Memories

 Uncle Joe sent me these cool pictures! They were things your dad and I were familiar with back in our day.  Will write a little about each picture  so you will know more of what it was like for your old parents back in the good old days!!

 This is the first reading book we learned from.  Dick & Jane , and their dog Spot.  Don't recall the baby's name but they had this red Radio Flyer Wagon.
 

Dad was always taking me to the A.& W. Rootbeer stand on some of our dates.  The rootbeer was great and  they brought the food right up to the window of the car, didn't have to get out. It was busy place on
 Sat. nights.                                  

 
this was more or less what the washer looked like that my mom used and I heard someone say once that my mom actually got her hand caught in the wringer.  ugh!  So after clothes washed then my mom would hang them on the line to dry.  Think my mom enjoyed  hanging the clothes up and have the sun to dry them.  She felt they smelled so good after drying in the Sun!  I think about it and  wonder if they were very soft.  Today we use dryer sheets and it guarantees they are soft. :)



Here are the shoes all the girls wore back then, they were called Saddle Oxfords. You can see why! Looks like a saddle you put on a horse doesn't it. ha!







 This is how  we got curly hair back then. I actually can remember rolling my hair up and putting bobbie pins in place to hold it so could  enjoy some curls next day.  I also remember having hair rolled up into rags to make it super curly! sounds crazy huh.



  Here is the first dinnete set  dad and I bought when we got our first home, well we rented it and put alot of work into it. It was yellow and I thought it was sooo nice.  
Dad and I rented our first house out in country. We had to drive about five miles to get into town but that didn't last lone, moved right back into town after about four months because we didn't want to be there and have to drive back and forth when the snow set in.
We bought all used furniture for our first place to save money.  
Playing jacks was sooo much fun, wonder why kids don't enjoy it today. ha.

"You can rock it you can roll it at the Sock Hop! " Bump you remember that I'm sure! :)  Boy, did you and I cut a rug!! ha.  Bump was the best brother ever.  We did almost everything together!




I remember when Mary Marley whom i babysit for first plucked my eyebrows, they were sooo beautiful  i thought! She was beautiful and she helped me to find a new look !  I sure did appreciate what she did for me to help me feel better about myself.

Miss this kind of phone, even if I
do love my cell!
I remember the movie " Dial 9 for Murder."ha.  Sure miss turning those dials!
When we went into a resturant you usually found this music box and you flipped the doors from the top till found your favorite song and then dropped in your quarter and pressed the red button on side ,then up came your song.   O how we loved to find the song of the month. We sang along or danced. 

 Find your size! Wow every Sat. night Bump and I hit the rink!! Man it was the best of good fun times, what do kids do today?  Gosh, we loved that rink in Vincennes so much and could I ever move on those skates. ha.  Even dance on them.  ha.  Our friend from church ran the place so that made it really extra special.  It was the best of all hang outs!


Going to the outside Drive Inn and taking a big stack of popcorn, well it didn't get much better than that!

Our sister in law Lillie  took us kids many times / she loved doing things for us/ she reminds me alot of our Valerie. Lillie was great fun even though later on she and my brother Roscoe divorced. She taught me to drive and i think she played a big part in the early years of both Bump and I. For sure she left Bump and I with some pretty good  memories. 

                                                      ta ta, mama