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[Sapphiregal]

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@beckyb1012 wrote:

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@Sapphiregal wrote:

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@On It wrote:

To this day, I miss Patio TV dinners. They were Mexican food frozen dinners on an aluminum tray. The dinner that was my favorite had 2 cheese enchiladas, 3 tiny beef tacos, rice, and beans.

We would cook our TV dinners, take them into the family den, and eat on TV trays. It was a family event that only happened once in a while. How I wish I could have that experience one more time!

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@On It 

Oh, I loved those things, too! Also, the El Chico frozen Mexican dinners. I live in Texas, so,that one may be a chain only in my state. Probably no nutritional value, whatsoever, but, who cared back then, right?!!😄😄😄

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For some reason in my part of Texas they stopped selling the El Chico frozen dinners a few years ago.  I always kept a few in my freezer at all times.  Especially when the restaurant itself closed on us.  Mercy now I am craving bad for one @Sapphiregal 

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@beckyb1012 

I guess they just stopped selling them completely. Haven't seen them in a long time.  

[Tique]

@SloopJohnB   earlier this week I passed through a town that still had a store with a Woolworth's sign. I thought of the many Saturdays after my friends and I were done with choir rehearsal we would go to Woolworth's and spend our money. You could get an unbelievable assortment with $5 - a little jewelry, a little makeup/fingernail polish, and some kind of hair accessory. Those were good times and now happy memories.

[NewNickname1x1000]

Evening Golden Hour, sometimes in late Spring, but mostly in the Summer, always takes my breath away and reminds me of simpler times. If I'm lucky enough to catch it, I actually stop whatever I'm doing and just take it in. Lately, there's been a lot of nostalgic threads of happier times and childhood; I like reading them all. I'm sorry to those who have had difficult childhoods due to circumstances not of their own making. It's nice to hear that many have made happy adult memories. My life is just the opposite. Thank you, @SloopJohnB for the thread.

[tototwo]

Music.  Either a type of music or a particular song will set off a memory or a feeling.  Some make me happy, some make me cry for old times and people who were in my life.

[Stray]

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@jellyBEAN wrote:

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@kelsey17 wrote:

the other day i was thinking about the 1964 Worlds Fair in New York and googled 1964 Worlds Fair NY photos and was def brought back in time to a  "simpler time"........we went twice......it was AMAZING....and still think the same thing looking at the pics .............that great experience could never happen in this country today sadly.....

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Oh yeah, I went too.  My Mom took me and one of my brothers (as I recall).  It was SO exciting.  The entry way with that large metal globe welcoming all the visitors.  There is a name for it that escapes me right now.  That was still standing the last time I was over that way.  Riding on those conveyor belts thru some of the exhibits - GM, Bell Telephone, and I forget what all else there was, so much to see and the future looked bright!!

I guess the closest thing we have to this nowadays is Disney World - Epcot Center - and things like that.  I think I may have gotten a small snow globe as a souvenier, but I don't still have it.  I used to love those things.

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I loved the NYC worlds fair.  Loved, the Illinois pavilion where Abe Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg address.....African Pavillion & heard Bobatunde Olitunji (sp) & started my obsession with Africa....have since visited 

[SloopJohnB]

@Tique  Oh, I loved Woolworth's.....and, at least the ones around here, had a nice lunch counter with the padded stools.....and also fresh popcorn.....and a great candy selection.  Dollar stores now just aren't the same....😔

[SloopJohnB]

@NewNickname1x1000 I agree with you.  I had such a great childhood and so many happy memories.  Nothing seems as good now as it was then for me.

[SloopJohnB]

@tototwo  Yes, music definitely.  And my favorites are mostly from the 70s and 80s. 🎵🎶🎼

[Tique]

@SloopJohnB   the two in the downtown area in my city had a lunch counter with those red padded seats. They had a back and you could swerve around until an adult told you to stop. My grandmother would take me shopping once a month and our noon break would be lunch at Woolworth's. I would always order some kind of sandwich and request that my bread be toasted. It always sounded so grown up to me. 

[SloopJohnB]

@Tique Yes.....swiveling around on the stools until.you got dizzy or were told to stop, whichever came first!  And we would always go to the pet department and look at the canaries and parakeets.  Also, all the fish tanks....we would either leave with a goldfish in a baggie filled with water or a little turtle in a little white "Chinese take out food" box.  🐦🐟🐢