Innholdsfortegnelse for January 2017 i Reminisce Extra

WHEN WINTER TRANSFORMS THE LANDSCAPE, many of us rush outdoors to revel in the ice and snow. Others are more inclined to stick close to the hearth. Either way, we know you’ll enjoy our story, “Cold Play,” beginning on page 26. Readers share tales of skiing, skating, building snow forts and having snowball fights. And after all that exertion, top it off with a mug of hot cocoa stirred with a cinnamon stick. Another way to take the chill off is by warming up with a favorite jacket, sweater or scarf. Who would have thought when we asked you to tell us about your oldest piece of clothing that we’d hear so many heartwarming stories? You painted the scene of where, when and with whom you wore the garment. Take…

1889 Samuel Leeds Allen invents the Flexible Flyer sled, and his company, S.L. Allen Co., starts producing the recreational toy with weak-in-the-middle runners to allow for bending and steering. 1899 Macy’s in New York and Wanamaker’s in Philadelphia place big Christmas orders for Flexible Flyer sleds. 1904 The Standard Novelty Works of Duncannon, Pennsylvania, launches its Lightning Guider and Challenger sleds, eventually producing 1,800 per day. 1915 The S.L. Allen Co. sells 2,000 Flexible Flyers a day in peak season. Late 1970s Banner years for Standard Novelty, with 100,000 sleds sold during the season, and Flexible Flyer, with 500,000 sold. 1990 Standard Novelty is out of business. 2005 The manufacturing rights to the Flexible Flyer brand are sold to Paricon LLC in South Paris, Maine, which still sells the sleds.…

1941 The year the first commercial TV game show, Truth or Consequences , debuted as an experimental broadcast. The show returned in 1950 for regular daily programming. 60 The number of years the longest-running game show, The Price Is Right , has appeared on TV. 7 The number of Match Game versions to air on TV, both as network originals and in syndication. The most recent was the 2016 summer revival on ABC, with host Alec Baldwin. 75 The number of consecutive game appearances by Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings in 2004. His total winnings over 74 games—he lost game 75 to contestant Nancy Zergwas $2,520,700. 20,000 The number of women Family Feud…

We Met on the Ski Lift ERNIE OGREN TORRANCE, CA My wife, Lavaughn Gordanier, and I met 65 years ago on the chairlift at Mammoth Mountain, California. She was skiing with her brother and his business partner. I was skiing with a couple of buddies and all of us were from Los Angeles. The 1955 season was extremely busy because it was the first year the No. 1 chairlift was installed, resulting in long lines. The chairs were two-seaters, so the wait was about 45 minutes. I was ending a run and approached the crowd that was waiting to get on the chairlift. I yelled “Single,” hoping someone would raise a hand and I wouldn’t have to wait so long. Lavaughn was in the front of the line, waiting with…

“I kept this dress all these years because it represents a labor of love from my mother,” says Nelle Goff Wheat, shown at 17 wearing the organdy formal her mother created in 1949. Nelle wore the gown in a local beauty pageant and at Lexington (TN) High School’s Junior-Senior Dinner. Today, the dress hangs in her bedroom alongside her grandmother’s bed and dresser. “Wonderful memories surround me when I reflect on things of the past,” says Nelle, now of Oakland, TN. GOOD DESIGN NEVER GOES OUT OF STYLE Wilma Hawes Connely, bottom, stands next to the suit she bought for $20 and wore for her marriage in 1952 to Dennis Connely, below. Purchased at J.C. Penney in Neosho, MO, the outfit was displayed at a Penney store in Tulsa, OK,…

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Welcomed Into an Amazing Family KATHLEEN J. VINCENT BATTLE CREEK, MI My in-laws, Martha and Fred Vincent, lived with Fred’s parents for four years after they married in 1912. Looking back on those early years, Martha referred to Fred and herself as “crazy kids.” They later raised two girls and five boys, including my husband, Bob. Fred and Martha’s first major purchase was a $200 upright piano. They paid $6 a month for it—out of Fred’s $37.50 monthly teacher’s salary—but it got plenty of use. Martha played the piano for joy, and both adults and kids joined in on sing-alongs. She also traded raspberries and eggs for lessons for Bob and his two sisters. The entire family learned a musical instrument. I met Bob in Homer, Michigan, when we were…

Triumph of the American Dream JEAN H. McRAE SAVANNAH, GA Our father, Gilbert Hinchcliffe, was born in Liverpool, England, in 1904. When he was 16, he came to America by himself with only $15 in his pocket. After a tiresome delay at Ellis Island, he landed on the docks in New York City and searched for work. He held menial jobs aboard different ships to support himself, then joined the Merchant Marine and rose to the rank of chief engineer. He became a naturalized citizen in 1929, when he was 24. In 1938, he met Melva, the woman who would become his wife and our mother. She was a physical therapy student at what was then Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, D.C. When America entered World War II, Dad…

Mammoth Mountain, in Eastern California, encompasses 3,500 acres used for skiing, tubing, snowshoeing, dog sledding, snowmobiling and more. The Flying Tomato, snowboarding gold medalist Shaun White, holds a minority stake in Mammoth Resorts, which manages the recreation area. Entrepreneur Dave McCoy built the first ski lift on Mammoth Mountain in 1955. Mammoth Mountain averages 400 inches of snow per season and 300 days of sunshine per year. The park boasts four snowboarding halfpipes and is host to the 2017 U.S. Snowboarding and Freeskiing Grand Prix. A magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit the nearby town of Mammoth Lakes, California, in May 1980.…

Well, I forgot that on this particular night I was wearing a tight skirt. SHE STUCK THE LANDING I used to be a professional singer. One night I was doing an upbeat song, which I would usually finish off with a little Charleston high-kick. Well, I forgot that on this particular night I was wearing a tight skirt. So…need I say more? My legs went out from under me and I landed on my keister on the stage floor. But I did manage to get a standing (or should that be sitting?) ovation. NITA LYNN ZAHN SHREVEPORT, LA PICKED OFF FOR A PRANK In the 1960s, a circus coming to our small desert town in Arizona was a very big deal—so much so that you could guarantee almost everyone would…

Hattie has lost two hatpins in this issue! If you find them, tell us at reminisce.com/hatpin. We’ll randomly select 10 winners to receive a year’s subscription to Reminisce . In the November issue , we hid the hatpins on page 26, along the wire at the top right, and on page 56, on the handrail at the top left. There’s no purchase necessary to enter to win. Purchase will not improve your chances of winning. Sweepstakes is open to legal residents age 18 years or older of the U.S., its territories and possessions, or of Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec). Sweepstakes begins on 1/5/17, and ends on 3/1/17. For official rules, visit reminisce.com/hatties-hatpin-rules-rem/. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Sweepstakes sponsored by RDA Enthusiast Brands, LLC. NAME THAT CAR, page 60…

I was watching the Weather Channel when it mentioned a rare January event, a hurricane. My mind immediately went back to another January night, this one in 1955, when I was aboard a coastal minesweeper in the mid-Atlantic while a few miles away, Hurricane Alice was about to give us the ride of a lifetime. I was on the USS Reedbird, MSC 51, under command of Lt. j.g. Robert R. Monroe. Monroe eventually would retire a vice admiral; the Reedbird was his first command. The four ships of our division left Charleston, South Carolina, in the morning en route to Panama City, Florida. The weather was overcast, and the seas were extremely high. As the seas grew higher, our division commander ordered a change in course so that all four…