I'm Old Enough to Remember....

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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 Maggie Friend on July 13, 2011 at 3:02pm

I remember the big green bag full of canned goods that all of us had to keep at school during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the air raid drills, hiding under our desks and the mumps which I had on both sides at once and the lizard with a string on its tail that a friend of the family gave me during my convalescence and how the lizard got away 'cause it was no problem for him to lose the tail!

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!

Comment by Sherry Somach on July 13, 2011 at 2:29pm

I remember the little black pellets that expanded like snakes when you lit them. Catching lighrening bugs and putting them in a jar with holes on top...as if we could hold on to the light!

Comment by wiffledust on July 13, 2011 at 1:48pm

great story, bob!!!! tom, i don't remember the little wood desks protecting us from anything, but i remember the desks themselves! :-))

Comment by Tom McMurray on July 13, 2011 at 1:12pm

Wiffledust remembers color TV being a big deal. I remember when there was no such thing. :)

Comment by Tom McMurray on July 13, 2011 at 1:09pm

I'm old enough to remember when little wooden school desks would protect us from an atomic bomb. Duck and cover!

Comment by Robert Muscovitz on July 13, 2011 at 12:29pm

Oh that's nothing,, my greatgrandfather worked the R/R when he came here from Norway in the early 1900's.  He stayed with us while gr-grandma was in the hospital and I was maybe a whole 6 years old when he turned to my brother and I and said,"let's go fishin'!" Well, My sisters were with mom down the block and dad at work so, us two young boys headed to the R/R tracks with our gr-grandpa, which by the way was right behind our house...We hopped a train and jumped off by a lake maybe 5 miles away. He had us go collect goldenrod plants to get some bait and then He proceeded to fish. After he caught his limit we jumped a train and headed back home so he could clean them for supper..both my brother and I almost killed ourselves when we jumped off the train but we lived... We had fresh fish that night and both mom and dad were afraid to ask how and where he got the fish....we, were sworn to silence so we didn't say a word... Yes, one of the joys of R/R tracks behind your house in the 50's...and a gr-grandpa who was alot of fun. 

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on July 13, 2011 at 12:20pm

And I'm old enough to remember the Golden Arches coming to town and we could buy 10 hamburgers for a dollar. And I remember sitting in a restaurant and on the table top was a jukebox record selector. It was silver and you could spin the menu to find what songs you wanted to jukebox to play and of course I remember spending what seemed like forever standing in from of jukeboxes picking out the songs I wanted to listen to (I think it was 4 for a quarter) and one of my favorites was Angel on My Shoulder :-)

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