NOSTALGIA - REMEMBER WHEN

[releventchair]

Got paid a penny a piece for nightcrawlers at park store. 25 cents a full grocery bag of dandelion flowers from a wine maker. Actually had a net worth!

 

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[stefen]

Some friends and I walked the Blacklick Creek with a gunny sack on 2 long sticks netting up crawdads for bait...lotta work, nobody wanted any...

 

[stefen]

Remember eating ripe Pawpaws from the woods and getting a rash around my mouth...

Remember mom stringing mitten thru our jacket sleeves with yarn so we wouldn't lose them...

Remember the wearing rubber boots that buckled in the front...in the rain and snow...never fastening them...and tripping because the buckles would catch...don't think they make them anymore...

 

[Mackaydon]

Stefen, sure do remember those rubber boots; we called them 'galoshes'; and the smaller rubber boots that only covered the shoes were called 'rubbers'. Times have changed...
Don.....

 

[AC1955]

5 cent Hershey bars that were twice the size of the ones sold today.

 

[AC1955]

One childhood memory for me was learning how to speak Yiddish (taught to me by a friend's Mom) so I could understand what my folks were talking about when they would nod at me and say "the kinder..." and then proceed to discuss things that I shouldn't know about!

 

[stefen]

This was a common practice with immigrants to America...

Oy...You live in America you speak American...

Except in my circumstances, whenever any of us kids came within earshot, my parents conversations immediately switched to english...or shall we say, Yidglish...

In fact, our family conversations were an admixture of yiddish, deutsch, hollandisch and english...

We were not allowed to take Spanish or French as a language in HS...and Latin was the only remaining choice and it sucked...

Foreign foods such as Chinese, Mexican, italian (pizza) and the like were not permitted in the house...

Yet, we were all sent to a 95% Dutch Skol, and yes, we were forbidden to associate with our classmates...(pure BS)

Of the 400 plus classmates, about 50 couples recently attended our wedding...as a class, we have an annual reunion (about 50% are still living and attend)....and by the end of August, we will have had 3 local reunions this year alone...

Forbidding the ability to assimilate or speak other languages is crippling...so we all took language 1 step further...

My sisters children speak English, German, Russian and French...

My brothers girls speak English, Japanese, German, Puni (India) and French...

My eldest grandaughter speaks English, Spanish, French and Mandarin Chinese...

The other grandkids all speak English, Spanish and French...