FROM MY FRIENDS Send me yours; I'll be happy to add them!  "Does anyone remember the tiny (6 inch long), unsliced loaf of Wonder Bread? It sold for 5�! Or later years when it was "the" thing to use white shoe polish on your tennis shoes? But you couldn't cross your feet at the ankles, or you'd have white all over your hose! Or, the name of the martini-drinking St Bernard dog on the Topper TV series? (Neal) And, in the very early days of TV, having your parents say ... "don't walk in front of the TV not dressed!! Uncle Miltie can see you!!" (of course, totally believing it!)" (signed) Jr (Pede's note: I remember being sent to the bread store for two loaves of bread, one large, costing 10 cents, and one small, 5 cents, and being allowed to eat the small one on the way home. It was still warm and smelled so good there's no way we could have gotten it all the way home without a few samples! "Just a few nights ago I saw a program on tv about a college boy who goes home every weekend to play in a country music group, and the people were doing the "flatfoot" or "clogging." (Remember what that is?) It reminded me of times in the early 50's in Rusk, TX. On Saturday night for lack of other entertainment, people from all around would gather in one of the courtrooms and play their music. One particular night, I was there and my Great Uncle got up and danced the "flatfoot" for the crowd. Everybody had fun. Carmon Springer Pede says: Once while visiting relatives "in the country," all the neighboring farmers and their families decided to have a barn dance. What fun! "That thing about seeing a car with one head light out and whoever said "PIDIDDLE" first getting to kiss whoever they were with seems to be something that was said everywhere. I've always wondered where it came from or started. Probably a DJ. Does anyone know? Remember "MANTAN"? We, too, had sockhops at the local tv station. Our "Dick Clark"'s name was Nick Clooney.... the father of guess who? Not to forget his sister, Rosemary. Which makes me recall..... Remember "Hit Parade".."This Old House"?? I have often wondered if our children have, or will have, memories as fond.... I remember going to Walgreens downtown after basketball games, and ordering either onion rings (dripping in grease) or hushpuppies with a coke. Another local favorite was french fries with gravy. I still fix it every once in a while. Do you remember peppermint patties mashed on either side of a peanut plank candy? I don't remember it in Ky., but it was a big thing in Richmod Va. But we did pour a bag 5-cent bag of peanuts in our bottle coke, uuuumm. [email protected] "I remember.....when I went to the movies on Saturday for 9 cents, Friday night sock hops in dungarees, bobby socks and a big 'ol shirt (& ponytail, of course)!! Homecoming with great big mums and getting all dressed up........formals with long strapless gowns with hoops and long white gloves!!! Jitterbug was king of the dance floor. Going to the beach at Galveston and renting a BIG float for $1 for the whole afternoon, and paddling around and riding the waves in....once while paddling out, a big fish jumped up between my legs...........I jumped off! .....Love this page, so please keep it up!!! Lois ([email protected]) "Some of my memories from way back when (in Australia): In our tiny country town (population about 300), I remember thousands of rabbits running everywhere. Much of the food was still rationed, as it was about 1946-1947. So rabbits were our main meat supply. Dad would set traps for them and we were told to think of them as "underground chicken". Chicken back then? Only at Christmas unless you owned some. We didn't. Our electricity was generated locally and was supplied between 8am and 9pm. Outside those hours we used a kerosene lamp and a fuel stove (no electric or gas stove available). Down to the big city in the early 50s: What a change! Electricity was available 24 hours a day. An iceman delivered blocks of ice for our ice chest. A clothes-prop man came around selling... clothes-props - what else? (did they have clothes-prop men in USA?) A bottle man collected old bottles from us (early recycling!) Another man called at our door once a week and collected some money which went towards a hamper of food for us, which he delivered a few days before Christmas. Part of the money also went to Santa Claus to help him buy presents, but I wasn't told about the donations to help Santa. Which reminds me: Who remembers Jimmy Boyd's recording of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"? Or Gayla Peevey's "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (no rhinocer-ussesses"? On Saturday afternoon, the movie matinee was the routine (we called them "the flicks"). Admission 5c. Before intermission (we called it "interval") there were a few serials (will he really go over the cliff?) and a whole heap of Mickey Mouse and Mighty Mouse cartoons. At interval, of course, there was some serious comicbook swapping to do (two Donald Ducks = one Superman in good condition), a 3c ice cream was bought from the boy who sold them from a box he carried down the aisle. Then the lights would dim and John Wayne or Audie Murphy would come on the screen. Any kissing in the movies naturally brought immediate howls of disgust and the launching of many icecream cone leftovers. Usherettes would flash the lights all arounds and threaten instant ejection." (Pede's note: Allen has sent a lot more of his memories, and I'll be adding them a bit at a time, as space permits. They're much too good to just pick and choose among!) Allen M in Australia What a wonderful site you have!! It brings back so many wonderful memories. In so many ways I feel sorry for all the kids of today - where's their fun - and how "clean" is it? I remember Bobby Sox - the thicker the better. Then we would roll them down to see who could get the biggest roll!!! Full skirts with hoops!!!! I had a pair of saddle shoes that had little decorative buckles on the heel. Capezio shoes, and the little bows we would wear in our hair!! Draggin' down main street in my home town was "really living". How 'bout "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor on the Bedpost Over Night?" Silver metal skates and wearing your skate key around your neck so you wouldn't lose it. Thanks again for all the memories!!!!!!! Phyllis - Indiana "Does anyone remember the Frito Bandito? How about his song?! Ai yai , yai yai, I am the Frito Bandito! I like Frito's Corn Chips, I like them I do! If I have no more Fritos, I take them frome you!!! Laurie from East Vandergrift, Pa. What a wonderful site! My memories as a child in San Fernando Valley, Ca., where there was hardly another house to be seen, mostly farm land. Now it's wall to wall condominiums. I went to school barefoot because we couldn't afford shoes - depression - and my mom got free cans of dog food, which WE ATE - Ah! I still taste it -actually whenever I smell canned dogfood, my mouth waters! Listening to Jack Armstrong, the All American Boy, Little Orphan Annie, Captain Midnight - I still have my Captain Midnight Decoder badge! Then just before the War, my dad had a gas station , and I had the job of pumping Texaco gas at 8 cents for regular, 10 cents for Ethyl. Belonging to a YMCA sports-oriented club allthrough JR. and SR. Hi school. I got my first car at 16, a '32 Ford Cabrolet with rumble seat! Walking with my first girlfriend at Hollywood High, holding hands and being teased unmercifully by my friends. I call it a time of innocence. Too bad it's mostly gone for the kids of today - it was a wonderful time, without today's violence . I visited my Hollywood High last year - completely fenced now with armed guards patrolling. Billy White - [email protected] (see my Web site www.TakeAction.org ) From Avery Van Tassel: "I knew some good ones, but "can't remember" them now." OH MY.....what memories !! I loved ..pop beads !! LOL...How about chocolate cokes !! And all the time spent at the ironing board..getting the "points " just right in your cotton bras !! haha Thanks for the trip"..........Grammy555 "I remember if we heard an airplane while we were eating, we'd stop eating, rush outside and watch the plane come into view until it got out of sight.: Moffett Ashby [email protected] From [email protected], we have this contribution: "This site is terrific!!! talk about bringing back some really good memories. I remember girls wearing black shirtwaist dresses, and black flats to record hops. And don't forget the black eye liner and "Hair Net" hair spray everyone carried in those black purses. I also remember tailor made skirts, cardigan sweaters buttoned down the backm and white fur collars with two fur tassles hanging from the collars. I remember going to Geneva on the Lake (Lake Erie) and dancing all night at the Cove!!!!! How about the first McDonald's, where you could get a hamburger, fries and a coke for 50 cents." "This is without a doubt the best site. I am 75 years old and remember all of that and more. I wonder if anyone remembers "beer jackets?" They were like bartender's coats, and we kept them starched stiff and our friends wrote on them. I was raised in Connecticut." [email protected] More memories, from [email protected] "I remember....leather jackets, and "D.A." (duck's a--) hair doos for guys, Brylcreme,....putting vaseline on my patent leather shoes to make them shiny, penny loafers, wearing cardigans backwords.."scatter pins"....neckerchiefs... Bermuda shorts, clam diggers, pony tails, all the good rock and roll music... "Buzz.buzz buzz" was the first record I ever bought..."Rockin' Robin," Danny and the Jr.s, Elvis, bobby socks, and the first sock hop I went to in the school gym...I wore nylons and a garter belt...felt so (uncomfortably) grown up!" "Just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed going down memory lane with you. The 'good old days'. I remember going to the drive-ins where they brought your food or drinks on a tray. And the poodle skirts, grey suede loafers, button earrings, the giraffe skirts and black turtle necks...in pink and black, of course and the wide stretchy belts. I remember A&W Root Beet Stands where you could get the best Black Cow in the world. And did you ever use the blue jean purses that went on your belt. And of course, blue jeans rolled up to your calf, capri pants, bobby socks, ......oh too many memories. LOL And the guys with their white T shirts and their cigarrettes rolled up in the sleeve, their duck tail hair cuts, no belt with their levies and black and white loafers. Yes, you brought back tons of memories. And the music...oh how I love the old music! Thanks bunches." Sue (Italkr2) "Before Rock 'n Roll, we had rhythm and blues until Blackboard Jungle and [email protected] "Do you remember Letter Sweaters with a ring around the arm for each year you had been in high school? How about matching gym uniforms and the number on the shorts had to match the number on the shirt? Congress investigating Rock and Roll for Communist influences? Arguing with your parents about listening to Elvis?" Phil NHS '61 "I remember going to the drive in theatre; carloads of us; and remember we had to use that pic which burned incense of some kind to keep the mosquitos away. I remember guys getting into the trunk of the car to get inside the drive-ins. What fun we had. Our movie theatre always had a $50 drawing for cash and it was always a comedy nite; the adults came in on those nites because you had to be of age to win. Comedians like Joey Brown; Judy Canova. Saturday movies were always Westerns, especially Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, and we had the serials we watched every Saturday, like Zorro. Sunday was our only day for technicolor movies. Remember, girls, we wore those waist cinchers to have tiny waist; full crinoline skirts but boy, we suffered to have tiny waists!" [email protected] "Whoa, what memories all of this brought back! I was a country boy and grew up in North Arkansas. The thing to do back then was go down to the country store, buy a Pepsi and a pack of Planter's Peanuts, and then put the peanuts right in the Pepsi. Sometimes you had trouble getting that last peanut out of the bottle, though, if you drank all your Pepsi before you got all the nuts. Being a sixty-plus gentleman, I can remember all those wonderful memories. Keep up the good work; loved the music." The Razorback "I REALLY love your page. I am a Baby Boomer, and reading most of the articles made me smile; some even made me cry. Thank you so much. I remember The Ed Sullivan show, and the first time he had the Beatles. I sat on the floor in front of the TV screaming, and my dad wondered why. He also wondered why I didn't like Hank Williams, etc., instead of that Rock and Roll :)" [email protected] "I remember wearing my boyfriends ring and putting angora around it so that it would fit my finger. You either did that or wore it around your neck on a chain. Roller skating was fun. You could meet a lot of guys there and when the organ played a slow song it was so much fun slow skating with a guy. Then it was off to the A&W Root Beer Stand. If you were lucky, you could get a root beer in one of those "baby mugs" and take it home with you. Anyone have one of those still? Wisconsin still has A&W Root Beer stands in nearly every community. We were there a couple of years ago and boy, did they bring back good memories. Thanks for having this page. What FUN." Sudi ([email protected]) "Down here in the Land of Oz (Australia), a lot of the brand names, TV shows etc are lost on us but generally things were along the same kind of lines... Chasing the iceman on a hot summer day to snitch a few ice-chips....Coca Cola at 5c a bottle... Ice cream sodas at 8c each...Milk shakes in the proper metal canisters... none of this styrene rubbish! Double features on Saturday afternoons - Randolph Scott and John Wayne.. Not much nostalgia about the milkman down here... he still does his rounds -but they are a dying race. How about Sinatra Red jackets...Crash Craddock sweaters...Kookie jackets (Ed "Kookie" Byrnes) and "Kookie, Kookie, lend me yourcomb"... Bakelite valve (tube??) radios that took about five minutes to warm up....Ahhhh! The memories come flooding back! Now, THOSE were the good old days... think they'll ever come back?? Allen Maunder....Schofields NSW Australia I remember my aunt dressing my cousin and me in our pajamas to take us to the drive in. That way when we fell asleep, we were ready for bed when we got back home. I also remember playing in the back yard, listening to cars at the drag strip across the river, wondering why I never heard sirens afterwards. I now know why; I married a man who was making a lot of that noise. Of course, I just didn't know it at the time. Fred Totten I remember before TV, when we would lie on the floor in the dark and listen to the Green Hornet, or Jack Benny, or Tom Mix, or The Lone Ranger. The pictures in our minds were as vivid as HDTV. I remember before air conditioning, hot summer nights when you couldn't sleep. Lying on one edge of the bed until your spot was soaked with sweat, then making a quarter turn, and when that spot was soaked, another quarter turn, etc. I remember 9 cent movie matinees, and 25 cents at night. Ten cent popcorn and nickle candy bars. I remember penny candy at the boardwalk. Milk came in glass bottles and was delivered to the door. I remember when beer was 10 cents a glass, mixed drinks were a quarter, and the bartender bought every fourth drink; the snacks, hard boiled eggs, etc., were free. Cigarettes were a dime, and the juke box cost 5 cents a song, six for a quarter. We used to park at the beach and watch the "Whale Fights." (Now you do know what "Whale Fights" are, don't you?) (Not from personal knowledge, but it must have been the same as Submarine Races; I had no idea I was so protected!....Pede) [email protected] Do you remember,, when the only lights were kerosene lights with globes, or lanterns....When you pumped all the water you needed with a hand pump or windmill...When you put the fresh cows' milk in sealed containers and lowered them into the well to keep the milk fresh longer...When you heated the water for your weekly bath on a wood stove? Do you remember when you got 8 gallons of gas for one dollar? I DO Ed Ackley [email protected] sends this one: Yes, I sure remember the fifties. I was sweet sixteen in 1958. I can remember also, the drive in restaurants, and my cousin and her husband and some friends would go to the drive in theater, and the guys were in the trunk of the car and the girls inside the car. Then we would park in the back of the drive in and let the guys out. The people from the other cars wouldn't notice. They were too busy making out, and couldn't have cared less who was there. I also remembered drinking the cherry cokes and cherry phosphates. and reading magazines. Those were great times in a young person's life. I had great times at the movies when I was a preteen; I would go to the movies almost every saturday with my brother, and cousins. I really enjoyed my time as a kid and teenager back then in the fifies. Thanks for the memories. ...to keep our crinolines from taking up too much space in the dresser or closet, we rolled them and stuffed them into a nylon stocking......wouldn't panty hose have been great.....two legs at a time............ Signed: M.S.  I remember going to the movies and paying only eleven cents to get in, and a nickel for a bag of popcorn and a nickel for a coke. We hung out a place called Gail's so we could see the guys and dance. Don't forget how we wore our blouses with the collar turned up, that was cool. Pepsi's with peanuts in them and wearing Kiddie Ties around our necks, to the side, and those collars up. We wore combat pants; now the kids are wearing them, and they have the name of Cargo pants. History repeating itself. Remember wearing Ballet shoes with our full skirts? PATTI G. I remember growing up in California and going barefoot all summer, having a doctor make house calls, getting all excited because our neighbors had a color tv, getting milk delivered to the back door, the Helms Bakery truck--ummm! Donuts, nickel candy bars--Look Bars, Big Hunks and Black Cows, watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, having a "partyline" telephone and listening in, having to wear dresses to school--no pants allowed--and having the skirts measured to make sure they weren't too short, boys getting in trouble if their hair touched their collar, first "transistor radio", listening to 4 and 8 tracks of The Rightous Brothers and The Supremes, worrying about friends and family getting drafted and sent to Vietnam. Thanks for the memories!! Barbed1951 Remember the bags of oleomargarine? You got the white "margarine and then had to add the artificial coloring,then close the bag and knead it until the yellow color permeated the entire contents? How about the "Dixie Cup" ice creams the ice-cream man sold. You lifted off the cardboard top and peeled off the film from the lid to see which movie star was pictured on the it? Frank McMichael Hey, don't forget the great times at Jantzen Beach Amusement Part in Portland, Oregan, and "The Fun House," or the "Tunnel of Love," and the fantastic roller coaster! But I haven't quit! I'm taking swing lessons so that I and my '57 T-Bird can still party. Any girls in the Portland area wanna join me? [email protected]  How many of you ever did the family laundry on one of these old, wringer-style washing machines? Ever get your hand or fingers caught in the wringer? And then, of course, you had the "fun" of hanging all those wet, drippy clothes out on the clothesline! But they sure smelled good when they were dried in the sun. I remember nectar sodas at the soda fountain in the local drug store....and those soft drink boxes with the drinks all lined up, side by side, so that, when you put your nickel in, you lifted the drink out of the box...and Ferry tokens to get you on the ferry that crossed the Mississippi River to New Orleans...the little ring on the Merry-Go-Round...Chiclets gum from the gum machine....Easter bonnets..."Pik" ( the stuff you used to keep the hoards of mosquitos off you at the drive in movies)...it used to smoke you out of the car, too...Beatle hair cuts...and the coloring you added to margarine to make it look like butter (although I don't remember that...my ancient old fossil husband [that I adore] does.} [email protected] How about Hootenannies, grunion hunting, and for ladies...Plastic high heels and pink feather boas! Steve and Jill Freize I can remember when firetrucks were the only vehicles allowed to be red. Ruth Ann  Remember when firetrucks were the only vehicles allowed to be red. Ruth Ann I remember riding in the "co-pilot" seat of the city bus. The cardboard top popping on the glass milk bottles in the winter with the cream lifting the top off. The cap guns looking like the real thing, and working. The paper "pop-guns" and the Daisy air rifles were the thing to own. The Brooklyn ferry (before the big V) across the N.Y. lower bay on a foggy day. The Staten Island rapid transit trains. The huge solid chocolate rabbits at Easter. Going to the Butcher for custom cut meats and to the Poultry man to get a select a live chicken for dinner. The motor bike and demolition derby at Weissglass Stadium. Collecting newspapers to sell to the "junkie" (had a different meaning then) to get cash for a ticket to the N.Y. Giants & Brooklyn Dodger double-header games at the Polo Grounds. The running boards on the old car and the rear doors that opened the wrong way. The A, B and C gasoline ration decals on the car. Best of all, my dad coming home after WW II. Thanks for stirring up the memories, the kids today should have it so good! I feel lucky and privileged to have lived those days. Alfred DeRosier 8-D Suisun City, CA I remember Dec. 7, 1941. The radio was repeating, "This is the real McCoy. The Japs are attacking Pearl Harbor." My father pulling the mattresses off the bed and ordering us to get under them. Didn't hear him cause we were out the door and up on the neighbors balcony to see the flack in the sky. (Remember blackouts, and listening to Toyko Rose, and throwing away all our toys made in Japan. Joy from Hawaii now WA state I have a Japanese-American friend who was living in Hawaii when all that happened. He has such vivid memoriesof those days!...Pede) Wild men pull their whiskers out; That's what makes them wild, no doubt. Burma Shave! This is one my mom always remembered~ Linda M.  Hello! Love the page, even if I was just about too late for it, but remember gas for 25 cents a gallon, and the drive ending at a drive-inn, and the girls came out on skates, and when a dollar was enough for more than one person. Everyone in the car at the BBF got hamburgers, shakes, and a large order of fries! LOL The Size of a KFC large bucket of chicken for less then a dollar, and then the rest of the meal was about a dollar, and that was for four people...WooooooHoooooo! Where did those days go after that? The Jungle Drive In Movie always had around three in the trunk, the back seat was packed, and so many in the front that ever who was driving practically sat on the door handle...LOL. And back then, it was a stick-shift, so whoever was in the middle had to do the shifting. We had a saying when we went to the movies, "Squeeze over, Squeeze Box; shift ,Uncle." Those where the days; I was about 6 then, and remember them well. It doesn't seem to be that long ago, and your pages brought them back to me. Thank you !!!!!! Ralph (Lone Wolf) Barnhouse Jr [email protected] I remember The Platters and all the slow dances, and the prom, and band practice all summer, and your First Kiss, and having no money and still having fun. ...The tears you shed on graduation day when you sang the alma mater. I remember being a car hop, and the really nice cars....getting a Sweet 16 Card from my dad that said "I owe you one learner's permit to learn to drive!"...something I think I wanted all my life ...and I still drive in the summer with all the windows down, playing oldies (CD's) or the radio, as loud as it will go! Pat, from EF, Class of '60 (Hey, Guys, we need a 49th reunion!) MORE MEMORIES! How many remember doing things like this? Our gang would be coming home from a party somewhere, with the car radio playing pop tunes, then around midnight when the station was going off the air they would play the "Star Spangled Banner" and we'd all get out of the car, and stand and salute and sing along with the music. Thank Heavens, the street were empty because the car stopped just anywhere and stayed there until the music ended ;-) JO from SO. CA. When I lived on a military base in Germany, over 35 years ago, (gosh, has it been that long already!?) they always played the Star-Spangled Banner before every movie, and we all stood at attention until it was over. One woman refused to do so, and they boo-ed her right out of the theater! Patriotism was something to be proud of in those days! Pede How about the 5 cent and 10 cent ice cream cones that were big, and tasted better than they do today....How about the bubbleum that was 1 penny. nd, how about the candy store where you could buy a bag of penny candy and have a lot for 5 or 10 cents. How about the 2 and 3 cent stamp? How about the old party lines? One long ring and two short rings called your neighbor, and if you picked up the phone very carefully, you could listen to the conversation on the other end. Of course everyone knew you were listening. Sandra from PA Oh, the memories this brings back!! How about American Bandstand after school, the Sweet Shop, and "Submarine Races" after dark. Wish I knew someone who remembered how to Jitterbug! Judy (ex Jersey girl) [email protected] My memories have come flooding back. I remember playing stickball in the Boston streets, playing kick the can and tag. Hide and seek in the tunnels under the ground while the subway was being built. I remember sticking my hand up to the elbow into a pickle keg. I remember the crab peddler, selling crabs "2 for a nickle, 3 for a dime" on hot summer evenings, building fires in the gutter to keep mosquitos away. I remember . . .so much! Alicia I remember air raids when I was little ,& my father was an Air Raid Warden, with the hat & all; I was so proud of him. When the siren when off, my mom would get us all under the table in the kitchen where she had put a mattress, & of course no light was to show from your windows so we had black shades, & you still did not use a flashlight. When I was 8 we lived in California, & things were a lot different from when we lived in Cincinnati.....quite a change for us, but Dad was transferred, as he worked for the Gov't., & was needed in San Francisco. We lived in a project, & I remember V.J Day, all us kids carried a big American Flag & march all around the project. In Hi School, all the cool guys wore jeans or peggers, and rolled their cigarettes up in the sleeve of their undershirt. Pedal pushers were what us girls wore, & of course, not to school,; there we wore straight skirts & white buck saddles. What a great time that was in 1953. Diane I remember leaving the back door open on warm nights, and not latching the screen door; there was never any fear of harm. Imagine that! I remember grape sodas for a nickel (Were those called"Grapettes"?) and oh, the sock hops in the gym after football games. The romantic times of my life////how I miss them and their innocence. Our children oftoday do not have the simple pleasures we were so fortunate to experience. Their world is of sexual tones, drugs, violence all around them, and parents who find it easier to go separate ways. How sad...why did it have to change? I find it a comfort to have my memories of yesterday. Maybe that's why God left a spot for just such thoughts. Smiling, Nancy from Marbury, AL I'm from southeast Texas. We would drive up and down the "drag" (the main street of town) and stop at the local carhop drive in for sodas. Everyone piled into the trunk of a car to "sneak" into the drive Inn show. What wonderful memories your site has stirred up for me today.. Keep it up Helene Freda says: I grew up in the little village called "Violetville," and there used to be tons and tons of violets growing in most of the fields surrounding our little area. There were only about seven streets in the neighborhood and a farm behind our home...two large bodies of water called The Blue Dam and The Yellow Dam. Unfortunately, they were filled in, (I believe in the 70's,) and a business park now fills the area . We spent our winters ice skating on the dams (my father fell in the icy water one afternoon when he went up to call my little brother. He caught pneumonia, but fully recovered, all but his dignity!) I'll have to tell you about the 'barn' burning....it was absolutely the funniest thing, as my older brother slept thru the fire sirens (parked right near our house) and the old donkey (housed inside the lower part of the barn) survived it all. There are so many funny stories about my childhood....I tried to write a book about my life growing up in Violetville (the book is actually called "Violetville, Where The Heck Is Violetville?)..........I needed $5K to get it published, so that's the end of that story! I grew up in a family of 7 kids........so, you must know what fun we had gettting into trouble (small things, compared to today's kids) and just plain fun times! Freda Freda, your village sounds beautiful, and I wish I could have seen it back then. Once, our neighbors house across the street burned down completely, but our older daughter slept through all that uproar, too. Our whole house was lit up and in danger of catching fire, too, but she didn't know anything was happening! I never could understand why she didn't hear all the commotion. Message from Pede: These memories are so enjoyable to read, and I hope you'll continue sending yours! Tell your friends about us! Don't forget about sending information on how you and your spouse met, and/or the proposal.  All New! Page 3 Back to Pede's Porch Please Sign
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