Thursday, September 3, 2009

Take Me Back To The Sixties!



CLICK ON THE ABOVE UNDERLINED TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY!

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17 comments:

  1. RoseSeptember 3, 2009 at 12:58 PM

    Come sit back and enjoy the Sixties with me!

    Hugs, Rose

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  2. DoraSeptember 3, 2009 at 2:29 PM

    That was really really good. It was so nice to go back like that. With the kids going back to school this week, I have been remembering a lot of the past. My biggest memory was for that little (or big, pending how much money your mother could spend) pencil box we bought for back to school. I was so happy the year that I got one that had the little drawer in it. I never was able to buy the multi drawer one....LOL Times sure have changed . I have to laugh at how the list has grown from that simple pencil box to notebooks, pencils, pens,crayons. calc. klenex and toilet paper to mention only a few things I've seen on some lists from when my kids were in school. I can't even imagine what is listed now!
    We were a part of the great era...

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  3. RuthieSeptember 3, 2009 at 9:35 PM

    I have great nostalgia for those times. One thing that is so different today is how much time parents spend hovering and worrying over their kids, imaging perverts leaping out from behind every tree. When I was a kid, my friends and I would take off in the morning and walk miles to play at a "different" playground. We walked to Winthrop to play in an abandoned house pretending it was haunted. We spent hours away from home and as long as we came back in time for lunch or supper, it was okay. (And I had an extremely protective mother!) We wandered all over Beachmont and Revere, exploring everywhere. Through that kind of play our imaginations were piqued and I am not surprised that our generation created some great changes. We did just fine without MCAS, and other absurd standarized, one-size- fits-all testing.

    Okay, I have finished my rant.

    Thank you Rose for the reminders. Don't let me start on how much I absolutely loved the whole acid rock/ folk music/ hippie life I embraced later in college.

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  4. meriSeptember 3, 2009 at 11:14 PM

    Re the ". . . acid rock/folk music/hippie life . . ." Ruthie, please, tell me more!
    And, I agree with your comments about our "less structured" childhood lifestyle and how it allowed us to wander, explore and use our imaginations. I chose to continue the "exploration" into adulthood but ended up with a slightly "divergent" profile of "the 60's woman" as a result; that is, instead of the typical M-R-S degree, I traversed a different path, yet ending up happily in a similar place.

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  5. DoraSeptember 7, 2009 at 8:42 AM

    I sometimes wonder what todays generation will have to look back on.
    Someday Meri you really must tell us what did once you graduated. As I said last I remember of you was a party at U Of Mass.
    Ruth, Ruth, Ruth a true 60's girl....Must have been that art school backround.....could our paths have crossed at Geigers (sp?) art supply store on Newbury St.??? That store was always packed with art school students...

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  6. RuthieSeptember 9, 2009 at 4:43 PM

    I did shop there for art supplies! But you would not have recognized me with my waist length hair, head band across my forehead, big hoop earrings, Twiggy eye makeup and white lipstick. I sort of looked like a short Cher. How about you???

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  7. RoseSeptember 9, 2009 at 6:21 PM

    Ruthie,

    You must send me a photo of you from way back then so I can post it on the Lantern! Can't wait to see it.

    Hugs, Rose

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  8. DoraSeptember 10, 2009 at 8:15 AM

    Ruth, My school was upstairs from the the store ! Modern School of Fashion and Design. I,on the other had was wearing,HEELS, HAT, GLOVES AND MAKEUP.! Oh that was was the first year after that they dropped the hat and gloves. We also carried our supplies in a black hat box ! I loved that store.
    Ahhh we've chewed a lot of the same dirt......

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  9. RuthieSeptember 10, 2009 at 3:07 PM

    I would've been wearing the heels, hat and gloves if my mother had had her way and sent me to Katherine Gibbs secretarial school. I shudder to think of it.

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  10. DoraSeptember 10, 2009 at 5:31 PM

    I knew that Chamberlain School made their girls dress like us, I had no idea Katie Gibbs did too!!!

    There was a little store next of Geigers that sold hand made sterling jewelery, I remember that store too. They had a necklace in the window for $25 that I wanted so bad, I use to stop and look at it evey day. I could only dream of spending $25 on a necklace..........What is funny is I still see that style today. it would have been a good investment! LOL

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  11. RuthieSeptember 10, 2009 at 8:22 PM

    Dora, A $25. necklace was BIG money back then. When I was in college I bought a pair of shoes on Newbury St (the Capezio store) that I just had to have. I spent an enormous sum of $12.00 for them and didn't eat for over a week. I felt such guilt knowing I could've bought 3 or 4 pair of shoes on Shirley Ave for that outrageous amount.

    You know my tuition at Mass.Art was $200. a year! All the state colleges were the same. My father complained all the time about "all the money I was costing him by going to that crazy beatnik art school."

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  12. DoraSeptember 11, 2009 at 7:45 AM

    You may have been a crazy beatnick but at least you were a crazy beatnick with capizo shoes !!!!!
    I think evey one went to the "Ave"
    I wonder what is there now???? That was also the ONLY place to get those satin shoes !!!! We had to get those and have them dyed to wear to the prom along with the rented 'bunny fur' ! After we graduated a lot of people I met thought it was so unusual to have our Senior Prom in the winter. They never even heard of a Jr. Sr. reception and the 'turn-around ring dance' . We were just great like that. We also had that dance in the evening on Class Day. I think we had it at the hall of the China-Roma.....

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  13. RuthieSeptember 11, 2009 at 1:30 PM

    I think those satin shoes were only $1.00, and another dollar to have them dyed! Every dance, prom and wedding I was in, I wore satin dyed "Ave." shoes. My cousin's daughter teaches at the new Revere High, and another cousin's daughter at the Garfield. They tell me the "Ave" was all Cambodians for a while and now a lot of Bosnian refugees.

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  14. DoraSeptember 11, 2009 at 2:14 PM

    Ruth, you should see if your cousins could send you some snap shots of the new high school and the Garfield. That would be great, this way we could all see pictures of the high school we were all promised to graduate from.....LOL

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  15. meriSeptember 12, 2009 at 10:19 AM

    The $1.69 shoe store on Shirley Ave. was a godsend back then, wasn't it? I remember buying great shoes there and also at Filene's Basement. We were so lucky to have such "easy access" to both. When I was "away at school" (at Chatham College in Pittsburgh, PA) among wealthy girls from chic suburbs (Wellesley, Lexington, Shaker Heights, Grosse Point, Manhattan, Scarsdale, etc., etc.) I was the one frequently complimented for my shoes and other clothing. . . all of which came either from "the Basement" or "the Ave"! It both amused and amazed me at the time. Here were girls receiving $100 checks weekly from "Daddy" while I was working in the cafeteria, typing papers for my friends (at 25 cents a page) or hemming their skirts. . . talk about a culture shock!

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  16. RoseSeptember 12, 2009 at 11:41 AM

    Meri,

    Oh my do I miss the "Ave" for shoes! That is how I accummulated 300 pairs! I still have all my shoes..even the high stillettos!

    Filene's Basement is where you found me every payday! We were the best dressed bunch of gals from Revere...that's for sure!

    So combining the "Ave" and "Filene's" and all the sewing we all did....we were lucky. I should take out my sewing machine again and start creating some great outfits like the old days.

    Hugs, Rose

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  17. RuthieSeptember 14, 2009 at 3:26 PM

    My first job was in Filene's basement. I think I spent almost my entire salary there every pay day. We all used to try on stuff while we were working, and if we saw something good, we'd hide it until we got paid and could buy it.

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