This is an interesting stroll down Memory Lane, something to divert attention from the pandemic, caregiving, bills, and even cold weather.
How many of these old items can you recognize?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/how-to-tell-if-youre-old
There's a list available on the forum where I found this; I'll post it tomorrow if all the items haven't been identified.
Have fun!
I kept one of those pink locked diaries back in junior high and in high school. Never did one after that. I have looked at them and noticed everything was pretty dorky. So I toss them out a few years ago.
I kept a scrap book after high school and into my then marriage. It's been years since I have looked at it. Maybe it is time to toss it. I found my Mom's scrap book of her first few years of marriage soooo much more interesting, and my baby book :) Wished my Mom would have kept up with the scrap book as she and Dad were married over 70 years. Maybe since my Dad had thousands of Kodak slides that was her scrap book :)
My neighbor was an artist. I was really good friends with her daughter. I frequently slept over at her home on weekends.
We used to babysat together and made a whopping .50 an hour! LOL
My friend watched the infant and I watched the two year old.
My friend’s mom who was an artist showed us how to batik and I loved it. I was fascinated with the whole process.
Yes also on the batik, but it was at summer camp under close supervision of an art teacher. Many, many years ago. I would be a beginner again if I decided to do that now.
Tie-dying made a comeback during COVID! My daughters made tie-dyed masks.
Wow, what observations you have! I feel like I just completed a masterclass & thoroughly enjoyed it. Looking forward to my next viewing.
1. He was calm, insightful, not given to irrational or spur of the moment behavior.
2. He didn't fall for her as did the other men in the county, who seemed to be enthralled with her. He was the "hard to get man." She uses the adoration of other men as a sounding board for her beauty and attraction; that didn't work with Ashley (until she manipulated the situation to make it occur).
3. I learned in a college English lit course that classic romantic novels have various aspects, one of which is an obstacle between two people, which has to be overcome before they can become a couple. This is incorporated into many of the Hallmark movies, and not very subtly.
For Ashley, it was the apparent arrangement to wed Melanie, also apparently expected of him. For Rhett, Ashley was the obstacle. For Scarlett, her own inability to understand her feelings for Ashley, and his unavailability were the obstacles, as was Melanie.
Jane Austen incorporates the couple obstacle theme, especially prominent in Pride and Prejudice.
4. For Mitchell as an author, the romantic issues could also be a "carrying" mechanism, to introduce and lessen the impact of the Civil War.
Anyway, it's a darn good book, and an excellent movie. Gable was I think magnificent in portraying Rhett... suave, sophisticated, connected, adaptable, politically savvy but not obsessive, and certainly able to analyze rationally on how the South had no preparation to take on the North.
I bought the DVD at the start of the pandemic. I figured if I was laid up for a while I would at least enjoy watching it again. So far so good, but it's not over yet...
Newman and Gleason were great together as pool players in The Hustler. Great movie!
Yes, Gable is preferred to Ashley, not so much in looks but in personality. In some ways, Ashley was kind of sad b/c he didn't speak up for himself. Gable was much more assertive.
The whole Gone With the Wind movie was so well done, especially in addressing the dominant personalities, and their interactions with each other. Melanie was more insightful that Scarlett; the 2 were such interesting characters when compared as women in those early times. I thought the character studies and comparisons were very well done, especially for a movie based on a novel.
My grandfather was larger than life to me.
He watched baseball (Yankees fan) and Lawrence Welk because my grandfather loved to Waltz.
They had the singers and dancers on that show. What was up with the bubbles? LOL
He didn’t get into The Beatles or Elvis on Ed Sullivan, but I surely did! John was my favorite Beatle.
He was a Bing Crosby fan but mom was a Frank Sinatra fan!
We are a Catholic family so we watched Archbishop Fulton Sheen on Sunday evenings, but my family also loved Billy Graham.
My daddy grew up as a Protestant but converted to Catholicism before marrying my mom.
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I love Newman! He and Redford were great in The Sting.
Clark was handsome! Rhett over Ashley, Right?
Those days are so long ago.
Oh, and Clark Gable, especially in Gone With the Wind.
MysteryShopper, my mother loved Little House; I used to tape all the episodes for her, plus the Avonlea episodes. She enjoyed both programs.
Ahhhh, Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood! I loved them. Had a crush on both of them as a kid!
I guess the first time I saw Redford was when I was 12. My aunt took me to see Barefoot in the Park. Jane Fonda played the part for his wife. Adorable movie!
Remember Eastwood was in the old television westerns. I used to watch him with my grandpa. His character was Rowdy Yates.
Funny how we remember these things, huh?
NHWM- Twilight Zone was probably the first time I saw Robert Redford act. He was fabulous (of course).
So much fun!
My sister had piano lessons with the nuns and had her knuckles whacked more than once.
I remember the days when over a certain age - probably about 40 - you were supposed to keep your hair short. It wasn't "seemly" to have long hair unless it was kept in a bun all the time like my grandmother did, who, incidentally always wore black except when we were at camp. Gone are those days, thank goodness!!!