Remember When

[Merry Prankster]

My Aunt (RIP Dear Aunt Jane) used to make icing for cake and my cousin and I got a couple of spoons and devoured the leavings in the mixing bowl when she was done.

[bacali]

My Aunt (RIP Dear Aunt Jane) used to make icing for cake and my cousin and I got a couple of spoons and devoured the leavings in the mixing bowl when she was done.

Same thing here... with dear Aunt Libbie whom we just lost in March at 100 !!
Every Sunday evening from when I first met my husband, we would go to her house for something that she baked.
The whole family would be there, and my children grew up with all kinds of cake and cookies.
One of her specialities was a coffee crumb cake. It was impossible not to pick some of those huge cinnamon crumbs off the top ( if you were passing through the kitchen)....and boy, would she get angry seeing "holes' on the top of the cake when she was serving it.
 I miss her alot..RIP, too,  Aunt Libbie

[Prairie Dawn]

My Aunt (RIP Dear Aunt Jane) used to make icing for cake and my cousin and I got a couple of spoons and devoured the leavings in the mixing bowl when she was done.

Oh my gosh! The "lickins" as we used to call them.  We would fight over the mixing spoons, spatulas, anything that went into frosting or brownie batter!

[ponytail]

(And now today, mothers don't let the kids lick the beaters because the batter has raw eggs in it)

Remember when smoking was allowed wherever you went--hospitals, airplanes, restaurants, schools (teachers lounge), every meeting and office. on and on and on. I still remember the haze near the ceiling of some of the establishments (okay, bars) I went to in my youth.

[Prairie Dawn]

Remember going for "Sunday Drives" with your family, usually stopping for ice cream at some point?

[bacali]

Remember always watching "your parent's" television shows?
We only had a few channels..so Sat night ..we danced to Lawrence Welk and followed that by Gunsmoke and Sea Hunt.
Sunday night was always the Ed Sullivan show.
But, the family was always together..... sort of nice compared to today.

[Snowbird]

Remember going for "Sunday Drives" with your family, usually stopping for ice cream at some point?

Oh, yes.  My dad would drive us around and look at any new houses that had been built.  Then we would stop at a place called the Magnolia Creamery where they made ice cream and get a cup or cone.  That was the best ice cream.  I remember a flavor called tutti fruitti.  When I told my friends about tutti fruitti later they thought I was making the name up.

[Merry Prankster]

Remember always watching "your parent's" television shows?
We only had a few channels..so Sat night ..we danced to Lawrence Welk and followed that by Gunsmoke and Sea Hunt.
Sunday night was always the Ed Sullivan show.
But, the family was always together..... sort of nice compared to today.

For my family the Ed Sullivan Show was "must see TV."  Elvis, the Beatles, the Stones......and how could one ever forget Ed's intro of "Topo Gigio!"

[bacali]

Oh...Topo Gigio....   saying...." I love you, Eddie" " Wow, what fond memories.
Now, was he the character that said ..."look at the enemy...don't think so... who was that?
Remember... he'd get down and look at the audience and say this...I can't remember who it was. 

[ponytail]

I can't help you there, bacali. My Dad didn't care much for Ed Sullivan, so we didn't watch it. Yep, remember when you only had one tv set, and your Dad was in control of what you watched?

[Prairie Dawn]

Remember when you were your parents remote control?   

[Cookie Monster]

Remember when you had to get up off your chair and turn the tv knob to change the channel?
Yes I am 100 years old

[Prairie Dawn]

Remember when playing with cap guns and squirt guns was not considered a "bad influence?"

[ponytail]

Remember  when you had phone numbers with prefixes like Glendale instead of numbers?

[Snowbird]

Does anyone remember S&H Green Stamps or have we been over that subject before?