I Remember...

The First Television set my parents got.
They bought it from a local furnature dealer, who delivered and set it up one afternoon. I think it was spring or early summer of 1961.

The installed an antenna pole (about 12 feet in the air), ran the wire through the window and connected it to the Tv set. It came with a small stand with wheels (an early entertainment center).

I remember when they turned it on, there was a cowboy show on, My sister & I was so excited. Where we lived at back then, we could only pick up about 3 channels, and someone (usually my brother) had to stand on the porch and slowly rotate the antenna pole until the picture would come in clear enough to see.

My first Deanna Daredevil doll with motorcycle that you wind up and then press a release button and she goes. My brother had the Evil Knievel one, but mine was better. I chopped her hair off so as to not look like a Barbie doll, which I loathed. I got her back in Christmas of 1977. I was obsessed with it. I remember thinking Finall??toy for girls that isn't girly.

http://dollreference.com/images/mrs_beasley1967.jpg Oh that is so sad, Sis, I hope this brings back a smile for you.

10 Phrases spoken by the 22" pull-string talking Mrs. Beasley Doll produced by Mattel

* Do you want to hear a secret? I know one.
* Gracious me, you're getting to be such a big girl!
* I do think you're the nicest little friend I ever had.
* It would be such fun to play jump rope, don't you think?
* If you could have three wishes, what would you wish for?
* If you were a little smaller, I could rock you to sleep.
* Long ago I was a little girl just like you!
* Speak a little louder dear, so Mrs. Beasley can hear you.
* Would you like to try on my glasses? You may if you wish.
* You may call me Mrs. Beasley. Would you like to play?

I remember when I was about 8, a neighbor lady gave me a blanket, it was blue with white & red ships on it. I had it for years before it just kinda fell apart, ain't that a strange thing to remember? [img]graemlins/wonder.gif[/img]

My Mrs Beasley Doll that I got for Christmas in 1970...I loved her so much then one day while I was outside having a tea party with her, my Momma called me inside to eat dinner (ALWAYS GOT EXCITED ABOUT EATING)so I ran in had dinner and then a bath. During that time a cold front game through and it started sleeting and freezing. When it was time for bed I couldn't find Mrs. Beasley ( cause I had left her outside) and when my Daddy brought her in she was frozen solid and so cold...I pulled her string and she said something like the teacher off of Peanuts...then my Momma told me I killed her WAH!!!!!!! [img]graemlins/cry.gif[/img]

Oh ROGER!!! You are to kind to me!!! You just managed to make me feel 4 years old again!!! My Mom has actually looked into purchasing a Mrs. Beasley for me BUT thought 75$ was too steep, since I'd prolly kill her again LOL!!! That story is still a running punchline in my family!!!

I like remembering the wierd things...I bet you loved your Blanket!!!

...The first toy I got for Christmas. I must have been about 5, and I got a wind up bull dozer that ran on rubber treads, I couldn't wait until it was warm enough to take it outside and play in the dirt.

I hadn't thought about that in forever until you started talking about Mrs Beasley

Off Topic, but I have a friend back in California and when they started looking for a name of the band, some one came up with "The Beasley's" as a tribute to Buffy's Companion

I remember the first time I got in trouble in school.

It was in Mrs Grants 3rd grade class. It was during a spelling test. She had promised us that if everyone passed the test, she would take us up the street to the Hilltop Drive in. I was a terrible speller so I found the sheet she was going to work from, and copied the answers.

As she called out the words we would write them down, I got cocky and started writing down the words before she called them.

I was writing intently when I realised, that she was standing behind me and she noticed that I was about three words ahead.

I got three raps across my knuckles and no one got ice cream, boy were they mad.

The next week, everyone passed and we got our cones. [img]redface.gif[/img]

One of my first memories is of my great grandmother
holding me and swinging on the porch swing....
I can remember my fingers touching her necklace which was a big
heart....my mom is amazed I can remember that.....
because my great grandmother passed
away before I was 2 years old and when I told
my grandmother when I was 12 that I remembered
that necklace, she gave it to me!

I was born in Alabama, but moved to Illinois as an infant, So I don't remember most of my family, on my Moms side except for one happy memory.

We took a trip down to Gadston in about '65 or '66, I thought it was quite an adventure. They made us pallets of quilts on the living room floor, and I remember my Aunt getting up before the sun and I woke up and she Shh'ed me and told me to go back to sleep.

I woke up a little later by the smells from the kitchen. I got up as she was pulling out Homemade biscuits the size of saucers. She took my hand and we walked into the back yard and picked big ol' red tomatoes for breakfast.

I think that was the best meal I ever had. Big biscuit, with a slab of fried pork back, a slice of ripe tomato & a slice of melted cheddar cheese.

I like to eat, but that breakfast will always be in my memory.