Spring/Summer Happy Childhood Memories! - Bilge

C cynfulcynner Member Ocean Beach, San Francisco Joined: Mar 24, 2002 Posts: 1799	C cynfulcynner Posted posted on Fri, May 20, 2005 3:35 PM Some things I remember..... playing with sparklers on July 4 when fireworks were still legal in Torrance going to Dodger games with Vin Scully playing on everyone's transistor radios....now when I go to the ballpark everyone listens on headphones. seeing cheesy live-action Disney movies like "The Apple Dumpling Gang" in my jammies at the Torrance Drive-In or the Roadium sliding down HOT metal slides at various local playgrounds riding around in the rumble seat of our neighbor's 1930 Model A road trips to visit my grandparents in Ogden. We'd always stop along the way to visit the amazing canyons in southern Utah. My grandparents had a HUGE tree in their backyard with a swing, cherry trees full of ripening fruit, and Grandma let me drink all the Frostie root beer I wanted. Sadly, that house and all my grandparents are long gone.

Some things I remember.....

playing with sparklers on July 4 when fireworks were still legal in Torrance

going to Dodger games with Vin Scully playing on everyone's transistor radios....now when I go to the ballpark everyone listens on headphones.

seeing cheesy live-action Disney movies like "The Apple Dumpling Gang" in my jammies at the Torrance Drive-In or the Roadium

sliding down HOT metal slides at various local playgrounds

riding around in the rumble seat of our neighbor's 1930 Model A

road trips to visit my grandparents in Ogden. We'd always stop along the way to visit the amazing canyons in southern Utah. My grandparents had a HUGE tree in their backyard with a swing, cherry trees full of ripening fruit, and Grandma let me drink all the Frostie root beer I wanted. Sadly, that house and all my grandparents are long gone.

Post #160439 by cynfulcynner on Fri, May 20, 2005 3:35 PM