I'm Old Enough to Remember....

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Comment by nancy Sanchez on July 13, 2011 at 4:37pm

oh the back of comic books were so cool...I keep thinking I still have my secret decoder ring somewhere...

the air raid things were scary...when the Korean war started I went outside and sat staring up at the sky for the bombers to come get us.......

Comment by Sherry Somach on July 13, 2011 at 4:34pm

I just posted my song "Remember" on my page here at Wiffledust. A little fidelity lost in transition , but you will get the idea. I wrote it right after 911...as a response to 911.

It talks about a lot of the things we have been mentioning here. It is all about this thread, in fact.

I don't think you have to be a friend to listen....but if so, I can always use mmore friends!!

Comment by Tom McMurray on July 13, 2011 at 4:18pm

Maggie, I remember those poor little lizards. They were sold as chameleons but were actually geckos. Let's see, what else could we order from the back of the comic book? Sea monkeys were big disappointment, no prehensile tails and we couldn't even take them out to play with.

Comment by Tom McMurray on July 13, 2011 at 4:10pm

Ok, I've succeeded in confusing myself on this thread. Come to think of it, I succeeded in confusing myself by getting out of bed this morning. :)        I can't seem to find some of the comments referred back to..... My apologies if I don't give proper credit to what some have said. Bob, the air raid drills were often welcomed because we were able to escape the 3 R's for awhile.  The fallout shelters were always a mystery to me. I wanted to see what was in all those great barrels stacked to the ceilings in school basements and similar places. Wiffledust, before the oral dose was developed, we lined up for shots. Along with the polio vaccination shot was the smallpox vaccination that left a cool scar. As to the little wooden desks, most of us kids knew they were useless in case of attack but we were told to get under 'em. Oh, there's Maggie...... The Cuban Missle Crisis seemed to have bring the world to a stop, did it not? Better dead than red!

Comment by Sherry Somach on July 13, 2011 at 3:37pm

Lisa..speaking of going down town, I remember shopping in department stores with my mother, and she would go to the ladies' lounge to smoke cigarettes! We took a street car, which were prevalent in Pittsburgh, where I grew up

Comment by wiffledust on July 13, 2011 at 3:32pm

i grew up outside a big city. not far outside. only a few miles outside! but i am old enough to remember that we got dressed up to go downtown! nobody wore their regular everyday stuff to go into the city! ;-) this seems so funny to think about much less write

Comment by wiffledust on July 13, 2011 at 3:31pm

bob, that is soooo americana and beautiful! maggie, tell me more about what it was like to live through the cuban missile crises? how scared were you? how aware was everyone of how bad it could be? bob m, don't the kids still get the polio stuff? i remember some  liquid being put on my tongue..i thought that was polio. no ??? sherry, publish it!

Comment by Robert P. Meyer Jr. on July 13, 2011 at 3:26pm

I remember Junebugs tied to a length of string and buzzing in a circle above our heads.  I also remember racing salamanders through the drainpipe at my Grandma's house.  We used to put pennies and dimes on the railroad tracks so the train would flatten them.  My uncle usd to tell us that we would cause the train to derail although it never did.

 

Comment by Robert Muscovitz on July 13, 2011 at 2:57pm

Goodness Tom, I even remember the air raid drills.. How about standing in line for your polio shots and others? Ouch! I swear we got shots three times a year back then... and yes, we did dumb things like stick our tongue on a clothes pole a couple of times.. The neighbor lady saved my tongue twice and her daughters three times. LOL! And then measles, and chicken pox back to back with the four of us kids all being sick at the same time.. just to be followed by mumps,, all in a matter of a few months...Poor mom! They were fun days!!  

 

Comment by Sherry Somach on July 13, 2011 at 2:33pm

great stories here!

After 911 I wrote a song called Remember, that covers so much of what is being said here. Maybe I should post it on my music page!

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