OH My! Reminisce Magazine has been a favorite of mine for yrs. now! I love it, and the photos are the best!

It is so funny the things we remember from "the good old days"! I gave up longing for foods from the older golden days though, I just really shop carefully now! I smell my produce YEP I SURE DO, if it doesn't have that certain smell I don't buy it! I still feel my bread [Mom taught me that!] My nose has never let me down, my eyes have! It may look pretty but it might be tasteless! When shopping I still open egg cartons and check for broken eggs, I even smell meats and fish! If it smells old my nose will know. I believe I have gotten some wierd stares, and impatient ones behind me in line, but they can go find something and come back later, yesterday it took me a good 5 min's to pick out a ripe watermelon, my granddaughter was with me and I was teaching her how to get a good melon, and believe me the majority of them were picked prematurely! So we must be responsible consumers, and buy that which we can use and enjoy eating! If there are u-pick it fields of produce or fruit orchards we can shop there, it is a little more work being so selective, but it is worth it 'cause I want now-TODAY-to be the good days!!! I like it the way KYH's Mamma said it These are the good old days!

I am glad for good memories, but I want my g-children to have good memories of great food too, and I love it when she has that beautiful satisfied look on her face when she is enjoying something! She loves strawberries-there again I smell 'em, and we do not buy inless they have that sweet smell! She loves her berries, but if they don't smell right she has to wait 'til they get some good ones in!

We've all got SO many wonderful memories from days gone by. Thank goodness for our recollections!

Not everything about the past was always good, though... My favortie country diva, Dolly P. has a great hillbilly song called "In the Good Old Days- When Times Were Bad". There's a line that says "No amount of money could buy from me the memories that I have of them- no amount of money could pay me to go back and live through them again".

But again- thank goodness the good memories for almost all folks, far outweigh the bad- at least I hope they do, anyway!

The words from that Dolly P. song are so much my philosophy!!!

But you are right hopefully we all have far more good memories, than bad ones!

I think I can remember being poor more than anything, that is not necessarily a bad thing as we truly apperciated everything we had, but it sure was hard. But hey we ate, had a roof over our heads, and clothes on our back and here we are we made it thru the rough times Thank God!

CAG - I love that magazine!

I remember the gas station attendant with the little cap, bow tie, washing the car windows and checking the oil and tires with every fill up.

I miss the milkman! I really do. I could get butter, cottage cheese, eggs, milk, sour cream - it was so nice if you wanted to bake something before doing your weekly grocery shopping.

We had a 101 (bleach) man - sold gallons (glass) of bleach.

And of course - the popcorn man, the little merry go round that drove around the neighborhood and the man that pushed a cart sharpening your scissors and knives.

Glasses came from the gas station - so did recipe cards! And for a while there - glasses came in your powdered laundry soap boxes.

That cheap pink dish soap cleaned very well and cut through grease.

LIVERWURST - OMG - to this day it is my all time favorite! I can't get enough of it. And yes, bologna (all beef of course), pimiento loaf, spice loaf, pickle loaf. Really do miss that cheese!

And the pinmiento cheese was so good! It was right along side the other American cheeses. Cheddar cheese actually crumbled! So good!

Everything had flavor!

No expiration dates and no one got ecoli or salmonella, etc. You could trust your butcher. There are very few butchers - the ones today are not real butchers. They open a large cardboard box and remove pre-wrapped meat packages that they weigh and put in the case. Many times it's already frozen - save them from having waste.

That should not be allowed! You cannot re-freeze meats/poultry, etc. unless you cook it first.

Oh - the wonderful memories...............

Coal and ice were still being delivered from a horse-drawn wagon when I was very much younger than I am. My grandfather would follow them around, collecting the droppings to use in his garden. He shovel up the manure and put it in a bushel basket---something else that's all but gone.

The dairy guy was modern, though, and used a step-van. But the dairy was still local: and we lived in the big city.

Mama, you remember leaving notes in the empty milk bottles (yes, children, bottles. Made of a magical substance called "glass.") when anything but the standard delivery was wanted?

The knife-sharpener didn't have a push-cart by us. He had a tricycle kind of deal, and pedaled around the neighborhood.