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Just joined up to participate in this thread. Thanks to who ever remembered Pat Meikle. I loved that show. I watched it before we moved to Long Island, in the early 50's. She had a drawing contest, gave you a shape and asked you to draw something using it. I sent in a drawing and got an honorable mention. Very exciting for a 5 year old.
Anyone remember Mr I. Magination? A fantastic kid show from the early 50's.
I grew up in Elmont, right off Dutch Broadway. My Mom let me cross the big street by myself ( no light) so I could go to the library. We had the Good Humour Man on summer evenings, played cards, danced in the basement to the radio, made scrap books,caught fireflies, rode our bikes all over the place, played in the dirt when they put the sewers in and tore up the streets.Played potsy, peel the potato, jump rope, jacks and paper dolls. The siren sent us home for lunch at 12:00.There were birds, butterflies, trees to lie under so you could watch clouds.The good old days.
Thanks for all the information on Mr. I. Magination. I watched it on Sunday nights, at my Grandma's house in Brooklyn. I must have been all of 4 or 5. I associate the show with playing with my Melody Bells, must have been Christmas!
I totally agree. I was born in 1950 and grew up on Long Island and Queens. I remember taking late night walks in Huntington after dinner without a worry. There weren't any street lights then, nor sidewalks. When I lived in Queens, I remember riding the subways to and from Coney Island after midnight without a worry. As a teenager, my friends and I would follow groups of kids (we didn't know) to a party without a problem. Parties were great back then. No shootings, stabbing, etc. Just plain fun. As a teenager, I grew up in the projects where we only locked the doors when it was time to go to bed. So many times I remember running into someone else's apartment by mistake.
My favorite TV programs were the Ed Sullivan Show, Bonanza and Wonderama, where a group of us from the project got a chance to be on the show. A friend of ours, who lived on our floor, won the grand prize!
We couldn't wait until the summertime because we spent the whole day outdoors. My mother couldn't afford to send us to summer camp, but she didn't need to. We enjoyed our summers, and were always busy just having good fun! We'd leave in the morning and come home around dinner time, without a care in the world.
Girls and boys played sports together. We also partied hardy! I still listen to my Motown music.
It's nothing like today. Today when kids get into arguments, they start shooting at one another. In my time, people just fought using their hands! Going to clubs when I was younger was great. I remember the Dome, The Cheetah, The Cat's Meow, etc; and being a city girl meant I had to take the bus or subway, which never seemed to present a problem. They were always running.
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You're all so right. As children we would play outside from dawn to dusk. We (on Strongs Neck in Setauket) would build elaborate forts in all the vacant land and girls would have tree houses for their dolls and make "rubarb pie". I am not sure what plant that was now.
No adults were around nor would they have wanted to be. Parents had their friends (cocktail parties) and we kids had our tribe. Big kids helped little ones when it came to learning sports and there was no need for anything organized.
"Mother, May I?" was a good game. At night we would play "flash flash" , a hide and seek with flashlights. Nights were really dark then. No extra lights all over the place.
Couldn't we all go back just for one day ? Would you like to come?
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I go back Nancy each time I go to this thread. More and more memories come back.
I remember my mom and some of her friends would take chairs from the garage and sit outside on the driveway talking for hours. As others saw them they would join the group, each one a good friend. I cannot remember the last time I saw a group of people sitting on their chairs on the driveway.
I have lived in my house for nineteen years and I have never seen anyone sitting outside. Occasionally I will see a couple of the neighbors stand and talk when they meet up while walking their dogs but that is the extent of it. We also had the neighborhood in Elmont where the adults sat outside all night while the kids played. Times do change.
You're all so right. As children we would play outside from dawn to dusk. We (on Strongs Neck in Setauket) would build elaborate forts in all the vacant land and girls would have tree houses for their dolls and make "rubarb pie". I am not sure what plant that was now.
No adults were around nor would they have wanted to be. Parents had their friends (cocktail parties) and we kids had our tribe. Big kids helped little ones when it came to learning sports and there was no need for anything organized.
"Mother, May I?" was a good game. At night we would play "flash flash" , a hide and seek with flashlights. Nights were really dark then. No extra lights all over the place.
Couldn't we all go back just for one day ? Would you like to come?
We still do it down here. Block parties, spontaneous BBQs, cocktail parties, neighbors just hanging out in front, the ladies getting together for numerous Pampered Chef, jewelery, etc parties, kids playing flash light tag, or whatever is the game of the week, past the sun going down.
I have to wonder if it's more a sense belonging to a place rather than just owning a house that brings about the type of neighborhood that we remember.
There is a sense of belonging when the block knows each other. Where I live it is very different. Know one wants to really get to know one another. People come and go and a few sneak out in the middle of the night. It is a beautiful subdivision that I live in but saying hi is a big deal here.
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