We all have those little snippets of memory from our childhood. I’ve decided to commit them to the internet, should anyone researching history find them interesting.
| I remember visiting Aunt Anna (or Aunt Bert or Aunt Gert) and was amazed at just how much velour there was in a little house. |
| I remember seeing my great-grandmother Penland (Granny Neal) sitting on the porch on a rocking chair with a shotgun on her lap. |
| I remember playing with the wheel on my mother’s treadle sewing machine and pretending I’m driving. Bob and I played “Uncle Eddie and Daddy”, I was always Uncle Eddie! |
| I remember Dee playing school and teaching us a few words in Spanish. |
| I remember tumbling down the staircase in the house in Philly. I remember looking at the wall and I still can see it going round and round. |
| I remember sliding across the kitchen floor on my knees after running from the living room. Mom used to tell me to stop before I got hurt. One day, when Mom and Dad were wallpapering, I slid too soon and slid across the heater vent (cast iron). I tore my knee open. I knew I’d be in trouble so I just sat on the sofa (I was small so my legs stuck out straight). I can still see the blood showing through my pants. Mom notice I was still so she looked at me and saw it, and came to take care of it. She didn’t have any bandages so Dad stayed with me and Mom took Bob up to the drug store. When they returned, Mom gave me and Bob little toy cars that had to be put together (mine was green, still on the plastic sprue ). I remember wondering why Bob got one, he didn’t get hurt!!! |
| I remember Dee setting up a game show on the third floor and having us play. She was always the MC. |
| I remember seeing cousin Johnny’s airplane models and always thought that was really neat (I guess that was the thing that started me on building models) |
| I remember always being in awe of cousin Earl. He was SO tall and I was just me, a little kid. |
| I remember Uncle Earl always having the time to show me his antique cars, even though he had to do it every time I was there. |
| I remember Uncle Steve showing me how to use a cue stick. |
| I remember walking over to Uncle Johnny’s when they lived in Trevose. Aunt Helen’s father gave me and Bob a whole dollar and we bought baseball cards with it. We never had 20 packs of baseball cards at one time before! |
| I remember “camping” in the back yard in Trevose with Bob and George. I remember George going in the house before the night was over. |
| I remember losing our shoes in the car on our trip to Florida in 1958. I remember stopping at a beach and the sand being too sharp to walk on in bare feet. (I’ve appreciated New Jersey sand ever since). I also remember Dee and Ellie tearing little pieces of paper, folding them in a V and throwing them out the window of the car during that trip because they fluttered liked butterflies. |
| I remember feeling terrible when I scratched the crystal of the watch that I got for being in Tommy’s wedding. |
| I remember shattering the back window of Mom’s 56 Chevy with a “dirt bomb”. We admitted it to Dad in 2003. |
| I remember the day I grew big enough to beat up Ellie. |
| I remember cousin Jimmy letting me try shooting his bow. |
| I remember listening to WFIL-FM in cousin Jimmy’s white convertible. |
| I remember Aunt Betty’s next door neighbor having consecutive license plate numbers. |