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Spring Holidays
By: Thitpualso Date: March 3, 2019, 12:56 pm
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We’re coming up to Passover and Easter. Just about everyone
here has childhood memories of these holidays. Here’s a fond one
of mine.
In the little town where I grew up there was a wonderful place.
It had to have another name but everybody just called it ‘The
Greek’s’. The place had a long soda fountain with a marble top,
a huge stained-glass window of a Gibson Girl and the best tuna
sandwiches on the planet.
More than that, the place was a confectionery shop which made
its own chocolates. At Easter there were the usual bunnies,
lambs and chicks from chocolate molds. There were also
chocolate matzohs for the Jewish trade. However, The Greek’s
claim to fame was something that endeared itself to almost every
male in town regardless of age or religious belief.
The Greek’s made solid chocolate baseballs. These were molds of
regulation size and were available in dark, milk or white
chocolate. The only way to eat the things was to take a hammer
and chisel to them but they were
delicious. Because opening day of the baseball season falls at
the beginning of April, each chocolate baseball
came with a card that read, ‘Season’s Greetings’ and bore the
picture of a classic baseball park.
#Post#: 27088--------------------------------------------------
Re: Spring Holidays
By: gmatoy Date: March 3, 2019, 2:02 pm
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My mother sewed for all of her children and one of my most fond
memories is the year I bought the fabric for matching dresses
for my mother, two sisters and myself. It was the 1960's and she
made sheath dresses for all of us. We went to church and, as was
the practice, there came a point where all of the children,
including us teens, were excused to go to Sunday School. As
we're going down the hall, the boys start talking to me about my
"hot sister." I say, "My sisters are younger than me, and you
are disgusting."
They tell me, not the little ones, the other one. I am trying to
figure out who they are talking about, when it dawns on me. They
are talking about my mother! I make a drawing of where we were
all sitting, just to be sure. YYYXXXX (the Y = my brothers,
the X = my mother, me, and my sisters.
They all point to my mother, who is the underlined one in the X
and Y diagram.
I wish you could have seen their faces when I told them that was
my mother! (Insert tones of outrage, here. ;) ) She was barely
in her 30s at the time, but she was my mother!!
Also, she looked pretty happy when I told her about it! Still
one of my favorite memories!
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Re: Spring Holidays
By: lisastitch Date: March 4, 2019, 12:27 pm
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The Easter when DS was 6 and DD was 2, I had sewn a lovely
little smocked dress for DD, and a striped jacket for DS. He
looked totally adorable, the way dressed-up little boys can. At
church, the pastor invited the children to come to the altar for
the children's talk, and as the children were coming up, the
pastor was talking the signs of the season, the lilies on the
altar, and the Easter eggs, and whatever, and the little girls
in their Easter dresses. As he started the talk, he again
mentioned how nice the little girls looked in their Easter
dresses. I was quietly fuming and figuring out what to say to
the pastor after the service when DS stood up, looked straight
at the pastor, and said, "The little boys look nice, too." The
congregation burst into laughter, and the pastor acknowledged
that he had been wrong.
DS was thanked by several people afterwards--I was clearly not
the only one who was irritated!
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Re: Spring Holidays
By: Thitpualso Date: March 7, 2019, 4:01 pm
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When I was about ten years old, there was a fashion for the
topper. These were flaring jackets that went just below the
waist. Toppers had no collar and had a single large button at
the neck. For little girls, they were made in fluffy material
and came in colors of white, navy, baby blue, baby pink and hot
pink.
Every girl in my class wanted a topper. They would be great fun
to wear with a short, puffy floral print dress, ruffled socks,
patent leather shoes and a perky straw hat decorated with
ribbons and flowers.
I was thrilled when my parents told me that I would have a
topper for Easter. I wasn’t so thrilled when I discovered what
I would wind up wearing. We went to Robert Hall. In the 1950s
that was a place for acceptable but inexpensive business attire.
My festive Easter outfit had a topper but it was part of a grey
herringbone suit. The skirt went well below my knees. I wore
it with a plain white blouse and the sort of grey clip hat that
Mamie Eisenhower might have worn. There were a few blue ribbons
added here and there but i looked like a 40 year-old
stenographer going to work at an accounting firm.
I can’t really blame my parents but they had rather odd ideas
about growth. They thought this suit would be an investment for
job interviews when I went out looking for work ten years in the
future.
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Re: Spring Holidays
By: Thitpualso Date: April 10, 2019, 11:27 am
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Passover and Easter are about ten days away. Doesn’t anyone
have stories to share? I have a doozy.
When I was a teenager we had a most unusual guest for Easter
dinner.
Back in the 1930s a cousin of my father had been convicted of
murdering her (probably abusive) husband with a carving knife.
She was judged insane and committed to an asylum. It was now
the 1960s and she was allowed supervised trips to visit
relatives. Dad’s sister and her husband took her for the
weekend but, for some reason, we were told that she would be
having Easter dinner with us.
My mother was in a panic at the thought of hosting a murderess.
I was given the task of keeping the woman I’ll call Ann engaged.
Under no circumstances was she to be allowed in the kitchen.
It was awkward but Ann turned out to be a mild older lady who
enjoyed some of the same authors I liked to read.
Dinner was still awkward because my Mom kept carefully watching
the cutlery.
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Re: Spring Holidays
By: Songbird Date: April 10, 2019, 2:54 pm
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[quote author=Thitpualso link=topic=1026.msg29179#msg29179
date=1554913678]
Passover and Easter are about ten days away. Doesn’t anyone
have stories to share? I have a doozy.
When I was a teenager we had a most unusual guest for Easter
dinner.
Back in the 1930s a cousin of my father had been convicted of
murdering her (probably abusive) husband with a carving knife.
She was judged insane and committed to an asylum. It was now
the 1960s and she was allowed supervised trips to visit
relatives. Dad’s sister and her husband took her for the
weekend but, for some reason, we were told that she would be
having Easter dinner with us.
My mother was in a panic at the thought of hosting a murderess.
I was given the task of keeping the woman I’ll call Ann engaged.
Under no circumstances was she to be allowed in the kitchen.
It was awkward but Ann turned out to be a mild older lady who
enjoyed some of the same authors I liked to read.
Dinner was still awkward because my Mom kept carefully watching
the cutlery.
[/quote]
I think you just won the thread...
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Re: Spring Holidays
By: Songbird Date: April 10, 2019, 3:00 pm
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My family Seder plate is an antique, purchased by my
grandfather in NYC, probably sometime in the mid 1920's.
A couple of years ago my sister found a similar plate on eBay.
And as we researched the plate's origins, we discovered we had
an antique that is cousin to a plate on display in a museum.
The back of the plate bears the inscription: BARDIGER, London,
and TEPPER, London with a circular seal that says, Manufactured
by Ridgway England
I found out that this design was first registered by Ridgways,
the Staffordshire manufacturer of the plate, in 1923.
"Bardiger" is a retailer mark for Solomon Bardiger's china shop,
which was at 180 Brick Lane, London. Solomon was a Ukrainian
immigrant (just like my grandparents who bought the plate!). He
came to England in 1890 and traded in a wide variety of goods,
but became most well known for his Judaica table wares. It was
he who commissioned Ridgways to make the plate. The plate came
in red, blue or black.
One of the blue plates found its way into the Brooklyn
Children's Museum. Another made it into the Spurlock Museum of
World Cultures in Illinois.
We don't regard it as a museum piece, though. To us it's just
the plate our grandfather bought for the Passover Seder, full of
memories.
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Re: Spring Holidays
By: Thitpualso Date: April 10, 2019, 5:27 pm
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The history of your Seder plate makes it a museum piece in the
museum of family memory. That’s a place that the public can’t
visit without special invitation.
Thank you for giving us here at BMB a VIP pass.
This is the kind of story folks here want to hear.
#Post#: 29216--------------------------------------------------
Re: Spring Holidays
By: Songbird Date: April 11, 2019, 1:03 pm
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[quote author=Thitpualso link=topic=1026.msg29193#msg29193
date=1554935227]
The history of your Seder plate makes it a museum piece in the
museum of family memory. That’s a place that the public can’t
visit without special invitation.
Thank you for giving us here at BMB a VIP pass.
This is the kind of story folks here want to hear.
[/quote]
My pleasure.
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Re: Spring Holidays
By: highpriestess Date: April 11, 2019, 7:27 pm
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Easter is my mom's favorite holiday. We always had baskets and
such. A few short excerpts about our holidays:
1. When we were little, we used to go to an easter breakfast at
the Bon Marche (if anyone knew that place). One year also
happened to be my sister's birthday. The easter bunny asked if
anyone had birthdays that month, week, day etc and the ones with
one that day got to dance onstage with him. I was so jealous
2. Age 16 going to the mall which had an easter bunny that you
had pictures with like santa. He totally was hitting on us 16
year olds. Pervy bunny
3. My mom always exchanges chocolate bunnies with her sisters
and they relish in biting their ears and heads off. My older
aunt always gifted my mom a knicknack that was three bunnies
since there are three in our family. Those can be hard to find
so I don't think they do that anymore.
4. We still (youngest in family is 28) get presents and eggs
hidden. They are hidden in varying degrees and categorized such
as a hider (totally hidden) a peeker (sort of showing),
camouflage etc. I always have to ask for hints though. I suck at
finding things.
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