Memories of a former kid

I loved my bikes!! I think that is Robert on the ground.

When I was little I nicknamed my 2 grandma's big and
little grandma'. I did the same with my 2 Aunt Carol's Here is my big grandma and big Aunt Carol along with my grandpa Gulgren.


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Here is my little grandma and my little Aunt Carol. I don't
have any idea where the names came from!


.It was probably about 1955 or maybe a little later that
President Eisenhauer was in a parade near our school
in Tacoma. All the kids got to go down and watch him
drive by!!


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Happy Birthday mom...

My mom would be 79
years old today.. Here
she is at 2.

Fun with friends while in Tacoma

Some of the friends we used to play
with. Rob and Debbie are on the ends.
One of the cats is one that we brought
with us when we moved back to Illinois.

More friends. Debbie and Joan in
the center. Notice the old camera!

I'm the one posing and Joan is in the

back on the far left. We used to

do a lot of bike riding and roller skating in front of

the house. Our skates were

the metal kind that you attached to your

shoes and used a skate key to tighten. They

could get bigger or smaller-it all depended

on who was using them at the time. We

used a lot of our imagination then. My

school had a tether ball that I liked to

play and since we didn't have the money to

buy one, I found an old basketball that had

holes in it and put a rope through it and

tied it to a tree and played with it that way!

I also liked to lie on a blanket in the front

yard and look at the clouds to see what shapes

I could find. There was a park across the street

in front of our house and behind the houses on

the other side that we all played at. All it had were

swings and monkey bars but we had a lot of

fun. We would go as high as we could on the

swing and then jump and see who could go

the farthest. I know we never broke anything but

I'm very surprised! I don't think we had any

board games. Joan and I liked to sit in our room

with little pieces of paper and write notes back

and forth. (early e-mail?) I also liked to put the

kitchen chairs in a row and pretend they were

a train. (Bristols love for Thomas the train?)

I had a doll that I loved and we used to play

house.

Mt. Ranier

This is Mt. Ranier which we could
see from one of the windows in
our house in Washington.

This is a picture of my grandma

Munson, Aunt Carol, Aunt Hazel,

cousins Vickie and Brian, my sisters

brother and me in front of our house.

When they all came to visit us, there
would be 11 with all of us together.

I remember one time we all got into

this car and took a trip to Mt.

Ranier. Grandma was in the front

passenger side and I laid down by

her feet. I have no idea where

everyone else sat! When we got to

the top of the Mt. it was warm but there

was snow on the ground. My Uncle Carl

took his shirt off and played in the snow.

I also don't know where everyone slept

in the house. Maybe they brought sleeping

bags. I know I was very sad when they

left.

1948 The year I was born....

Things were so much simpler when I was born! Of course the pay was a lot lower but look at these prices! I would love to go back to the 50's to live. You didn't have to lock doors, worry about drive bys, you knew your neighbors and could go for walks at night without worrying about who would jump out from behind the tree. Living in Durand was great too. That was still in the 70/80's and we didn't worry too much. If you watch some of the old shows on tv, that is how it was. Some of my favorites growing up were Leave it to Beaver, The Donna Reed Show, Mickey Mouse Show, Bonanza and Sky King.