Community Chat

[deja vu]

I do miss hearing the church bells.

Also, i miss hearing the soft noise of a big window fan we ran at night.. i guess the sound and the feeling. i also miss the great sleeping i got during those years !!  good memories.

[jackiesuzie]

We lived by Mississippi River and Ohio River.  Always heard the boats and barges moving on the rivers and boat horns.  There were streets that were paved with bricks and the sound of cars driving on the bricks.  A train ran nearby and listening to the trains riding on the rails.  There was a rag man that pushed his cart that had metal wheels and you could hear those wheels on the street and him calling out "rags".  

[hckynutjohn]

@Mersha 

Streetcars.

hckynut  🇺🇸

[chessielady]

Every morning the sound of the coffee percolator perking away and the smell of the coffee and the bacon cooking.

[Midmod]

Here's one I forgot:
Children standing in homeroom and saying the Pledge of Allegiance

[proudlyfromNJ]

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@Midmod wrote:
Here's one I forgot:
Children standing in homeroom and saying the Pledge of Allegiance

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@Midmod  we also had Bible reading, Lords Prayer, Pledge, singing. This was Public School.

[LdyBugz]

@Mersha  Great post!  🙂

The Mr. Softie ice cream truck.  Bicycles with baseball cards clothespinned to the wheel spokes.  Kids playing baseball in the street, and every now and then someone yelling "CAR!" to warn the others.  My dad and his siblings speaking in Polish to my grandparents.  My mom playing her Andy Williams, Englebert Humperdinck, or Herb Alpert albums.  The sound of a 33 RPM record album being released onto the stereo turntable, and then the "scratchy" noise the stereo needle made before the music started playing.  The "click" of the on/off dial that turned on the television or radio.  Freshly laundered sheets on the clothesline vigorously flapping on the windy days that mom hung them outside to dry.  The sound of a wooden roller coaster.  The "tinny" sound of the drive-in movie speaker.

[Sooner]

My little pale blue parakeet (he lived to almost 10 years) chortling and cuddling against my neck. He was so pretty!  Pale baby sky blue with very white wings with a little gray.  

[Jo1313]

The sound of the Elevated Trains that went to the city and back..We would count them like sheep!

[Mersha]

I enjoyed reading everyone's posts.

It is amazing how ordinary, simple sounds from years gone by make such a lasting memory.

I read on several posts about an "umbrella man."  I do not recall one of them in the neighborhood.

We did have a snow cone man that pushed his wooden cart up and down the street on hot summer days.  He made the most delicious snow cones.