Remembering Past Home,
Relatives, the 60’s.
Here are this week’s questions:
1. Did your parental home have a ‘parlour’ or front room reserved only for when you had visitors?
The home I live in beginning in junior high did have a front room, however, visitors were always welcomed into the family room for visits. The front room was just a passageway to the dining room or family room.
2. Did you ever go to stay with relatives during the school holidays?
I often stayed with my maternal grandparents when school was out. I would ride the city bus with my grandmother to go to church or shopping. Sometimes when we were at the house we would snap beans getting them ready to cook. Times with my maternal grandmother were good times I’ll always remember and treasure.
3. Did relatives (cousins, grandparents) come to stay with your family in the holidays?
Relatives never stayed at our house growing up. We usually always gathered at my maternal grandparents home for Sunday dinners, Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners and for extended family gatherings.
4. What do you remember from the 1960s.
What I remember from the sixties is the carefree life, the playing outside till the street lights came on, the skateboards we made ourselves using old shoe skates, riding my bicycle all over the neighbourhood without a helmet (never knew we needed one back then) and the ease of walking the streets never being afraid of anything or anyone.
I remember the music, the cabinet television (only one in the home) with having to go to it to change a channel, its signing off at midnight (they didn’t use to plays shows all night long).
I remember a lot about the sixties, it was a great time to be a kid. The joys we found in the simplest things. Things are so simple anymore, life changes and we adapt.
Gratitude:
“Life is one big, continuous circle of giving and receiving energy. Be thankful for who and what’s in your life, instead of complaining about what you don’t have. If you focus on gratitude, you’ll start to attract prosperity and abundance.”
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God Bless. Thank you for sharing in my world. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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Nice post and gratitude. Thanks for joining in and sharing your world.
It wasn’t skateboards that were the rage when I was a kid, but Go Karts made from wooden crates on old pram wheels. We could play in the streets without the worry of some idiot tearing through the estate at 50mph in a suped up motor car, the bus service was pretty reliable and frequent, and we had conversation, card or board games if we had visitors. We had a cabinet TV, black and white, 2 channels, and a radio built in. They played the national anthem at the end of broadcasting and then the white dot disappeared until the following day.
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Thank You! When was in grade school we lived on a major road, so we didn’t play in the streets. Skateboarding wasn’t a popular thing back in the day. I think it was just getting started & we all made our own. Yes, I remember them playing the National Anthem and then going off.
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