Polaroid Photos

I was looking through my Dad's photos and found some of the Polaroid type that I hadn't even remembered; it has been decades since I have seen them. They are from 1977-1981. I wanted to have versions of them that looked more like regular photos so I did some cropping, sent them to the Walgreens site, and had them printed out as 4x4s. I kept a bit of the white border on them because I like the way this looks. 

Here is the original and the cropped version of one- me as a Brownie. I can't say that I remember much about those days. I think that this is 1977 or possibly 1978. I do recall that we had a sleepover in our school gym during the Christmas holiday. I am pretty sure that we put on a play and that I was a reindeer.

I could have brought this and others into the photo shop to have 3x5 copies made but that is more expensive to do. I had done so for a few Polaroids that my brother has in his album. I like the quality of those better but the cheaper versions will have to do.

Childhood Food Memories-Part 3

-Girl Scouts- A couple of times we made Rice Krispies treats at camp. We also made S’mores. I’m pretty sure that when I first started selling their cookies that they were .75 cents per box. Our favorites were Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs, and Scot Teas.

-Cookies – Lorna Doones, Oreos, Nutter Butter, Vienna Fingers, Nila Wafers, Social Teas, Windmills (ginger type), animal crackers, Fig Newtons,; Pepperidge Farms Milanos and Chessmen.

-Candy –Gertrude Hawk brand, Mounds, Peppermint Patties, Reese’s, Snickers, Milky Ways, Three Musketeers, Nestle Crunch, Kit Kats, Raisinettes, Hershey’s, and Special Dark. Mrs. K is the one who got me to try dark chocolate from the Hershey’s Assorted Miniatures in the late 1970s and I’ve loved it ever since then.

  

   Mom and I did candy making, sometimes with Kathy and Helen who got us into this. We bought some really nice molds, especially for the holidays.

-Snack Cakes- Devil Dogs, Funny Bones, Yodels, Twinkies, Cupcakes, Scooter Pies, Suzy Q’s (Mom’s nickname for me), and  Tastykakes- Peanut Butter KandyKakes, lemon pie, and Krimpets (Butterscotch and Jelly)

   

   Our neighbor Mrs. M’s daughter worked at Drakes and gave us a lot of their snack cakes once. We put some of them in the freezer.

-Barbeque Parties- My favorite memory is the time that Mrs. K bought over lots of ears of corn to our house in the early 1980s. It was so sweet and delicious. I think that I had 3 ears of this.

  

   Mom’s coworker/friend, Jan S, made some delicious chocolate cupcakes with a butter cream filling for one of our mid-80’s get-togethers. We asked for the recipe but she said it was a secret. My brother and I hid some so we’d have extra for ourselves.

  

   At our neighbor Mrs. S’s party, we had a delicious fruit salad- cantaloupe, honeydew, grapes, and watermelon. There might have been strawberries in it too. This was in a bowl made from the rind of the watermelon.    

Note- All photos are from the internet

Girl Scouts 1978-1983

I don't really remember much about my first year as a Girl Scout in a Brownie troop except for the sleepover that we had around Christmas time at the gym of our grade school. I have good memories of Scout trips like Washington DC, Virginia (my first and only horseback riding experience), and The Bronx Zoo (some of us went on a camel ride). Our camping trips were at Camp Hoover and once to Camp Kettle Run.

1979

Collector badge

part of my jacket

Camp Hoover 1979

camp craft

 

 

The bottom 2 photos are from the internet. They are books similar to the ones that I had.