Seven Childhood Memories Challenge
By fishtiger58
@fishtiger58 (29820)
Momence, Illinois
December 29, 2015 8:47pm CST
I put my memories on Lori's comments but will repost them here.
1. Taking an 8 week driving trip to Alaska. I was 15 I just wanted to stay home.
2. Those awful homemade clothes. My mom made them too.
3.We lived by a drive in theater. My girlfriends garage butted right up against the drive in theater's fence. When there was a good movie playing all the neighborhood kids would crawl under the fence and run up and down the rows turning all the speakers up full blast. Then when it was time we would sit on my girlfriends garage roof with popcorn and watch the movie. It was great fun.
4. Sitting in the field near my house picking wild strawberries all day long with my best friend in the whole world.
5. Eating the freshly fallen snow mixed with maple syrup. Wrapped in a blanket with my best friend watching a movie and eating snow.
6. Trick or Treating with my best friend and running and running the whole night to get the most candy as humanly possible.
7. Sitting on Smokers Corner and trying my first cigarette. Oh how I coughed.
So let's hear yours.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
30 Dec 15
I am way too old to go back this far! Most mothers made clothes - mine sewed them, knitted them too. I still have my snowsuit and first knit coat from when I was about 1 year old.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
30 Dec 15
@fishtiger58 They are in my Grandmohter's hope chest...sure they have a moth hole or two but they are at least 67 years old.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
My mom knitted too, but the clothes were sewn. That's amazing you still have some of the things your mom made you.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
@AbbyGreenhill Amazing and pretty darn cool.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
30 Dec 15
lol Great memories, You actually had a place called smokers corner? We just went behind Kingdom Hall which was on a small street between school and our house and tried out smoking.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
yup Smokers Corner it's where we all smoked. It had been the place for many many years and many many kids.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
@Marilynda1225 My parents both smoked so I don't think they could smell it on me.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
30 Dec 15
@Marilynda1225 I wonder too, my mom didn't smoke but my dad did. lol It was a rite of passage, did some making out back there too lol
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Dec 15
I've already posted mine. Just surfing through everyone elses here. What a bargain having a place to watch a movie without spending a dime!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Dec 15
@fishtiger58 I think there is still a working drive through out in the boonies down here in NC. My aunt, uncle and mom got a dalmation from a raffle ticket at a drive in once.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
31 Dec 15
One of my favorite memories, thanks for reading, I will check yours out in a bit.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
31 Dec 15
@ScribbledAdNauseum I think there is only one drive in here in Illinois left. It's really a shame they were such great fun.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
30 Dec 15
I happened to see that you got this done on Belle's discussion page, so I hopped on by. Might I suggest you editing your tag to have 'seven' in front of childhood memories? That way all those with the same tag can be found in one place. I found Belle's that way, but didn't see yours.
You had a lot of fun with your best friend. I used to enjoy picking blueberries, although I didn't like getting stung by the bees which happened almost every time I went.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
I took your suggestion on the seven. I had loads of fun with her and miss her daily. She passed away at age 20 in a car accident.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
@MarshaMusselman I did we were inseparable.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
30 Dec 15
Sounds like you had an interesting best friend, so did I. I really miss her. i will do this challenge, I read &jaboUK and now yours so I'm in for later today.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
@PainsOnSlate yes you are, I missed out on so much life with my best friend.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
31 Dec 15
Now those are some memories. I can see why at 15 you wouldn't want to take a long driving trip with the family. It is no fun when you can be home running around with your friends. My mom couldn't sew so we only got a few things now and then from our grandmothers. they were always nice and we did like them. They basically made us more stuff like sweaters and things like this.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
31 Dec 15
@fishtiger58 My grandma sewed. When I went to live with her at 15 I was too old for her to sew me too much. She did make some great T-shirts that I liked a lot. As for other stuff she knew I wouldn't wear it so she didn't bother with it at all. But there was some things I would find patterns for and get some material for and she would make me. I got to choose them myself so it was even better than being chosen for me.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
31 Dec 15
@poehere I loved the sweaters and blankets my mom knitted for me, but hated the clothes she sewed. My mom had 5 kids and sewed all our clothes. Thankfully that didn't last long I think she was tired of sewing so much, and I sure didn't complain.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
31 Dec 15
My mom knitted as well so we got all the knitted stuff as well and the sewn stuff.
@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
I had a great childhood, lots of fun.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
The snow and maple syrup were amazing, but we were kids. The drive in was awesome we had such fun.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
The movie nights were awesome, it was a sad day when they tore the drive in down.
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@simone10 (54187)
• Louisville, Kentucky
5 Jan 16
@fishtiger58 I bet it was a lot of fun and trying not to get caught at the same time.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
5 Jan 16
@simone10 It was so fun and we never got caught.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
It was amazing how all the kids pulled together to get those speakers turned up before night fall. It was so darn fun.
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@Marilynda1225 (82700)
• United States
30 Dec 15
I remember those drive-in theaters but we always went in the car. It was lots of fun to be a kid in pj's and watch a movie sitting in the car. Good old days 
I have to think of some of my own but right now my brain isn't working LOL
I have to think of some of my own but right now my brain isn't working LOL2 people like this
@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
I didn't think I could either but once I started the memories began to flow.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
I will be interested to read them.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
One of my best memories. It was such great fun.I have gotten in a few times in a trunk of a car. It's what we teenagers did back then. I think it cost a buck to get in but it was more fun to ride in the trunk. Or one person would drive in, and go to the back fence and pick up everyone crawling under the fence.
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@chandrejackson (95)
• Clarksville, Tennessee
30 Dec 15
I like trying different things. When we receive our first snow I'll be trying the homemade snow mix... My son will probably have a heart attack about the mention of eating something falling from the sky...
Thanks for sharing
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
But maybe the snow is actually cleaner now than it was in the 70's when I ate it lol. Thanks so much for reading.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 15
Thanks I didn't think I could come up with 7 either, but once I got started all these memories came flooding back.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
12 Jan 16
they were tiny so we had to pick a lot but they were the best.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
12 Jan 16
@fishtiger58 They sound like the alpine strawberries my grandpa used to grow, they have a very intense flavour
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
12 Jan 16
@Auntylou they were the best strawberries I ever ate.
@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
31 Dec 15
My grandma had rhubarb in her back yard and we always had to make a pie. Such fun.
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@Katharina (24)
• Scranton, Pennsylvania
31 Dec 15
Oh my! Your #1 memory (driving trip to Alaska) has been a lifelong goal of mine! It has always sounded to incredibly exciting... but it's oh so far away. :-)
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
31 Dec 15
It's way far away, I live in Illinois. Back in 1974 the Alaskan Canadian Highway was 1500 miles of gravel road, it was quite a trip.
