I'm so old I Remember when:

[Liz Birdlover]

I miss this man and his music to this day.

Always loved John Denver! Still turn it up & often sing along to this day.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

13 and already lamenting - you are a rare soul!

I "miss" a timeframe before I was born. I listened to my dad's stories & often wished I'd grown up in the 1940s & 1950s. I absolutely love the music, dancing, clothes, hair styles, cars & trucks from those times.


As a kid, I loved music & remember singing along with Beatles music at 3 yrs of age, but I also knew all the words to my parent's & grandmom's music. We had 1 oldies music station & 1 polka music station, & we'd tune into one of them as we did house chores. When a great song came on we'd take a jitterbug, stroll, cha-cha or polka dance break. I loved watching my parents dance, they were awesome! The music was energizing, fun & happy.

My dad was a great reminiscent story teller! He'd tell me so many of his memories, I felt like I had lived them. Back when all cars & trucks used the same size parts, he spent many Saturdays going to the junkyard to get parts, fixing up a vehicle so they could pile in & cruise around that night. Cruising around was a favorite pastime & gas & food were cheap...weekends were a lot like American Grafitti & if a teen had $10 in his pocket on Friday, he was good to go all weekend!

My mom had saved a few of her beautiful dresses from the 50s & let me wear them for a few 1950s theme dances. They had hoops or many crinolines so they'd poof up. Mom said it was a big deal to get ready for a Saturday dance night out & the girls would really do up their hair, makeup & jewelry in the 40s & 50s.

Going to the movies was a big thing, too, & when they were kids, before they were old enough to drive, they'd go to a big movie house, pay .10 cents to get in Saturday Matinee at 1pm & stay in there All Day! They never got kicked out when the movie was finished! It was "the place" to hang out on rainy days. They often played Western movies & might see the same movie, or 2 movies, over & over, because they only had 1 screen room, not like today's theaters. Usually, it was cartoons then a double feature. There was a big balcony & they'd often dump some popcorn on the people below, just to laugh & hear them yell Lol.

https://amemoirfromthehomefront.com/saturday-at-the-movies-1950s-style/

 

[BackroadGirl57]

I miss a time before I was born... I love the 80s. The cars (especially Trans Ams like KITT), the freedom you had ( go out when you got home from school and not come home til dark) ..... everything. I wish I could've lived then.

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh I know. I have a friend that drove for them for for like forever.
Now he works for the county driving a snow plow truck amongst other things.
When the plow trucks take out a mailbox the county replaces them. At the end of the season the driver that takes out the most gets a of shame. It's got a little mailbox on the top I hear tell.
My friend is in the running to win or is it to lose

Gosh I do not miss the snow plows taking out my mailbox AND trash bags on garbage day. These days we are snow drought, and I do not miss that snow! +12C and mix sun and cloud some rain today!

I remember when it winter started around mid Oct, and went till mid April. This year if we have had 4” of snow and a week of below frigid weather that’s about it.

Now that I have jinxed myself we will likely end this winter with 4’ of snow and -30C hahaha.

Everyone have any awesome Friday!

 

[Ponypoor]

I "miss" a timeframe before I was born. I listened to my dad's stories & often wished I'd grown up in the 1940s & 1950s. I absolutely love the music, dancing, clothes, hair styles, cars & trucks from those times.
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As a kid, I loved music & remember singing along with Beatles music at 3 yrs of age, but I also knew all the words to my parent's & grandmom's music. We had 1 oldies music station & 1 polka music station, & we'd tune into one of them as we did house chores. When a great song came on we'd take a jitterbug, stroll, cha-cha or polka dance break. I loved watching my parents dance, they were awesome! The music was energizing, fun & happy.

My dad was a great reminiscent story teller! He'd tell me so many of his memories, I felt like I had lived them. Back when all cars & trucks used the same size parts, he spent many Saturdays going to the junkyard to get parts, fixing up a vehicle so they could pile in & cruise around that night. Cruising around was a favorite pastime & gas & food were cheap...weekends were a lot like American Grafitti & if a teen had $10 in his pocket on Friday, he was good to go all weekend!
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My mom had saved a few of her beautiful dresses from the 50s & let me wear them for a few 1950s theme dances. They had hoops or many crinolines so they'd poof up. Mom said it was a big deal to get ready for a Saturday dance night out & the girls would really do up their hair, makeup & jewelry in the 40s & 50s.
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Going to the movies was a big thing, too, & when they were kids, before they were old enough to drive, they'd go to a big movie house, pay .10 cents to get in Saturday Matinee at 1pm & stay in there All Day! They never got kicked out when the movie was finished! It was "the place" to hang out on rainy days. They often played Western movies & might see the same movie, or 2 movies, over & over, because they only had 1 screen room, not like today's theaters. Usually, it was cartoons then a double feature. There was a big balcony & they'd often dump some popcorn on the people below, just to laugh & hear them yell Lol.
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https://amemoirfromthehomefront.com/saturday-at-the-movies-1950s-style/

Awesome story that was great to hear

 

[Ponypoor]

I'm only 13, but I remember running around as a toddler in the long Australian grass with my cousins, getting bindies in my feet and the blow up pools patched with tape. I wish I had grown up just a decade before so I had more time to play like that before all my friends became glued to iPads.
My mum always tells me amazing stories of when her and her brothers would ride around in the woods and wack wasp nests with sticks, when the phones were stuck to the walls and before social media was a thing.

I've been reading all of your stories and watching silently, I love listening to them and imagining I was there and I grew up then.

What is a ‘bindie’? I am imagining thorn or thistle which is what happened to our feet

 

[Brooks_]

below frigid

Please quantify frigid.

 

[tripletfeb]

I miss a time before I was born... I love the 80s. The cars (especially Trans Ams like KITT), the freedom you had ( go out when you got home from school and not come home til dark) ..... everything. I wish I could've lived then.

The 80's were awesome. I wouldn't trade them for the world

 

[tripletfeb]

Please quantify frigid.

Snot freezing in your nose

 

[Canadian Wind]

Gosh I do not miss the snow plows taking out my mailbox AND trash bags on garbage day. These days we are snow drought, and I do not miss that snow! +12C and mix sun and cloud some rain today!

I remember when it winter started around mid Oct, and went till mid April. This year if we have had 4” of snow and a week of below frigid weather that’s about it.

Now that I have jinxed myself we will likely end this winter with 4’ of snow and -30C hahaha.

Everyone have any awesome Friday!

Are we really in the same province??! I still have a few feet of snow on the ground in places, my car is still buried, and I don't expect Spring to be here until late March.

Then again, I'm up in the hills of North Frontenac. You're probably closer to the St. Lawrence!

But yeah, winter when I was a kid was chains on tires, especially the huge plows, us kids outside pushing cars out of the snow-filled streets, and snow on the ground from November to April. I do NOT miss those days!