This was my Saturday mornings when I was a kid.

Ah, well. I guess I'm really old. We didn't have TV when I was a kid. My Saturday mornings were spent cleaning, making bread, hoeing/weeding the garden in summer and splitting wood for winter, shoveling sNOw in winter. You know, just the usual stuff from back in the olden days. Oh...and catechism class got worked in there, too. Two miles from home, accessed via footmobile.
 
jujube said:
Oh, the horrors of expecting a kid to put in an hour or two of housework! Try that these days and you might have the child welfare authorities paying a call...LOL.
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Oh yes, yes, yes... I remember it well. I loved... and hated Saturdays. Loved that I could get up and watch cartoons with younger siblings... nice slow morning. But then around 10 a.m. I knew I'd soon hear my Mama getting out the vacuum and dust cloths and I wanted to run and hide. :sneaky:
 
My Saturday morning:
8:00 Roy Rogers
8:30 -10 cartoons
10:00 Fury
10:30 Rin Tin Tin- Yo Rinnie!
11:00 Sky King, with Penny
11:30 Superman
Bullwinkle and Rocky came on in the afternoon.

I can't remember where my glasses are, or if I just took my meds, but the exact line up and times of TV shows 60 years ago are etched in my memory.
 
jujube said:
Saturday morning were for cleaning when I was growing up. My mom worked during the week and Sundays were for church activities.

Oh, the horrors of expecting a kid to put in an hour or two of housework! Try that these days and you might have the child welfare authorities paying a call...LOL.
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Oh yeah... tidy up your room, help Mum with the house, water the lawn & flower beds, rake up whatever the walnut tree has dropped, wash the car (when it got home). Good for me when I look back on it. But irksome at the time. I'd rather have watched TV, made another bird feeder, or shot hoops or something with my friends.
 
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My father bought the first TV in the neighborhood, $400 bucks, with a very small screen, and then he bought the antenna-and then he woke us up at about 5 AM to watch the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, on June 5, 1953.

We could only could get 2 or 3 channels for a long time.

I spent a lot of Saturdays at "Wheels of America"- the closest skating arena, when I was in high school. When I moved to NY the school had a skating day every year and I was one of just a few parents who skated at it. But that was in about 1987! I dont think I could ever do that again. I have to wear custom orthotics nowadays.

Liberace was on around noon every day when I was in about the 3rd grade and I could walk home for lunch. Every day he would say Happy Birthday to one or two people who wrote to him who said they watched the show. My grandmother had written to him, to mention my birthday and he wished me Happy Birthday on my 8th (I think) birthday.

Odd how when someone here mentions something of the past, it can bring back so many memories.
 
We did not have a television set until I was a teenager; so no morning cartoons for me. I was way too old for any of the morning programs by the time we had a television.
Weekends, all the neighborhood kids would play outside most of the day in the summer, and after school in the winter, enjoying the snow.

My mom and dad liked to go camping and fishing, so a lot of summertime weekends were spent driving up to some far mountain lake on Friday night, camping out with our sleeping bags, and then spending the weekend fishing, and back home Sunday afternoon.
My favorite all-time breakfast memory is still having pancakes and fresh trout cooked over an open campfire, along with a hot cup of coffee.
 
My Sunday morning was getting ready for Sunday School. Oh joy! Oh Bliss.
 

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