Take a walk down memory lane with us

Remember the tall metal slides in the playground? Fiery hot in the summer and cold in the winter....That was the only play equipment that we had, plus a basket ball goal. We made up the rest.

APRONS, ones for daytime and party ones too.

ah yes to braided clover. we wore it in our hair and around our necks too.

Aprons with ruffles and embroidery and a pocket on the side (s)......still have some of my Grandmother's.

`embroidered hankies for the ladies and pocket handkerchiefs with monogram for the gents!

Have some of those, too. My attic runneth over.

OK my friends,
We have so far 3 birthdays from the 30's
and 5 from the 40's.
Most of you have not checked in yet.........or did you go away and leave me here all alone?

I'm here, 40's. right in the middle to be exact!

April 1955

hey Jasper, you're just a kid! doesn't that feel great

Awwww Jasper, we would never have guessed.....

How about a vote, we have to set some kind of limit on it I guess, so vote before 12 noon Sat. 12/09 if you want to start a memories part 2 or not. a simple yes or no will do it.

A KID ?????? I WISH !!! That makes me 1/2 a century and one year !!!

and those of us born in the 40's and 30's are what then half a century plus. . . .

I vote YES !!!

Yes!

We're all bringing up memories of just about everything except plants and gardens.!!!! It would be interesting to see which plants, or types of gardens got us interested in gardening, and WHEN.

When I was growing up everything here was palm trees, philodendrons and junipers, etc. nothing really "gardeny"...it seemed like everyone grew the same boring things...no variety....every house looked the same...

Ya know what, only two votes in for yes, bu I was thinking that since JasperDale brought up the gardening theme of yesteryear, why not make the new thread for those memories and continue this one as it started.

thoughts? votes? wahtever y'll want to do.

This might be a good topic starter for the next thread.....Good idea, Jasper, though I think I have touched on the mountain laurel and wild azaleas of western VA and eastern KY, I don't think I elaborated.

We did it again, Jude....great minds and all that. You just post faster than I can.....

I'll go with whatever everyone wants...it's all interesting to me, regardless of the topic !!!

Didn't mean to offend anyone about the palm tree, juniper, thing....they just lost their "novelty" here many years ago....

wanna wait to see what others chime n with in the morning?

Yep, let's wait, and Jasper a palm tree in KY would be a real novelty anytime!

nobody is or was offended Jasper, of course I can realy only speak for myself, but why would anyone be?

when I was growing up, everyone had huge elms out on the parkway, oaks pines elsewhere on the property. flower beds were just that, beds of foundation plantings, junipers with something growing for color in front. oh there were a great many privet hedges too, mostly woody at the bottom because nobody knew proper pruning. my favorites were in the shade garden that was mostly rocks but had wild violets and lily of the valley growing. nobody was inventive, creative or dared to be different. it was boring with a capitol B.

I can send you all the palm trees you want !!!! When it's windy here, the streets are littered with huge dried up palm fronds...they crash into houses, cars, people.....I'll trade you Cal. Palm Trees for Kentucky Daylily's !!!

can't trade those to me Jasper, I have them here in great number, not on my property but they're all around.

someone two blocks away actually climbed up two really tall ones that tower over everything else in the area then wrapped them in red lights for the season. he's lucky it didn't topple with him in/on it. I've seen them come down, not just send debris all over in a high wind.

Jude...we had elms on the parkway as well...and we loved them...they would form a canopy over the street and were really beautiful when they new growth came out in Spring...(or what "we" call spring...!!!)

I only made the apology because I know some people here are really into tropicals, and like Sharran said, a palm in KY would be a novelty....I guess it's like everything else...you tend to want what you don't have !!!

I live in the desert southwest. I DONT have cactus on my property and I DON"T want any! there goes your theory Jasper. jsut kidding about your theory, but not about cacti, I hate them

they're not on my top 10 list either !!!!

Way to go, JD, but I am afraid your palm trees would not survive the 17 degree weather we had this morning. However, I can share a daylily or two next fall. You will have to let me know a favorite color and I will mark it for you when they bloom in summer.

I always wanted to live on a street with those oaks that formed a canopy, but we had crape myrtles that the city planted in what we used to call the parking. They were pretty in the summer and grew fast. In our back yard we had the biggest apricot tree in the world and a Chinese Elm at the side of the house. My father hated the elm tree because he always had to be cleaning up after it.

My father grew flowers--roses, sweet peas, dahlias, lilacs, Dusty Miller, others that I don't remember--and I grew vegetables for years to feed my family. Only had marigolds for bug control back then. Had some containers now and then, but when I moved to this house in 1999 I began my big flower gardening career.

I vote that we keep going with all of this and I don't care which way we do it. I just don't want us to stop. We might need to start a second thread of this line anyway for those on dialup. I hadn't thought about those poor souls trying to wait for this thing to load.

gardengram...how far (or close) are you from New Bern ??? I have a good friend who lives there.

JD--I checked the Google Map site and it says 130 miles. It's been a really long time since I was down there and it was part of a week-long trip.

june 1943

darius - the box was senor wences (sure i spelled it wrong) he was a ventranaquist (sp again)

i remember that "earth angel" was the very first song played by allen freed on the radio and it was the first time the music was referred to as ROCK N ROLL. bill haley claims that his "rock around the clock" was the first but i was listening that night when allen free first used the term rock and roll and the first song was earth angel. my wife loves "in the still of the night" by the five satins. i still have all the records by buddy holly as well as by paul and paula, the brothers four, the letterman, the coasters, everly brothers.

will visit again tomorrow. this is simply the greatest.

I vote yes....

And JD...I have a son born in 1954...and a daughter in 1955....hitting the "senior status" is bad enough....but when your kids start getting mail from AARP....and qualify to go to the same Senior Groups you do....UGLY!

Does anyone remember these horrid machines?? Jo

I'm sorry that I have not been around for the last few days I now have to spend about an hour catching up!

Jo, thanks for answering about Mary Tyler Moore being the dancing cigarette pack. She was also the throaty-voiced telephone operator whose legs were the only thing they showed on some detective show. Do you remember which one? Because I don't.

I never had a perm from one of those, but I know what it is. Is it yours?

I'm 60 years old.

Please start a new thread, this one is getting long. Don't restrict it to just gardening though.

I had a permanent under one of those things every year just before school started! It was AWFUL. It fried your hair and your scalp and it smelled bad. I was so glad when home permanents came along, but I still hated the friz I had to live with.

I was all excited about becoming a great-grandmother, until I realized that made me the mother of a grandmother. Now THAT'S an entirely new perspective!!

I second Darius' request. We need two new ones, one to continue this and one for gardening memories. How about that?

Here you go gang,
Memory Lane part 2
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/676881/