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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Remembering Old Times

I put this picture on my Facebook account for Throwback Thursday so thought I would put it here since I wasn't finished thinking about days gone by. First I don't remember who sent me the flowers, probably Mel but he usually just went to the grocery store and always bought yellow (his favorite color) Mums. The clock I got with trading stamps. I saved about three different kinds and got some nice gifts with them over the years. The little wooden Mexican bookends I bought in Mexico on my senior trip and I still have them. All the TVs had rabbit ears and we thought we were in high cotton when we bought this one and also the paneling. When I sold the house it was still in there and the young couple painted it white. You probably can't make it out, I just know it's there to the left is a gossip bench. Remember them? I got it with stamps too. Kind of like a desk with a seat and a little shelf for the black dial telephone (oh those days are gone forever). I still remember standing by that gossip bench when a friend called and said "are you sitting down?". I did sit down not knowing what was coming. It wasn't good news concerning herself. The hair is a hair piece that women wanted back then (probably the 70's). Okay gotta quit thinking of the past and get busy in the present.

10 comments:

TexWisGirl said...

oh, BIG hair, girlie!!! :) loved your memory lane post today.

BlueRidge Boomer said...

I had a hair piece like that....just a little darker in color....those were some great days....!!

Lori said...

This is a great picture!

TARYTERRE said...

GREAT trip down memory lane. LOVE the pantsuit.

salemslot9 said...

love this photo of you, Paula!
my mom has a clock
very similar to that one
we have paneling on one wall
it was here when I moved in
we use an antenna
not ashamed

jack69 said...

I have been waiting for this BIG HAIR shot. Great. You are a pretty one for sure. Amazing the things we had from stamps and the glasses and cups in soap powder.
Things shre change (ESPECIALLY HAIR DO"S)

Jean said...

You look so pretty, and I can remember the hair pieces I may still have one around here somewhere, ha. I still have some things that I got with stamp books. Great post.

Jon said...

Old photos always bring back so many memories.

I remember the trading stamps when I was a kid in California. My Mom saved the S&H Green Stamps and the Blue Chip stamps. I don't know if they had the same stamps in Texas.

Donna. W said...

My mom was wild about trading stamps! I recall the hair pieces, back in the late 60's my sister-in-law had a couple of them. Seems like she called one of them a "fall". I'm sure you know me well enough by know to know that I never wanted a hairpiece.

Chatty Crone said...

Love that photo and I think I had hair pieces like that.