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>> Sunday, January 18, 2009
Mark and I sat down Saturday afternoon and began a discussion of "earliest childhood memories"
Both of us had a fuzzy start to recollecting our past at 6405, but after the first five minutes or so, our memories sparked other memories and time began to fly.
The conversation lasted well over and hour and by the time we were finished we decided to leave some for later.
"the more you share, the more you remember"
We covered the gamut, from milk delivery, to a box truck full of pastries, from Frisch's at the corner of Meis and Hamilton to the Red Barn and silly teen age pranks with pickles. We both recalled Spelunking through the storm drains of North College Hill to watching movies at the Hollywood theater.
In brief here is a collection
C-A-R - C-A-R "Car car" chanted to alert playing children of approaching vehicles.
Calling friends from the sidewalk Oh... Danny or Oh Little Angie.
Les Nessman like leaf houses in the side lot (before the box house was built)
Rock fights/Apple throwing from the back yard to Savannah
The Simpsons/Ashtons
Sled Riding behind the Strassles
The Emersons
Bedroom accomodations at 6405 the building of the Peggy's room.... and a tractor in the basement?
The kitchen layout and a pantry with forbidden movies posted
Community of Hope <--- where was this church? Exactly?
Johnny being burned by oil
and many more....
I had a great time listening to stories of Mark's memories and I believe he was intrigued while listening to some of mine. I would like to ask that if you have some memories to share that you consider posting a comment below.
Enjoy
Jim
17 comments:
The Community of Hope was on Westwood Northen Blvd. We went there with the Schlossers. I asked Debie fro any pictures she has of that and of Indian Lake. I remember three differnt places we stayed on the same street up there. I tlaked to Peg today and we remembered Diane Bader going with us. She recalled a picture she has of Jimmy dancing with er at Johnny's wedding.
I wanted to add kick the can at the Glicks and the store at Meis and Savannah and another at Savannah and Emerson. Gettin a Barq's was the best. We used to keep pop on the back porch befor the deck was built.
What about the "bird Bath"?
Safety town at Tri County mall?
Picking up cigarette buts from wher mom and dad threw them over the side of the porch.
Benches in the back yard and a huge bush we played under.
Someone threw a rcok and it hit Cindy Reis while she was swinging in her back yard.
Riding to St Richard with Dad in his work van.
Slushes from Slattery's, Going on Friday night rides with dad. The Coca-cola bottling plant with 5 cent cokes. Eating at The Red Bird ,Lake Nina,The Chili Co, PFCs in Harrison. Dad's Fried chicken. Mom's meatballs. All the goodies mom and dad brought back from Sugar Creek. I also remember Indian Lake had an amusement park and a skating rink, and sailboat races. Sitting on the porch in the rain.
The dinette was a back porch when we moved in. There was no shower only a bathtub. In the morning we would stand on the register in the kitchen to get warm while we ate our little donuts before school. We actually had a dining room with dining room furniture. That is where we did our homework. There was always a baby bed in mom and dad's bedroom. There used to be 3 doors into mom and dad's bedroom --one was turned into a bookcase, one into a closet. When we got an air conditioner it was only in the living room and we all slept in there when it was really hot. Before that there was only an exhaust fan in the dining room window and we used to call downstairs to Dad to "turn up the fan!"
Every Sunday night Dad would make "pronto pups" for supper (what are called corn dogs now) -- we would eat while we watched TV. We were allowed to have pop to drink on Saturday nights. Barq's came in red, orange, grape, green and root beer.
There isn't enough space to capture every memory.....
Donus made form biscuits! Then shaken in a bag to cost them in powdered sugar. mmmmmm
WHat about the drinking fountian on St Richard palyground? One side for boys and another for girls.
Collecting "Zips and Moos" on car rides.
Assigned seats at thet able and the sun was always in mom's eyes.
Koolaid stands and cvrackers with leftover icing.
The Nutty Butty Man, Mr Softee (real ice cream) and potato chips in big cans.
Working at St ANthiny and St Frances Festival at the brat booth and getting to go to their volunteer picnics.
Cousins weddings where all the girls wore a differnt colr, but same dress.
$2 in a birthday card form Aunt Dot on your birthday.
North College HILL BAKERY CAKE - stil my favorite to this day.
Pinewood Derby where Rob's car did really good.
CHOIR CLUB?? dinners and Sister Club's - what did we eat for dinner on those nights?
The Glicks playhouse!! Wher half of the floor was wood and the oter half brick.
Diane and Donna Garvey and Norene calling to Jimmy in his playpen on the front porch - O a WAH!!!
Cokie day when dad ate al the burned ones. Now I feed them to the birds!
Going with dad to pick out a Christmas tree.
Debbie just wrote and and said that before she could mention Indian LAke - he mentioned it to her. He is on the hospital now, but should be going home soon.
Grandma Hans and Grandma Gillespie lived in a house on Chase Ave. in Northside. Grandma Gillespie worked in a pharmacy about a block and a half away. Sometimes I would go and spend the weekend with her and go to work with her. I would read comic books and she would fix me fountain drinks. Sometimes we would walk down to Knowlton's corner and go to Benediction at St. Boniface, a beautiful church, on Friday afternoon and then we would go shopping in some of the stores around there. She always bought me something.
Dad sang in the choir at St. Mark's so we continued to go there after we moved to Meis Ave. We often stopped for White Castles after Mass. They were 5 cents.
When Dad had an accident coming back from St. Mark's one Sunday, Grandma was in the back seat and broke her leg. It was after that that she and Grandma Hans moved in with us on Meis Ave. I think Mark was a toddler then.
We shared a bedroom with Grandma Gillespie and at night we would say our prayers and Mom would sit at the bottom of the steps and listen. Eventually Grandma put some of the prayers to music and we would sing them. She had a beautiful music box that I loved that played Ave Maria.
Well it seems that this is the Peg and Jane show here -
Where are they now?
Johhny Byrd friend of Angie
Ricky Williams
The Weary's
The Straussel's
David Pittenger
The Ernst's (lived there before Link's)
I am still in touch with Debbie Schlosser and Lori Reis
I remember -
the dream house at St Joseph Infant Home at Homearama
Seeing al tha babies before they were adopted. When they built the new building.
Rob's seat in the station wagon which was somewhere between the back seat and the "backity back seat"
Clothes that matched-new white "KEDS" for Indian Lake where we ate the the REDBIRD.
The pipe organ in the basement that you had to pump with your feet.
Mom cooking in the basement when the kitchen got redone (in the 70's?) We ate down there too.
GAMES -
Mark had Mouse Trap
Kay had "Catch a chcken tory"
Blind Date - Poindexter as one of the guys you got on a game
Masterpiece
Spirograph - Rob's (go figure)
TV-MUSIC -
Rob got It's a small world record and played that thing to death!!! He also loved THE JUNGLE BOOK.
Dad took us to the Mt Healthy drive in to see Sword in the Stone and Paint Your Wagon
Staying up late to watch Bob Shreve. Sometimes getting to see the test pattern or the sad Indian.
Hattie the Witch and Snarfie R Dog when channel 19 fist started.
SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS!!!!!!
then JOBS - no wonder I clean on Saturdays.
Getting to pick the shows to watch on TV because it was your birthday.
BEDTIME
Mom watching DR CASEY - it was time to go to bed.
CAN SOMEONE TURN OUT THE LIGHT????
I am not sure about why no one got out of bed - were we just that well behaved or were we all scared of the bogey man?
The older you were the later you were allowed to stay up.
OUTINGS -
Dad took us to the place where they were going to build an amusement park called "KINGS ISLAND" I remember him being excited about the idea.
Dad took us to Strickers Grove when it was in Mt Healthy. Kay and I spent alot of time going round on the Tilt a Whirl.
Dropping mom/Norma off at Bingo at St Margret Mary on Friday nights. Sometimes she brought Coneys home!
LOVE LOVE AND MORE LOVE
We were realy surrounded! Still are.
We didn't have many toys - we played with wach other.
You are not alone Jane... I too felt as if it may be the "Jim" show, but ... none the less I am viewing as are others.
How about the girls dancing to "The Cowsils" on the front porch.
Going to an ice cream parlor at Brentwood Bowl.
The Boogey Man
The Snow Snake
Mom's Butterscotch Pie
The Chili Company and dad's acquisition of 2nds.... their "home fries"
6 mile house
Wearing the "Civil Defense Helmet" and clacking the clacker.
Where are they now... David Pittinger works for the County, and has been "an extra" in several movies that have taken place in Cincy.
Famous Sayings -
I can't beleive I lost that BIG ASS watering can - Dad (1995)
I don't know who's friend this was, but Jerry & I stopped to see Mary on Tuesday and there was a sign in her front yard that said "Beach Tree Service" with a phone number. I asked Danny Garvey and he said he and Ralph Beach, who still lives up the street on Meis, have started a business together. Anyone remember Ralphie?
That was a friend of Angie's. It seems he had a younger sister named Sue.
My favorite thing was the fact that we all grew up in the same house and yet each of us had different memories. For the first time I thought there was an advantage to being in the middle of the family. I remembered things that hapened in the forst half and the last half. I never told about my earliest memory - which was my favorite topic. My earliest memeory is when I watched Kay ride down the basements steps in her wlaker.I remember mom pushing her teeth back into her gum at the bottom of the steps. AND NO I didn't push her. Mom said both her and I had the chicken pox at the time. She was about 9 months old and I was about 2 and a half. I also think I remember spending the night at aunt Rosies house but mom said the only time I did was when Kay was born. That would make me 21 months. But I remember seeing the ice cream truck outside her window and I was on her couch and it was dark and Kay was born in the summer. I hate the thought that Stella and KAycee won't remember all these good times we are having.
Mark wrote:
Jane
is
a
FINK
In my Grimms Fariy tale book.
Dad's stories of WWII
He recieved a Airforce metal for pulling a man from a burning plane.
During a flight back to base after a mission, he removed a piece of shrapnel from the cockpit above him with a knife - I still have the piece and it is still very sharp.
He told me he would stand in the rain and take showers.
I remember that every time you had a question about how something worked or why something happened the way it did, Dad always had an answer or an explanation. Sometimes, it still didn't make sense, but even now, I find myself thinking, "I'll bet Dad would know that....". Like my furnace. Last week I noticed, the thermostat would click on the motor, but the fan would not come on. For about an hour or so, this happened; the thermostat dropped about 2 degrees. This happened on and off for a few days. I called my HVAC guy and he came and found nothing wrong and charged me $56. Dad would have known what was wrong.
I went with Dad to visit Angie and to the TOTES outlet. I asked him why ice floated. It was about a 15 minute lesson but Now I know.
I also remeber that when he and I would go to SAms and he was ready to check out - he would whistle like a cardinal so now every time I here that whistle it feels like he is waiting for me "at the checekout line"
I remember GI Joe with the Kung Foo Grip! Rob and I rigging a string at the top of the stairs to the bottom and sending him down repeatedly until the string cut through his fingers...
His Kung Foo Grip was his downfall.
He was a red head with a coarse beard and reminded me more of Yukon Cornelius.
I remember Meis Avenue and the Gillespie family. I remember playing football with Mark in the field next to Pilar of Fire on Collegeview. I remember walking to St. Richard of Chichester church every day except during summer break. I remember sled riding between Pilar of Fire Church and Steele Subdivision. I remember playing in Aspen "woods". I remember the man who sell wooden toys and games during the summer. I remember collecting and returning empty pop bottles for money o by a cold pop at Fultons Corner store. I remember walking down Meis to Emerson to Savannah to Harbeson and back to Meis with my grandpa. I remember playing neihborhood flash light tag after dark. I remember the Beaches, the Bosses, the Powers, the Garvys, the Glicks (Danny), the Hoovers, etc
Lots of great memories,
George Lucas
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