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[SloopJohnB]

Playing the piano.  Everything from sharing the bench with one of my friends and we played Heart & Soul to playing popular songs that they would sing along to.  Especially at Christmas time, I would play Christmas Carols and my family would gather around, also.  Now my kids play their own instruments but I still remember fondly those days long gone.

[Trinity11]

I loved walking to the library and reading a few books a week. I remember taking out a book numerous times "The Make It Book." I was obsessed with sewing and creative things. Reading took me into a world very different than the one I was actually living.

[lgfan]

I enjoyed my summers because there was no school.  I remember going to the local swimming pool located in a park.  There were changing rooms and lockers to keep your clothes and towels.  It was fun.

[Catiele]

The pond we could walk to. Swimming in the summer ice skating in the winter. My bike when I finally learned to ride it. Having my own room. We were all very fortunate to have grown up in Greenwood.

[AuntG]

Toys  - Barbie and all her accessories

Books - Nancy Drew mysteries

Activities - running up the barn hill and jumping off the edge - sledding down it too.

[spiderw]

As a child I used to love to jump rope, roller skate, take long walks through the neighborhood and play with my friends.  I was a city girl and always loved going to Manhattan with my mom and sister on the train.  I also loved to read, still do.  It was a simple carefree childhood, one that holds dear memories for me.

[ECBG]

I loved riding my bike and my horse.

I spent a lot of hours in my playhouse and in warm weather the sandbox with play dishes.

On Saturday, I packed up and went to my grandparents in town.  I would stay with them in their large store until 5:30 close, (I could go around and spend my 50 cents allowance), then we would go across the street to S & W cafeteria for roast beef.  We'd go home and watch Lawrence Welk and the Lennon Sisters.

[Burnsite]

I really liked _Flash Gordon_ reruns as a kid--once in a while I was allowed to watch them, but our family got a TV late,one TV (they cost a fortune then) and the family watched by vote.  

Most of my sibs liked "Howdy Doody," which aired at the same time, and I didn't hate it, but they often cut me a break. 

On TCM ( I think it was TCM) I recently saw a brief segment of a few "Flash Gordons, " and my goodness, they still totally involved me. I'm just a science fiction fan, I guess (and still am).

Family stuff?  I liked it all.  I lucked out, and we were pretty compatible for a large group:  swimming at nearby ponds or the not too distant oceans, cooking fudge once in a while in the kitchen, helping to paint the barn, taking care of the critters (my family were addicted to animal rescues).

[ECBG]

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@AuntG wrote:

Toys  - Barbie and all her accessories

Books - Nancy Drew mysteries

Activities - running up the barn hill and jumping off the edge - sledding down it too.

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@AuntG 

Oh!  You caused me to remember how I found my mother's old Nancy Drew books on a book shelf in one grandparent's den!  I read them from cover to cover and couldn't put them down!

After that, as a 6th grader, I devoured the school library!

[JoyFilled Warrior]

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@Trinity11 wrote:

I loved walking to the library and reading a few books a week. I remember taking out a book numerous times "The Make It Book." I was obsessed with sewing and creative things. Reading took me into a world very different than the one I was actually living.

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@Trinity11 

I hope you dont mind.....

They say:  "It's never too late to have a Happy Childhood."

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Enjoy, @Trinity11   Thank  you for sharing..