What are your favorite childhood memories of?

[bertha katzenengel]

Mine, sadly, are of food. Explains a lot.

If you choose "other," please describe.

Thanks!

PS Yes, I know, my subject line doesn't pass the preposition sniff test. Sue me. :hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

1. kick - sorry it's not halloween related

:kick:

[Arugula Latte]

2. A lot of them center around being with horses

riding through the golden hills of California ... feeling free.

[peekaloo]

3. Playing 'Kick the Can' on summer nights, well past dark.

:-)

[Allenberg]

4. Playing baseball

from 7 or 8AM to around noon, and then going swimming, playing nintendo, chasing each other around town on bikes...etc.

[lizziegrace]

5. playing Dodgeball

in the dead-end street. Piling into a wagon and riding down the hill straight into the curb. Riding bikes until our parents threatened our lives if we didn't come in. I really miss those days.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Music and skateboarding

More specifically the music I was into when I first started skateboarding. Always a fun nostalgia kick.

[DanCa]

7. Superman one and all my toys (nt)

[datasuspect]

8. when they would let me out of the closet

[Gormy Cuss]

9. Interesting poll

I don't think I've ever thought about it this way. If I had to choose only one, it's play time. Through elementary school I knew no one who participated in organized activities more than one afternoon a week. We had plenty of time to built clubhouses and forts and castles out of scrap lumber and cardboard boxes (snow in the winter), play cards and board games, ride bikes, play on the wharves, railroad tracks and in other forbidden zones. We had to be dragged indoors for supper during the good weather. I think that's why we had little sense of being cramped in our little house (~ 1000 SF, usually populated by at least eight people.)

Thanks for making me think about it, Bertha.
:pals:

[sakabatou]

10. Wrestling with my brothers

The One Ton Wanton (brother) vs. Armageddon (me)

[lizziegrace]

11. Thank you for starting this thread

I'm wishing I'd spent more time in childhood.

[auntAgonist]

12. my favourite

memories are of my grandfather. (granddad). He used to spend so much time with me, taking me to museums etc. He was an old softie! I miss him terribly. He passed away in the early 1970's a LONG time ago :(

thanks for making me remember Bertha!

[bertha katzenengel]

13. my own

tie --

between

1. food and eating (it was the only thing I could reliably look forward to)

this was my favorite restaurant, gone now -- the Villa Sweden Smorgasbord




and

2. riding my bike alone down the Santa Ana River Trail to the beach. The trail runs past an oil refinery, which accounts for the very fond sense of nostalgia and happy memories I get whenever I detect that foul odor