I'm Old Enough to Remember....

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Comment by Robert Muscovitz on July 26, 2011 at 6:38pm

Garrison? His cousin is a friend of mine and an organic gardener with a good size farm by me. Garrison's father was quite the masonry guy in town... Garrison told me a couple years ago that the town he's from up here is a good place to be from.. LOL! I didn't say any names!! LOL! And I agree with your take on the small old towns because it is the truth. Michelle Bachman went to the same high school as Garrison though years later and I'm not going to say much...LOL! If you know what I mean... the town had it's own radio satation, theater, amphitheatre, and everything you talked about except, the best darn bakery in the world to us kids...Glazed donuts were fantastic..  

Comment by wiffledust on July 26, 2011 at 6:07pm

oh wow, bob! are you sure you're not a character from prairie home companion??? :-)) i've never had any of those norwegian goodies. sounds fun! but coffee with eggs in it???

 

something i remember and miss is how each town used to be so different from another town. we used to travel up and down the east coast, so i was able to see every little town. they were all different from each other, all with different songs on the radio, different drugstores, different accents....no strip malls! i don't like the way every town now has the same stores. what a yawn.

Comment by Robert Muscovitz on July 26, 2011 at 2:26pm

We weren't allowed much candy back then in the 50's... I don't even recall us ever having many sweets.. Only my greatgrandfather had sweets which was Brach's mints... He wouldn't share either. LOL! And greatgrandma always made coffee with eggs in it which was fantastic plus lefse and lumpas and all kind of Norwegian stuff I couldn't pronounce if I tried, all tasting great!

Comment by wiffledust on July 26, 2011 at 1:56pm

margaret, scroll back, we covered candy all the way to pixie styx! :-) but those pop rocks..they were yummy! ;-) feel free to add more. oh i remember roller skates! and ice skates here too. we always had a power mower, but starting it was a big engineering project. ...but you know what i remember about the mower? people were far less protective of kids back then. the gasoline was in the garage near the mower, and the words "don't play with that" were enough. nobody touched it, nobody dreamt about protective caps and putting it in a cage away from children. what do people do now? put it in an alarmed glass box?

Comment by margaret kraft on July 26, 2011 at 1:38pm

Okay, what about candy?  I ask this because I just found and ordered some Zotz, Pop Rocks, and Lik-M-Ade for my niece and nephew.  I remember standing in the driveway with a bunch of friends and feeding our sheep dog pop rocks.  She wasn't sure she liked it, but she came back for more!

Comment by Robert Muscovitz on July 26, 2011 at 1:13pm

Roller skates,,, LOL! We shared a pair we got from the Goodwill store. And of course we shared to old Schwin bicycle dad picked up someplace for us. It lasted many years... We always wished we could get a power lawn mower because it would be me and my brother forever to push that old heavy metal mechanical thing I swear was built in the 1930's. My sister claims she has it as well as the old cast iron shoe horn from Norway in her garage...

Comment by wiffledust on July 26, 2011 at 12:21pm

this is a little to the side, but speaking of toothpaste, i'm old enough to remember when everyone on tv and in the movies had normal teeth. now everyone has white shark teeth..prefabbed at the factory!!!

Comment by Bains on July 26, 2011 at 12:13pm

a pair of roller skates that go outside the shoes.  They don't have a key--never did.  I'm going to hang them on the wall and call it art.

 

Excellent idea! :)) 

Comment by wiffledust on July 26, 2011 at 12:09pm

i know in the case of women's make up, that it's all the same product just marketed differently and with different prices. one major corp makes the same actual liptstick, but puts it in a fancy tube and charges $35 for it in macy's and a different tube for $8 at the CVS...but it's all the same stuff. same ingredients. same colors.

Comment by Bains on July 26, 2011 at 12:04pm

Heh! There ARE only a couple but, like you're saying, they, those 2 or 3 MegaCorps, change some inane qualities of each item and make it look like we've got an Enourmous amount of choice!  Total Joke. Too bad too many of us of so willingly the butt of it... {sigh}

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