Fun memories! Life was sure different back then; OMG. (I'm 72, Canadian, grew up in a small town in Quebec - in the 50s & 60s - very dysfunctional family, but a TON of outside time, which was the best!!!!)
That seems to be the theme for everyone from this time period - dysfunctional but complete freedom only controlled by the street lights coming on at night. Happy you related to this. It was one of my most popular posts, in collaboration with Deborah Hewitt.
That’s so awesome! The coauthor on this was born in UK and came to US later. Small world. Thank you kindly for your thoughts and for restacking my posts. 🫠✨
I've previously tried linking articles I've enjoyed to my much bigger (supposedly) Twitter account to little avail. I get the feeling that CJ Hopkins may indeed be correct that whatever Twitter is called now or how much you've put into it very little gets out to more than a handful of fellow dissidents!.
Ahhh, the skating rink! I remember it well. Making suicides (or was it kamakaze's) at the soda machine. Putting your quarter up on the video game to hold your place in line. Locked in all night with other teens. That would never happen now.
When the statute of limitations pass I will reveal more one day. ha!
Yeah, not now probably -- although the kids are always out doing street racing in L.A. and riding like maniacs without helmets on bikes and e-bikes. It's always something. Thank you for reading this!
Thank you for reading. No it would not happen that way now. I feel like kids now don’t socialize like that but I could be wrong because I’m not with my great nieces and nephews on the regular to know. They seem to mingle well at parties at our house.
I found it!!!! This was such a fun read!! It makes me miss the good old days!! Lol I would definitely trade my cellphone to have those days back!!! I vote you should make this a series!!! 🤣😂🤣 next up the 80s 🥰😍🤩!!!
Thank you for reading this Tara! ha ha! I’d trade my cellphone too (and my husband’s!! lol) to have those days back! @Trudi Nicola and @Kristin Swan have a wonderful penpal series based on the 80’s! It’s so fun to read!
Thank you for mentioning Trudi and Kristin because I meant to send that to her and forgot. I’m semi retired and still running around like a chicken without it’s head.🤪
I found a few of them and they are so great!!! I love what you and Kristin did!! I subscribed to both of you 🥰😍🤩 honestly so glad for Deborahs recommend of your series really cute and totally awesome!!
Oh this is so awesome Tara! @Trudi Nicola and @Kristin Swan are wonderful humans and friends. And thank you so much for your subscription! I really appreciate it. oxox
Beautiful and freshly evocative of that world as we both knew it. Mine was in a small town in Michigan, but we enjoyed the same freedoms and tactile connection to nature. Our whole world was small, but incredibly close and it was ours to explore. Now we’ve inverted that. We have the world in our hands, but it’s been shrunk to fit a flat and sterile little screen. I prefer the world where girls crawl on the roof to scuff up the seat of their Levi’s — but I’m still here making the most of this one. Thanks, Cori, for the vivid flashbacks …
Thank you Tom for such a great comment! Cori and I had fun with this! We really miss those days. I'm watching my young grandchildren explore nature with their parents, and they are spending days creating vs. watching too much t.v. I think the days are over for being allowed outside for endless hours to ride bikes and explore. I don't think the world was any less safe back in our day, but the bad stuff is just so much more publicized now with the use of internet and social media -- leaving parents far more cautious. Living carefree is something to search for in this world. We were the lucky ones.
Spot on, Deborah, about the Stranger Danger. Child abductions and crimes against children are no less common than in 70s. They’re just hyper-publicized.
Also, I have a sister Debra ‘74 H.S. graduate. She and her friends went swimming in new jeans, then laid in the sun until they dried on them like a second skin. They’d also lay in the sun for hours — slathered with baby oil. That stuff was like SPF zero. You were there to roast like a Thanksgiving turkey, not fend off the rays! (I believe they also ironed their hair to straighten it.)
You two sound wonderful, like so many of the good and kind Midwestern girls in my class of ‘77. All that Boones Farm wine, Miller High Life and drag racing on dark country roads never killed us. My guardian angel and Mom’s prayers must have seen to that. Thanks for taking the time to write this down. We can’t go back but we can honor how we got here.
Many people connected through this. It had the tone of grandparents reminiscing so maybe some are missing their grandparents. Thanks for joining the conversation
I remembered things that I haven’t thought of in years. Thanks for sharing. I’ll have to read again. I can feel those Levi’s that would stand up in the corner when you took them off. I can hear the Bluegrass playing at the Boat House of the Lake where we camped every Summer. I can smell the Hay Bales as we loaded them on the trailer in the 95 degree heat. The roller skating. Laugh out loud. Now that was the Social event of the Summer. Disco Ball and all.
Thank you for this! I had forgotten baling hay when we were in our teens. My dad pimped our labor out to the farmer who rented the house to us, I assume for discounted rent. That smell is indescribable and so is the itch. lol it was and still us the number one crop grown in PA.
The itch is why we were all in long sleeve Flannel shirts out there. lol. I worked in PA in construction for a while. Some of the most beautiful country I’ve seen in the states. I grew up in and still live in very rural Georgia. It sounds like we have very similar stories of growing up in that Awesome 70’s decade.
Yes, roller skating, free range wandering in the swamps of South Florida. Riding my bike to school, walking over a mile to the store for a mountain dew and candy.
Wow ! Talk about sentimentality and good memories ! I was a 70s grow up kid too. I think I mirrored Cori a little more than Deborah, although both spoke of things I remember. Always being out side, going in just to eat dinner. Remembering the nightly summer sunsets. We had kick the can, red rover, running bases, wiiffle ball, touch football, ghost stories. The phone on the wall with the long cord. Drinking water from the yard hose along with eating raw anything (when it came time to be moms official taste tester 😉) without fears. The idea of that 20 cent brownie took me back to having dinner at McDonalds after little league games, being given a dollar and getting (yes a whole buck) for burger, fries, soda…then trying to save a nickel to get a wahoo bar off the Good Humor truck later on. I didn’t do the skate board thing and my sister 😇 was the one who went to the roller rink (at least she got dropped off there 😮). Deborah, I understand what you mean by the “gender affirming jeans” 🫣🫣🫣🫣😂 !
Yes - definitely a more laid back time, safer (as crazy as that sounds) and a hell of a lot of fun !
Oh this was fun to read as someone from the UK. Between you both, so many of the words and phrases used that for me encapsulate Americana - Kool Aid, Drive Ins, Brady Bunch, road trips…..and some precious photos too.
Hey my dear Brit friend! Cori's life was definitely the life I was missing back home and wanting a bit of in America - but we stuck together and I didn't know much different, except that our "relatives" were British friends. lol. I also just found a picture of me and a British friend's daughter with "Greg" from the Brady Bunch! I'll have to post it! Can't even remember what we were doing. Probably a fan event! Thank you for reading! oxox
ha ha! Trudi! Weren't they fun? We had sooooo many! I used to play with the Avon boxes! (That was in the 60's!) Mum would give them to me and pieces of an old towel (for beds!) and I'd take them and spread them around like a house for my Barbie. Dad had all the car cologne bottles! lol
I loved the collectible soaps in different shapes. Avon was something else back then. I loved leafing through the catalogue and trying out the samples!
Us too! We had an "Avon cupboard" in the hallway! EVERYONE got Avon for birthday, Christmas! Those soaps especially! That's what started mum's "gift cupboard," which was a great idea! Thank you for reading this Trudi! ox
Fun memories! Life was sure different back then; OMG. (I'm 72, Canadian, grew up in a small town in Quebec - in the 50s & 60s - very dysfunctional family, but a TON of outside time, which was the best!!!!)
That seems to be the theme for everyone from this time period - dysfunctional but complete freedom only controlled by the street lights coming on at night. Happy you related to this. It was one of my most popular posts, in collaboration with Deborah Hewitt.
I may be English but thanks to Dad's work I lived in Ridgway Pa '69 to '73 then with wife in Pittsburgh most of '88 so remember all this too..
So cool David! All of our perspectives are so fun to remember. Thank you for reading this. Have a wonderful weekend. ox
That’s so awesome! The coauthor on this was born in UK and came to US later. Small world. Thank you kindly for your thoughts and for restacking my posts. 🫠✨
I've previously tried linking articles I've enjoyed to my much bigger (supposedly) Twitter account to little avail. I get the feeling that CJ Hopkins may indeed be correct that whatever Twitter is called now or how much you've put into it very little gets out to more than a handful of fellow dissidents!.
Ahhh, the skating rink! I remember it well. Making suicides (or was it kamakaze's) at the soda machine. Putting your quarter up on the video game to hold your place in line. Locked in all night with other teens. That would never happen now.
When the statute of limitations pass I will reveal more one day. ha!
Yeah, not now probably -- although the kids are always out doing street racing in L.A. and riding like maniacs without helmets on bikes and e-bikes. It's always something. Thank you for reading this!
Thank you for reading. No it would not happen that way now. I feel like kids now don’t socialize like that but I could be wrong because I’m not with my great nieces and nephews on the regular to know. They seem to mingle well at parties at our house.
I found it!!!! This was such a fun read!! It makes me miss the good old days!! Lol I would definitely trade my cellphone to have those days back!!! I vote you should make this a series!!! 🤣😂🤣 next up the 80s 🥰😍🤩!!!
Thank you for reading this Tara! ha ha! I’d trade my cellphone too (and my husband’s!! lol) to have those days back! @Trudi Nicola and @Kristin Swan have a wonderful penpal series based on the 80’s! It’s so fun to read!
Thank you for mentioning Trudi and Kristin because I meant to send that to her and forgot. I’m semi retired and still running around like a chicken without it’s head.🤪
Thanks for the mention, Deborah ✨
I found a few of them and they are so great!!! I love what you and Kristin did!! I subscribed to both of you 🥰😍🤩 honestly so glad for Deborahs recommend of your series really cute and totally awesome!!
Oh this is so awesome Tara! @Trudi Nicola and @Kristin Swan are wonderful humans and friends. And thank you so much for your subscription! I really appreciate it. oxox
Aw thank you Deb! oxox
I absolutely loved the penpal collab it's way to freaking cuuuuute!! Thank you so much for the recommend!!
You are welcome! I am their biggest fan. lol.
Tara, welcome! I’m so happy you’ve enjoyed them and I know @Kristin Swan will be too! There are more letters in the post so stay tuned! ✨🥰
Honestly your penpal collaboration is sooo genius!! Really really love it!! Thank you for the warm welcome!! 🥰 I'm excited to stay tuned!! 💓
Hi Tara, I’m so glad to hear you love our letters! Thank you 💕
Thanks for letting me know LOL I will definitely have to check them out!! LOL
Oh good! They are hilarious! I love their series and hope it continues!
Beautiful and freshly evocative of that world as we both knew it. Mine was in a small town in Michigan, but we enjoyed the same freedoms and tactile connection to nature. Our whole world was small, but incredibly close and it was ours to explore. Now we’ve inverted that. We have the world in our hands, but it’s been shrunk to fit a flat and sterile little screen. I prefer the world where girls crawl on the roof to scuff up the seat of their Levi’s — but I’m still here making the most of this one. Thanks, Cori, for the vivid flashbacks …
Thank you Tom for such a great comment! Cori and I had fun with this! We really miss those days. I'm watching my young grandchildren explore nature with their parents, and they are spending days creating vs. watching too much t.v. I think the days are over for being allowed outside for endless hours to ride bikes and explore. I don't think the world was any less safe back in our day, but the bad stuff is just so much more publicized now with the use of internet and social media -- leaving parents far more cautious. Living carefree is something to search for in this world. We were the lucky ones.
Spot on, Deborah, about the Stranger Danger. Child abductions and crimes against children are no less common than in 70s. They’re just hyper-publicized.
Also, I have a sister Debra ‘74 H.S. graduate. She and her friends went swimming in new jeans, then laid in the sun until they dried on them like a second skin. They’d also lay in the sun for hours — slathered with baby oil. That stuff was like SPF zero. You were there to roast like a Thanksgiving turkey, not fend off the rays! (I believe they also ironed their hair to straighten it.)
You two sound wonderful, like so many of the good and kind Midwestern girls in my class of ‘77. All that Boones Farm wine, Miller High Life and drag racing on dark country roads never killed us. My guardian angel and Mom’s prayers must have seen to that. Thanks for taking the time to write this down. We can’t go back but we can honor how we got here.
Thank you for your thoughtful and beautiful words. Deborah Hewitt and I collaborated on this and nostalgia was wonderful.
I love the Starlite name and will most probably use it in my alternate history universe. Sounds too good to be left forgotten!
What an awesome tribute. Can’t wait to see it ‘in lights’ again!
In this case, they will be holo-lights :D
Love this. I was there too. :) But IN canada and NZ.
Thank you so much for reading it! ox
Many people connected through this. It had the tone of grandparents reminiscing so maybe some are missing their grandparents. Thanks for joining the conversation
I remembered things that I haven’t thought of in years. Thanks for sharing. I’ll have to read again. I can feel those Levi’s that would stand up in the corner when you took them off. I can hear the Bluegrass playing at the Boat House of the Lake where we camped every Summer. I can smell the Hay Bales as we loaded them on the trailer in the 95 degree heat. The roller skating. Laugh out loud. Now that was the Social event of the Summer. Disco Ball and all.
Thanks again.
Small wold I’ve got lots of family south of the Mason Dixon line.
Thank you for this! I had forgotten baling hay when we were in our teens. My dad pimped our labor out to the farmer who rented the house to us, I assume for discounted rent. That smell is indescribable and so is the itch. lol it was and still us the number one crop grown in PA.
The itch is why we were all in long sleeve Flannel shirts out there. lol. I worked in PA in construction for a while. Some of the most beautiful country I’ve seen in the states. I grew up in and still live in very rural Georgia. It sounds like we have very similar stories of growing up in that Awesome 70’s decade.
I started highschool in the fall of 1979.
Yes, roller skating, free range wandering in the swamps of South Florida. Riding my bike to school, walking over a mile to the store for a mountain dew and candy.
Good times!
For sure. We had fun doing it and I was reminded how great life was then in simpler times
that "rumble" seat reminds me of discovering the art of "mooning" !
ha ha!! I believe you’re right Greg!
Def a 70s thing
Ahhhh.... a wonderful walk down memory lane! Thank you ladies!
Thank you so much Bob! You are truly the best! We need to hear about your childhood! ox
Thank you. We had a blast writing it.
So fun; and what wonderful memories. Seems much simpler, easier, freer. Thanks for sharing your beautiful childhoods !
Thank you for reading Jenn! We had so much fun and I think both Cori and I could have written a ton more!
It was really peaceful to read, honestly ❤️
Thank you so much. I’m glad you liked it!!
It was really fun to look back and imagine what life was like ❤️
Wow ! Talk about sentimentality and good memories ! I was a 70s grow up kid too. I think I mirrored Cori a little more than Deborah, although both spoke of things I remember. Always being out side, going in just to eat dinner. Remembering the nightly summer sunsets. We had kick the can, red rover, running bases, wiiffle ball, touch football, ghost stories. The phone on the wall with the long cord. Drinking water from the yard hose along with eating raw anything (when it came time to be moms official taste tester 😉) without fears. The idea of that 20 cent brownie took me back to having dinner at McDonalds after little league games, being given a dollar and getting (yes a whole buck) for burger, fries, soda…then trying to save a nickel to get a wahoo bar off the Good Humor truck later on. I didn’t do the skate board thing and my sister 😇 was the one who went to the roller rink (at least she got dropped off there 😮). Deborah, I understand what you mean by the “gender affirming jeans” 🫣🫣🫣🫣😂 !
Yes - definitely a more laid back time, safer (as crazy as that sounds) and a hell of a lot of fun !
Thanks ladies for the memories 😊
Thank you for commenting. I had so much nostalgia just writing it!
I grew up in the 80’s. We had a station wagon. I used to sit in the back back, facing backwards, you could fit as many kids as you could squeeze in.
That back area was so much fun!! How did we survive? ha ha!!
80’s we’re my adolescent years so I love them too. Be on the lookout cause Nurse Kristen and Trudi Nicola are about to show the 80’s some love.
It was a dream for us when Aunt Judy fired it up.
Oh this was fun to read as someone from the UK. Between you both, so many of the words and phrases used that for me encapsulate Americana - Kool Aid, Drive Ins, Brady Bunch, road trips…..and some precious photos too.
Joyous, and lots of funny moments too.
Thanks for bringing a smile :)
Hey my dear Brit friend! Cori's life was definitely the life I was missing back home and wanting a bit of in America - but we stuck together and I didn't know much different, except that our "relatives" were British friends. lol. I also just found a picture of me and a British friend's daughter with "Greg" from the Brady Bunch! I'll have to post it! Can't even remember what we were doing. Probably a fan event! Thank you for reading! oxox
Old photos are the best aren’t they? I really enjoyed yours, keep sharing xx
Thank you friend. ox
We're so, so happy you liked this. It was truly eye and heart opening to us as we put it to paper so to speak.
I loved reading these! The Avon collectibles 😂 I had lots of those.
ha ha! Trudi! Weren't they fun? We had sooooo many! I used to play with the Avon boxes! (That was in the 60's!) Mum would give them to me and pieces of an old towel (for beds!) and I'd take them and spread them around like a house for my Barbie. Dad had all the car cologne bottles! lol
Oh my word my dad had the cars too!
I thought it was so funny! Dad's chest of drawers was loaded with them!
We did too at our house. Me and my sisters actually sold Avon door to door starting around age 9-10. It was def a different time.
I loved the collectible soaps in different shapes. Avon was something else back then. I loved leafing through the catalogue and trying out the samples!
Us too! We had an "Avon cupboard" in the hallway! EVERYONE got Avon for birthday, Christmas! Those soaps especially! That's what started mum's "gift cupboard," which was a great idea! Thank you for reading this Trudi! ox
Me too!!