tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post5739595863410468903..comments2024-03-28T12:59:00.516-04:00Comments on Heroes, Heroines, and History: The Memory ShopDebbie Lynne Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16381517812227326616noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-61514366835979410132014-08-10T22:38:46.199-04:002014-08-10T22:38:46.199-04:00Oh my goodness! I'm sorry to hear that you los...Oh my goodness! I'm sorry to hear that you lost so much, not to mention the loss of your sister's boyfriend and brother. It makes the keepsakes you have so much more dear. Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed hearing your story.Carla Gadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01793809172905144101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-41028756280949076632014-08-10T22:15:44.575-04:002014-08-10T22:15:44.575-04:00You're so kind, Johnnie! Sorry that you lost t...You're so kind, Johnnie! Sorry that you lost that special dish. I hope you'll find another just like it some day for the memory, even if it isn't *quite* the same. Carla Gadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01793809172905144101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-30447809837833836802014-08-10T21:33:13.512-04:002014-08-10T21:33:13.512-04:00Great post, Carla. I love the idea for your story ...Great post, Carla. I love the idea for your story and will buy the next edition of A Cup of Christmas Cheer just for it. When I was about eleven or twelve, my mom gave me a little dish with a round bottom and a dog-shaped top made from carnival class. About ten years later it was broken in a move. I'd love to still have it. Thanks for the trip through my own Memory Shop..Johnnie Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05579456085122829964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-49031425695786402062014-08-09T16:17:51.008-04:002014-08-09T16:17:51.008-04:00Hello Carla. I Love to go shopping in these kinds...Hello Carla. I Love to go shopping in these kinds of stores. I too had the 45 player. Also had a cat clock hanging in my kid's room. I have the little gold wedding ring that was my mother's when she and daddy married in 1921. A really narrow band.I have some crochet pieces made by one of my daddy's sister's and she has been gone many years.Oh, i have a letter written in WW ll to my grandmother by a boyfriend of my youngest sister. We were good friends with his family and they might have married had he returned, but he and a brother never made it back. And, I have a very old iron mantle clock(Really heavy) that was in an old drugstore in Sedan, KS. when he was just a young boy. He loved that clock. So when the Druggist closed his business he just gave the clock to this young boy. <br /> He would be 101 now if he was alive. And no telling how long the man had the clock. I have my mother's old iron like they used to use on stoves, and some of her jewelry, tho not expensive. She had some pillow cases that my grandmother made, and crocheted scarves but guess my older sisters took them. BUT, my favorite aunt sent me a box of old family pictures before she died that I treasure. Had been from my grandmothers stuff and hers. my mother lost her mother at 5 years old. A lot of things that we had got destroyed in a couple of homes that burned when I was growing up. Then, in 1986, we had a 100 yr flood in Elgin, Ks. where I lived so lost a lot of things. <br /> All of you take care. Maxie > mac262(at)me(dot)com <maudemaxine@gmail.co,https://www.blogger.com/profile/11612461543816484090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-30182664105098380032014-08-09T01:27:39.165-04:002014-08-09T01:27:39.165-04:00:):)Carla Gadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01793809172905144101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-9580027376426235122014-08-09T01:27:28.133-04:002014-08-09T01:27:28.133-04:00I love hearing about your treasures, Martha! But I...I love hearing about your treasures, Martha! But I honesty object to things being called antiques at such a young age! That would make me one! LOL Thanks for sharing and let's go shopping! Carla Gadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01793809172905144101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-22348427482520816582014-08-09T00:25:52.370-04:002014-08-09T00:25:52.370-04:00Loved this post and I want to go shopping with y&#...Loved this post and I want to go shopping with y'all. I'm old enough to remember all these things and actually owned them new. I'm thinking I should have kept the old record player, but it went away in a garage sale years ago. Don't know what happened to my "Elfie." So much of my "stuff" is over 50 years old now, so my kids are calling them heirlooms. I do have a China tea set with dessert plates and bowls that belonged to my grandmother. I have several crochet pieces and an afghan my grandmothers made as well as a crochet bedspread I took naps on as a little girl visiting my grandmother. I also have a mirror my maternal grandmother received as a wedding gift in 1905 I think it was. It has a gold leaf frame that has darkened over the ages, but the antique dealer told me NOT to touch it as it was more valuable as is. It hangs in my dining room today.Martha W. Rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02415972499923372153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-12306406165615836072014-08-08T22:23:19.849-04:002014-08-08T22:23:19.849-04:00Good memories. :o)Good memories. :o)Janalyn Voigt, escape into creative worlds of fiction.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16233710536302581735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-10023011496839752992014-08-08T16:37:40.225-04:002014-08-08T16:37:40.225-04:00I thought I'd share a little about the picture...I thought I'd share a little about the pictures I chose in this post. The kit-cat clock (I call it a Felix the Cat clock) was like one my great-grandmother had hanging in her kitchen. I always loved the way the tale swung as the pendulum. The hairdryer is like an old one that my mother had when we were kids. We used to build a fort underneath the tall porch stairs using boards and old windows. Then in the wintertime we'd run an extension cord out the cellar door and hook it up to the hair dryer so we'd have "heat". Oh, boy...did my mom even know we did that dangerous thing? The record player. Oh, yes, didn't we all have one to play our 45s? The Christmas kneehugger elf. As I mentioned above I have a few of them on our tree at Christmas (family heirlooms). It's a fun tradition to have always had them on the tree hiding in the branches. One is over 80 years old, made of felt.Carla Gadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01793809172905144101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-2459182806799881382014-08-08T16:19:09.101-04:002014-08-08T16:19:09.101-04:00Come along! I love heirloom dishes! We have a grea...Come along! I love heirloom dishes! We have a great antiques mall nearby and it has so much to browse. I love looking at the old dishes there.Carla Gadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01793809172905144101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-87855620357289831132014-08-08T16:17:57.804-04:002014-08-08T16:17:57.804-04:00I still do! LOL! Actually, I have two of them, one...I still do! LOL! Actually, I have two of them, one belonged to my step-dad and is probably around 80+ years old now.<br />Carla Gadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01793809172905144101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-58207915730559977252014-08-08T16:16:33.597-04:002014-08-08T16:16:33.597-04:00Oh, yes!!Oh, yes!!Carla Gadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01793809172905144101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-81693681270766735692014-08-08T16:16:20.549-04:002014-08-08T16:16:20.549-04:00I feel the same way, Winnie! How wonderful that yo...I feel the same way, Winnie! How wonderful that you have those special items! More special because they belonged to someone you love!Carla Gadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01793809172905144101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-31816398435157438512014-08-08T16:07:16.387-04:002014-08-08T16:07:16.387-04:00I had that elf! :DI had that elf! :DAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07360073654884323165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-91736662920956607502014-08-08T15:49:28.755-04:002014-08-08T15:49:28.755-04:00Oh, I want to go shopping too! I love thrift stor...Oh, I want to go shopping too! I love thrift store shopping and antique store browsing. I see things that remind me of days gone by and memory lane is wonderful. I have a few dishes that were my grandmothers and I think of her often.<br /><br />mauback55 at gmail dot comMelanie Backushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09727406782355039525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-79878964702290111542014-08-08T13:16:40.024-04:002014-08-08T13:16:40.024-04:00Winnie and Carla, we could go shopping together. :...Winnie and Carla, we could go shopping together. :o)Janalyn Voigt, escape into creative worlds of fiction.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16233710536302581735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271375082145370896.post-42550509911277146082014-08-08T09:56:12.725-04:002014-08-08T09:56:12.725-04:00Carla, I LOVE visiting thrift stores and antique s...Carla, I LOVE visiting thrift stores and antique shops - it always makes me feel like I'm on a treasure hunt. As for my own 'special' memorabilia, I have, among other things, a quilt my mother made for me, her hope chest and an old Singer treadle sewing machine that belonged to my grandmother - I cherish each of these items very much.Winnie Griggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295070748234710260noreply@blogger.com