(nonpol) If I could turn back time...to the Good Old Days...

[canuk-gal]

HI:

I know this is a song and rather cliche, but what does this mean for you "Good Old Days"? Please share a time or incident you remember with goodness and fondness/happiness/positiveness that could represent the above. If you could turn back time...when would it be, for you?

This thread is meant to be a NON POLITICAL thread, thanks.

cheers--Sharon

 

[redwood66]

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Cool idea for a thread Sharon!

If I had to think of one thing it would be before the internet. The thread about no wifi cafes made me think of this. While I love the internet for its positive uses, it has led to smartphones which create this obsession to the screens. There is no requirement for interaction. Now this might be unrealistic, but if it had not been created we would not know what we were missing. We got along for all those years before it just fine using a phone book or map to find places, using a travel agent to book things, going to the library for research, etc. And in each of those instances we most likely interacted with people either on the phone or face to face.

Edit - the internet is also an addiction that people cannot get away from. I see a bit of it in myself.

JMHO

 

[the_mother_thing]

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My grandparents house, 35 years ago ... huge open back yard, carefree, us cousins gathered there playing on the rope swings my uncle hung in the huge old oak tree that swung over the creek ... smelling hamburgers & hot dogs being grilled at the house in the summer. And in the winter, all the neighborhood kids coming down to the same grandparents' house to help us shovel snow off the pond so we could ice skate on it ... after my uncle gave us a sip of his apricot brandy to 'help keep warm'.

Yep, those were the 'good old days' for me. Great thread! Great memories!

 

[lyra]

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I think about this topic a lot, because so much has changed in my life in the last 10 years, and not for the better.

I think my 30's were some of my best years. The kids were young. We had a modest house, what seemed like a secure job, benefits, bonuses and we were living on the West Coast near our family and friends. We entertained, joined groups like the PTA, volunteered at our kid's schools, took them to extracurricular activities and participated in hobbies with other people.

We had to move across the country, and eventually everything fell apart. No job, contract work only, no benefits, etc. Not good at all.

 

[stracci2000]

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The good ol' days....

In high school, we had the "Go to" house.
All my girlfriends would come over, Mom would always have cake or donuts or pizza.
We would play the stereo loud, and have so much fun.
We'd fix each other's hair and play with makeup, raid the closets and try on outfits.
Mom let us stay up all night, and the friends would sleep on our couches.

 

[Tekate]

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Sitting with my grandmother in her house, it would be wonderful. Miss her, she has been dead for 51 years, but I remember her.

 

[Dancing Fire]

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The 70's, High School years...
Go cruising downtown on Friday and Saturday nights.
Drive in movies.
Listening to the best music ever.
When I first met my wife.
Got my driver's license in 76
My first nice car.
My GF gifted me a Rolex watch for my 18th BD. I know she paid $425 for the watch which was a lot of money back then.

 

[dk168]

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When a McDonald's Big Breakfast cost only 0.99 GBP!

DK

 

[LLJsmom]

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Early Saturday mornings in front of the TV watching the Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show.
First time I took my kids to Disneyland.
First grown up vacay with my DH in Maui.
First time traveling in Europe with my son, in Berlin.
First time I saw Singing in the Rain, Gigi and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
First college vacay with friends and visiting my DH in LA.

 

[the_mother_thing]

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Sitting with my grandmother in her house, it would be wonderful. Miss her, she has been dead for 51 years, but I remember her.

It is tragic-sad that we never seem to get enough time with our Grands. I also miss my Grandmom so much (gone since 2001). She was a cross between Rose (Golden Girls/Betty White) and Edith Bunker, but she would tie you in a chair lickity-split if you acted out of line.

 

[Jambalaya]

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Great thread!

A time before screen and technology...being a child and the house full of sunshine first thing in the morning...my mother enveloping me in her arms..

...and my first kiss, first date, first love...everything so light and selfish and young.

 

[Missy]

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Sitting with my grandmother in her house, it would be wonderful. Miss her, she has been dead for 51 years, but I remember her.

Sharon, great idea for a thread, thank you.

Like Kate, I would want to go back to a decade where my grandma was alive. I still miss her terribly and though it has been 25 years this March (March 13, 1992) since she died. My heart still hurts missing her.

 

[siv1]

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Family vacations camping at various parks with friends. Being able to leave the house in the morning and being back at dark. Hearing friends dad whistle when it was time for their kids to go home. Spending lazy summer afternoons laying on the ground looking up at the clouds and figuring out what they looked like and watch them morph into something else. Just the carefree days of being a child.

 

[redwood66]

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I miss my great grandma. She and I shared a birthday and she lived until I was 20. My paternal great grandparents also lived on our property until I was a Jr. in HS. Loved having all of them around all the time because it was so wonderful listening to stories of another time so different from my own life. They were very sweet hardworking people born in the 1890's.

 

[AprilBaby]

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My 60's childhood. Loved the music, cars, tv shows. My grandparents were still alive. Easter meant new clothes. My time of innocence.