Me too on McDonald's U.

Also Nabisco, Tootsie Roll, and Mars in 3 states. The one in Tennessee is awesome. The whole place for a hundred square miles around smells like TWIX (cookie dough supreme when baking).

Have also been to hand dip school at Field's for Frangos. Put here a crying face.

--Had picture taken beside the Superman Statue in Metropolis, IL.
--Seen all the capitols in the US.
--Eaten fried catfish at the Bluegrass restaurant in LaCenter, KY.
--Changing of the guards at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery.
--Ridden the rollercoaster at the old Riverview Park in Chicago.
--Been to the Grand Old Opry in the old Reiman auditorium.
--Ridden a mule down into the Grand Canyon.
--Taught school in a one room school.
--Done research in all the federal archives.
--Stood on the banks of the Ohio and watched the Delta Queen go by playing the caliope.
--Stood on the shoreline where the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers converge.
--Gone to the new Lincoln Library in Springfield, IL.
--plus many others on previous lists.

Watch the parade of ships from the Golden Gate Bridge (today!) and the Blue Angels air show over the Bay.

Get your kicks on Route 66

Climb a 14er.

--Attending a Boston Pop's concert.
--Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge.
--Walking down Mass. Ave. in DC on a snowy December night.
--Watching a big buck (deer) swim across the Ohio River during flood stage.
--Picking out toys from the Sears & Roebuck catalog and clothing from the Alden's catalog.
--Wading in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans for the first time.
--Watching the Notre Dame marching band warm up before a game...and of course the Grotto.
--Taking my first plane right and being charged a penny for each pound I weighed--52 cents!!
--Sitting at the feet of my Mom as she read us "Evangeline" and "Enoch Arden".
--Reading "Merchant of Venice" to my 7th & 8th graders during noon hour because they wanted to hear it rather than play outside.
--Helping put out American flags on the graves of veterans.
--Helping build a float and then riding on top of it in the homecoming parade.
--Attending a "Watch-night" service on New Year's Eve.
--Preparing an earthquake kit when a SEMO professor predicted an earthquake in our area.
--Washing canning jars under the weeping willow tree in our back yard.
--Buying saving stamps and war bonds at school.
--Wearing floursack underwear.
--Attending the Hemisfair in San Antonio.
--Winning a $5 prize for picking the most milkweed pods to be made into parachutes.
--Knowing something serious was happening when we students were marched down to the school auditorium to hear President Roosevelt's speech after Pearl Harbor.
--Hurrying to get to our motel room so we could watch the OJ verdict on TV.
--Hearing that Pres. Kennedy had been shot and the memorable and horrific aftermath.
--Watching the Watergate hearings on TV.
--Trying to convince my grandmother that "As the World Turns" was just a TV show.
--Taking my daughters to Louisa M. Alcott's home in Lexington, MA.
--Seeing the Gainesway horsefarm in Lexington, KY.
--Signing a "loyalty oath" and having my fingerprints taken in order to enroll as a freshman in college.
--attending convocation each Monday morning in Shyrock Auditorium.
--Eating at the "Good and Plenty" restaurant in the Amish country in Ohio.
--Picking out a doll at the Woolworth dime store for my birthday.
--Later, working at both the Woolworth and Kresge's.
--Stanley parties.
--Before school cafeterias, going down to our only grocery store where the grocer would fix me a bologna sandwich and cut a pint of ice cream in half for me to share with my sister.
--Attending a pie supper.
--Not being counted in the 1980 census.
--Being elected president of the Dictionary Club and choosing the motto of "We Never Guess, We Look It Up."
--Receiving "Weekly Readers" in grade school.
--Look, Life, and Saturday Evening Post magazines.
--The furor over the movie "Outlaw".
--A decision by the high school board that female students could wear jeans on Fridays....and later...
--as a teacher, meeting to decide that female teachers could wear slacks on Friday.
--Driving a Golden Hawk Studebaker.
--Anxiously waiting, and then going to each car dealership just to see the "new" models.
--Learning and using the Gregg shorthand method.
--Our typewriting teacher cutting off the fingernails of students.
--Saying the pledge to the flag each morning after the bell.
--Learning our state song, "Illinois" in music class in the fourth grade.



This was/is my America.


--Making copies of student tests on the old "ditto" machine.
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Wow...the ditto machine.
I used to love the way the paper smelled before it dried.

Molly, many of those things. I'm a Gregg Shorthand person (and worked at Woolworth's when I was 17).

Have you ever . . .
Sat on the grass at the laser light show at Stone Mountain, GA, and sung along with the patriotic songs?

catbert--How about climbing a 14er during an eqrthquake? My DH was doing that last night when the quake at Rainier hit!

Yikes. That's a once in a lifetime experience! Did he have a cell phone with him?

Yes, he does. I haven't heard from him...they were to summit lat night. Hoping they were still at high camp when the quake hit and that they were not on their way up. He always leaves me with all the specific route details of his climbs, so I have that in case I do not hear from him by our agreed upon time (5pm today). I have been checking the hiking/climbing boards, but there isn't much info just yet.

OMG, he just called! They are fine He said it was really cool...they could hear it before they felt it, that the sound was coming from below them. They were at high camp, and were about to head out, so they didn't chance it and stayed put. He said it was an amazing experience (course probably not one you would want to repeat!). They talked to the ranger this morning about it.

Here are some of my favorites:

Carved a pumpkin

drank hot cider at Halloween(now with Applejack)

Remember homemade treats for trick or treaters

Ice skated on a small pond

Christmas carolling in the snow

Waited to hear about school closures during Winter snowy days

Ate lobster twice a day on two trips to Maine

Ate crabs,crabs and more in Rock Hall,MD

Ate at the automat and loved it

Saw the Christmas show at Radio City

Caught crabs with fish heads tied on a string and ate those crabs that night at the Jersey Shore.

Have put vinegar on fries best purchased on the boardwalk in either Jersey or Rehobeth.

Stopped 6 nights in a row for beignets at Cafe du Monde


Am still left breathless by the Lincoln Memorial at night

Shook hands with Senator JFK as a young girl

Did buy a house in the SF Bay area.

Nice thread,thanks!

Oh Molly B~you made me remember sniffing the newly ditto'd handouts and loving the smell.

And,I almost forgot..going to the drive in in pjs.

And taking the cancellation on first class stamps"Pray for Peace" seriously.
(Stamps were 4 cents then).