What are some of your earliest memories ?

Olivia said:
When l was a young girl about three years old l lived in my great grandmother's apartment in an apartment building
in Vienna, Austria, along with my mother. My dad was U.S. ARMY and lived on the Army base barracks.

One day l was walking down the staircase from our second floor apartment when there was a little boy a little older
than me wearing a mask. l don't know where he went to but l'll never forget him. His memory for me has stuck
with me all these years of my life.

There was a meaning to that boy which I am yet to learn but l just know l will.
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what year was this Olivia ?
 

I think Mom wanted Shirley Temple but she got me instead. I was never going to be little and cute. :D
I remember in grade school she would dress me in dresses that tied in a bow in the back and shoes with lace anklets.
I liked to hang upside down on the monkey bars. Every day I would come home with my bow untied
and sometimes my dress ripped at the waist. Skinned up knees and my socks down in my shoes.
Great Gram made me fancy bloomers to wear under my dresses so I wouldnt show my underwear.

And I still remember those darn crinolines we had to wear under our dresses. If you sat on it that netting would hurt and leave hash marks on your thighs.

In the winter you still had to wear a dress no matter how cold it got but you could wear "snow pants".
As soon as you got inside you had to take them off. Heaven forbid little girls would be seen in pants in public. :D
 
hollydolly said:
what year was this Olivia ?
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It had to be 1951, anyway when l was around 3 years old. Left Vienna when l was 3 years old. Years later when l visited Vienna when l was 50 years old, a tenant let us in to the building and l was surprised to learn that the staircase (the one the boy was on) supposedly going up, did not exist.
 
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When my grandma took me for a walk and I ran into a parked car, it so hard I fell to the sidewalk.Grandma took me home and started trying to see how bad my eyesight was. She narrowed it down to I could see 3 inches in front of my face. Grandma had an appointment for my 15 year old uncle in a few days so she took me instead (He already had glasses).

She promised me cartoons if I was a good girl.I was a very good girl, but grandma couldn't find a theater in Los Angeles that had cartoons, so she took to a comedy. I remember it was Champagne For Caesar. In those days they didn't know as much about children's eyes. But my grandmother saved my vision!

Some years ago I made an appointment with an ophthalmologist, she checked me out and asked why I thought I needed glasses, I told her I had worn glasses since I was 5. She said there was nothing they can do for my bad eye (I knew that)but that my good eye was 20/20.Grandma was gone by then. How I would have loved to tell her!
 
Olivia said:
It had to be 1951, anyway when l was around 3 years old. Left Vienna when l was 3 years old. Years later when l visited Vienna when l was 50 years old, a tenant let us in to the building and l was surprised to learn that the staircase (the one the boy was on) supposedly going up, did not exist.
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Perhaps the one you saw was an Angel... 🤷‍♂️
 
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