~~I REMEMBER...MY CHILDHOOD~~ Momma Nightowl I remember...penny candy, baseball cards in with penny bubble gum, Bonomo Turkish candy, Sugar Daddys, Bazooka Bubble Gum with the perfumed sweetness as it hit my tongue, jaw breakers that lasted a week, Charms lollypops (I had gone on a school field trip there..it was only a few towns away) I remember... I remember the smell of roasting coffee from the coffee company and the smell of chocolate from the Suchard company and the smell of burning leaves in the fall..we didn't know about airpollution then..I remember...I remember I remember Joe Paluka in the "funnies:, Dick Tracy, Lil Abner, The Captain And the Katzenjammer Kids, Mutt and Jeff, Nancy and Sluggo,Kukla, Fran and Ollie, It's Howdy Doody Time, Hopalong Cassidy, Uncle Miltie, Farmer Grey,Dumont Television Network , kinescope, Technicolor and Cinemascope..I remember ... I remember... I remember, The Creature from The Black Lagoon and 3D glasses, The Red shoes, The Glass Slipper, Leslie Caron,Estelle Winwood and Fred Astaire, Russ Tamblyn and Dianna Durbin..Oklahoma, Brigadoon and The Student Prince and all the wonderful musicals that you went home singing the songs..I remember.I remember.. I remember..Molly Goldberg, Dennis James and "OKAY Mother, and Queen For a Day..Captain Video and the Video Rangers,Tex Antoine and Uncle Weatherbee, Jon Gnagy's art show...I remember my little girlfriend Gwenny getting polio and then dying at age 7..I remember...I remember I remember going to the movies on Saturday afternoon with 50 cents in my pocket, paying for the movie, getting a popcorn, a soda, candy (jujubes, Mason mints, taffy) and still have change to spend over the next week... I remember.. I remember.. I remember running to the corner store for Mom and getting a pound of ground round for 25 cents, the milkman with the rattling bottles and the bakery truck making deliveries...I remember.. Yes, I remember... I remember... Mom going to the poulty store where she would pick out the bird she wanted, and they would give it back clean and with most of the feathers removed...and as a treat sometimes we would find unborn eggs (just the yolks- no shells) which was wonderful in her home-made chicken soup.. I remember.. I remember... I remember Sunday drives on the open roads (what traffic.. who had a car) in the big black shiny new Packard, the vacation trips that started at midnight, to Florida or Canada because no one else was on the road and could be almost there before the rest of the world woke up... I remember... I remember I remember.... .. when new shoes were bought, they x-rayed our feet in the shoes.. i wonder what damage they did to us??.. and yes one of my feet has already been operated on for a frozen toe ( no distortion) and the other needs it soon..I remember... I remember....I remember one-a-day vitamins, cod liver oil, cheracol syrup, elixer turpinhydrate with codeine, and Brown's mixture (all for colds) all over the counter, I remember.....toe shoes in ballet at 9 years old.. I remember ironing with starch, no permanent press, I remember scratchy wool so my MOM made linings for my brother's slacks..I remember....I remember.... I remember the comic weekly man and Baby Snooks (Fanny Brice) reading the funnies on Sun am over the radio...Henry Aldrich("coming Mother") Archie and Veronica, the mystery theater, the shadow knows....I remember.... I remember...being taught how to cross the street safely, and how to tie my shoes when i was 4 yo, and "I'm Buster Brown I live in a shoe, here's my dog, Tighe, he lives there too." the first comercial that I recall...I remember.... I remember mary janes and lace edged socks..lysle cotton.. I remember darning wool socks...I remember.... I remember Mom washing my hair with canadian castile soap (12 inch bars that she cut down) and then her using vinager to rinse my hair to get rid of the soap film (no cream rinse then) and then tugging at the snarls in my long blonde hair with a huge black whale-bone comb..no plastic then... and the ringlets held back by huge ironed satin bows,.or long braids looped up or across my head... I remember....I remember.... I remember mom bringing all her meat fat to the Headmaster's wife at my brother's school so that she could make her own soap with lye..and SPAM...I remember..I remember.. I remember sugar ration stamps, and bringing a dime to school to buy a stamp towards buying war bonds.. I remember the Andrew sisters and the Dionne quintuplets......I do remember...I do! I will record more as I recall my childhood. Momma Nightowl 8/7/98

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