Remember A Time When... - Page 7

SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@Cakers3 wrote:
I also remember walking everywhere. I still did until we moved down here.
When I had appendicitis my mother and I walked the 3 blocks to the hospital.😧

Take a taxi? Who do you think you are the Queen of England? 🤣

No school buses but back then elementary schools were placed every so many streets so there was no need. High school we still walked and students who lived not as close just took a city bus until some could drive and had cars.

Streetlights coming on. Yep.

Soda fountain in Liggetts Drug Store. I think it became Liggetts Rexall later.

Listening booths in record stores.🎧

Pay phones. Always told to carry a few dimes for emergencies.

Dining out was a luxury. McDonald's was not dinner but a novelty treat.🍔

Nice thread 👍

@Cakers3 Welcome!🥰 I always enjoy reading your posts because they evoke SUCH pleasant memories!❤️ My dear mother insisted that we always carry dimes for the pay phone.😊 One day I forgot to put extra into my purse but needed a ride home! A nice passerby handed me several with a smile! I never forgot his generosity, but know that today, my children would have been sternly cautioned against accepting money from strangers. That was DEFINITELY a time I remember when!😁

Fast food was a treat for us as well, as my dear mother cooked EVERYTHING from scratch! A trip for fast food was almost a luxury holiday!😊

I am glad you are enjoying the thread! It has been a pleasant walk down memory lane!🥰

THANK you SO much for caring to share!🤗

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@Puggywuggy wrote:
@SandySparklesWhat a great thread! I remember going with Papa & Grandma to Thrifty's to get a rockyroad ice cream cone.

I remember 5 cent stamps and helping Mom put BlueChip or S&H Green stamps in the books and going to their stores when she chose something for the house.

I remember so many things from those seemingly innocent and simpler times. Thank you for this enjoyable post! ❤️

@Puggywuggy Welcome!🥰 I still smile warmly when I think of my friends and I stopping for a cone while out bike riding on a hot summer day!😁

Awwwww! You are MOST welcome!🥰 I am happy you are enjoying the nostalgic memories.❤️

THANK you SO much for caring to share!💖

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SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@dollgal wrote:
I used to order at McDonalds " hamburger, French fries and a coke". I didn't have to specify what type of burger or sizes because their menu was simple. And I paid $1.00, I can't remember how much change I got back.

@dollgal Welcome!🥰 WOW! A burger meal for under a dollar is difficult to imagine these days, but would have been welcome!😊

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SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@PinkyPetunia wrote:
I used to go out for lunch with my friends to a pizzeria. I was 12 or so. A slice was 15 cents, coke was 10 cents. Mom didn't always give me that quarter. She was very frugal and told me to make a bologna or peanut butter sandwich.

I grew up in Queens NY and I remember the bus fare was 15 cents and the driver made change if needed. Fare was 20 cents in high school. Newspaper was 7 cents, then a dime.

@PinkyPetunia Welcome!🥰 Our mothers could have been sisters from another mister!😁 Bologna, salami, and peanut butter sandwiches were a common lunch for us. One or the other was always in our lunch box!😊

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SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@riley1 wrote:
I love when I go back to NJ and they pump my gas for me! It's the little things that make my day.

@riley1 Welcome!🥰 I, too would LOVE❤️ it, ESPECIALLY in bad weather!😁

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SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@qvcaddition wrote:
I found a dollar bill in the grass while playing. Went and bought candy. Came out of the little Mom and Pop strore with a bag full. 1946..

@qvcaddition Welcome!🥰 I can imagine how thrilling that must have been for you!😊 Ah...such pleasant memories!❤️

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SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@Carmie wrote:
If we ran out of cereal, 1961-1962, my mother would send me to the neighborhood small mom and pop store to buy a box.

It was always more expensive there, but she would give me a quarter. The "best" cereal, IMO, cost twenty seven cents. No matter how much I begged, she wouldn't give me two more cents.

She would say 25 cents is highway robbery for a box of cereal.

@Carmie Welcome!🥰 I appreciate how she thought because I was frugal when my children were young!!😁 I had to be.😊

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SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@threecees wrote:
Not locking house doors. Trusting people.

Going to the movies on Dollar Night.

Staying outside all day, roller skating and riding my bike.

@threecees Welcome!🥰 I cannot fathom the notion of not locking doors now, but fondly remember a time when there was little worry had a door failed to be secured!😊

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qvcaddition · ‎03-10-2010

Our movie night in SF was .50 cents. The whole neighborhood was there

because it was Dish night. So every Monday night, you got a plate untl you had a good set.

Different movie every Monday. Also 2 Movies, cartoon, news of the week.

We got there at opening, 6PM. Everyone in neighborhood knew one another. Walked home if you could and most did. Most parents had one car, and some no car, took buses. Didn't need a car in SF.

Teenagers, no cars in high school, walk or bus. If your parent had a medical problem and had to go to Dr., you got special compensation to drive at age 16. Ha, I had a boyfriend, I couldn't date, but we could walk the long way home from school. My first date, my grandmother came with us to the movies. I laugh now, but not then.

Coming home from school, Jr. High, I had to rub the lipstick off before I got home. Had a strick Italian father.

This was way back early 50's. Looking back, I had fun and felt safe.

I'm glad I am not a teen now. Also glad my children are not teens now.

So are they. (62, 64, 66) They had no computers, phones, etc.

I could not use the landline until chores done, and homework and then only one call on a school night.

Each era is different we know, but today is not a good one IMO. I am in late 80's(88).

Wanted to add, you got me going here,. My Mother and I walked home from the movies one night, six city blocks at midnight. Safe. In a neighbor In SF that you can't walk safe today at noon.

SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@qvcaddition wrote:
Our movie night in SF was .50 cents. The whole neighborhood was there
because it was Dish night. So every Monday night, you got a plate untl you had a good set.
Different movie every Monday. Also 2 Movies, cartoon, news of the week.
We got there at opening, 6PM. Everyone in neighborhood knew one another. Walked home if you could and most did. Most parents had one car, and some no car, took buses. Didn't need a car in SF.
Teenagers, no cars in high school, walk or bus. If your parent had a medical problem and had to go to Dr., you got special compensation to drive at age 16. Ha, I had a boyfriend, I couldn't date, but we could walk the long way home from school. My first date, my grandmother came with us to the movies. I laugh now, but not then.
Coming home from school, Jr. High, I had to rub the lipstick off before I got home. Had a strick Italian father.
This was way back early 50's. Looking back, I had fun and felt safe.
I'm glad I am not a teen now. Also glad my children are not teens now.
So are they. (62, 64, 66) They had no computers, phones, etc.
I could not use the landline until chores done, and homework and then only one call on a school night.
Each era is different we know, but today is not a good one IMO. I am in late 80's(88).
Wanted to add, you got me going here,. My Mother and I walked home from the movies one night, six city blocks at midnight. Safe. In a neighbor In SF that you can't walk safe today at noon.

@qvcaddition Welcome!🥰 I enjoyed reading your post of remembrances referencing MUCH simpler times!❤️ There was such a strong sense of community that is unfortunately lacking today in most places!😐 What I would not give to experience them for just one day!😊

Your dear grandmother was WISE!😁 Whether it was during the innocence of the 50's, or hectic pace of today with a serious paradigm shift in societal norms and expectations, some young men, and ladies are...well.. not to be trusted when unsupervised!😊

THANK you SO much for caring to share!🤗

~~~All we need is LOVE💖