Things You Remember Fondly From The Past

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  1. Frank Sanoica

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    @Nancy Hart
    You had a player piano? When you were a kid? I was about 10 or so when my Mother convinced my Dad to buy the one advertised nearby. I was taking piano lessons, and she may have had a "future" for me in mind. It wound up in our basement. Soon, one was advertised for sale: $15.00. We bought it. It, too, went into the basement. One was sold. Neither had been played, as I gave up the lessons, but maybe by the time I was 12 or so, the mechanics of how that thing could play music by just pumping the pedals had infused me with curiosity. I tore that player completely apart, ruined it to be sure, actually understood little about the mechanism, but found an amazing array of rubber tubing connected to little bellows which actuated the keys, the big driving bellows was foot-operated.

    Today, I can envision and understand how they worked, and must give enormous credit to the engineers and designers who back then could create such devices which were beyond their time.

    The wrecked piano was carted off by the garbagemen, piecemeal.

    Fifteen Bucks for a player...... our attic had big boxes of piano rolls stored......they were pitched when I left the Chicago area. More garbage fodder.
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    Porch swings and gliders (All file photos)

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    If I had one now, I'd have a porch bed. :cool::D

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    Several areas I've lived in were miserably loaded with a variety of biting insects......a screened porch was a necessity. The green-headed blood-suckers were among the worst:
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    They commonly bit me on my back through my shirt, as I took my walks in MO.

    The horse-flies were horrible. This one's obviously dead......
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    When life made sense and people had common sense.
     
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    Ladies only: .. Did any of you get this brochure (or something similar) ? . This was all .I got.

    "Go read it," she said. :rolleyes: :eek:

    (Actually I was relieved it was handled that way. :p)

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    I don't miss things, I miss my people.....only during the day because at night they populate my dreams.
     
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    Funny you should say that Lulu...I was just saying to my husband the other day, that most of my dreams now seem to have people in them I haven't seen in decades...or dreams of my daughter when she was a child, or those who've passed..
     
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    Things You Remember Fondly From The Past

    Lightning bugs and June bugs....the first time I saw the ocean... my grandmother giving me strawberries from her garden... coming home from work, parking the car on the grass and pushing my daughter up and down the driveway on her big wheel... walking 4 miles an hour... hand-cranked home-made ice cream, making a poodle skirt for my daughter for school, baking cookies with my grandson for school...

    Great question:)
     
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    Emma, you do make it sound like you have wonderful memories :D
     
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    I posted this in another thread but what the heck, I suppose it can stand reiteration.

    I remember when we had 9 planets in our solar system.
     
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    Emma, you do make it sound like you have wonderful memories :D

    I don't "make it sound" that way. I do have wonderful memories. ;)
     
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    I can only go by what you write...hence ''sound''.. I don't have your memories to ''see''...
     
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    I loved those frosty mugs.
     
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