Smoking a bowl of fine herb with friends and family... (Reply #44)

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Fri Nov 29, 2013, 09:42 PM

nikto (3,284 posts)

44. Smoking a bowl of fine herb with friends and family...

And sharing some egg nog.

Happy Holidays!

And Merry Bud-Mas!

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73 replies	Author	Time	Post
The day after Thanksgiving 1944. We had gone to my grandmother's. [View all]	Cleita	Nov 2013	OP
Thanks for sharing your memories Cleita. I grew up in the	livetohike	Nov 2013	#1
You're welcome.	Cleita	Nov 2013	#2
I agree. And, as kids, we didn't get gobs & gobs of junk toys. We usually got a toy or two, and	loudsue	Nov 2013	#29
exactly. nt	DesertFlower	Nov 2013	#54
Same here......	llmart	Nov 2013	#14
The sidewalks around the square...	awoke_in_2003	Nov 2013	#43
Oh, yes, I sure do remember Higbees.....	llmart	Nov 2013	#61
Yep to all...	awoke_in_2003	Nov 2013	#63
I love 'A Christmas Story' . . .	aggiesal	Nov 2013	#47
just you wait!	NJCher	Nov 2013	#57
Horne's Christmas windows were the best, and they had 19th century, costumed carollers	Divernan	Nov 2013	#26
Don't think you'll see that at WalMart or Target. n/t	Cleita	Nov 2013	#27
I was born Dec'44	mitchtv	Nov 2013	#3
I didn't have a Christmas club but many family members did.	Cleita	Nov 2013	#5
i was born 10/41 in queens, ny. i remember those stores too.	DesertFlower	Nov 2013	#23
Our savings accounts paid 5% for the entire first part of my life. It was a standard rate for	loudsue	Nov 2013	#34
wouldn't it be nice to get 5 percent now?	DesertFlower	Nov 2013	#39
Born in April, '47	druidqueen	Nov 2013	#62
Thanks for the memory.	spartan61	Nov 2013	#4
I know we can't go back but I think we could take some of	Cleita	Nov 2013	#6
Me, too, Cleita. The greed and junk-fever is pretty appalling.	loudsue	Nov 2013	#35
one thing I find helpful is not watching ANY teevee.	BlancheSplanchnik	Nov 2013	#48
It was the same in Chicago. Quite often we would go downtown just to look at the window displays.	world wide wally	Nov 2013	#7
There isn't even any interest in doing something	Cleita	Nov 2013	#20
Ah, yes, I remember it well. nt	No Vested Interest	Nov 2013	#8
Day after Thanksgiving in my family...	Archae	Nov 2013	#9
Love it! Thanks for posting!	KoKo	Nov 2013	#13
Aww Archae! Thanks for these.	Cleita	Nov 2013	#19
I figured you'd like those.	Archae	Nov 2013	#30
Good memories. I have those, too.	MineralMan	Nov 2013	#10
Even in the '50s and early '60s the downtown stores	The Velveteen Ocelot	Nov 2013	#11
This is a great story. I can almost see Jimmy Stewart running down the street . . .	Major Hogwash	Nov 2013	#12
I agree. Every time I see something about a bank being fined for	Frustratedlady	Nov 2013	#16
Born 1943 here -- and I have some of the same memories.	JDPriestly	Nov 2013	#15
Many downtowns still actually have this. Mine does. It's nice.	RBInMaine	Nov 2013	#17
That's cool. Good to hear it. n/t	Cleita	Nov 2013	#32
Your grandmother and mine must have been cut from the same cloth....	Little Star	Nov 2013	#18
She herself was raised on the farm back in the late Nineteenth century	Cleita	Nov 2013	#31
There are trade-offs with progress....	MADem	Nov 2013	#21
This is how I grew up in VT. We would take one trip to the mall at somepoint between Thanksgiving	glowing	Nov 2013	#22
i don't remember thanksgiving '44. i was 3 years old.	DesertFlower	Nov 2013	#24
We were living with my grandmother and aunt and uncle because of the housing	Cleita	Nov 2013	#25
I remember being taken to various downtowns when I was a little kid	Warpy	Nov 2013	#28
Late to the party	mcp37	Nov 2013	#33
Welcome to DU	Cleita	Nov 2013	#36
Never too late for a post like yours. Welcome to DU, friend, and	japple	Nov 2013	#68
37 is not middle aged!	ginnyinWI	Dec 2013	#73
Thank you for the lovely post.	Paka	Nov 2013	#37
I have the fondest memories of those days	Suziq	Nov 2013	#38
i loved downtown brooklyn. when i was a kid we couldn'd	DesertFlower	Nov 2013	#55
Alexander's on Main Street	mitchtv	Nov 2013	#67
Thank you, Cleita, for this lovely post.	madfloridian	Nov 2013	#40
Thanks, Cleita. You revive good memories with me too. nt	Hekate	Nov 2013	#41
Thank you for	babylonsister	Nov 2013	#42
Smoking a bowl of fine herb with friends and family...	nikto	Nov 2013	#44
Now there's a plus for the 21st century--at least in CO and WA n/t	eridani	Nov 2013	#56
I'm right there with you in your nostalgia....	Useless in FL	Nov 2013	#45
As a kid in the 60s, I remember the day after Thanksgiving as...	MarianJack	Nov 2013	#46
I thought that 'Black Friday' was . . .	aggiesal	Nov 2013	#49
Could be.	MarianJack	Nov 2013	#51
Here are some links.	aggiesal	Nov 2013	#53
Thanksgiving of '44 was celebrated without the men of the family - still serving:	Chipper Chat	Nov 2013	#50
Christmas 1944	dem in texas	Nov 2013	#52
We went downtown Minneapolis	roody	Nov 2013	#58
We never did it Thanksgiving weekend, but those window displays...	countryjake	Nov 2013	#59
Have I got the place for you!	JNelson6563	Nov 2013	#60
downtown Christmas memories	northoftheborder	Nov 2013	#65
Shared on FB (if that's okay)	tofuandbeer	Nov 2013	#64
I wasn't around during WWII. I wasn't a hint of a gleam in who would become my	bluestate10	Nov 2013	#66
Thank you for this lovely, nostalgic thread, Cleita. It brought	japple	Nov 2013	#69
I didn't arrive until September of 1945.	Lugnut	Dec 2013	#70
I work in a hospital.	TNNurse	Dec 2013	#71
growing up on a farm in small town America	littlewolf	Dec 2013	#72

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