My silver peace symbol charm on a silver chain. I wear it every day because it as relevent now as it was in 1968.

I saved a bunch of John F Kennedy 1964 half dollars which are silver.

How could I forget to mention my turntable, audio tape recorder, receiver and loads of vinyl LPs and 45s.( I even have breakable records - 78s?) I can't part with this wonderful music (jazz, R&B, rock & roll, Sinatra, etc.).

wasthere, My keepsake isn't even close to the wonderul momentos you have. I can just see you at a small, round, linen covered, ringside table...that is the way nightclubs looked in the movies. Old time refrigerators had a thick glass tray that fit under the tiny freezer compartment. Betty's might have had one, I didn't notice. It looks a lot like an oblong cassarole dish. Our first apartment had one of those old refrigerators with the glass pan. I hated the whole idea of defrosting, and a freezer that wouldn't keep ice cream hard, and all the drips that went along with it. There wasn't room for ice cube trays and the little metal door on the freezer wouldn't stay shut...or froze closed. Years later, when we had moved away, the landlords had to replace that old fridge, and they gave me the glass dish. It is in my frost-free, double door with an ice despenser, refrigerator right now. Stamped on the side facing out, so I see it every time I open the door is "Electrolux" . I keep it on the bottom shelf to hold cheese and nuts and my memories of our first place.

My tattered paperback copy of ATLAS SHRUGGED is sitting on my bookshelf, along with the hard back copy. Bob Dylan's first album, FREEWHEELING plus several others are stacked with my folk music collection from the 60s. My guitar is now in the capable hands of my grandson who is learning to play it.

Sizzle: Speaking of Electrolux, I just gave away my 1960s Electrolux vacuum cleaner. It still worked, but I thought it was about time I upgraded.
It was considered the top of the line then, justifiably so.

I still have my comics from the 1960s, and my John Lennon "In His Own Write" book from then (wish I still had my John Lennon Beatle doll), and my dolls (my pseudo Betsy Wetsy - I had to make her that way it wasn't the real one).

I wish I had my Warner Brothers lunch box with thermos which was an image of all the cartoon characters standing at the counter around a diner (Fog Horn Leghorn, Bugs Bunny, Sylvester and Tweety, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Peppy Le Peu). I loved that thing.

Sizzle: Yes, I sat at many a small, squeezed-in table at a lot of NYC nightspots and restaurants. I was fortunate to be taken to those on dates. I wish I still had the ashtrays and matches with the names of the places on them. I know that I do have a swizzle stick with a name somewhere. I'll have to look for it.

jamm54 said: (my pseudo Betsy Wetsy - I had to make her that way it wasn't the real one).
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that is funny, jamm, in a painful way : )

Stored in the garage are a few things, including a framed copy of a quote from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I typed it out myself and kept it on my dresser for years.

Well, I went for realism. It wasn't working for me that she "leaked" out of her joints!

WAS - I have most of my mother's glassware and her rolling tea/booze cart, some demi-tasse cups and spoons, lots of her costume jewelryalong with all the original Nancy Drew books bound in that blue denim cover! I know there is more - but I can't recall it all at the moment. Christmas ornaments include some of the original 'bubble lights' and only a few of the mercury glass balls left. Many broke over the years but I treasure the ones that are left. Since then (I was born in !955) I have picked up a few things over the years in antique/flea markets which remind me of that era. I have a 50's/60s reproduction kitchen and live in a vintage 1907 (restored) home in VA. I just love the old stuff so much more than anything else. I still have some of my mother's Danish Modern pieces and they still hold their own against other vintage furniture. We boomers just yearn for the simplicity of our youth when responsiblity was getting our homework done on time and getting good marks in school. Ah- the bliss of innocence!

I mentioned on another thread that my nephew, who lives in the same condo complex as I do, has my Walnut Danish Modern Bedroom set that I had when I was married in the early 1960's. He refinished it, though, to a Cherry Mahogany look.

wasthere: what a great memory!
Now, if you ever decide to part with the sequined mini dress, silver lame stockings and white leather coat, I'd be "willing" to take them off of your hands....hahaha!
They sound fabulous. If no one in your family would wear or appreciate them have you thought about hanging them on the wall as art? I've done that. Clothing is art. I've collected vintage clothing for years and can't get rid of ANYTHING. With no close space left, all I have are the walls!

Glamara - your icon photo is hilarious! Is it a silent movie star of yesteryear???

I love reading about everyone's treasures. As for mine, I have my parents' LP's from the 60's by Nat King Cole, Al Martino, Perry Como, Floyd Cramer (remember "Last Date"?) and so many others & had the beautiful walnut console stereo that was my parents' (until I was dumb enough to let it go in a yard sale a while back!) I can remember seeing them slow dancing (like Don and Betty did) in our living room to Perry Como's "Papa Loves Mambo" and laughing and kissing as they danced... plus all my mom's jewelry (costume) including some of her favorites she wore off and on well into her later years like an orange stretch bakelite bracelet, and one of those cigarette cases that opened at the top like a coin purse and was made of the metal mesh stuff. Plus, I posted in another forum here about having my dad's dark brown fedora he wore in the 60's (looking very Don Draperish!)---it looks just like the one Don wore to mail that book while walking Polly,right down to the little red feather in the hat band...I keep it in one of my mother's hat boxes. She sold all her adorable little cocktail hats and "Jackie-style" pillboxes at her own garage sales before I could get my hands on them...wish I still had those (I was too young at the time she decided she didn't want them anymore to know enough then to grab them while I could and keep them!) Hindsight is 20/20, I guess.

Have you ever seen the film "Diva"? Music in it is great - think it's a French film. Soundtrack is wonderful.

hyperboliz- yes! It's Francesca Bertini, an Italian silent film diva and one of the most successful silent film actresses. I caught an interview with her from the early 80's, I think at the age of 90. She was amazing! Gorgeous, classy and full of fire.
I have yet to see one of her films.
There is a book about her called "The Last Diva."

Sizzle:
Would you share with us the quote from Tree Grows in Brooklyn? It must have you or touched you in some special way that you typed it out, framed it and now it is still kept.

Dana, I will have to look it up for the exact wording, but it primarily says "Let me be something" every day, it can be bad or it can be good, but let me be something.

I found it on this quote page. chapter 48

http://classiclit.about.com/od/atreegrows/a/aa_treequotes_2.htm

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn had a huge impact on me during those years. My great grandparents were mysteries to us, all we knew about them was that they lived, for a few years, in Brooklyn and that their son would have been about the father's age in the book. But, reading the quotes just now on that page made me see there was more going on with my connection to the book than just a search for my history.

I have more than 100 old vinyl records. True, they are outdated, and there are a few scratches and skips here and there, but I’m the only one listening. I was about toss them out a few years ago. I thought they were unplayable, warped from storage. My son-in-law pointed out that the records were perfectly good, the turntable was broken. I replaced the turntable.

The records are loosely divided into categories such as “Original Cast Recordings, Broadway Shows,“ “Operas,” “Symphonies,” “Classical Instrumental,” “Pop Instrumental,” “Pop Vocals,” “Christmas Songs,” “Miscellaneous,” and “Novelty.”

For many years the records were stored vertically on the low shelf of a bookcase. My cat Dulcinea used the spines of the albums for a scratching post. Now the shredded sides of the albums are covered with masking tape, red, blue, green, yellow, black. Very colorful but not in the pristine condition a serious collector might prefer.

In 1954 Betty and Don were settled in Ossining, and Don was working at Sterling Cooper. These are some of the Broadway shows (selected from my collection) they might have seen between 1955 and 1965 (if they were still together in 1965):

1955, “My Fair Lady” (Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews)
1957, “The Music Man” (Robert Preston)
1959, “Fiorello” (Tom Bosley)(Already seen by Don and Betty in “Shoot”)
1960, “Irma La Douce” (long forgotten)
1960, “Bye Bye Birdie” (Dick Van Dyke)
1960, “Camelot” (Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet)
1960, “The Fantasticks” (off Broadway)(Jerry Orbach)
1962, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (Zero Mostel)
1962, “Stop the World--I Want to Get Off” (Anthony Newley)
1963, “Oliver!” (Clive Revill, Georgia Brown)
1964, “Fiddler on the Roof” (Zero Mostel)
1965, “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever” (Barbara Harris, John Cullum)
1965, “The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd” (Anthony Newley)
1965, “Man of La Mancha” (Richard Kiley)

One of my “novelty” recordings is titled “The Amazing Mets.” On September 24, 1969, the New York Mets baseball team won the National League Eastern Division Championship. Gil Hodges, the manager, and all the players gathered together in the locker room afterwards. Amid champagne corks popping (and who knows what else?), the guys spontaneously recorded a bunch of songs, including “Green Grass of Shea,” “The Mets Are Here to Stay,” Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” “God Bless America,” and “We’re Gonna Win the Series.“ (They did.). Priceless.

Remembering: Some of the Broadway Show albums I still have are:
- West Side Story
- South Pacific
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Flower Drum Song

I also have a 45 with Marlon Brando singing on it from "Guys and Dolls." And I have a FANTASTIC album called "Manhattan Tower" by Gordon Jenkins. Have you ever heard that one?

Another relic I still have is a white French phone that you dial. I keep it in my bedroom and it works when the power goes out, unlike my other one.

I have one copy of those "teenage" mags. left from my collection. "Freak Out" is the name!! It's like a tabloid about the music stars from the day.

I still have my green Girl Scout badge sash, what a treasure!!

OMG, I can't believe I forgot to comment about my Beatles scrapbook! I treasure it as it has about every article that was in the news about them as it happened. I too still have some of my "16", "Seventeen", and other "teen" mags I've kept, as well. Thanks for jogging my CRS syndrome, 60'schild and others!
I kept the May 1969 "Seventeen" that had a pic of a dress I just had to have as a H.S. grad dress---my mom looked at the pic, cut pattern pieces from newspaper and made it to look just like the dress in the pic. I kept that dress, too.

Oh, I forgot...I bought a new turntable a few years ago to play a Beatles album I have called "Love Songs". I have tried in vain to purchase it in CD (or cassette tape form). Some of their most beautiful ballads are on it.
Since buying the turntable I have been purchasing old albums, especially for the album art.
I wanted to show my son REAL album art, not CD sized stuff!

Hi flowerpower! I loved your post about the peace sign!! I used to have the big medallion sized ones that I wore.
A few years ago I purchased a smaller on made of CZs that I wear a lot. I could never afford the diamond one. I get soooo many compliments and comments on it. You are right, it is so relevant today!!

You all are the treasures - in sharing these wonderful memories! Okay - anyone remember MAD magazine? As a kid, I wasn't allowed to read it because of its sometimes risky humor - which made it all the more enticing. I still have a number of copies. My late mom's mink stole in the Autumn Haze shade. Her fab costume jewelry. Her knockout cocktail dresses and a peignoir in which Betty could lounge all day. Definitely the Beatles LPs, which will be with me forever. My Madame Alexander bride doll. A few Barbies, which, had my dog not nibbled on their feet, would probably be worth a small fortune;-) A Mary Poppins lunchbox. And those Betsy Wetsy dolls are great. Now they have Baby Alive dolls, which not only talk, but uh...eliminate. You have to buy special diapers for them. Ah, for the 60s!

I still have several of my dolls from when I was a kid.

There's also a rhinestone pin that I wore, and my Communion veil.

And a Flip Wilson doll. It's around here somewhere.

jamm54- I have not seen Diva but will add to the list of Ship of Fools and Idiocracy. Much to do, much to do. Have you ever seen the silent film "The Passion of Joan of Arc?" Unbelievable. And the back story even more so. It includes a woman- the lead actress- gone mad by some tragic passion...uh like Joan of Arc herself. Richard Einhorn wrote a beautiful score for this film, in the 90's..I think. Oh wow, is all I can say.

On another note, I forgot about my Brownie dress that I believe is still around... in my sister's house, or I hope so. I can't believe I didn't keep closer track of that. I need to call my sister pronto!

And oh yeah...I still have a Brownie movie camera that used to be my dad's.:)

Cattychick: MAD Magazine was the best -- their movie/book satires were spot on and the song parodies couldn't be beat.

I have several pieces of Sarah Coventry jewelry from back in the 60s. I am especially fond of my initial pin which was given to me by my mother - she gave each of her daughters an initial pin for our birthdays. It is very simple - gold with bamboo and leaf forming the initial - it still looks great on sweaters. I also have several brooches from the 40s, 50s and 60s that were my aunt's. She was a school teacher and received many as gifts over the years. She had quite a few Christmas tree pins from back then that are quite lovely.

Zerelda: Did you get your Sarah Coventry from a home jewelry demonstration? I remember going to those events, along with the Tupperware and a makeup demo.

Cattychick, one of our posters, cad men, has an icon of Alfred E. Newman!---"What? Me Worry?" So, I'm sure he/she would answer "Yes!" to your question of if we remember "MAD Magazine" ! lol

I have 6 of the 8 Kiddle Kolognes by Mattel. Need to find Orange Blossom and Bluebell! ;O)

I wishwishwish I still had this white wrought-iron gate-type triptych screen my Mom had, in our Florida room in the 60s. It had circular rings jutting out to hold flowerpots, too. Sounds hideous, and it was, but in a wonderful 60s way.

My Grandmom traveled all over the world and I inherited some of her glam sequined dresses, jewled pocketbooks and her angel-wing glasses. I have all these treasures, plus a miniature child-sized white (fake) mink muffler and matching tiny Jackie-O style pillbox in white mink.....all in my housekeeping center in my Kindergarten classroom!

I know Granny would kick such a kick out of seeing little BOYS dressing in her beloved attire. It truly adds such joy to my day to see these things enjoying a second life and making kids happy.

HiSCfan! I was a big fan of Mad Magazine!! I know I mentioned it in other posts. Like you, I wasn't allowed to read it as a kid. Thanks to my cousin, and a few buddies, I was able to always get a copy. My favorite part were the parodies.

I asked Cad Men if he was a fan, I assume he is because of his picture. I also told him that Cad Men would be a great title for a Mad Men Mad Magazine Parody!

I still have some of my MAD Magazines from the 60s, and I just bought "MAD for Decades" at Barnes & Noble, which is a compilation of select satirical stuff from the 50s to the 90s. (I guess there were volumes from each decade that were published in the past).

I always loved the satires on the tv shows and movies. There's one in there called "My Fair Ad-Man" based on Madison Ave/My Fair Lady.

A list of some of the crack up satires:

Flawrence of Arabia
The Phewgitive
201 min of A Space Idiocy
Odd Squad
Sleazy Riders
The Odd Father (with Don Vino Minestrone)
The Mary Tailor-Made Show
M*A*S*H*UGA
Gall of the President's Men
American Confetti
JAW'D
Crappy Days
Churlie's Angles
Saturday Night Feeble
Star Bores: The Empire Strikes Out (Ham Yoyo & Princess Laidup)
Top Gunk (with Maniac and Goof)
Feeble Attraction
Grossanne
LA Lewd: The Erotic State (Glaze Van Open & Mydol Muzak)
Star Blecch: Deep Space Swine
Fairest Schlump
Ecch - Files (Facts Moldy & Agent Skulky)

60'schild, I think it was Cattychick who "wasn't allowed to read Mad mag". not me! (I get us Maddicts mixed up too now and again!) Lord knows, I sneaked my brother's Mads and read them cover to cover. ha
I don't think my parents were exactly thrilled we read them but they didn't forbid it either...I think they were just glad it wasn't some worse mags! By today's standards they were tame, right?

jamm54, thank you! Those satires were priceless! There's also a MAD large paperback book called, of all things, "MADvertising," which is great. All ads, all schlocky. Last year, waiting in a doctor office with my little daughter, she picked up a copy of MAD Kids. Of course, she fell in love with it. "Can I subscribe, Mommy?" What was I going to do, be a hypocrite? It is pretty funny. Typical kid gross-out humor but how can you not love that they still have the Fold-Ins, Spy vs. Spy, etc.?

Wow - you have all triggered memories that rarely come to mind.  In my early teens my parents gave me a steamer trunk that I still have today.  Opening it is like returning to the 60s.  Among other memorabilia it contains ticket stubs and programs from three Beatles' concerts.  The first concert in 1964 cost $5.95 - I had extra chores the entire summer to pay the price of that ticket!  Still have all vinyl Beatle albums/45s and the double breasted pin-striped suit that I wore to their last concert at Shea Stadium in 1966 (regretfully, for some unknown reason, the suit shrank while in storage).

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a great work - one of my favs - then and now.  In fact, the screenplay for the 1945 film was written by Anita Loos - who wrote 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', and we know who starred in that film.

Another MAD Magazine lover here! I read it from about age 10 through high school - it was great to have something written for smart kids with a sarcastic sense of humor.

Loved my Barbies of course, but gave them all away long ago. Dolls from the 60's I had were Baby First Step, Baby Grow-A-Tooth (a plastic tooth actually popped down from inside her "gums" when you fed her), Baby Boo. And Beautiful Chrissy with "beautiful hair that grows" - you would pull this long mane of auburn hair out of the top of her head, and style it, then she had a big knob on her back to wind the hair back inside her head if you wanted to experiment with shorter styles - loved her! (I think she came along in the early 70's)

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn - one of my all-time faves, what a beautiful novel. I still have a copy of it, along with most of Betty Smith's other books - but ATGIB was the gold standard.

Did anyone have a Wiener Whistle from Oscar Meyer? They came with the package of hot dogs, about two inches long, bright red plastic, and tooted like a flute-a-phone. I had one for the longest time, don't know whatever happened to it.

Oh, I almost forgot Dancerina!! She was a huge ballerina doll, complete with a pink costume & tutu, toes pointed inside her pink plastic ballet shoes. She had a big pink "crown" on her head with a ball you pushed down to start her pirouetting. She came with a flimsy "record" of the Nutcracker, I swear that's how I became familiar with that composition. The doll was about three feet tall, it was considered the "big prize" to get her for Christmas - wish I still had her!

My parents still have their 1955 Kelvinator refrigerator. It's now their trusty "beer fridge" and still runs like a charm.

I thought of all of you Friday night watching "The Passion of Ayn Rand". I read the book years ago but never knew it was a movie. Helen Mirren played Ayn Rand. Anybody else see it?

Laurie B: No, I didn't even know about it; would have watched it. What channel was it on?

Think they'll re-run it? I missed it, too.

Dobie - I had a doll like your 'Chrissie' only she was called 'Tressy' and I desperately wished for a knob like that on MY back. I bought a new "Chatty Cathy" for my daughter three years ago when she turned 7 and she loved it. ( (mine went into the trash bin decades ago). I had the life sized "Patty Play Pal" which was advertised as being able to walk if you held her hand. Alas, when I held her hand and walked she promptly fell to the ground as I wept tears of disappointment courtesy of Madison Ave. Not the first - definitely not the last but lessons were learned. My sister had a lunch box collection (metal) for a long time that she recently liquidated but I loved my BARBIE lunchbox. We used to walk home from St. Rose school over the frozen 'Silver Lake' and I had stopped to 'skate' with my pals and left Barbie on the ice where she fell into the melted H20. I made my parents and sisters take me back to search for the doomed lunchbox, but she was long gone. Never got over it! :--))

Just noticed that I still have some great "chandelier "earrings from the 1950s/60s in rhinestone, crystal, jet, marquisite and pearl.

Hyperboliz - so sorry for your loss. I too remember my metal Peanuts lunch box - I had to have that , as I was the "peanut nut" in my class. I do remember Tressy, she was Chrissy's twin. Those were the days when every girl forced into a Pixie cut longed for "Cher Hair".

I know this is venturing into 70's territory, but did anyone have a Skipper doll? I had a Barbie Gym Set, complete with a Skipper that had rotating arms to handle the gym set. Also, I had a PJ doll (the slut of Barbie dolls) that you put on a stage, with an orange fringe vest, purple hot pants and sunglasses, and platinum blond hair. She would gyrate on the stage that you put her silver boots into, and let her go!

I was really floored when I saw my mother's "secretary" desk/hutch during a few scenes in Anita's (Peggy's sister) living room. My sister has it now. I couldn't believe my eyes.

To "remembering" - thanks for the list of musicals. I still have some of those original LPs. I don't remember just when it was, but I found a copy of FANTASTICS in a bargin bin for $ .50. It still has the plastic wraper on it.

To "wasthere" - Manhattan Tower was one of my most favorite albums. One of the FM radio stations in Cleveland, used to play it at night. Now I'm going to check amazon and ebay to see if it's available.

Thank you all for the great walk down memory lane!

jamm54:

...and don't forget "FantastYECCH Voyage" as one of the Mad satires. hehe

Wow Mad Magazine! How I loved "The Lighter Side of..." Also those little cartoons on the edge of the pages - My favorite "little cartoon was of a man who is in a fight and he is reduced to having just his head on top of his behind and he says "and you thought you had probIems!" haven't looked at a Mad Magazine in 20 years! I am tempted.

I loved the memory of one of our writers about going to the Copa to see Frank Sinatra. In l976 I went to the Copa to see Peter Allen and I thought there would still be the little round tables with the white tablecloths and candles. Instead, my friend and I were ushered downstairs to the "basement" where we sat at these long (I called them ironing boards) tables were there was a 2 drink minimum and the drinks were served in plastic cups - so much for sipping champagne in elegance!

I wish I had some of the stuff from the 60's. It'd be worth a fortune.

I have a couple of things of my mother's:

A charm with a rocking chair from the '62 Kennedy election. My mother was a campaign worker.

I have a bunch of costume jewelry from my aunt. Mostly plastic.

That's all I can think of.

And wasthere, hang on to that coat.

Joile10 - me, too! Those secretaries are selling for around $400 and up now.

Isn't it a funny feeling when you see stuff from your childhood in antique stores? I wonder what we should be saving today? Everything is plastic.

Bappy53: I'm the poster that said I went to the Copa to see Sinatra. How coincidental that your poster name is Bappy. The love of Sinatra's life, Ava Gardner, her nickname growing up was Bappy.

Sizzie: "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is one of my favorites too. I just bought a copy to give to my granddaughter in a couple more years. I'm building her a library. My favorite part (aside from being a slice of US history in a particular place and time) was the method Francie had of assigning personalities and stories to numbers in her arithmatic lessons. This has nothing to do with Mad Men. I wish there was a "book site" to discuss favorite books.

@MadMenSuze: I remember "FantastYECCH Voyage" - I think they harpooned Raquel Welch pretty good falling out of her skintight onesie. What a laugh. MAD was sooo good. Loved it as a kid.

We moved a lot, and I moved cross-country when I was 18, so I don't have actual "stuff" except for a few family heirlooms. But if I could have one thing back, it would be my collection of "Mad" magazines -- the great ones from the early and mid-Sixties, as subersive as anything could possibly be as it took on the suburbs and the ubiquitous hypocrisy of that "perfect" America -- like MM is doing now. I cut my teeth on "Mad." It was instrumental in forming my character.

Hi Jolie 10! I have one of those secretary desks with a hutch. A few years ago I was working as an accountant in a very old house in Montclair, NJ (this is the town where the party was held in one of the episodes of MM). Everything in this tudor style home was very old and beautiful, but I noticed that the secretary desk was empty and put off to the corner of the room. A co-worker remarked that the owner no longer liked the desk. I asked if he wanted to sell it. This co-worker called me later on in the day and said that the owner wanted $50 for it! Not only that, she said she'd have someone bring it to my house that day! Needless to say I am the proud owner of a beautiful secretary desk. I've been offered $1500 for it several years ago, but I would never part with it. Two weeks after I got the desk I was taking a walk - again in Montclair. The Women's Club there was having a garage sale and I was able to pick up an antique chair (the kind that Betty recently smashed in her dining room - it has a pineapple carved into the wood - very common back then) for $10! I don't think I ever get such bargains again!
By the way, WasThere thank you for telling me about the Bappy name - I didn't know that was Ava Gardner's nickname. My name came from my older cousins- I was the first girl baby before after they were - one of them couldn't say the word baby - it came out as bappy - hence the name.

bappy...my mother had a secretary/hutch, I didn't know anyone still had those (I think she might still have it).

Are you from Montclair? I'm sure you know that the famous Gilbreth family (the real "Cheaper By the Dozen") was from Montclair. I have always been fascinated by them, since my sixth grade teacher read us the books in class. To this day, I can recite all the Dozen's names - I think just about a year ago, Ernestine passed away, and there was renewed interest in what happened to the family. I guess I'm so touched by them because I'm an only child...

Bappy: I should have said I'm pretty sure it was Ava's nickname, but if it wasn't it was her sister's.(who she was very close to) If I have time, I'll check to make sure. Either way.........

I still have my mother's and mine LPs and 45s. I have the huge glass grapes that my mother loved. I have my one barbie, mine was the Jackie Kennedy hair style and most of her clothes are so frail now. I have my Chatty Cathy and Penny Bright. I have a glass Alka Selzer bottle that is tube shaped. I had kept coins in it, I wish the label wasn't so worn. Lot's of dishes from mother. I can not think of anything else right now, but I do know I wish I had saved more things.

LOL! My daughter jsut walked by and reminded me that I have my Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel book.