What do you miss from your childhood??

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by Mr. Steinway

I loved listening to the Cubs play baseball on the radio. My heros were Ernie Banks, Ron Santo and Billy Williams. I'll never forget my uncle taking me and my cousins to Wrigley Field to watch the Cubs play the Cardinals when I was nine years old. That was the greatest day of my childhood life! The Cubs won with a gland slam by Cubs shortstop Paul Popovich!

I miss the walks home from school with my friends, and stopping by this house that had a big pear tree in the back yard. I would knock down a pear and eat it while we walked the rest of the way home!

I miss going to Illinois District Youth Camps which I looked forward to all year!

Me too!! This was the highlight of my year.

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by Blubayou

Watching /listening the Gospel Jubilee while we got ready for church on Sunday Morning
Playing outside with my next door neighbor
Playing among the sheets hanging on the line
Taking a nap with my mom on the couch on Sunday afternoons
Riding bikes without a care in the world with friends

This was an every Sunday ritual at our house! The Florida Boys, the Happy Goodmans, the Blackwood Brothers, the Dixie Echoes,...........I grew up on that stuff.

[rgcraig]

Jubilee - Jubilee........I can just hear it now!

Actually, my brother will call me sometimes and when I answer he'll start singing that!

LOL!!!!

[marthaolivia]

Listening to the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday night on the radio.
The outhouse (well not really!)
Howdy Doody
Sunday dinners, usually fried chicken,
Knowing everyone in my neighborhood and doors were never locked. Everyone was always welcome at our dinner table.

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Jubilee - Jubilee........I can just hear it now!

Actually, my brother will call me sometimes and when I answer he'll start singing that!

LOL!!!!

That's funny! That song is one of those that's forever stuck in my brain.

[George]

Candy cigarettes........

[SOUNWORTHY]

Warm evening summers in Illinois
Watching lightening bugs
One room schools.
playing hide and seek.
Riding my bicycle wherever I wanted to go.
Not having to lock the car doors when parking the car.
Not having to lock house doors and shut windows at night or when we went somewhere.
Listening to Jack Armstrong, Capt. Midnight and the Lone Ranger on the radio.
Most of all the safety of doing all those things.
Five cent cokes, five cent candy bars, five cent bus fares and .!6 cent a gallon gas.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by George

Candy cigarettes........

Oh my goodness! We loved those!!!! That's all I wanted if we were allowed to have candy!

Reading a book on the front porch swing.

[marthaolivia]

Originally Posted by SOUNWORTHY

Warm evening summers in Illinois
Watching lightening bugs
One room schools.
playing hide and seek.
Riding my bicycle wherever I wanted to go.
Not having to lock the car doors when parking the car.
Not having to lock house doors and shut windows at night or when we went somewhere.
Listening to Jack Armstrong, Capt. Midnight and the Lone Ranger on the radio.
Most of all the safety of doing all those things.
Five cent cokes, five cent candy bars, five cent bus fares and .!6 cent a gallon gas.

You are telling your age! lol.
I remember these things I underlined too. The first school I attended was a one room school. It is now a community center.

[SOUNWORTHY]

Originally Posted by marthaolivia

You are telling your age! lol.
I remember these things I underlined too. The first school I attended was a one room school. It is now a community center.

What do you mean, I'm still a teeager (at heart)!

One of the country schoolds I attende is now the Macon County Illinois Museum.