What do you miss from yesteryear?

by greendawn 31 Replies latest jw friends

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  skeeter1

  Dog tags
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  dobbie

  This is quite hard really. I suppose i miss the innocence and not having to worry to about day to day things, and having no feelings of guilt about things.

  The thing i used to love to do (apart from the space hopper) was tearing around the estate on my roller skates, i really miss that!There is a blokey who lives on the estate who goes out on his rollerblades singing at the top of his voice, everyone thinks hes a bit nutty but i'd love to just get out there and have a go.
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  mrsjones5

  My 34B cups
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  Purza

  Being able to play out late with the neighborhood kids in the summer.

  My parents and extended family (who are all dubs).

  Purza
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  Madame Quixote

  A big house and a big swimming pool in Manasquan, New Jersey and the cook outs we had there, playing with my cousins. And the smell of the next door neighbor's coconut cookies. And Boots, the old great dane. And all the sugary cereal in the world upstairs there. And secretly watching Star Trek and Bewitched and I Dream Of Jeanie, even though it was forbidden.
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  sweetstuff

  Taking 50 cents to the corner store and coming home with pop, chips and a chocolate bar.

  Playing skip rope for hours.

  Watching V when my parents went out and we had a babysitter. (Was banned when they were home, lol)

  Dancing with my cousins, singing Abba songs, using a hairbrush as a mic. (Yeah, I know, so cool huh?)

  Rollerskating at a rollerskating rink.
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  Madame Quixote

  Oyster Roasts and my dad's oyster stew and clams on the half shell that he caught and opened for us.

  My mom's cooking and our first and last organic garden grown together.

  My southern grandmom's cooking.

  My Yankee grandma's cooking.

  My Yankee grandma's visits and gifts when we were little kids.

  The excitement of summer family trips.

  Trips to the mountains, camping, hiking with the family.

  Driving around with my sister and jamming out to Heart on an 8-track tape in 1983, when we were getting along and losing our religion.
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  FlyingHighNow

  I was born in 1958, with four older siblings and one younger one.

  I miss the joy of all the great new songs that would come out on KMRC every week as well as American Bandstand and the new dance crazes. Then saving my money, or begging Mom for the money to buy 45 records like Dizzy by Tommy Roe or Crimson and Clover by Tommy James and the Shondells.

  For my seventh birthday, my sister, who was a teenager, talked me into buying a Decca phonograph and Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine the 45 and The Beach Boys Live LP. I played that record player until the belt on it broke.

  Skates that hooked on your Keds tennis shoes and adjusted with a key you wore around your neck. In my town, skating rinks were portable and they trucked them in a couple of times a year. Lots of fun.

  Taking 26 cents to the store and buying a coke, candy bar and chips or a 12 cent Archie or Millie the Model comic book and a coke or candy bar. If you were really rolling in the dough, you had enough between your friend and you to buy two comic books, two cokes (all pop is a coke in the south), two candy bars, two bags of chips and a 45 record. You'd take them home, lie on one of your beds and listen to 45's, eat and read and trade comic books. We also liked Casper, Windy the Witch, Richie Rich, etc.

  Going to the movies. In Mobile our drive-ins were still open and Mom would pile us, in our PJ's, into the VW microbus and take us to the drive-in. We loved it. Then in Morgan City, La., the entire time I lived there, it was 25 cents for a kid to see a movie.

  Music was magic in the 60's and so was Saturday morning TV with The Monkees and The Archies.
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  greendawn

  FHN I also miss the old vinyl records, 45's and 33's, and their players, I had an old one which an elderly neighbour sold me for £10 and it worked for years. Nowadays though all those great songs of the 1960's and 1970's can be downloaded through the net using technology that was unheard of back then. Even the ipod players.
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  choosing life

  I miss the relative safety where children could bike to the store or pool and it was never given a second thought. I hate how people have become predatory towards children.

  I miss the free doughnuts that the dime store provided every Sunday. All I needed was a dime for a coke.

  I miss drive-in movies, laying on the hood of the car under the stars for a double feature with a cartoon to start.

  I miss all my friends I grew up with. I stayed in the same school system my whole time in school. Been thinking about trying to find some of them. I lost touch with them when they became bad association.

  I miss the holidays and all the family traditions we enjoyed. I still havn't gotten back into them, as I would get busted.

  I miss all the camping and fun stuff we did in the Girl Scouts.