School days

I have not participated in Vintage Thingy Thursday in a few weeks and I am glad to be back! Suzanne at Colorado Lady sponsors this great linky party and it is so much fun visting with all of the great bloggers that also participate.

My Mother finally agreed to let me have one of her high school year books. I cannot understand why she didn't want me to have it, because I am the only one of her kids that has even asked for one! It has been on a shelf for over 50 years! What was she going to do with it? Nothing!

She attended Sharon High School in Charlotte, NC. If anyone is familar with the SouthPark Mall, this is the area where this school was. In fact, I went to it from the 1st grade until the 6th grade.

This is exactly as I remember the school.

That is Mother in the middle photo (1st row). My baby sister looks just like her.

Her baseball squad. Bottom row, 1st girl on the left.

Class of 47-Banquet . Top row, dark dress

Close-up

She is still just as beautiful at 81 years young.This is Mother and Daddy on their wedding day, May 10,1952.

Mother at my son's wedding April 10, 2010.

VTT Treasures

One of my favorite days of the week is Vintage Thingy Thursday sponsored by Suzanne. Join the fun and visit all of the many treasure sites.

This week I have no particular theme,just some treasures. The first is a shoe form that I found at a yard sale. I don't remember how much I paid for it, but if you have been reading my posts you know I don't spend a lot for my treasures. The shoe form even has a name and size still printed on it!

This radio is actually Micki's but I am storing it for her. Because her name is Micki, she loves to collect anything Disney.

The knob has fallen off, but who cares? Here is what the tag on the back says...

Here are two glasses from a fast food chain. I think they are from the 70's.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Yard Sale Vintage Finds

Welcome to Vintage Thingy Thursday sponsored by Suzanne at Coloradolady. I posted some of these vintage goodies that I found at one yard sale last weekend, but was unsure about what a couple of them were. The cereal bowl had me stumped. I recognized the girl and boy but could not remember who they were and what cereal they sponsored. I 'googled' cereal cartoon characters and found a site Topher's Castle that has all of the characters for all of the major cereal brands. So, my mystery kids are ............

Sue and the Cheerios Kid  from General Mill Cherrios!
The Cheerios Kid (1953) appeared on boxes of Cheerios from 1953 to 1973. He regularly rescued his friend Sue (1953) from cartoon-world dangers. He was seen in ads with Bullwinkle in 1966 and 1967. Slogans included “The ‘Power’ Breakfast the Whole Family Loves” in 1958, “Packed with GO Power …Get that Powerful Good Feelin’..Power O’s!” (1960), “The Big G stands for Goodness” (1962), “Go with the Goodness of Cheerios” (1964).

"Get yourself Go! Get Cheerios! Energy O's that help your grow!", "Get Go power with Cheerios", "Come on strong with Cheerios", "Start feeling your Cheerios", "We're gonna start the day... the right way... the oat way... the oatier oat way... Gonna have a bowl of them O's. Gonna get a pow-pow-powerful... good-good feelin' from cheer-cheer-Cheerios", "When you go for the goodness, you'll go for Cheerios", "Put a little cheer in breakfast with cheer-cheer- Cheerios", "The taste kids go for...", "Cheerios have holes. And a whole lot more", and "So get up and go with Cheerios" (all 1969-1970).
“Nutrition. That’s the Cheerios Tradition” (1971), and “Oats, the Grain Highest in Protein” (1971). The image on the right is from a 1973 box of Cheerios.

The next mystery 'thingie' was this fish-shaped thing that was in this 10 cent bag of sewing stuff. After 'googling' for what was imprinted on the side (Whale Art Co St Louis Mo), I discovered this is a carpet tool. Who knew?

This was the best find in another bag of sewing stuff for 25 cents. It's the instructions for using the Singer needle threader, dated 1936 and 1937.

Hope you enjoyed a trip through yesteryear!

Happy Birthday, Mother

Welcome to Vintage Thingie Thursday sponsored by Suzanne at Colorado Lady. This is the best time of the week when friends share their vintage goodies. Sunday was Mother's Day but it was also my mother's 81st birthday! She still looks the same as she did twenty years ago. If it weren't for the small strokes causing her to have to use a walker and a brace on her leg, she would still be going to yard sales with me! We were a great team because we always looked for things that each other liked. We didn't try to get to something before the other one could get out of the car. I miss her going with me because we could gossip and talk about things without someone telling us to stop. So, my vintage thingie post is going to be about my mother and some items that will always remind me of her.

This is a picture of Mother and my son, Craig, taken a couple of years ago. She still looks like this today. No, she has never dyed her hair! That is her natural color and it is still that way today. We just have good genes!

This teapot is not that pretty but mother always had one on her knick knack shelf.

I don't know the name of this plate, but she had a few that we used when I was growing up.

This is one of the many Duz detergent dishes that she collected each time she bought laundry detergent. We used these as our "fine china".

She had a set of dishes that included a coffeepot like this.

This tin is like the one she always kept her bobby pins and rollers in.

These things are not valuable in money, but in memories! I love you, Mother! You have always been my best friend.

Vintage ads

WooHoo! Vintage Thingie Thursday again! I love reading everyone's post. Hope you can join us for VTT sponsored by Suzanne at Colorado Lady.

I have tried to find my cat-eye glasses that I posted about last week, but I cannot find them! Boy, I hid them good! Don't you hate it when you can't find something and you have looked in all of the obvious places? Oh well, I'll find them one day when I'm not looking for them.

This week I thought I would show three ads that are framed. The first two I bought at a yard sale for $1 each. The first one advertises "The New Playtex Fab Lined Girdle".It's dated 1950 and the highest price is $5.95!

The second one is a 1950 Coca-Cola ad..

The last one is an ad for Coats and Clark Speed Cro-Sheen. This was part of the crochet books that I found at a yard sale. The date is somewhere between 1942 and 1953. The crochet books are mentioned in an earlier post.

See ya next week!

New Friends and Old Memories

It's that time again! Vintage Thingy Thursday sponsored by Suzanne at Colorado Lady. Join us and visit some of the most interesting people you'll ever meet. Speaking of interesting people, I got home from work this afternoon, checked the mailbox and found a package addressed to me from LaVoice from Thoughts from Meme's corner. Look what she sent me!

I was not expecting this but I sure do appreciate her thinking of me. Thank you, LV.

I am posting for VTT a bottle opener that belonged to my daddy. I never knew that was what it was until  about a year ago. That's a picture of Daddy behind it.

He also had this ship which is actually part of a set of bookends.

Daddy died in 2003 from lung cancer. I miss him terribly because he and I had something special that my brother and sisters would never have. I was born on daddy's birthday! Here is a picture of me and daddy on my 6th birthday (I think that's how many candles I count). Check out those cat-eye glasses! I still have them but I couldn't find them in time to post. I'll do that another day.

Happy VTT!

Vintage Reading

Welcome to Vintage Thing Thursday sponsored by Suzanne at Colorado Lady. Join in the fun and try to visit as many friends as possible. As promised in my Saturday yard sale post, I am showing some of the pages from the Mad magazines and Jot em' Down Store Party book that I found. The Mad magazines were from 1968. That's 42 years ago! Seems like only yesterday! I remember reading the Bonnie and Clyde issue.

The LBJ issue has a poster of Alfred E. Neuman for President. It only has one small tear(on the left side at the fold).

This same issue also has a bumper sticker. How many of us ripped these out and hung them on our bedroom walls?

This is an ad on the back cover.

Here's an ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes.

Famous people wearing protest buttons. How many can you name?

Remember the back cover where you had to fold it to make another picture?

The Jot em' Down Store Party book is from 1939. Over 71 years old! It has some hilarious pages.

Look! An organ for $23! We're saving $17!!

This complete outfit sells for $9.95 includin' a pair of roller skates!

This mighty purty clock is only $6.75!

July 1939 almanac. My daddy would have been 12 years old this month.

The financial report for the Jot em' down store.

Until next week!!