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I'm Old Enough to Remember....

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I'm Old Enough to Remember....

This is a group where you can add at any time anything  you remember from "back then" in our society  that isn't the same now. It'll be fun to read how things have changed from a first hand experience of the posters here!

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Latest Activity: Nov 18, 2013

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Comment by wiffledust on September 19, 2011 at 12:06pm
ha, nancy! between that and the magic markers, it's amazing we got through school, right? ;-) i remember all those teachers like they were yesterday. i particularly remember my second grade teacher crying when my older sister cut my hair off! :-)
Comment by nancy Sanchez on September 19, 2011 at 11:53am
oooo yes the ink smelled so good..my mom had a hand mimeograph at home to use for stuff with campfire so I got it there too...maybe that explains a few things about my brain...LOL
Comment by wiffledust on September 19, 2011 at 1:20am
oh yeah, i remember them! the teacher used to need copies for us, so she'd go somewhere...to the mimeograph room and crank out 25 copies for the class, and we'd all sniff the ink! hahaha!
Comment by Maryrose Orlans on September 18, 2011 at 11:45pm

I don't know if I'm spelling this correctly--mimeograph copies!  I use to love to be picked to carry them from the office to the classroom!  Mmmm, that smell!!! 

This is always a fun group :-)

Comment by nancy Sanchez on September 18, 2011 at 11:40pm
They even had the weekly reader when I was in school...just after they invented the printing press..kidding about the printing press but I loved the weekly reader then .....
Comment by wiffledust on September 18, 2011 at 11:32pm
hahaha...i love this group, but that's the one thing i don't like about it, margaret. it shows i'm old enough to remember the weekly reader! at least the disco kroger was cool! :-)
Comment by margaret kraft on September 18, 2011 at 11:30pm
If you weren't in Atlanta in the early 80's, this will mean nothing.  However, I just had to share.  There was a club here for a few years called The Limelight.  It was a big, big deal--compared to Studio 54 often.  It was in an odd location near a Kroger, and the Kroger became known as "Disco Kroger."  The club closed in '83 or '84 (I never went there).  At work someone younger than I mentioned the Disco Kroger (as it is still known).  She said it used to BE a disco, and I was corrected her.  She stopped me mid sentence as I told her about the lines around the building, dance floor with sharks underneath it, etc.  She said, "You mean you KNOW the TRUE story of the Disco Kroger?"  I swear I might as well have been telling her about my travels to Narnia she was so shocked.  Good thing I am proud of my years and gray hairs!
Comment by Maryrose Orlans on September 18, 2011 at 11:20pm
It was the news for the elementary set!!  Our own private paper :-)
Comment by wiffledust on September 18, 2011 at 11:15pm
hahah! it was sooooo bad, maryrose! but i do remember some stories from it that stuck with me. this was one, and another one was all about walt disney world...why am i remembering the weekly reader???? hahah
Comment by Maryrose Orlans on September 18, 2011 at 11:14pm
I remember "The Weekly Reader"!!  It was a big deal at school!
 

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