Things You Remember Fondly From The Past

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  1. Thomas Stearn

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    We still have lots them in many cities including Leipzig where I live. There are many different designs, some older (see tram in the background), some newer like this one.
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    I don't see the older trams anymore which used to look like this one when I was young.

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    Now that I look back on it, why did my jeans have cuffs back in the day?

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    Living in Florida and being a boy, I'd have to 'unroll' my cuffs before
    entering the house to get the sand out.

    Did they buy them so when I grew, you just undid the cuff and added life
    to the jeans?
    Fat chance of that, considering how hard I was on clothes...

    I also remember the iron-on knee patches my mom put on my jeans.
     
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    "Iron Poor Blood".

    That's why you feel so down and depressed.
    2 tablets or 2 tablespoons of this and all is right with the world.

     
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  4. Thomas Stearn

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    'cos it was fashionable at the time, I assume. I'd have killed to get some of those back then, preferably Levi's 507.
     
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    @Thomas Stearn you are probably right, just what was available.

    Remember waiting for your new 'school' clothes to break in...everything was stiff!

    And just realized that Geritol liquid has 12% alcohol in that bottle.
    No wonder people got a 'lift' from that stuff.
     
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    Oh how lovely Betty White was back in the day.... wonder if she took that stuff herself, perhaps what's why she's so sprightly in her 90's?:D
     
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    [​IMG] I still have many of the 45's stored in the attic I had as a teen..all worn down smooth they were played so often...
     
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    A portable record player!
     
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    New Orleans has had about the same model trolley for as long as I can remember. The garden district has all the trolleys and the rest of the city uses buses.
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    We got new winter coats every three years. The first year, the coat was new and pretty but it was too big. Second year it fit fine but was getting a little shabby. Third year the sleeves were too short and Mom would sew cuffs into the sleeves. Then the cycle would start over.

    The thing I remember the fondest was the "Easter Outfit". New dress, new little hat, new gloves, new shiny patent leather Mary Janes, new socks with lace. Once a year I thought I was a princess.
     
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    Sunrise on horseback..[​IMG]
     
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