

[Mama_Bear]

I still have a black petticoat with crinoline lined flounce , embroidered in red, to wear under a big skirted "cocktail" or evening dress in the early 50s! It's the only thing I saved.

How cool that you've saved it all these years! I had a white crinoline........gosh, that's a word I haven't heard or thought of in many years.

[DollyCali]

I think I had a couple white ones & maybe one black one for the "party dresses" as I guess we used to call them.. or also "formals"

[Mama_Bear]

LOL. Weren't we both going to bed, after you found some food? Why are we still here? Could be because this is a really fun thread. :-)

[DollyCali]

still have the rambler? well, I do have two beaters now.. but they are 95 & 96 vintage. I have a bicycle that is worth more than both my vans combined!!!!

. The rambler was prolly 60ish. If I had it, it would no doubt be valuable.

[DollyCali]

you know, I am feeling pretty alert. I KNOW I need to sleep & we are having rain & the rain/negative ions is a real sleep inducer for me..

Lori.. I had 5 thread ideas & just started this about 11 PM.. The one I thought I would do just wasn't falling together so I found something easier & just lifted the HTML guts from another thread I had done(butterflies)

you know the scramble & post technique? we ADDH's are good at that

[DollyCali]

well the bad thing about FReeping at 3 in the morning here is that I have set my spy checker & my virus checker for this time. Had to stop both!

If my brother should drop in, he has a memory of the crinoline slips.. When I was 13 & he was about 5 our family took a trip out west from Ohio.. Utah, Calif etc... In the back seat on HIS SIDE Had all of my clothes & guess I yelled at him to stay away & there were these BIG skirts & slips..This was a LONG car trip & of course at that time NO air conditioning. Poor kid

Boy was I a brat.

[MEG33]

No, I went with my mother to our church where church friends met for prayer once it was announced. I was never afraid for myself. My parents took me to War Bond rallies and I saw patriotic films, etc. I lived in a small town away from the coast so I did not have black out curtains,etc.

I remember the joy when the war was over and the boys coming home..I listened to Edward R Murrow"This is London", HV Kaltenborn reports and one other I can't recall as my dad listened to the radio nightly . He was 1F and 51 when war was declared but war news was a part of my growing up..so was a huge Victory garden my dad planted and we worked in..A cousin was a submariner, neighbors left for war and German POWs were about 10 miles away in a camp..and yet I felt safe and not deprived ..except for shoes and Hershey bars.LOL I knew "Loose lips Sink Ships"..I remember scrap metal drives, paper drives,etc.I remember V For Victory

[DollyCali]

Syncro!!! I looked in the basement & found the Rambler!!!

[DollyCali]

have you written your memories? I know we all share a lot of things here on the various threads but very few of us really have a blog or some way to catalog etc...

How I wish my grandparents had left something.. anything...

[MEG33]

Formals were what we called evening dresses,too. I saved this petticoat because I thought a daughter or grandaughter might play in it ..It was my prettiest one.
My daughter wasn't big on "dressup"..She loved Barbie..and I have four grandsons..

[DollyCali]

Here is another car .. as you see, I drive them to the ground, as the old saying goes

[DollyCali]

Isn't that how it goes? I am a jewelry designer (beader) and do you think my granddaughter has any interest?

of course not.. SO much material left behind without a "home" for when I go to the memories in the sky

[DollyCali]

how ironic this email came from GretchenM (maybe she saw the thread & sent it?)

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Grandpa was always going on about the good old days, and the lower cost of living, in particular. "When I was a kid, my mom could send me to the store, and I'd get a salami, two pints of milk, 6 oranges, 2 loaves of bread, and a magazine, some new blue jeans, all for a dollar! Then Grandpa said sadly, "You can't do that anymore because they got those darn video cameras everywhere."

[MEG33]

My son videotaped my mother one Sunday afternoon while my daughter in law talked with her..Mother loved to tell stories so that was an easy interview

No, I haven't written it down and probably won't.. I still remember when the pomegranate bush bloomed on my walk to school but I don't have the talent or patience to really do memoirs. I have a lot of "pictures in my mind".

[GretchenM]

I hadn't seen it -- but was in need of a smile and checked my accumulated Emails from The Chef @ worldwiderecipes.com and found a few gems.

[MEG33]

Dad was 4 F.. i think that is what they called those who could not pass a physical..He had once broken his back in a bad car accident.

[MEG33]

LOL!

[GretchenM]

~ And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today?

Yes, and not needing a key to your own house, being able to leave your house unlocked, and go play for hours with the neighbor kids, till you were drop-dead tired and dusk had turned to (you couldn't ignore the signs any more) ACK! night ... and everyone finally admitted the truth about how dark it was (too dark to see the ball, too dark to see the can to kick), and everybody peeled themselves away from Game Central (and there was no television involved in that sentence) to walk slowly home.

Everyone knew ... be there tomorrow, same time. Bring a ball, maybe a mitt, and if you were especially fortunate, the boys would decide to play touch football tomorrow, so you could play, too. Or, on a really special day blessed by heaven itself, your brothers would let you be the passenger on their go-carts down the biggest hill in the neighborhood (with a suicide drop off into the lake).

[DollyCali]

I still like to put the music from that era on..

wow, you went to a rock (of sorts) concert.. where were you living then? you didn't drive to DC from California did you?