Nostalgia

Someone sent me an email with some photos attached…sorry I can’t give credit to the source.

Anyway, it did bring back some memories!

Since my Dad taught in a one room school this one is precious! It is exactly like our school room looked!

Cursive writing guides above the chalkboard and pull-down maps.

 

I wore these to school…did you?

Black and White Saddle Shoes

We received glasses like these for wedding gifts:

Did these come in laundry soap boxes or from a gas station when you filled up w/ gas? We had a set of them!

And at Christmas, we used icicles on our tree, and carefully saved them for the next year…they were made of lead! Our tree, when I was a kid, looked exactly like this one:

1940 real silver tinselled christmas tree! Stunning!

…and. did you wear these?

stockings in a box

And, finally…I’ll leave this as a mystery object…I think I remember it, but I am not sure….

All my elementary school papers were printed on a mimeograph...I can still smell the purple ink :)

I guess I really date myself with this posting, but.. ah, well!

Comments

cheryl said…
Back in the dark ages when I was in school, we used to call the mystery machine a Gestetner or a ditto machine. A sort of duplicating machine.
December 7, 2013 at 3:51 PM
The Quintessential Magpie said…
I am right there with you, Millie, but I had no idea that those were made of lead. So were many of our metal toys. And we turned out okay! At lest I think we did! LOL

and that is a mimeograph machine for duplicating documents. It had bluish purple ink that stained! ;-)

xo

Sheila
December 8, 2013 at 2:14 AM
Pamela Gordon said…
Oh boy, what great memories from these vintage photos. Our classrooms looked like that too with the chalkboards, the cursive letters across the tops and the pull down maps. I didn't realize the old icicles were made of lead! Wow. How dangerous is that now? lol I remember picking them off the tree and wrapping them around the piece of cardboard from the box to save them too. The newer icicles were so full of static but I guess were safer. Fun post!
December 8, 2013 at 7:39 PM
Lorrie said…
Oh yes. Icicles, oxford shoes, chalkboard - they all look very familiar. How things have changed.
December 9, 2013 at 11:27 AM
Cindy said…
Hi Millie,
I remember those hose and the mimeograph machine. Have a wonderful day!
Cindy
December 9, 2013 at 12:09 PM
Cindy said…
Well I've not any room for learning today after filling my head with all that lead. No idea the icicles were made of lead, the cat use to eat them, but we all had different immune back then.

My class room looked somewhat the same with a pull down projector screen, big letters on the wall and the big old chalk boards that I love to erase. As for the machine I think it was a printing machine but I read what others wrote. Thanks for the memory
December 10, 2013 at 9:44 AM
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