Anyone get lonely for the past?

Glowbug57 · Post by **Glowbug57** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:21 am

I do. I think of Christmas when I was in grammar school and so I now have a silver aluminum tree with a color wheel. I even purchased a vintage bottle of "Skinny Dip". Sure doesn't smell like I remember. Maybe because it's been sitting in the bottle for so long. I have all the old Christmas videos. I even wish I had some of my old toys, but that's O.K., I look them up on the internet! I miss going to the old malls with my mom. Sometimes it's just great medicine for the soul to go back in time and remember when life was so carefree and it was so easy to be happy. I was such a happy kid, and I will feel like my old self again. I guess I'm just a sentimental, nostalgic person. I think those of us who suffer from depression are also sensitive people.

Anyone else have any childhood memories they like to re-live?

ClearSky · Post by **ClearSky** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:29 am

It's probably quite common. I just said, "goodbye" to my past so I can move on...but now I have to get rid of a lot of physical things that are holding me back. Ready to live again and stop just existing. Now have to physically clear house of past ties.

Some nostalgia is okay, but it's counterproductive to LIVE in the past.
" the past is history, tomorrow a mystery.
today is a gift: that's why it's called the present."

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:14 am

I miss going to the 'old' malls with my mom too. Gosh I haven't thought of that fond memory for a long time. The Christmas decorations were so different then than they are now. Just simple things that didn't talk or move around and dance! I remember coming home from college for the weekend and going to the drugstore/deli with mom to meet my aunt for a chipped ham sandwich and a cup of coffee. In those days everyone smoked and there were always red lipstick stains on the coffee mugs! Ha Ha Ha I'm glad you brought this up- I love these memories.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:03 am

Aluminum tree with color wheel. lol. WE had one also when I was about 11 to 18. I miss my parents who are both deceased now, the house I grew up in, my grandmother and uncle who owned and ran a cafe in the town I grew up in. I miss the tv going off the air at midnite and waiting for it to come on again at 6 in the am. I miss the simpler life I knew as a child and the downtown stores that are no longer there. I miss 49 cent big macs, 4 for a dollar burgers, 33 cent a gallon gasoline and cruising for an hour or two down the strip on the weekends with friends. [American Graffiti anyone?] When I was 10 it cost 15 cents to go to a movie on Saturday, a dime for a bag of popcorn and a dime for a pop. I got my first transistor radio when I was 12. I think it was 6 transistors. lol We didn't have color tv until I got into college. Lots of good stuff from my past.

Are there any A&W [root beer] drive-ins left?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:33 am

Oh my! Yes! I miss so many things. Shopping with my mother, and shopping with my dad. Dad was fun because he’d always buy us lots of junk to eat. My dad enjoyed shopping for appliances. I remember our first color television. Dad came home from work, told us to run and get in the car. We probably had some of those 49 cent hamburgers that evening, with a chocolate milkshake! Dad tried out every television in the store and finally went back to the first one. He put it in the trunk, had to tie the trunk with a rope to close. We were the only household in our entire area with a color television. Neighbors came over every Sunday to watch Bonanza and the Sunday night movie. Everyone under the age of 12 came to our house to watch The Wizard of Oz. As for Christmas, I remember the bubble lights. When you plugged them in they glowed and bubbles percolated inside the glass bulbs. My uncle worked for the forestry service, so every year after Thanksgiving we drove up the mountain and bought a tree fresh from the forest. Wow. It made the house smell so cool! And I miss summers when all my city cousins got to spend a month with us in the country. We rode our horses and swam in the rivers, and they helped us with our ranch chores. Yeah. I miss so much. Especially, I miss the people. My brother and both my parents are gone now and I never see my cousins. But memories are great, aren’t they? I am grateful for so many wonderful memories. Thanks for this topic. I haven’t thought of these events in a very long time. Wow, there was a lot of happiness, wasn't there?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:27 pm

Oh, I forgot about the bubble lights!!! lol WE also placed aluminum icicles on our aluminum tree. lol. And I used to go to my cousins to watch Bonanza on Sundays on their color tv. Great family times with aunt, uncle, and cousin. My cousin is now the head cook at the Tiptop in San Antonio and recently The Food Channel did a piece on the restaurant and my cousin on "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives". His dad owned the cafe in my hometown.

I still have my Sears typewriter I bought when I was a junior in high school in 1967 and as far as I know it still works. It's electric. I also have one of Sear's first small, portable, rechargeable four function calculators. I bought it in 1973 as a senior in college for about $93.

Carolyn Dickman · Post by **Carolyn Dickman** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:21 pm

Oh my God!! I am a 40 year old man, and I remember that silver Christmas tree with the color wheel!!!. I too am nostalgic, and I often think about ""the old times" I was abused as a child severely, but Christmas was ALWAYS special to me. I am struggling with anxiety now, but I do believe that I am getting better. Good luck to you, my friend. If you ever need to talk please look me up.

Kucek · Post by **Kucek** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 2:24 am

I remember the silver christmas tree but I also remember the tree wit popcorn on a string as decorations.does anyone remember the radio that you could plug in the radiator at school. lol.or on a steel pipe.I remember each sunday after church we would drive to the country and they would have a home coming and there would be all kinds of food and I was so bashful.maybe that was why I was so skinny then.
going to the movies on a saturday to see buck rogers on the scree.you could go and get a drink and popcorn and it cost 25 cent.25 cent hamburgers.sear sucker shirts and madris shirts that bled when you washed them.
recently I drove to the country and beleive it or not there is still a house standing that was my grandmothers sister.it was sturdy and built good for that time.like someone said cousins do not come too visit.why I do not know.what makes it all worth while is that in grade school I met jackie and we have been married going on 4 years this coming april.sofigure that one out

thanks for bringing that one up. some things are left behind and the good things we can look back on.for tose that have had a hard time we have to forgive those that did us wrong.so I know that feeling but its gone.God Bless
don
5 hotdogs for a $1 orange crush.ice cream in cups with a picture under the lid.with a wooden spoon.peach soda,sliced blognia as thick as you want it.hand me down clothes.puting a warm rock in the bed to keep warm.tvs that had a round screen and someone to hold to rabbit ears lol.a piece of palstic placed over the screen so it would be a color tv lol.dickies.and on and on and on the list goes.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 3:38 am

I can remember party lines on our telephones! Three people on the same line. You could actually pick up the phone and listen to your neighbor's phone conversation, or tell them to get off because you needed to make a call. Private lines were expensive and they had a waiting list.
Round tv's -lol I remember one of those. You could barely see the picture and everything was so dark and little! We were the first to get a square tv, and I was so excited that my first picture I drew in first grade was of our tv and I still have it!
Anyone else have any "oldie but goodies" to share?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 4:05 am

Going to the drug store to get an ice cream, in a sugar cone. We didn't get a color TV till I was 16 years old. The late 60's and early 70's with all the hippie deal, and the clothes. Watching the fugitive,FBI, Emergency ,the Avengers,and the Partridge Family on TV. Going places with friends, and not worrying about kidnappers, or predators.Eating stax cereal, also quisp, and quake cereals. Anyone remember those?