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aplusmnt

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backhoeboogie said:
MoGal said:
My father was born in 1929 and he remembers when they didn't have enough food, they only got one pair of shoes in the fall and by spring they didn't fit anymore so they had to go barefoot all summer. He remembers Christmas as a bag of candy with an apple or orange in it and that was all.

In '65 I got a Tonka truck and still have it. That was the first big store bought thing I remember getting. I know it was '65 because of the grade I was in. Couldn't wait to tell everyone when school started back.

Dad made me some blocks one year out of scrap wood. That was probably about '62 or so. He must have spent hours on those. They had dado grooves and slots for stacking. They were all sanded and finished. My grandson plays with them - and that Tonka truck I still have.

My birthday is 2 days after Christmas. My wife gave me my first birthday party. We always got a cake on our birthday growing up but we never had a party. Too many kids I guess.

I big yellow Tonka Dump truck, was the first birthday present I can remember getting I think mine was in 1970 though. I remembers being so excited about that truck, my mom took me and my cousin to see a movie and after the movie we stopped at a park that had a wishing well, I wished for that truck I been wanting, my cousin wished for a Million Dollars. After he saw me open my truck, he told everyone he was going to get a Million dollars. :lol:
 

backhoeboogie

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aplusmnt said:
backhoeboogie said:
MoGal said:
My father was born in 1929 and he remembers when they didn't have enough food, they only got one pair of shoes in the fall and by spring they didn't fit anymore so they had to go barefoot all summer. He remembers Christmas as a bag of candy with an apple or orange in it and that was all.

In '65 I got a Tonka truck and still have it. That was the first big store bought thing I remember getting. I know it was '65 because of the grade I was in. Couldn't wait to tell everyone when school started back.

Dad made me some blocks one year out of scrap wood. That was probably about '62 or so. He must have spent hours on those. They had dado grooves and slots for stacking. They were all sanded and finished. My grandson plays with them - and that Tonka truck I still have.

My birthday is 2 days after Christmas. My wife gave me my first birthday party. We always got a cake on our birthday growing up but we never had a party. Too many kids I guess.

I big yellow Tonka Dump truck, was the first birthday present I can remember getting I think mine was in 1970 though. I remembers being so excited about that truck, my mom took me and my cousin to see a movie and after the movie we stopped at a park that had a wishing well, I wished for that truck I been wanting, my cousin wished for a Million Dollars. After he saw me open my truck, he told everyone he was going to get a Million dollars. :lol:

Aplus that's a good story.

Funny thing about me is I value those blocks more now than the truck. I think it is because daddy built them out of the scrap wood. A horse had kicked him in the leg and he nearly lost that leg. It was never the same. Mom went to work but in the 60's ladies didn't make much of a salary at all. No benefits at all either.

My times is almost up. Time for some real work. I was told to go buy that expensive tube steel and weld out that frame. (I had best not make any mistakes at the price of that steel.) :D :D :D

Ya'll have a good day. I hope you all have something to smile about by the end of the day.
 

TSR

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backhoeboogie said:
aplusmnt said:
backhoeboogie said:
In '65 I got a Tonka truck and still have it. That was the first big store bought thing I remember getting. I know it was '65 because of the grade I was in. Couldn't wait to tell everyone when school started back.

Dad made me some blocks one year out of scrap wood. That was probably about '62 or so. He must have spent hours on those. They had dado grooves and slots for stacking. They were all sanded and finished. My grandson plays with them - and that Tonka truck I still have.

My birthday is 2 days after Christmas. My wife gave me my first birthday party. We always got a cake on our birthday growing up but we never had a party. Too many kids I guess.

I big yellow Tonka Dump truck, was the first birthday present I can remember getting I think mine was in 1970 though. I remembers being so excited about that truck, my mom took me and my cousin to see a movie and after the movie we stopped at a park that had a wishing well, I wished for that truck I been wanting, my cousin wished for a Million Dollars. After he saw me open my truck, he told everyone he was going to get a Million dollars. :lol:

Aplus that's a good story.

Funny thing about me is I value those blocks more now than the truck. I think it is because daddy built them out of the scrap wood. A horse had kicked him in the leg and he nearly lost that leg. It was never the same. Mom went to work but in the 60's ladies didn't make much of a salary at all. No benefits at all either.

My times is almost up. Time for some real work. I was told to go buy that expensive tube steel and weld out that frame. (I had best not make any mistakes at the price of that steel.) :D :D :D

Ya'll have a good day. I hope you all have something to smile about by the end of the day.

I wish I still had some of the wooden guns my daddy whittled out for me when I was a kid-they would be a treasure. I can remember my dad saying he put his first crop in at 12yrs. old with no shoes. I also can remember when he got a new job-$.50/hr at a factory making brick sewer tiles. He was glad to get that job. I can remember when I was about 6 I got a pair of Hopalong Cassidy cap pistols boy did I ever like them. I could tell you every cowboy's horse's name-still remember most of them. Not that they were the good old days but we experienced some things not to be experienced again, like riding pickup loads of cotton and dodging the tree limbs down a gravel road while riding atop the load going to the gin. BTW I hated having to pick cotton. Swimming in ponds and creeks. In those days we could fish/hunt on any of the srrounding farms, those days are certainly gone now. but it is nice to reminisce. Yall have a good weekend.
 

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