Guess I am!
She was a "lady of the night"(learned that when I got older) who lived in a
once upon a time beautiful brownstone that had been converted into
miniscule  apartments.  She slept most of the day but often appeared on the
stoop late in the afternoon just about the time I was on my way home from
school.

E of the headdress


At 03:05 PM 9/21/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Remember!!!!!!!!!!!!  A nickel to run an errand???????
>Nobody but me is that old
>Bob A
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Edith S. Love" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 12:12 AM
>Subject: Re: NOT PD Do you remember?
>
>
>Lanny, thank you.  Author unknown pretty well covered it, and for a few
>minutes I was somewhere else, and it felt good.  I'd like to add:
>spin the bottle and building sand castles.  How about knocking on
>people's doors and running away?  Or calling the neighbors and making up
>something that made them run to take care of it.  Or running errands for
>people in the neighborhood for five cents.  A ten cent bonus and one was
>literally rich!
>What about the penny candy store!  I'm getting younger and healthier by
>the minute!
>
>E
>May we all walk in the headdress of the sun.
>
>
>At 09:16 PM 9/19/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>>>>>
>
>> Ready for a stroll down memory lane?
>>
>> Author unknown
>>
>> Let's go back.......
>> Close your eyes.....and go back........
>> Before the Internet or the MAC,
>> Before semi automatics and crack
>> Before chronic and India
>> Before SEA or Super Nintendo
>>
>>     Way back........
>>
>> I'm talkin' bout hide and go seek at dusk.
>> Sittin' on the porch, hot bread and butter.
>> the ice cream man, Simon Says, Kick the Can,
>> Red light, Green light.
>>
>> Lunch Boxes with a Thermos...that broke, chocolate milk,
>> lunch tickets,penny candy from the corner store,
>> Hopscotch, butterscotch, skates with keys, Jacks, kickball,
>> dodgeball, Dixie peach and Bonnie Doon socks,
>> Mother May I?
>>
>> Hula Hoops and Sunflower Seeds, wax lips and mustaches,
>> Mary Janes, saddle shoes and Coke bottles with the names of
>> cities on the bottom, running through the sprinkler, circle pins,
>> bobby pins, Mickey Mouse Club, Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bulwinkle,
>> Fran & Ollie, Spin & Marty.....all in black & white.
>>
>> Catchin' lightening bugs in a jar, playin sling shot.
>> When around the corner seemed far away,
>> and going downtown seemed like going somewhere.
>> Bedtime,  climbing trees,  making forts...
>>
>> coasters from orange crates and an old skate,
>> Backyard Shows, Lemonade Stands, Cops and Robbers,
>> Cowboys and Indians, sittin on the curb, staring at clouds,
>> jumpin down the steps, jumping on the bed. Pillow fights, "company",
>> ribbon candy, angle hair on the Christmas tree, Mary Martin as
>> "Peter Pan",  Jackie Gleason as "the poor soul", white gloves,
>> walking to church, walking to the library.
>>
>> Being tickled to death
>> Running till you were out of breath
>> Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
>>
>> Being tired from playin'.... Remember that?
>>
>> Not steppin' on a crack...or you'll break your mother's back...
>> paper chains at Christmas, silhouettes of Lincoln and Washington....
>> the smell of paste, buck bags, and Evening in Paris.......
>>
>> Crowding around in a circle around the 'after school
>> fight', then running when the teacher came.   What about the girl
>> that had the big bubbly handwriting...who dotted her "i's" with
>> hearts??
>>
>> Bob parties, slam books, The Stroll, popcorn balls, sock hops & hay
>> rides.
>>
>> Remember when...When there were two types of sneakers for girls and
>> boys (Keds & PF Flyer) and the only time you wore them at school, was
>> for "gym"....with those great blue and white gym uniforms.
>>
>> When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up.
>> When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there.
>>
>> When nobody owned a purebred dog.
>> When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a huge
>> bonus.
>>
>> When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
>> When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then.
>>
>> When your mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.
>> When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
>> their hair done, everyday and wore high heels.
>>
>> When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
>> without asking, for free, every time. And, you didn't pay for air.
>> And, you got trading stamps to boot!
>>
>> When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden
>> inside
>> the box.
>> When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to
>> carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
>>
>> When pizza wasn't delivered......and chicken was......
>>
>> When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at
>> a
>> real restaurant with your parents.
>> When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they
>> failed ... and did!
>>
>> When being sent to the principal's office was nothing
>> compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.
>>
>> When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the
>> bathrooms,
>> flunk a test, or chew gum.
>>
>> And the prom was in the gym and you danced to an orchestra, and all
>> the
>> girls wore pastel gowns and the boys wore white dinner jackets and
>> paid
>> for dinner.
>>
>> When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car.....to cruise the strip, peel
>>
>> out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady and
>> girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped dental floss coated
>> with
>> pastel frost nail polish so it would fit her finger.
>>
>> And.......with all our progress......don't you just wish......just
>>   once......you could slip back in time and savor the slower
>> pace.......and share it with a child of the 80's and 90's...........
>>
>> So send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The
>> Hardy Boys, Trixie Belden, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut
>>   Gallery.......The Lone Ranger, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger
>> and
>> Buttermilk.........as well as the sound of a rotary mower on Saturday
>> Morning and summers filled with bike rides,  treasure hunts, baseball
>> games, bowling and visits to the local public pool.........
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Lanny D. Weddel
>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
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