Memory Lane...

I think one of my best momeries from when i was young was sundays at my grandparents house. every sunday my whole family would go to my grandfathers house for sunday dinner. and i mean dinner. my grandfather was an amazing cook and he would my good stuff. i am hungry thinking about it. my cousins and i would be in the back room playing james bond, or super heros. that was fun then. i mean it was us kids using our imagination, having a good time. waiting for my grandfather to say, get you a$$e$ to the table. life was simple back then

We had good neighbourhoods where kids would play without the fear of being harmed by hoodlums. For instance, if I chose, I would ride my bike to school, about 6km away. But nowadays, we are scared and worried about the safety our kids if they can ride that far. From the doorstep of our homes, we would hop out to the shop across the road, with coins, and play Pacman and a variety of other arcade games. I also loved Donkey Kong, for which I was the champion (with highest rating) in my neighbourhood. I relieve this to my kids, and sometimes they think I'm just making it up!

Guess I go back every now and then to memory lane.....Like as a kid being able to ride our bikes without lights at night on the sidewalk.......Forget about a helmet or knee pads, when you could get a 12 oz. pepsi for a nickle, sharing it with a friend and you drank out of the same bottle, mom and her friends setting on the front porch swing talking tell storys of when they were kids, We played out side in the summer time till the street lights came on and if we were really quite we would be able to sleep on the porch at night in the summer time........Going around the neighbor hood and finding pop bottle to take to the store and getting the money for them....Then getting soda and candy as a treat for our hard work.......Those are the things I remember.......

I love the nickel and dime Ice cream shop at the corner of the old neighborhood I lived in as a child. You could go in there and it was filled from floor to ceiling with anything and everything, and the ice cream parlor had at least 20 varieties of ice cream. They also and those side by side double scoop ice cream cones. Man that was the place. When I got my allowance that was the place I went to first!

Collecting pop bottles for 2 cents each. The bigger ones were worth 5 cents. There were no recycling laws back then. So, they could be found anywhere. Then cashing them in and going to Laura Lee's to buy candy. I can still remember the smell of that old store...like walking into a 100 year old wood building. Such a sweet old lady trying to scratch out a living selling penny candies.

Ohh, I love that! I would have been in heaven if there had been a place nearby with a jukebox in it! ^_^ I just love music! ^_^ Anyway, there was a store just down the street from my house that sold salvaged goods (from things like train wrecks, etc) and they often had a lot of really cheap candy. My friends and I *loved* to walk down there with our pocket change every week and buy as much candy as we could! That was a really warm memory.. I wish that that store were still there *laugh*

one thing i cannot forget is the way all the neighbours came to our house and watched the sunday movie thats aired on doordarshan... A fantastic experience.. We used to distribute snacks to everyone as if it is a big event and the room used to be filled with jokes, laughter, comments about the movie, etc... Can we expect that to happen again? I doubt!!

The good old days are so sweet whenever i recall them.. We lived in a very closely knit society full of pets, trees, lush greenery all over, and lots of camaredie and trust, which is missing in todays world. We had fond memories of how everyone used to help each other when in need.. I hope i can meet them after a long gap of more than 12 years...

Talking of the good old days....!!!! I`ve always done more mischiefs in my childhood... I`ve made my school principal call me everyday for some problem or the other in school becuz of me. I`ve also caused so much mental agony to my parents... so my mishaps all were to be laughed at but was very painful when happened....

wow!. i would love to share my memories of the past too!. well i choose to share the experience that i have had when i was still a child and my uncle was still alive.. he would teach me to read and to pronounce words correctly and everytime i do it right he gives me chocolates or dolls as gifts.. my other uncle would also play with me and make me mad and make me happy at the same time.. i missed the times when me and my brother would go out and venture with friends and we would play house or ninja turtles or hide and seek!. my ate and i usually play ballerina and i was the ballet dancer and she would play the guy who carries me around and pretends to throw me.. well i was very small and my cousin could carry me and twirl me around.. it was really fun being a kid and being able to play games all the time!.

yes.. i miss the good ole days!. i miss the days when i was young and innocent and the times id cry because of silly, petty, childish things. i miss those times when we would go to the farm our grandparents own to spend our summers. everyday we would be awoken by our grandmother to cut grass before breakfast. if we cannot fill i basket then wo cant eat our breakfast. so there we go to the fields and hating our grandmother and talking to ourselves and laughing because we would steal some grass from our workers to fill our own baskets and laughing again as we tease each other and getting scolded because we are playing when we are supposed to be working. see i dont hate my grandmother for that because she just want us to learn that we have to work to get money or to get food. it is like she is preparing us for reality, preparing us to become independent. anyways i can still remember the amazing games we play with the sons and daughters of our workers. we would play hide and seek with a can and when that can is kicked all those seen by the "it" will go back to hiding again and the "it" would still be the "it"!. then we would play shatong..and it would be the girls versus the boys!. we girls would win but we struggle to do so because the boys are hard to defeat. we also play house their and we cook food. the food that we cook is fresh because the vegetables are freshly picked by us. everything there is fresh and i love it that way. we used to climb trees and eat their fruit while hanging in their branches. we used to go biking and making phases here and there. there was one time that my brother and i raced using bikes and then i was gonna overtake him but he stopped abruptly. so i swirved to the left so that i wont hit him and so i caused injury to myself. i still got a scar in my knee for that. we also used to sneak out of the house during siesta hours. our grandma forces us to sleep at these hours and as children we do not want to sleep because all we want is to play. so we would sneak around and get punished afterwards with a stick or a sack. ah.. those were the days. i could share a whole lot more but nostalgia is striking so i better stop now!. THANK you for this discussion. you made me remember.

memory lane is endless though.... It cherishes our good days of life......

oooohh... really miss my childhood! Miss those good old evenings when all the kids in the neighborhood used to play their hearts out till the mothers got really pissed with the incessant calls to get the kids back in the house till late in the nights! The games we played, the songs we sang, the way we teased each other and the quarrels, miss all that!

you guys will prolly laugh since im only 19 but i still think back. this part of my life i would half to say is the hardest. i have alot of responsibilties at such a young age and sumtime i just wish that i could only worry about where im goin to ride my bike to next you know lol. i know it sounds crazy but i wouldnt change them days for nothing. i wouldnt go back, its just fun to look back. im happy with my situation as of right now, yeah i may not have alot of money to my name but i have a soon to be wife that loves me, a great family, and hopefully a very successful future ahead of me!

my best memory is when my father carrying me from his room back to my own room to sleep every night even though i am already 9 years old... but i really love it and i always want him to carry me...

well yeah i have some fun memory in my childhood it was when im still 6 years old or something...its when times of fun together with my neighbors i really enjoy those times when we have no responsibilities to think of not like now...my childhood days is what i consider most enjoyable one..remembering the trips to the lakes , and have fun in playing hide and seek, telling horror stories during the night in our terrace with friends and all stuff that children loves to do...

We had a diner near our home (and I believe its still open) that had the old-fashioned booths with the little jukeboxes in each one (1 for a dime, 3 for a quarter). This diner baked its own desserts and the stacks of homemade pies, cakes, puddings and other treats in the glass cases always made my brother's, sister's and my mouth water! The waitresses would cut each piece themselves and they were usually big ones, too. Gosh, to go home again!

memories...they make a lifetime.. it's an amazing life and the best part is that it has just started.. enjoy and look back.. it'll give you a lot of happiness

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There is a place in every heart, They call it memory lane. Where thoughts of loved ones lost Forever will remain. God made this special place when he first created man. for he knew it would be needed As part of our life's plan. He knew when loved ones left us We'd need some time to heal To come to terms with sorrow And the loneliness we would feel So when u lose a loved one And your life is filled with pain The comfort of their presence Will be found in Memory lane.