| Friday, April 25, 2008
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| What Are Your Memories of Summer Time?
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Spring and Summer are my favorite times of year... and while I have quite a few memories to add to my blog, I would love to hear your memories of these wonderful seasons.
If you have photos that you can scan and email me that would really add to the memory post.
So get to digging through your old photographs and send me your memories and copies of your pictures.Labels: old photographs, old time memories, vintage summer memories |
posted by Mishy @ 6:17 PM
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| Monday, February 19, 2007
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| Chatty Cathy Doll
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year_born: 1959
memory_description: It is a doll her name is Chatty Cathy. She has blond hair and a pink dress, lord only knows what happened to her underwear and socks and shoes. I still have her .
Wish I could find someone to make her talk again.
location: Small town
state_lived_in: Georgia
Granny Comment:
How many of us had Chatty Cathy dolls? How about Thumbelina, Tubsey, Cheerful Tearful, Baby First Step.... the dolls of the late 1950s and early 1960s were the best. I have seen reproduction or new issues of these dolls but nothing beats the originals. Labels: antique doll, chatty cathy doll, collectible doll, vintage dolls |
| posted by Mishy @ 12:27 PM
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| Coppercraft Guild Party Memories
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year_born: 1938
memory: Coppercraft Guild. My mother fell in love with this...so did I. I even kept the original catalog and in my handwriting, I had written the original prices of each item in the catalog as they didn't print it. Long before Tupperware, the party plan was alive and well and that is how Mom got tons of Cooppercraft.
location: City
state_lived_in: MinnesotaLabels: Coppercraft Guild Party Memories, vintage copper |
| posted by Mishy @ 11:20 AM
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| Memories of a Constance Bannister Doll
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year_born: 1947
memory: I was five years old. My father came home from work with a big, heavy box-for me! It opened in three pieces on the livingroom floor. My eyes widened in amazement-it was a beautiful baby doll-I had never seen one like her before. She was made of heavy rubber-with features so sweet and pure-hands just like a baby's-little tiny fingers and littler toes! I bit of hair-all rubber- sat atop her little head. I remember seeing babies faces all over the open box. My mother told me that a lady photographer took pictures of real live babies and then had dolls fashioned from these pictures-how babies smile, move, etc. I was so thrilled and excited to own this, what I later came to be none as, my CONSTANCE BANNISTER DOLL. Her name became Candy--all those years ago.
Candy is still with me-and my grand-daughter loves her, too. My hope is that Candy will be passed on down the line from generation to generation along with that person's own story about my Candy Girl-as I call her. She is a bit the worse for the wear and tear of all these years-I want to have her fingers repaired-if someone knows of a place catering to doll repairs in the Brooklyn NY area? I would be very grateful.
The only regret I have about Candy is that I did not keep the original box she came in! How wonderful that would have been. Yet, the memory of that night over fifty two years ago is as clear as if it happened last night. I would not trade Candy for all the sweets in the world! One last thought-she still cries when you squeeze her little tummy-real hard, now-after all-she isn't that young anymore.....
location: City
state_lived_in: NEW YORK |
| posted by Mishy @ 11:20 AM
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| Childhood Items Become Treasured Memories
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year_born: 1961
memory_description: My mom died about 13 years ago. I miss her much.
I have to admit, that long ago, I cared nothing for collectibles, vintage or antiques. Now I have the 1920's IRONS that were thrown in the fireplace to iron clothes, the crocks they used for so many things (including making saurkraut), the cast iron pot belly stove once used to heat a house (I use propane), and some REAL wood furniture (mahogony and early american maple), the depression glass I took for granted all my childhood.
I feel blessed to know all this history and I am honored to have it all in my home.
I have a 17 yr old daughter who doesn't care for any of it...I have to laugh, at her age, I thought all this stuff was goofy too. I hope someday, she will realize all the history and all the workmanship and all the worn beauty these things hold.
I have the Early American Maple table that helped me learn how to walk (I held on to that to pull up). I got to see my own daughter do the same thing years ago....She just had a son, I'm hoping he'll do the same in a few months.
Thank you for letting me share.
location: Small town
state_lived_in: VirginiaLabels: antiques and collectibles, your memories of childhood |
| posted by Mishy @ 10:09 AM
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| A Tragic Story With a Message
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This is a story of a rather recent event that involved an antique family bible from 1850.
Tragically, I lost my son in the war in Iraq, and my chaplain spent hours on writing a sermon for the service. Having never been confronted with such a young loss, he chose the story of David and Goliath to describe my son's efforts and bravery.
Weeks later, during a visit, i showed him these two antique family bibles that I had picked up at an estate sale in 1992. Big thick books that they are, he handled them with the utmost care, using a touch as soft as a feather to open the fragile pages.
These bibles had not been opened for ten years, but sat on a shelf.
In his hands, the book opened to a page, and he gasped. I thought it was in appreciation of the book, but instead he speechlessly pointed to the page, and so I looked. It was the story of David and Goliath.
~ tricia langley Proud Marine Mom of LCpl Sean Michael Langley kia 11-07-2004
location: City
state_lived_in: KY
Granny Comment:
When I first received this email, I wept like I have not in years. I felt as if the life had been sucked out of me but later when I went back and re-read it I saw that Tricia's son was reaching out to his mom to let her know that he is okay. Not that this lessens the pain of her loss. The relationship between a mother and her son is very special and he needed her to know that he is safe and unhurt in his new place.
I want to thank Tricia for sharing this with me, with all of us. Labels: a mother's love, antique Bible, lost son and soldier |
| posted by Mishy @ 9:27 AM
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| Vintage Seaplane Toy
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year_born: 1946
memory_description: I remember as a child, my Father was an Electrician and worked for TVA all over the SouthEast. He would bring presents to my Brother and I and one of the presents was a Sea-Plane with pontoons that you wound with a key and it would move as a Sea-Plane trying to takeoff. My parents had a hard time trying to get me out of the bathtub.
I saw one listed on eBay that was close to the design but not just right. Who know's, if I find one my wife may have a hard time getting me out of the bath.
At 60 I'm still a child at heart and I don't plan on ever growing up.
location: Farm
state_lived_in: MILabels: collectible toy, memories, vintage seaplane toy |
| posted by Mishy @ 9:27 AM
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| Family Thanksgiving and Family Cookbook Memories
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year_born: 1960
memory_description: Our Thanksgiving family reunions at the Baptist Encampment in Brownwood, Texas in the 1960's. My maternal grandmother was from a Texas pioneer farming family and had 12 brothers and sisters. Each Thanksgiving the great aunts and great uncles and their children and grandchildren would gather from all over Texas and the nation to celebrate, give thanks, and reconnect with each other. We always made the trip from Denver, Colorado.
I remember lots of hugs and kisses, and cousins to play with. Dinner was cooked by the great aunts and my grandmother. Their cooking was so loved by all of the family that they were talked into making a family cookbook to share with current and future generations. To this day, I have an original copy (given to me by my mother)and I have made copies to pass on to my sister and her daughter. I will also have copies ready for my sons' wives when that time comes. It is my most tresured cookbook!
location: City
state_lived_in: Colorado
Granny Comment:
I love the cookbook idea, a friend of ours did the same thing. They collected recipes from everyone in the family, had them bound into book form and gave them away.
I am doing the same for my family and hubby's family There is nothing that expresses love quite like food.Labels: family cookbook, holiday memories |
| posted by Mishy @ 9:27 AM
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| Copper Mug Fountain Drink, Old Time Fountain Drink
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year_born: 1938
memory_description: When i was in junior high school grades 7-9 we use to stop at a drug store that had a fountain and they served a drink called a copper mug. It was a copper mug chilled and filled with I believe root beer. Not really sure but it tasted teriffic.
location: City
state_lived_in: wisconsinLabels: Copper Mug Fountain Drink, memories, Old Time Fountain Drink |
| posted by Mishy @ 9:27 AM
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| Wednesday, November 01, 2006
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| Mama's Singer Sewing Machine and Hoosier Cabinet
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year_born: 1942
memory_description: I learned to sew on my Mama's Singer Sewing Machine. The first item I made was a half slip.
Also, in our kitchen was a Hoosier Cabinet --I learned to mix up cake batter and fudge and made my coconut cake from scratch--I have the old Hoosie Cabinet now in my country kitchen and I still can remember when I did all the things with them.
location memory occured: Small town
state_lived_in: Danville, Va. |
| posted by Mishy @ 1:45 PM
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| Laundry Soap Silver Leaf Glass Giveaways
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year_born: 1945
memory_description: I was married in the early 60's and my sister in-law and I used to collect the silver leaf glasses out of laundry soap. These were given as a premium. I still have them to this day. Amazed at what they sell for today.
state_lived_in: Washington |
| posted by Mishy @ 1:22 PM
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| Polyester Memories - Caftans and Bell Bottoms
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year_born: 1957
memory_description: Hi Gran,
I almost fell out of my chair when I saw the caftan and bell-bottom patterns while looking at your site! My Mom made about a dozen of those caftans in all the LOUD polyester fabric(if you want to call it), when I was in highschool. She even made some for the other ladies in the family. Christmas was like an acid trip! Way too much color early Christmas morning!!Thanks so much for the memory, and making me feel really old, knowing I made bell-bottoms for myself. But I NEVER wore one of those crazy caftans! Well, never say never, I guess it could happen. But please God, NO!
state_lived_in: Fort Worth, Texas |
| posted by Mishy @ 12:52 PM
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| Saturday, October 14, 2006
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| Plush Space Mouse When I Had Mumps
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I purchased a little plush Space Mouse from your online antique shop.
When I was about 7 years-old in the 1940s I got the mumps. My mom bought me this very plush space mouse for me while I was sick. He was my constant companion throughout my childhood.
As the years went by I eventually lost my dear friend the Space Mouse. One day when looking on the Internet there was my dear friend.
Thank you for providing my Space Mouse friend. I will not let him go this time. |
| posted by Mishy @ 9:58 AM
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| Saturday, September 23, 2006
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| What is your favorite heirloom?
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PLEASE... participate and let us know what your favorite memories of childhood are.
Do you have a family heirloom that you treasure?
Talk to your grandparent's or aunts and uncles and ask them for some memories. |
| posted by Mishy @ 10:31 PM
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| Monday, July 24, 2006
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| Antique Memories - I Remember When
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Tell us your memories... please share.
With our mobile, minimalist society our memories of the past are not getting passed along through the written word, pictures or voice.
Family photos get sold in garage sales or simply thrown away because no one wants to mess with them or knows who the people are. Grandparent's, aunts and uncles live across the country from their families and grandchildren and do not communicate and when they do... the younger generation really doesn't want to hear about "The Good Old Days."
WELL I DO, I WANT TO KNOW, I AM INTERESTED !!!
So please, if you don't want to use the computer, my mailing address is on the left side of the page, you can mail me your memories or photos. A tape recording would be great too. I will then post the information here on this web log for others to read and learn from. No personal information will be given, I promise. If you need something to jog your memory you can look at my antique shop site and see if there is something on there that brings back a memory. Thank you for helping with this project. |
| posted by Mishy @ 10:13 PM
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