Schwotzer Family Memories
- Gentian violet
- Dad clipping our nails
- Grandma Schwotzer's sticky buns (with and without nuts)
- Doris Mundorf's day-by-day gift packages for our trip to GA
- Moving into 5499 on Carol's birthday
- The basketball court and climbing the bars.
Once I placed a ladder to climb to the top rung of the bars. As I climbed the ladder
it pivoted on the lower bar and I fell to the ground. I went to the couch, in pain, didn't tell anyone.
- XP / TXP license plates
- Arizona trip in 1966
- California trips in 1970 and 1972
- Carnival for neighborhood kids (Carol)
- Dad playing piano while everyone was getting ready to leave for some event
- Our first dog Fritzi
- Grandpap smoking his pipe with one eye
- Isaly's chipped ham and Klondikes
- Vitameatavegemin
- Lost In Space TV show
- Squaw Corn - Carol cooked after attending a camp
- Carol in Kachina dolls : Lynne in gymnastics (beam)
- Watching TV surreptitiously while mom and Dad were at PTA.
Looking for their arrival through the family room shutters. -PWS
Was it Batman that came on Tuesday and Thursday? I never knew what kids were talking about at school on Wednesdays and Thursdays in anticipation of the concluding episode. -CLS
I wondered if Mom/Dad checked whether the TV was warm. - PWS
- Astrid in 1972 and Olavi in 1975
- Playing carroms at Christmas, on a card table in the rarely-used living room
- Christmas Day: puzzles, Simon and Garfunkel, race cars
Paul lying in front of the stereo listening to albums. - CLS
- Deco-page craft projects
- Mom making dresses for the Prom
- Mom making plaster eagles and pine cone wreaths
- Seeing Glenn Campbell and Jerry Reed and Marcel Marceau at the civic center
I don't remember Marcel Marceau but I remember John Davidson the night after I rode my bike from our house to the Atlanta zoo and I couldn't stand up after the concert! -CLS
- Braves games
- Going to a lake on north Roswell Rd in the 1960s
I don't remember this but I remember Sun Valley (I think), it was in Powder Springs (south Cobb County). I went near it years ago when visiting a school in South Cobb. -CLS
- I-285 was 2 lanes each direction in the 1960s
- Throwing the frisbee and playing catch (thanks Carol!)
- Carroll's Drive-in on Roswell Road before McDonalds
- Burnt orange (Bittersweet?) Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser station wagon
- Indian Guides - Boy Scouts - Girl Scouts
- Standing in line at Morrison's cafeteria on Sunday after church
And asking what the pinkish meat was and the carver said roast beef and I said no, roast beef is black. -CLS
Of course... must burn off all of the flavor! -PWS
- Doing my homework on a card table, listening to the radio with clues that "Paul is dead!". Panic!!!
Carol’s Additions:
- Coming home to see Grandmas Schwotzer using the huge leaf vacuum, vacuuming up leaves in the driveway
- Getting the basement room ready for Girl Scout meetings just a couple months after we moved in
- Walking through the sliding glass door with my turtle dish in my hand after a Wednesday night church supper – stitches in my knee, Grandma Schwotzer had all the glass cleaned up when we got home from the ER
- Nothing but trees on Roswell Road
- Lynne getting docked 25¢ or missing the bus to N. Springs (sorry Lynne)
- Mom driving us to Murphy Candler park to swim in the summer (dropped us off)
- Jumonville with the Browns
- Endless Caverns on the way from PA to GA in 1963
- Mom picking us up from school on November 22, 1963 because JFK has died