The Best Time in Anderson or In Your Life

[Gardengirl]

We played pool at home, we three girls and my mom and dad. My dad had bought an old 1800s pool table with legs that weighed 400 pounds each, and who knows how heavy the upper part was? It took four or five men to move that table into the basement where we played on it, and my parents had parties around it. We even slept on it when there was a danger of bad storms. Man, did you hurt in the morning when you tried getting up from it. But, my dad, who grew up with tornadoes in Kansas, insisted. We all got to be very good at it, a lot of fun. When my parents sold the house, they let the pool table stay. When I visited the house a few years ago, the pool table was gone. I have come to find that it was probably worth a fortune. It was a beauty, with inlaid mother of pearl on top.

[whooz her]

Hey GG. Any new stories to get this thread back moving again. Some of the best times I had was going  DOWNTOWN on Saturday afternoons.  My sis and I would get to do this after we had the house work done. Even wore "curlers" with a scarf when we had a big date that night.  How awful we must have looked but we matched our friends.

[Ma and Pa]

We all probably subscribed to some fads that seemed cool at the time, but we hope there are no pictures of us out there today to incriminate us! At least I never walked around town in baggy-ass pants falling off my hips and boxer shorts pulled up towards my armpits! But I DO remember wearing jeans pegged so tight it was a struggle to get 'em on and get to the next class after gym.

[me]

I remember those.  I think I even had a pair or two....


Edited to correct a spelling error...

[Gardengirl]

I remember maybe going to the Kmart in curlers and a scarf. I remember most people really dressed up to go downtown/uptown. I remember Saturday movies, some for 25 cents or 50 cents and meeting girlfriends there for lunch.

Remember the matching A-line skirts and sweaters we all wore then? With the hanging watches on chains for a necklace.

[me]

I had forgotten all about those hanging watches.  I think I still have mine somewhere...lol

[Gardengirl]

Whooz,

Yes, we'd call outselves white trash if we went to the store in curlers now! I wonder what stopped that? It used to be perfectly acceptable.

Those matching A-line skirts and sweaters. The kids from Edgewood wore the ones from Roths. Cheaper copies were found at the local Kmart. The colors were beautiful. I remember and wore those black patterned hose that were brought about by the fashions in England. I wore blacks and greys alot too to go with the hose. I wore those John Lennon caps. I WAS a Beatle in a talent show at school with Marcia Green, Landel Ellis and Ilona Marquand. I was George.

[Ma and Pa]

Wish we had THAT on You Tube!  I'd pay to see it!     

[Gardengirl]

It was fun! The audience threw jelly beans at us, we were pelted, just like the fans threw jelly beans at the real Beatles. Some kids also pretended to faint, one girl on the stairs, and she hurt herself.

[me]

Finally got around to getting that ran off onto the computer so I could take a clip from that band I referred to.  The clip is from a place called the Hideway in Yorktown but they used to play at the Triangle and the Eagles with this band as well as others.  http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/deerladie/videos/?action=view&current=ShesALadyCactusSpringsBand.flv

[Ma and Pa]

Nicely done, me; and a good old song I hadn't heard in ages. Who were the members of the Cactus Springs Band?

[me]

Randy Martin guitar, Pam Ashby guitar, Ron Donnelly bass, and Mike Hudson drums.

[Da Wham]

Hey! I know those guys!         

[Ma and Pa]

Is that the same Pam who played in Leon Ooten's "Southern Rain" band back in the early 80's?

[me]

Is that the same Pam who played in Leon Ooten's "Southern Rain" band back in the early 80's?

I didn't know her back then but hubby said he thinks she did.