The Old Folks Home

[pennyJo1960]

water balloons even graduation from college that does go back a way's
but look how we had fun tipping over the outhouse with my uncle inside
sitting the teachers vw up on cement blocks she she couldn't drive it

 

[drumstick diva]

I guess I was pretty tame for a little kid. I used to play cowboys and horses. Never shot at anyone or wanted to hurt them. The horses would battle for king of the herd but, none got hurt.

Used to turn a kitchen chair over and used belts & ropes to harness my stuffed dogs as a sled dog team - like Sergeant Preston of the Royal Mounties. After reading about dog shows, my dogs took over the couch (benching area) and I would judge them. A Poodle I had didn't have a decent trim, so I carefully rounded off his pom poms and head.

Played for hours on a small sand pile, construction crew had left behind. Stuck small sticks in it to be a forest etc. Had a collection of 5cent tiny dog breeds, I'd get one each time we went to a dime store after being good (HA!!! never happened) at the dentist. Still have them. Even way back then I had a fit that the boxer had a long tail - so I bit off most of it.

Oh and most importantly every stuffed dog I had, had a mama, poppa and baby because "that's the way it was supposed to be." Found out very young that wasn't necessarily true.

But the most important thing was imagination. I taught my son how to line up chairs and have a train, the conductor would punch tickets. Then we played library and he made cards and I would check out books. He used to like all that before he started school. Then he wanted all the toys the well off kids had. The toys with "no imagination" required.

My older sister almost flunked kindergarten because the teacher said she was always looking out the window. Gee, I thought day dreaming was allowed as long as you did your school work. I had to bring a doctor's note asking permission for me to use the bathroom frequently because of a "nervous stomach." Oh the shame of it all.

 

[perchie.girl]

I remember a smoking room for students in High school.... circa 70....

 

[pennyJo1960]

I remember a smoking room for students in High school.... circa 70....

California always was more progressive huh did not have that in Washington state

 

[Latestarter]

Yeah... no designated smoking rooms at my HS when I was there. Course there were plenty of bathrooms, and when we wanted a smoke we'd just walk outside to a parking lot or behind a school wall that had no windows. We used to leave "campus" at lunch time as well to go buy real food as opposed to what the cafe served up. They tried to stop that but those who had drivers licenses paid no attention.

 

[Cynthia12]

Yeah... no designated smoking rooms at my HS when I was there. Course there were plenty of bathrooms, and when we wanted a smoke we'd just walk outside to a parking lot or behind a school wall that had no windows. We used to leave "campus" at lunch time as well to go buy real food as opposed to what the cafe served up. They tried to stop that but those who had drivers licenses paid no attention.

Yep, no smoking bathrooms..kids went outside..or left like you said. And oh boy, was it fun getting rides home from the guys after school when I was in high school. Yes, we went straight home.
And, also went out for lunch at times with the guys. That famous "Glades" is still there. Those folks have kept it the same. You tell them what you want..they don't write a thing down. They yell it back to the cook..when you are done telling them what you want! Guess they hire those with good memories. They still have the best fries..and oh..that fry sauce! They started the white fry sauce back then.
My boyfriend had a Willey's Jeep. My girlfriends' boyfriend had a Fork truck. Mountains around here don't ya know. Big ones. Live in the valley, but doesn't take long to make a trip up to a beautiful canyon. Love these mountains around us.

 

[Red5]

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To think that school lunches are now controlled and one cannot get away for some pizza or a new cd release (day of release) * *(I got chewed out for driving a 20 minute round trip to pick up the latest hot release back in the Stone Age) is utter insanity. Schools are nothing more than prisons nowadays.

 

[perchie.girl]

I remember when dresses had to be no higher than one inch above the knee... and you had to kneel on a chair and be measured....

and that was before panty hose.... and Hose had to be worn with a dress. pants were allowed but not shorts...

Thang GAWD for panty hose..... Best invention EVER.

Though I always wore jeans... Some times with dried horse sweat still on the seat.... LOL

San Diego may be urban but when I was going to high school it had one of the highest horse population in the US... even though we couldnt ride them to school... Seven Eleven had hitch posts....

deb

 

[Red5]

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*Salute*

 

[chickadoodles]

We loved playing army and cowboys and indians. We never got bb guns just pop guns. But ya we built our bikes and painted them and had to have the coolest bike on the block!