As I grow older there get to be more things I miss…probably because things change over time and things I used to enjoy to by the wayside.
I have a list of things I miss a lot by now in my life span.
I miss:
<<My old yellow brick grade school building and its playground with a big hill all around it..it was great for sliding at recess time.
<<I miss roller skating in the spring on my old metal clamp-on roller skates.
<< my old white clapboard – sided church with the tall spire where I went to Sunday school and church and where I got married.
<<I miss THE ROYAL FORK buffet dining place
<< I miss old downtown Moorhead's Center Avenue…the way it was before it was destroyed by urban renewal. I miss the old
Comstock Hotel on the corner, I miss
Warrens Cafe and the Rex steakhouse, I miss Watermans' dept. store and the old Bluebird Cafe
<>I miss the town park and the way the river used to run through it with 3 rickety bridges to cross.
<< I miss the old Spillway across the river in the park.
<<I miss the 6 grocery stores that used to be in mmy old town
<<I miss all the old neighbors who used to live in my block; they are all dead and buried at the cemetery west of town.
<<I miss my little boys from when they were preschoolers with little crew cut blond heads.
<<I miss our old homes where so much living took place.
<< I miss so many old friends who are now scattered far and wide.
<<I miss the 10 cent nut goodies my Dad used to buy me for a treat.
<<I miss the people who went on picnics with us..to Itasca Park and Beauty Bay on Pelican Lake (now developed with no access)
I miss my Uncle Carl's cottage on that same lake.
<<I miss small town Fourth of Julys and small town Memorial Day parades to the cemetery..all of us walking there together to honor the dead military people.
<<I miss the old swimming hole where my friends and I swam and dived and picked bloodsuckers off our legs and feet.
<< I miss our old woolen band uniforms
<<I miss my brother in law who died too soon at age 52.
<< I miss my parents and my parents in law.
Growing older means you have ever more things to miss and wish you could see again….just one more time.
I’ll bet few readers know what I miss, “No, no, McGee, don’t open that closet!”
FIBBER MCGEE AND MOLLY..oh my goodness..I miss those old radio shows
too. I loved the closet part too and we had a closet in our house (parents’) we called the FIBBER CLOSET. It was loaded with junk just like Fibber’s.
I loved them all..Henry Aldrich, Life of Riley, Jack Benny, Bell Telepohone Hour (first music appreciation) The Great Gildsersleeve, Mr. Distric Attorney, Dragnet…I listened each night while
lying on a brown mohair sofa my parents bought in 1933!!! I also racedd homke from school to catch “Jack Armstrong and The Lone Ranger.
And, Fred Allen with Allen’s Alley. Thinking back, that was genius, the way I would see an alley and some image in my mind of the characters that came to each door. I remember Senator Claghorn–can’t seem to think of the others just now.
We have this luxtury thing, Serius (sp?), or satilite, in our car. There is a channel of those old radio shows we listen to some of the time.
You have quite a list..lots of good thoughts…mostly comfort things:)
DuPont’s Cavalcade of America, Great Gildersleeve, Life With Luigi, Our Miss Brooks, Judy Canova, Cities Service’s Band of America,