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Mar 16, 2009 6:25 AM CST do you remember when grandpa said....."I remember when"
snugglysenior
snugglyseniorsnugglyseniorDover, New Jersey USA38 Threads 1 Polls 284 Posts
It was a long time ago but it really did happen. We saw it in the movies, newsreels, newspapers, and some of us actually lived during the time when:

- There were air raid drills when I was in school. I had to get under my desk at the sound of a siren

- At night my parents pulled the shade and curtains to create a "blackout"

- People built bomb shelters in their basements

- "I remember when" I had to walk to school in 4 feet of snow.laugh Young people hear that all the time and they laugh. It was unheard of for your parents to drive you to school when I was a youngster

- My mother washed my hair with egg shampoo and rinsed it with vinegar to make it shine
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Mar 16, 2009 6:32 AM CST do you remember when grandpa said....."I remember when"
kissmedeeply
kissmedeeplykissmedeeplyPetitcodiac, New Brunswick Canada70 Threads 15,139 Posts
Well its my father that says that..

I remember when i had to walk many miles in snow deep to the knee and barefootroll eyes
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Mar 16, 2009 6:41 AM CST do you remember when grandpa said....."I remember when"
BOBANBOBAN
BOBANBOBANBOBANBOBANPozarevac City, Central Serbia Serbia8 Threads 3,464 Posts
It was not so long ago.
Serbia 1999.
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Mar 16, 2009 6:48 AM CST do you remember when grandpa said....."I remember when"
snugglysenior
snugglyseniorsnugglyseniorDover, New Jersey USA38 Threads 1 Polls 284 Posts
kissmedeeply: Well its my father that says that..

I remember when i had to walk many miles in snow deep to the knee and barefoot


Why did you have to walk barefoot in the snow?
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Mar 16, 2009 6:49 AM CST do you remember when grandpa said....."I remember when"
snugglysenior
snugglyseniorsnugglyseniorDover, New Jersey USA38 Threads 1 Polls 284 Posts
Does anyone in the United States still have an old bomb shelter in their basement?
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Mar 16, 2009 6:57 AM CST do you remember when grandpa said....."I remember when"
kissmedeeply
kissmedeeplykissmedeeplyPetitcodiac, New Brunswick Canada70 Threads 15,139 Posts
snugglysenior: Why did you have to walk barefoot in the snow?
No dear my father would always say that to us kids when we complain about walking far in the snow when we were young
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Mar 16, 2009 7:07 AM CST do you remember when grandpa said....."I remember when"
snugglysenior
snugglyseniorsnugglyseniorDover, New Jersey USA38 Threads 1 Polls 284 Posts
rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing Duh on me. Only half way through first cup of coffee.

You are the same age as my daughter so you don't remember years ago when a snow storm really was a snow storm. You're in the Carolinas now .....don't know if you've always been there....but the south didn't get snow like we did in the north. I can still vividly see myself shoveling snow before my father went to work.
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Mar 16, 2009 7:08 AM CST do you remember when grandpa said....."I remember when"
kissmedeeply
kissmedeeplykissmedeeplyPetitcodiac, New Brunswick Canada70 Threads 15,139 Posts
snugglysenior: Duh on me. Only half way through first cup of coffee.

You are the same age as my daughter so you don't remember years ago when a snow storm really was a snow storm. You're in the Carolinas now .....don't know if you've always been there....but the south didn't get snow like we did in the north. I can still vividly see myself shoveling snow before my father went to work.
laugh nope just been here for 5 months..but hopefully
going back soon when we sellteddybear
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Mar 16, 2009 7:09 AM CST do you remember when grandpa said....."I remember when"
kissmedeeply
kissmedeeplykissmedeeplyPetitcodiac, New Brunswick Canada70 Threads 15,139 Posts
snugglysenior: Duh on me. Only half way through first cup of coffee.

You are the same age as my daughter so you don't remember years ago when a snow storm really was a snow storm. You're in the Carolinas now .....don't know if you've always been there....but the south didn't get snow like we did in the north. I can still vividly see myself shoveling snow before my father went to work.
I am a Canadain and we get alot of snow..i was talking to
mom and she said this year was the worst in alot of years...snow
snow snow..and never stops and the weather -45 for days..

so i dont miss that for sure
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Mar 16, 2009 7:17 AM CST do you remember when grandpa said....."I remember when"
Italy101
Italy101Italy101union, New Jersey USA19 Threads 4 Polls 420 Posts
My grandmother still has the first alarm clock and television in her attic! and they still work! She is 93 yrs old. Born on Christmas day!
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Mar 16, 2009 7:21 AM CST do you remember when grandpa said....."I remember when"
snugglysenior
snugglyseniorsnugglyseniorDover, New Jersey USA38 Threads 1 Polls 284 Posts
Italy101: My grandmother still has the first alarm clock and television in her attic! and they still work! She is 93 yrs old. Born on Christmas day!


I'm surprised that they still work. They made quality things in the "good 'ol days". Proof is your grandmother is still alive and kicking. God bless her.
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Mar 16, 2009 9:16 AM CST do you remember when grandpa said....."I remember when"
druidess6308
druidess6308druidess6308Aliquippa, Pennsylvania USA79 Threads 13,695 Posts
I remember my grandfather talking about being over in Germany in WWII. And my Papa and I used to take long walks in Troy, NY when we'd visit there. During those he would tell me what it was like there when he was growing up. We talked about all kinds of things.

But no, no real memories of the types of things you mentioned in your OP, Snuggs. Nobody in my family really did that. wine
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Mar 16, 2009 10:20 AM CST do you remember when grandpa said....."I remember when"
hey i 've got 4 kids' 14 grandkids' and 16 greatgrand kids so it's my turn to say i remember when and the younger ones look in awe and don't believe it' the big joke is i took my drivers test in a covered wagonrolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
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