When I was in the first grade, the teacher would sells stamps that you glued into a a savings bond book (S&H Green Stamps would copy this idea later by having gas stations give “S&H Green Stamps” for purchases. These stamps were glued into stamp books and were redeemed for merchandise.) When you filled the […]
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Food
1. Margarine was the original butter substitute and was white when you bought it. It came with a small bag of yellow coloring that you broke and squeezed/massaged into the white mass to make it look like butter. Milk came in glass bottles with a cardboard stopper at the mouth. It was not homogenized so […]
Recurring dreams
My nightmares were most often announced by a wall with a door that was open. A shadow would come through the door from the other side of the wall and I knew that I had to wake up to avoid the nightmare. Sometimes I would dream that I had awakened when I had not and […]
Mistakes from the early 1800s
Family Oil Painting Portraits from Early 1800s were used by children in the family as targets for bows and arrows after Civil War Revolutionary War Sabers were used to cut corn stalks after Civil War […]
Train to South Carolina from Alabama
The Southern Railway train went through Chattanooga and the mountains of TN The train would stop at the bottom of Lookout Mountain and wait for an engine to arrive from behind to push while the standard engine pulled to get the train over the moutains My mother had an uncle who was a Pullman Conductor […]
WBW Jr’s Grandmother Woodward Memories
Played the piano for me. Two songs I recall are “My Alice Blue Gown” and “It’s Three O’Clock in the Morning.” Taught me how to tat. Pronounced “room” as “rum” and “roof’ as “ruff’ with a short “u” as in “up.” Liked little moron jokes but pronounced “Moron” with the accent on the second syllable. […]
WBW Jr’s Grandfather Woodward Memories
Put barbed wire on his front porch steps to keep people from coming to his front door. Would shoot neighbor’s cats if he could when cats entered his yard . Once tackled a milkman early in the morning as he cut across my GF’s yard. In those days, milk was delivered in glass bottles to […]
Gold Star Mothers Memory
During WWII, mothers whose sons were killed in action received a gold star pin and a decal to place in the window of their houses I can recall seeing these as my Uncle Joe was killed June 13 in France following D-Day and my grandmother Woodward had both the pin and decal. […]
PVT Jim C. Johnson – Claim of Sanctuary
Escaped from stockage, hid underneath the chapel claiming sanctuary. Tested IQ was in 140 range. No dummy. His father, who claimed to be retired Army, said he (the father) was part of “the Movement on the Coast.” He told me he knew I knew about “The Movemenet.” He said the government was out to get […]
McMaster Elementary – Sixth Grade
My teacher was Mrs. Moltz. Her family had driven The Pan American Highway recently and we got to see her pictures. She also had a lot of information regarding the Incas, Mayas, and Toltecs. McMaster was the school for the Carolina and Epworth Orphanages. My father declined an offer of an exception to avoid our […]
