Lewkat
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- New Jersey, USA
My bike. I went everywhere on that bike. I actually wore it out.
Anything from your childhood
- Thread starter DannyDoughboy
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No we didn’t have the extended version. We had that exact same one. It offered many hours of entertainment. Far better than any doll.
This is really impressive. I only just noticed it.
When I framed the pictures I wanted I also went to a DIY place that supplied the frame stock, tools and instruction. None of the frames I made were cheap. There were very expensive but well worth it.
You have good artistic taste.
You can bake bread far better than I can. That looks so good. Thanks for sharing all this.
My Mom was also a seamstress. She made amazing evening gowns, and made dresses for my dolls with the fancy remnants. We were always well dressed, and asked for the latest fashions. Remember circle skirts that were worn with crinolines? Roses were a popular skirt print too.
In The Sticks
Friend of Frank
My mother was not necessarily a seamstress, but she sewed a lot before my parents split up.
I remember that one storage dresser she had in the dining room. You would open one of the doors and all these cheap paper McCall's and Simplicity patterns would spill out.
Every time I buy window treatments I kick myself for not having learned the basics.
I don't know if they sell curtain/drapery fabric here, with the special binding tape that you can pleat and put drapery hooks into. All you do, is measure, and hem. I bought some when I lived in Australia, and made drapes. It was so easy, and I was so proud of myself.
treeguy64
Hari Om, y'all!
- Location
- Austin, TX.
My old neighborhood pals, so we could roam around Chicago's South Shore (safe then) on our bikes, and have the fun times I still remember so well!
I'd give up anything, though, to have my Mom, Dad, and Sister back in the living world.......
I'd give up anything, though, to have my Mom, Dad, and Sister back in the living world.......
squatting dog
We don't have as far to go, as we've already been
- Location
- Arkansas, and also Florida
I had a bunch of Auburn rubber roadster hotrods that I played with endlessly. When ebay first started, I was able to acquire a bunch of them for a reasonable price. They were some of the most detailed toys you'll ever see. You could see the drivers face clearly, and the flathead V8 motor. 
Still have them.
Still have them.
Oh, yeaaaahhhh
Mine had the yellow tires/wheels
Yeah, and that was my prob with the '56 T-Bird
The lady driver with the little kid in the passenger seat
It messed with my imagination when trying to envision me driving
We didn't either....but the Sears and Wards Christmas catalogues sure did
Weren’t those catalogues fun to go through and dream of all the toys you wish you had? Not that we’d get them lol but it was fun to dream
I miss those days.
At the end of each summer, we were allowed to go through the Sears catalogue to choose a new pair of shoes and outfit for the start of school in September. Also for Christmas. We would cut out pictures from the outdated catalogues.
DannyDoughboy
New Member
Cap guns and those lead rockets were a blast, yes yes!
peppermint
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- East Coast Yes
How nice. I wish I took after my Mom... We were lucky girls....
Cut out pictures and hang them on the fridge as a subtle hint.
It was the book of dreams
My big sis and I would lie on the living room floor and slowly leaf thru the toy section
We didn't get any of the good stuff
Knew better than to ask, or even hint
Didn't matter
Dreams are like that
We didn’t dare ask either but we encouraged our neighbourhood friends to ask so at least there was a possibility that we could play with them.
In The Sticks
Friend of Frank
I love to do home projects. There's nothing like daily living with things that were done by your own hand.
You're not the first person to say "All you have to do is hem" to me. Can you see my blank stare???
I can't make curtains, but I finally got around to building a cornice for my patio door a while ago. This let me cover the vertical blind hardware and install a rod to hang shears over the blinds.
It came out more formal that I wanted, but it was a matter of available fabric in my rural area.
And this design matches a mantle I built that's in the same room.
squatting dog
We don't have as far to go, as we've already been
- Location
- Arkansas, and also Florida
Heard that.
For a while, I had quite a collection of different vehicles. (mainly because I had to buy a whole lot to get the hotrods). Fire trucks, earth movers, the cool tractor with the farmer looking back, motorcycle police, and a slew of army vehicles. I really thought the caddy convertible was cool.Buying these toys, I learned that the black tires were the oldest, then yellow, and finally white. (another meaningless factoid)
Of all the other toys, the only one I think I should have kept was the cool police car. I had a rare yellow one, (blue was the common) that still had both rear antenna, and light bubble on the roof. (most of them were chewed off, like drivers heads and on the hotrod, the headlights).
I have since hunted and found a complete yellow one, but, too expensive.
JaniceM
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- still lost between two shores..
Everything good I could think of had something negative attached to it, until I finally came up with this: SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB!
A few times the school held little "book fairs" with books on display, but mostly it was the newsletters that came out on a regular basis- kids (and/or their parents) could choose whichever books they wanted, and Scholastic would deliver them to the school.
A few times the school held little "book fairs" with books on display, but mostly it was the newsletters that came out on a regular basis- kids (and/or their parents) could choose whichever books they wanted, and Scholastic would deliver them to the school.
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Can't recall, but I think mine was blue
Yeah, the antennas were the first to go
I'd like to take a moment to thank my little brother...and his dog
Wish I had all those now, but left home quite early, and my brother had his way with them
Still, there are magical places yet today
Places where a goodly portion of Auburn Rubber is enshrined
Yeah, those were THEE ones
I had three
Two red
One green (or blue...can't recall)
One red one I cut the fenders off the front
Turned it into a bulldozer to build my little dirt towns
asp3
Senior Member
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- Silicon Valley, CA
Strangely enough the thing that I have the most emotional connection to is a little Christmas bell I lost on a Los Angeles freeway when I held it out the convertible my dad was driving. It wasn't anything special, but when I think about things I miss that one comes to my heart first.
However a much more practical and greedy desire would be my complete (or nearly complete) set of Monkees bubble gum trading cards. I'm afraid my mother was really good at getting us to throw away things we didn't use even though a number of them would have been worth a decent amount of money now.
However a much more practical and greedy desire would be my complete (or nearly complete) set of Monkees bubble gum trading cards. I'm afraid my mother was really good at getting us to throw away things we didn't use even though a number of them would have been worth a decent amount of money now.
treeguy64
Hari Om, y'all!
- Location
- Austin, TX.
I have both, out in my garage. The problem is that caps are beyond terrible, now. They put a few grains of powder in the caps, and they're not even manufactured with anything that resembles quality. You cannot feed a cap gun, properly, and the rockets do not fire the caps with anything close to the reports we enjoyed, as kids.
DannyDoughboy
New Member
As kids, we used to carefully skin the top of "caps", dump out the powder, and after about 20 or so, we would make a huge firecracker out of the residue! Downside of that was, some times you would scratch to hard, and have a lovely burst of flame in your fingers. lol. Great times though!