Relax, Laugh and Remember with Reminisce Magazine. Each issue is a "time capsule" of life from the 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's filled with reader-written stories, pictures from the past, embarrassing moments, ads from the Old Days and much more!
Growing up in a large family with five brothers and a sister, I learned many lessons about sharing. Whenever we get together now, we share memories about the neighborhood where we grew up, our childhood pets, my father’s penchant for flea marketing and my mother’s infamous stacks of paperbacks. Everyone has a story, and telling the favorites can get pretty rowdy. One brother starts a tale, another riffs on the theme, I wave my hands while giving my version of what happened, and everyone laughs at the antics. In this 25th anniversary issue, Reminisce shares fun facts collected from the past paired with recollections of your favorite decades. No surprise, the 1950s topped the most lists, followed closely by the 1960s. Enjoy the story on page 9. Our Special Section…
The U.S. National Park Service turns 100 this year. So far, I’ve visited 22 national parks and I intend to visit them all. My favorite memories include: • Grand Teton—a five-day mountain backpacking trip; • Redwood—weekend hikes among the tallest trees on the planet; • Saguaro—rain in the desert, sprinkles of relief; • Lassen Volcanic—camping with a 3-year-old; and • Arches—5-mile hikes amid stone sculptures. Our readers’ trips to the national parks begin on page 30. Share your thoughts with us at feedback@reminisce.com. Socialize with us!…
BATTER UP! Do you remember suiting up for batting practice? Did you bother to wait for the snow to melt before you got your friends together for a game of 500? How about the first time you got a hit or saved the game with an unbelievable over-the-shoulder catch? Did you see one of the greats at a major league game? Tell us about your baseball days—including that time you hit a homer for little Timmy who was sick in the hospital. Pictures are especially welcome. Email your submission with “BASEBALL” in the subject line. SPRING CLEANING How did your family divide and conquer the war on clutter when you were a kid? Was this a chore you loved or despised? Ever unearth the domestic equivalent of the Dead Sea…
Recently, a neighbor of ours from the 1940s commented, “We were rich. We just didn’t have a lot of money!” EUGENE GAUERKE WAUPACA, WI THE MUSIC GAVE ME GOOSE BUMPS JEANNE PAFFORD GLASGOW TUCSON, AZ I GREW UP SINGING, dancing to and loving the music of the ’40s—Big Bands and swing music. My favorite singer was Frank Sinatra. His crooning gave me goose bumps. I also loved the music of Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Harry James and many others. Never a wallflower, I jitterbugged and waltzed until the balls of my feet burned, and I limped home. So as a freshman at the University of Arizona, I went with girlfriends to Saturday night dances given for airmen stationed at the training bases in and around Tucson—Davis-Monthan,…
CLASS DISTINCTION SONIA SCHORK SIERRA VISTA, AZ I GRADUATED from high school in 1951, and I met my husband in 1959, so my favorite decade has to be—you guessed it—the 1950s. I went to college at Syracuse University, where it was all business and traditions. Women dressed in heels, skirts, gloves and, often, hats, and we all worked hard. Imagine my shock when I began teaching in 1956 and bumped head-on into the rock ’n’ roll generation. Two college degrees had not prepared me for ducktails, greased hair, suede shoes and boys’ pink-striped pants in my eighth-grade classroom. But I reached them. The kids wished me well when I moved to Florida in 1959 to take another teaching position (far left). That fall, I met Don Schork (left), a Korean…
The optimism of that era remains in my heart, getting me through the rough times and making the good times even better. THERESA DANNA BURBANK, CA THE DECADE THAT WAS JOHN PASZULYA TUCSON, AZ IT WAS THE 1960s.IT WAS St. Aloysius School, hanging out with friends at the local candy store, going to senior prom. IT WAS the start of space travel with Alan Sheppard, John Glenn and, of course, Neil Armstrong on the moon. IT WAS the Beatles and hippies, and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. IT WAS the Vietnam War and race riots. IT WAS sometimes good, sometimes bad, but always exciting. IT WAS one awesome decade to be growing up as a teenager. THE SWINGING ’60s CONNIE L. MCDOWELL…
