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A Childhood House Remembered
By Arlette Lees
Aunt Carole Hamilton said, calling from Wisconsin, "I know this will come as a shock, but our old houses and at least three or four of the neighboring houses are gone."
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A Place in the Heart
By Vernon Ream
Delicious home-style food forged our family ties while it nourished our bodies.
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Baba's Summer of Fame
By Charles O. Boldreghini
Devotion to duty made him a local celebrity.
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Doc’s Little Black Bag
By Sara S. Yetter
Back in the Good Old Days, doctors made house calls, a U.S. postage stamp cost 3 cents and a gallon of gas was 15 cents.
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Good Old Days in the Kitchen -- Remembering Easters Past
By Helen Bolterman
When I reminisce about the Good Old Days in the 1950s, I remember Easter as being a favorite holiday for our family when we were living in Onalaska, Wis.
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Good Old Days on Wheels -- Our First New Car
By Ima Ralston
What a pleasure it was to drive a brand-new car!
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Hannibal
By Pat Arbeiter
He learned an enduring life lesson from a cantankerous old goose!
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Johan's Secret Gift
By Shirley Waxbom
This plea was heard frequently from the five Waxbom children in the early 1900s.
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Maggie and Prince Charming
By April Knight
As it turned out, he just wasn't marriage material.
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Memories Of A Former Kid
Bob Artley
MugWump Marketing
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Of Wings and Strings
By Carol McAdoo Rehme
The musty old ball of twine reminded her of a precious lesson she'd learned from her dear Daddy.
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Old-Time Music -- Down by the Old Mill Stream
Tell Taylor
Down by the Old Mill Stream music submitted by author Dorothy Coleman.
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Our Fordson Tractor
By Edna Krause
Progress didn't necessarily guarantee perfection
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Penny Candy
By Bernice Senti Pluchos
My dad had a grocery store, the S&H Grocery, in Portland, Ore., in the 1930s and early 1940s during the Depression.
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The Blizzard of 1949
By Merle S. Hahn
A winter whiteout created a dangerous situation, but these hardy ranchers were up to the challenge.
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The Farm Boy and His Dog
By Tom R. Kovach
Many people are fond of dogs. But on farms, almost everybody owns dogs.
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The Kite Festival
By Beverly Hill McKinney
It was a beauty, all right, but would it ever get off the ground?
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The Miracle of the Lightbulb
By Mary Ellen Johnson
This simple item was once the stuff of dreams.
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The Rain Barrel
By Arlene Shovald
The other night I turned on the local TV news and learned, to my surprise, that rain barrels are now illegal in the state of Colorado.
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This Ol' House
By Dorothy Coleman
I can't pinpoint the year when the old stone house was erected near Stewartstown in southeastern Pennsylvania, but it had to be around 1850.
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Wanted
The Wanted column is a service for Good Old Days subscribers only. When accepted, Wanteds are printed free of charge.
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Weekend With the Stars
By Don Colpitts
I pulled the curtain aside -- and I was backstage. Wow!
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You Don’t Have to Be Crazy
By Bob Griggs
I'm going to tell you a story -- well, a story within a story.
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You Only Get So Many Miracles
By Robert B. Robeson
The bonds we forged as teammates have lasted all our lives.
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First-Class Ride
By Mary M. Chase
A brand-new school loomed tall like a giant in my life at age 10.
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Identity Crisis
By Audrey Corn
Nicknames weren't the norm in 1940s classrooms.
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Our Model T and Mud
By Neil Hunt
I'm not a newcomer, so I enjoy reading magazines like Good Old Days that bring back memories of things funny and not so funny that happened way back when.
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Reader Poetry -- Childhood Days
By Jerry Allen Gray
Oh, to relive childhood wishes
Of simple dreams and mud-pie dishes ...
To let one’s mind take you away
With grand castles to play all day.
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Reader Poetry -- Deserted Farmhouse
By Leta Fulmer Harvey
Much like a saddened ghost, it
Stares through empty windowed eyes --
This house that once was warm with
Human touch.
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Reader Poetry -- Easter
By Joseph Fecher
Sunday morning,
How sweet the sound.
Church bells ringing
Around the town.
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Were They Really the Good Old Days?
By James D. Doggette Jr.
It seems as though nowadays, youngsters are always asking me about what it was like back when I was a kid.
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