We love listening to your stories because we did the same kind of things as we were growing up so keep telling them again so that we can hear them so that we don’t have to go back and look for the older videos. Thank you so much for your time I’m a widow now, but I do keep busy and I do watch your chats and I love them and this is my husband, my deceased husband‘s iPad. Thank you for your stories I’m 85 and grew up in rural Tennessee and I’m Jean Smith. Thank you. I really enjoy your chats and also I enjoy the lady in Georgia, Helen Wyatt, and then there is the lady granny Lois Rice and of course BillyJean
Hi, Granny Pat! I am 36 years old and I’ve always loved old movies from the 30’s to the 60’s, and l loved Yvonne DeCarlo. When l was little, we used to watch The Munsters on Nick at Night and l didn’t know it then, but l soon learned, when l took an interest in old movies, that Yvonne DeCarlo played Lily Munster lol. I also love her in McClintock! With John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara. Old movies are an escape for me. They’re made during a time I’d have loved to have lived. Sometimes l wish l had a Time Machine so l could experience how people lived without so much technology- we can’t seem to anymore lol As far as Saturday nights, when l was 18 l worked at a nursing home, and some Saturday evenings when l was off, l would still come to the nursing home and spend it with a lovely lady, Uva, and l would sit in her room with her and we’d watch Lawrence Welk on PBS, which l enjoyed so much. l also enjoy all your cooking and reminiscing; you’re truly a special lady!
We heated with wood and coal burner stoves , my mom cooked on one as well it had the water reservoir on the side , pop belly stoves had one of those too , mom would make my brothers the down mattresses , us girls would sleep on a regular mattress, makes me happy and sad at the same time ! I wouldn’t change a thing of my childhood loved it
I am 69 yrs old, but I played outside too. I roller skated, rode a bike, played house etc after school. The Helms man came down the street and all us kids could pick out a snack off the truck. Our parents had a tab. I love to play at night in the summer. And I learned too how to walk on stilts. Thank you for the memories.
Love listening to your stories. I am 73 & played many of the same games you did & we were outside playing everyday. Please keep your stories coming.👏👏❣️
It's okay to cry Pat, I've already been crying for 10 minutes! I also shared a bed with my younger sister and that was a special time! We had a feather bed and in cold weather I would scrunch down so I was covered except my nose and eyes. When we moved into town and we had a very good furnace, my Momma made each of us feather pillow! Life was "good", but I always missed the feather blanket!. Very happy memories, thank you Pat! ❤😊
Dear Granny Pat, you are a jewel. Thank you so much for the stories from your life experiences. They provoke such warm memories from my life. In today’s video, you made me reminisce about the long, carefree summers of childhood, and the fun activities my friends and I did from morning to twilight, when either the mosquitoes would run us inside, or the loving voice of Mother would call us to come home. I started thinking of our skates we would strap on our shoes, and the elusive skate key, the many Red Rover games with the neighborhood friends, and Hide and Seek. It was a good childhood. I think I need to write it down since you have kindled my memories…. ❤
Awe this video brought back ,personal fond memories of my childhood. ❤ Thanks Granny Pat for sticking in there and delivering interesting,enterestaing,and thought provoking videos. You're a doll. ❤
So many things are different now. I remember gathering around our stove and my grandparent's stove in the winter. Playing outside. I only had a brother, so it wasn't the same as when my mama was growing up she had 8 siblings. Mom was the baby of the family, so she finally got her own room because the older ones moved out. Mom told me they had an outhouse, and she would have my grandma sit on the seat first because she would warm it up, my mom was about 5 then. I love all the memories thankfully they are mostly good ones. I try to tell my grandbabies about how much fun we had and how much fun my mom had growing up. Didn't have a lot of money but it didn't seem to matter then. God bless
On Saturday mornings,as a child,I would get my bag of goodies that I'd saved that week.(Dad would always bring us a candy bar or sweet candy every day) I would lay on the floor and watch cartoons and eat my goodies.That afternoon,Smokey Mountain wrestling came on.My brother and I would watch and afterwards reenact the matches jumping off the sofas or chairs,until Mom would run us out of the house.😂
Hi Granny Pat.Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I used to stick gum on the bed post too. I think it was Bazooka Joe bubble gum. If I recall, it came wrapped in a comic paper you could read. Simple times for sure. Love you and your stories.😊Keep them coming.💖
We made Christmas tree forts and I just turned 40 last month. It felt old fashioned and wholesome back then. We collected all of the thrown out trees after Christmas was over and made igloo type houses on some willing parents' yard. We made allies and enemies. Overnight, the enemies would take their bikes and steal your trees. We played kick the can during the day with those and then defense mode with squirt guns when the enemy came to try to get our trees. I think that trend ended when we aged out of it, but the late '90s until 2000, it was a huge thing in our neighborhood.
Loved this and got me to remembering my childhood, no technology then. We’d roller skate, see how high we could swing, hide and seek in the neighborhood, ride bikes, hopscotch and sometimes if we could afford it we’d go to the matinee on a Saturday afternoon. We could watch movies all afternoon for a quarter. If we had an extra dime we’d stop at the penny candy store and get ten whole pieces of candy for a dine. We knew we had to be home when the streetlights came on and you best not be late. I shared a bed with my sisters too, even when we had chicken pox😂. So glad I grew up then instead of how things are today. I keep meaning to ask how you got interested in collecting your beautiful dishes and glassware?, learning the talent of your beautiful tablescapes, etc?
I was so tickled with your stories about you and your siblings playing outside and particularly how you all slept together in one bed! I could just picture it! What a lovely childhood. You made my morning Granny Pat! Thank you!
Granny Pat I did the same thing with my chewing gum...I had a little Jenny lynn bed. The gum back then the wrigley's was so much better than the than it is today.....I don't know what they have done to it but it's not as good...story of our lives....!!! You look great Pat, red is such a great color, on you. Love your stories......!!!😊
Band of angels! I am going to look it up and watch!You look wonderful as always Granny Pat! love the red earrings to go with your red dress and off set with great lookin black glasses! Remember Haley Mills? she pLayed both parts as twins in that movie, and Susan Hayward and Brian Dennehey were the mom and dad! My friend Marilyn and I were in a talent show at school and we lipsynched that song they sang called ...The chewing gum song! We acted like Lucy and Ethyl though....we got second place and at the end we blew huge bubbles with Bazooka Joe Gum and popped it loudly! We had been dressed in flannel night gowns with our hair up in pincurls, and bare feet! Everyone laffed!
Granny Pat ,I love listening to watch you ❤ The story you told was like, "Ones I hear from my mom ,they made their own fun 😊She said sometimes they did not enough to see a picture show ,so they would play at the river wall ❤I live hearing about the good old days ❤ Tfs blessings from Florida 🙌🌴🌴
As kids in 50's shareing a room with my sister & bed - we only had floor furnace - quitlts & our mom sometimes would put hot water bottle bottom of bed under covers.
You sure do lift my spirits Grannie Pat,every time I get your notification,I can't wait to visit with you and listen to what you have to say.The memories you talk about remind me of my one when I was young and I forget for a time that now I'm old,kids are grown and moved away for jobs and now I have greatgrandchildren.That heavens for FaceTime so I can talk to them and sing them my childhood songs that my mother sang to me.Remember "Two little fishes swimming in a brook?" That's one of them! Thank you dear Pat,love you!❤
I like mystery the best too! I watch all the 1957-1960s on TH-cam. I was born in 1959. I like to compare me at that time. Of course I was conceived in Germany as dad was in the Army. The stilts sound fun- I think I’ll share with my grands ❤thank you for sharing; I’m so glad you can remember things.
@@kathyf7336 I remember many things but I don’t have stories about them. ‘Hiding in cornfields and smoking cornsilk cigarettes!’ It looked like smoke coming up above the cornstalks like coming out of teepees!
So happy to see a video from you, watching now. 💘💖🌷 That was really nice I love hearing about your life. You csn talk about anything and we will listen so don't worry we will be here.
love your stories, we lived in a coal camp and there were lots of kids everywhere we played till it was dark then go in and in the 50's our neighbors had a tv and they would let us kids stay on their porch and watch cartoons through their window and on Mondays dad went over to watch the fights
I love the stories, Granny Pat! I look you up every day along with Billy Gene...and heaven to Betsy if neither of you have paid us a visit! You and Billy are our treasures!
I remember all those movies and the old movie stars...those were the days...I just turned 77 in Dec. I don't keep up with the stars of today because I don't care to. Love your stories.. There were 10 children in my family. 7 girls and 3 boys. I was the baby girl.
Miss Granny Pat, thank you for being you. I love my beautiful 88 year old Italian mother and we live together in Florida and love all your videos! ❤ Peter and Domenica
On many saturday nights we played pinochle or hearts with my mom and my step dad.. wasnt yvonne decarlo in the Munsters on the television! Remember Peter Lorree...eeek! I liked vincent prices ' voice. Once in awhile I would ride the streetcar to downtown Portland with my Gramma. We would go have a fancy meal at the Bohemian Restaurant! Then go over to the NightClub where my mom was singing and they had these nice semi circle bench seats all nice and padded, tuck and roll.leather! We would stay for a few songs then take a taxi home.Everything was free, even the taxi because my mom was the singer there. It was lots of fun and sort of glamorus too, even though I was a tomboy! I had a little purse to go with my dress and balero top, and I kept a pack of candy cigarets in it along with a,cherry sucker to make my lips red.! Remember how it seemed like all the adults smoked! That was crazy , At 15 I tried my first cigarette, newport longs for the ladies...well I threw up afterwards and that cured me of ever wanting to smoke again! You just put me in mind of our sawdustburner in the floor of the living room. It was a heavy metal flowery design and you could look down into the furnace. Our house always smelled good of sawdust mixed with all kinds of wood including cedar! The house was two story and we had what they called registers in the upstairs floors where our bedrooms were.! Since heat always rises our bedrooms were warm if we remembered to leave the registers open. I loved those days from the 1940s to the 1960s! ..seemed we had all four seasons where we lived, and had snow in the winter time around the holidays! Wish I could go back! I had the best relatives, and cousins and grammas and granpa and all those fun games...red rover, hop scotch hide an seek! Thanks for reminding me Granny Pat! much love to you! I love your storys!
Great stories G Pat! I loved playing during the summertime. I am the youngest of 4 so by the time I came around, mom and dad pretty much let me run in our small town. We had no need to lock our doors and everyone knew each other or were somehow related. I would hear my dad say, “well there’s Bob; he’s my second cousin”. Bob was the town policemen. Us kids never got away with anything like sneaking out at night or soaping the windows with ivory bar soap at Halloween. We always got caught and were told by Bob, “now you give me that soap and I expect to see you tomorrow with a towel and bucket of water to wash that soap off.” Yes we did. We rode bikes to the “2nd bridge’ which was on the road leading out of the town to the country side. Under the bridge ran a little creek that snaked its way through the timber and farmland. Oh we had fun playing like we were explorers discovering new territory. I had friend when I was 7-12yrs old who lived just a block or so away on the edge of town, on a rural road. I didn’t know it at the time but they were dirt poor. Her parents had an old truck that was parked under a big maple tree. We would grab blankets and pillows and sleep the night away in the wooden bed of the truck, looking up at the stars and talking about everything. In the morning we saddled the horses and went for early morning rides in the country. Oh my…what wonderful memories. My town had 1600 people, a farming community. Remember Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird? Yeah, that was me. All the farmers knew me as “Charlies girl”. They all knew dad. He knew all them as well. Your post today is so good Pat! You really made me remember things I had forgotten. Youth today are empty of good experiences. They have NO idea what they have missed. You start out just riding a bike in the morning but by the time the sun set you walked aways with a day’s worth of experiences you never anticipated. I know I write too much but Pat, you really brought things back to mind. This world would be a much better place if kids and young adults would put away electronic devices. They are OK but they can never ever create the beauty of interaction and life around you. I’ll stop now. You had the best era. You are blessed Pat. Cheri from IL 🚲🌲📽️🍿
@@chitchatwithgrannypat7900I so agree with you…I was born in 1950 in a small town where everyone knew everyone and had a very similar upbringing as you. We were so lucky to have lived in this country when we did
Start writing. The memories will come a few at a time. I started writing in the 1990s. I wanted to record my family history. My mother was a world of information.
Granny Pat, thank you for writing and getting many other people to start writing and remembering! It’s wonderful reading all the comments and memories! I was born in 1945 and I can remember most all the top things you comment about! We all love your column/video!
PAT😊, That was a wonderful story. It sounds like my childhood , except my mother was scared of water and wouldn't let me be around water. I've had a great time listening to you. You are a blessing to us.
I’ll be 60 in March….Saturday nights when I was little….when old enough I could sleep over at a friends, or have a friend at my house, we would go roller skating or ice skating, maybe a movie at a theater. Your story about the heated bricks made me remember a night maybe 10 years ago now. My husband and I were traveling between WA and CA and it got late, the roads were covered with snow, it was cold…..we stopped at a motel asked about a room…..we walked in…..no heat on in the room! And the heater was a small radiant heater in the wall…..we cranked it as high as it would go, but it was gonna be hours before the room would even be warm. I remembered I had a microwaveable rice bag for sore muscles…..we got that and zapped it and put it in our bed to help take the chill out of the sheets……that was a cold, long night.
Wow, Granny Pat -God surely protected you when you fell off that bridge! Oh my! Your stories are such a delight to hear! Thank you so much for sharing❤ I’m sure you have lots more stories and we find them all very interesting and entertaining. p.s. you look beautiful in red! Have a wonderful day.
Hi Dear Pat! I'll have to watch that movie "ABand Of Angels." I love anything with Sidney Poitier. Such a talented actor! I loved Yvonne DeCarlo. She played Lily Munster. I loved watching The Munsters in the 60's. Your neighbor that had the movies for a nickel. That was so fun! You had a great childhood. The kids today have no idea. I love your stories. Never stop! Love you my Friend. Have a wonderful weekend. Shirley from PA
Hi Granny Pat! You look very classy today. The red top and black frames look great. Your haircut is perfect for you. Loved your story. The bricks at foot of the bed made me renember my grandma did that for me several times. Very toasty!!!!!!! Great chit chat, as always. 😊❤
Pat I love any video you make. I especially love your reminiscences of childhood fun and adventures. Simple joys and pastimes are the best. Some things I remember doing and some I remember my mom and dad talking about. Thank you for giving me something worth watching. Tv is terrible these days. I remember Yvonne Decarlo playing Mrs. Munster on tv. Then I saw her in old movies too and thought how beautiful she was! ❤❤
Sunshine I enjoy your stories I'm from Massachusetts around the Boston area we're out in the country 15 Deer came in the other day Plus in the summer I feed 20 raccoons play the birds and the squirrels and I even have a possum plus a few skunks waiting for all the babies waiting for all the babies to be coming up on the porch raccoons like peanut butter sandwiches it's so exciting say hello to Billie Jean and Mama love you all hi Jan
@@dianethisltlewood4327 I’m not sure about the raccoons and skunks. (My son had a pet skunk years ago!). Raccoons can destroy a farmer’s entire cornfield. That hurts when it is your livelihood. Deer come up to my daughter’s door. They are beautiful animals.
This was a real delight,, I listened while eating dinner tonight, brought back memories riding the bus to the matinee on Saturday, riding bikes, swimming, playing tag all those fun days, sure love you, stay warm and Know I am waiting for the next story❤
And your right kids back then before all kids have now we kids played outside only in for meals & chores & yes outside with annie annie over etc. Long after dark - kids DO miss alot now - and aren't safe alone like we were outside - in our small town we kids could go anywhere in town unafraid - bikeing - sledding etc.
when we were young momma would put a small blanket on the warm morning stove and warm it and wrap one on my sister feet and then mine and I always told her I wish there was a blanket that stayed warm all night well in 64 after I was married, I got to buy a electric blanket and I told my momma I should get some of that money cause I felt like I invented the electric blanket and she would laugh
That was the sleepover night for me also. My best friend and I would gather up whatever change we had and go “paint the town red”, which consisted of going to the smoke shop and picking the latest comic book or teen magazine, then stopping at the sub shop and getting an italian sub with all the trimmings and a sour pickle. Then we would go back to her house and have ourselves a great time!
Hi granny pat loved your story today l can relate to the cold weather l live in one of the northern states and it's 10 below 0 so maybe that brick sounds pretty good 😆 lol
@@BrendaKiefner sounds like you may need to gather a few bricks just in case! I would get out the grill and charcoal as well. It comes in handy for heating bricks.
Wonderful memories Granny Pat! Thank you for sharing! You truly were blessed for your sisters. Can you expound on " the branch"? I'm from Southern California and have never heard of it. I do remember the tire ride in " To Kill a Mockingbird ".
@@rebeccamartus5859 A branch is a creek, only smaller. A branch might start as a stream of water flowing from the hillsides. Like a ‘spring’. As the branch water continues to flow it gets wider and deeper, becoming a creek. A branch ran through our back yard.
Thank for enlightening me! I'd heard you mention your backyard " branch", and looked it up, but was not able to find a definition. How wonderful it must have been! I love, love, love all of your stories, especially your life's memories! God bless you!
I say you are looking sassy today, the red and black is very becoming and I do love your new haircut and it’s not any trouble with I like stuff like that that’s why I like my wig. I just go, but it’s so good to see you Deer so I know you got your iPad fixed and I’m tickled about that. I just keep extra cords and stuff on hand for my iPads cause I got two or three we have more than that James has got iPads. I got iPads because he likes to mess with him too. He likes to look up houses and stuff and the News right on his iPad and get the weather and everything you know of course you know that so I’m enjoying your story today and brings back a lot of memories to me what we did one of these days I’ll have to do another one on what we did when I was a kid we went rollerskating and I never had the money to pay the $.50 it needed, but there was an old farmer that came that lived close to us and he would give some of the kids enough money, including me that I could skate
Well let’s see. I only have one sister and she was 11 years older than me and married during a lot of my young years. I didnt have any siblings to play with and we didn’t live near anyone else. I had to entertain myself. I did play a lot in the creek that ran behind our house. I rode my bike a lot. No movies because our town didn’t have a theater and my parents probably wouldn’t have taken me anyway. When I think of Saturday nights I think of Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk. We could only get two stations. The story about your sister eating her jelly sandwich while you were in dire straits cracks me up!
@@francegilbert6364 People today can’t imagine what a stick of gum or a jaw breaker meant to kids in the early days. And yes, we put our gum on the bedpost overnight!
We used to catch a bus and went to the movies we got pocket money about two shillings the movie cost six pence the bus also. Then we spent our change on sweets or candy as you call it. I loved Esther Williams the swimming dancing movies or Fred Astaire and ginger rogers or Shirley temple or Gene Kelly. I just love your storys granny pat ❤❤❤ being eighty three i love to go on about the old days. My grandkids and great grand kids dont want to listen . They find me boring lol😂😂 ❤❤❤
Didnt get to go to the movies much with a friend, but when i did, we stopped at a place beside the Theatre and bought peanut butter fudge or something else from the big selection of goodies. The place always smelled like freshly roasted peanuts
It's an example of how one business(like the movie theatre) can bring customers for years to a nearby business in a town. Before the internet when people shopped a lot downtown
You were lucky enough to have an idyllic and innocent childhood. Can you imagine what would happen today if a man showed movies to kids in his basement? I think the police would be called! We sure are living in different times now.
I love your stories so much! You were talking about just wanting to bring some pleasure to people that were listening to you, and I want to make sure you know what a talented story teller you are and what a difference you make in my life and I'm sure lots of others, too. I hadn't thought about all those games we used to play outside when I was a kid in a long long time. Thank you so much for all your delightful stories that bring back memories that were lost somewhere in my mind!
Love your stories. I am 73 & did many of the things you talk about. Your life was filled with love & happiness & some sadness. Please tell your stories as they bring happy memories. ❤️👏👏🙏🏻
@@sharonpapastathis1236 the song or the movie? “While I was walking down the beach one bright and sunny day, I saw a great big wooden box a floatin’ in the bay. I pulled it in and opened it up, and much to my surprise, I discovered a …. (Boomboomboom). Right before my eyes.” A big hit!
We heated with wood and coal burner stoves , my mom cooked on one as well it had the water reservoir on the side , pop belly stoves had one of those too , mom would make my brothers the down mattresses , us girls would sleep on a regular mattress, makes me happy and sad at the same time ! I wouldn’t change a thing of my childhood loved it
We love listening to your stories because we did the same kind of things as we were growing up so keep telling them again so that we can hear them so that we don’t have to go back and look for the older videos. Thank you so much for your time I’m a widow now, but I do keep busy and I do watch your chats and I love them and this is my husband, my deceased husband‘s iPad. Thank you for your stories I’m 85 and grew up in rural Tennessee and I’m Jean Smith. Thank you.
I really enjoy your chats and also I enjoy the lady in Georgia, Helen Wyatt, and then there is the lady granny Lois Rice and of course BillyJean
Hi, Granny Pat! I am 36 years old and I’ve always loved old movies from the 30’s to the 60’s, and l loved Yvonne DeCarlo. When l was little, we used to watch The Munsters on Nick at Night and l didn’t know it then, but l soon learned, when l took an interest in old movies, that Yvonne DeCarlo played Lily Munster lol. I also love her in McClintock! With John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara. Old movies are an escape for me. They’re made during a time I’d have loved to have lived. Sometimes l wish l had a Time Machine so l could experience how people lived without so much technology- we can’t seem to anymore lol
As far as Saturday nights, when l was 18 l worked at a nursing home, and some Saturday evenings when l was off, l would still come to the nursing home and spend it with a lovely lady, Uva, and l would sit in her room with her and we’d watch Lawrence Welk on PBS, which l enjoyed so much. l also enjoy all your cooking and reminiscing; you’re truly a special lady!
I watched the Munsters everyday over and over through the years. ❤❤
We heated with wood and coal burner stoves , my mom cooked on one as well it had the water reservoir on the side , pop belly stoves had one of those too , mom would make my brothers the down mattresses , us girls would sleep on a regular mattress, makes me happy and sad at the same time ! I wouldn’t change a thing of my childhood loved it
@@cynthiacleek4916 Our parents and grandparents left us with a legacy never to be forgotten.
I am 69 yrs old, but I played outside too. I roller skated, rode a bike, played house etc after school. The Helms man came down the street and all us kids could pick out a snack off the truck. Our parents had a tab. I love to play at night in the summer. And I learned too how to walk on stilts. Thank you for the memories.
@@dannadavis9650 My kids hustled for their nickel for the ice cream truck. If I only had one nickel, they divided a popsicle. (Two sticks).
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I enjoy listening to your stories
Love your stories...just love them. Thank you and God bless.
You look so Fancy in your red!!!!
Love listening to your stories. I am 73 & played many of the same games you did & we were outside playing everyday. Please keep your stories coming.👏👏❣️
My favorite story of Granny Pat is when she got off at a truck weighing station. 😂😂 I can listen to this story every day !
@@pennyconnell69 I think I posted it twice, once under another title.
I will try to find it ! ❤ it is my favorite.
@ YOUR LAUGH FOR THE DAY, #59. Also try TORNADOES OF 1974. #71.
@@chitchatwithgrannypat7900 oh thank you so much !!! I am making note of this so I can listen now whenever I want. Love you GO❤️🌸❤️
@@pennyconnell69 Did you watch GRANNY PAT PERFORMS LIVE? It is only 5 minutes of your time, but worth every minute.
Please never stop with the stories takes me back
It's okay to cry Pat, I've already been crying for 10 minutes! I also shared a bed with my younger sister and that was a special time! We had a feather bed and in cold weather I would scrunch down so I was covered except my nose and eyes. When we moved into town and we had a very good furnace, my Momma made each of us feather pillow! Life was "good", but I always missed the feather blanket!. Very happy memories, thank you Pat! ❤😊
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GP. Beautiful stories ! Love all the childhood memories and games. I remember playing rock school. That was so fun.
Dear Granny Pat, you are a jewel. Thank you so much for the stories from your life experiences. They provoke such warm memories from my life. In today’s video, you made me reminisce about the long, carefree summers of childhood, and the fun activities my friends and I did from morning to twilight, when either the mosquitoes would run us inside, or the loving voice of Mother would call us to come home.
I started thinking of our skates we would strap on our shoes, and the elusive skate key, the many Red Rover games with the neighborhood friends, and Hide and Seek. It was a good childhood. I think I need to write it down since you have kindled my memories…. ❤
@@clarkspeck4986 Start your stories. Tell one at a time. They don’t have to be in a certain order. You can do that after you get through writing.
@ thank you….I will try
Pat,I'm 82 so your memories of childhood are mine also.There will never be days like that again.❤❤
Always enjoy all your stories… a different world back then. 💗
Awe this video brought back ,personal fond memories of my childhood. ❤ Thanks Granny Pat for sticking in there and delivering interesting,enterestaing,and thought provoking videos. You're a doll. ❤
So many things are different now. I remember gathering around our stove and my grandparent's stove in the winter. Playing outside. I only had a brother, so it wasn't the same as when my mama was growing up she had 8 siblings. Mom was the baby of the family, so she finally got her own room because the older ones moved out. Mom told me they had an outhouse, and she would have my grandma sit on the seat first because she would warm it up, my mom was about 5 then. I love all the memories thankfully they are mostly good ones. I try to tell my grandbabies about how much fun we had and how much fun my mom had growing up. Didn't have a lot of money but it didn't seem to matter then. God bless
On Saturday mornings,as a child,I would get my bag of goodies that I'd saved that week.(Dad would always bring us a candy bar or sweet candy every day) I would lay on the floor and watch cartoons and eat my goodies.That afternoon,Smokey Mountain wrestling came on.My brother and I would watch and afterwards reenact the matches jumping off the sofas or chairs,until Mom would run us out of the house.😂
Hi Granny Pat.Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I used to stick gum on the bed post too. I think it was Bazooka Joe bubble gum. If I recall, it came wrapped in a comic paper you could read. Simple times for sure. Love you and your stories.😊Keep them coming.💖
We made Christmas tree forts and I just turned 40 last month. It felt old fashioned and wholesome back then. We collected all of the thrown out trees after Christmas was over and made igloo type houses on some willing parents' yard. We made allies and enemies. Overnight, the enemies would take their bikes and steal your trees. We played kick the can during the day with those and then defense mode with squirt guns when the enemy came to try to get our trees. I think that trend ended when we aged out of it, but the late '90s until 2000, it was a huge thing in our neighborhood.
Loved this and got me to remembering my childhood, no technology then. We’d roller skate, see how high we could swing, hide and seek in the neighborhood, ride bikes, hopscotch and sometimes if we could afford it we’d go to the matinee on a Saturday afternoon. We could watch movies all afternoon for a quarter. If we had an extra dime we’d stop at the penny candy store and get ten whole pieces of candy for a dine. We knew we had to be home when the streetlights came on and you best not be late. I shared a bed with my sisters too, even when we had chicken pox😂. So glad I grew up then instead of how things are today.
I keep meaning to ask how you got interested in collecting your beautiful dishes and glassware?, learning the talent of your beautiful tablescapes, etc?
@@debby891 Collecting came from loving the old things my mother had from early marriage. Our childhoods were much alike!
I’m 73 years young, Yes mam we had fun , we learned to make our own fun! Wouldn’t trade it for anything, great memories ❤ love your stories!
I was so tickled with your stories about you and your siblings playing outside and particularly how you all slept together in one bed! I could just picture it! What a lovely childhood. You made my morning Granny Pat! Thank you!
In those Laura Ingalls books, she talks about warming up a brick, you would love those books. I love you and Billy Gene. God Bless
Granny Pat I did the same thing with my chewing gum...I had a little Jenny lynn bed. The gum back then the wrigley's was so much better than the than it is today.....I don't know what they have done to it but it's not as good...story of our lives....!!! You look great Pat,
red is such a great color, on you. Love your stories......!!!😊
Band of angels! I am going to look it up and watch!You look wonderful as always Granny Pat! love the red earrings to go with your red dress and off set with great lookin black glasses! Remember Haley Mills? she pLayed both parts as twins in that movie, and Susan Hayward and Brian Dennehey were the mom and dad! My friend Marilyn and I were in a talent show at school and we lipsynched that song they sang called ...The chewing gum song! We acted like Lucy and Ethyl though....we got second place and at the end we blew huge bubbles with Bazooka Joe Gum and popped it loudly! We had been dressed in flannel night gowns with our hair up in pincurls, and bare feet! Everyone laffed!
@@barbarahouser2193 The movie “The Parent Trap” with Haley Mills was at the theater on Christmas day. I was there with both my kids!
OM ,I love ❤️ your stories. I was born 3 /19 /60 . But I love ❤️ the old generations . I enjoy your channel . I ❤ learning about history.
@@dawncampbell4872 Thank you! Telling your own story is the best thing you can do.
Granny Pat ,I love listening to watch you ❤ The story you told was like, "Ones I hear from my mom ,they made their own fun 😊She said sometimes they did not enough to see a picture show ,so they would play at the river wall ❤I live hearing about the good old days ❤ Tfs blessings from Florida 🙌🌴🌴
😊playing outside was the best...❤
@@April-eg2rc Especially after dark. Sitting on the front porch watching the bats fly around the street light across the road. Scary!
As kids in 50's shareing a room with my sister & bed - we only had floor furnace - quitlts & our mom sometimes would put hot water bottle bottom of bed under covers.
Those fun years we had are long lost years kids can no longer do like we did
You are the best company in the world my friend. ❤❤❤❤
This was very enjoyable, thank you for sharing with us
You sure do lift my spirits Grannie Pat,every time I get your notification,I can't wait to visit with you and listen to what you have to say.The memories you talk about remind me of my one when I was young and I forget for a time that now I'm old,kids are grown and moved away for jobs and now I have greatgrandchildren.That heavens for FaceTime so I can talk to them and sing them my childhood songs that my mother sang to me.Remember
"Two little fishes swimming in a brook?" That's one of them! Thank you dear Pat,love you!❤
@@gailhink1222 You should have finished the verse!
Granny Pat you are such a gem!! You are so loved!❤️
Anne from California
I like mystery the best too! I watch all the 1957-1960s on TH-cam. I was born in 1959. I like to compare me at that time. Of course I was conceived in Germany as dad was in the Army. The stilts sound fun- I think I’ll share with my grands ❤thank you for sharing; I’m so glad you can remember things.
@@kathyf7336 I remember many things but I don’t have stories about them. ‘Hiding in cornfields and smoking cornsilk cigarettes!’ It looked like smoke coming up above the cornstalks like coming out of teepees!
So happy to see a video from you, watching now. 💘💖🌷
That was really nice I love hearing about your life. You csn talk about anything and we will listen so don't worry we will be here.
love your stories, we lived in a coal camp and there were lots of kids everywhere we played till it was dark then go in and in the 50's our neighbors had a tv and they would let us kids stay on their porch and watch cartoons through their window and on Mondays dad went over to watch the fights
I love the stories, Granny Pat! I look you up every day along with Billy Gene...and heaven to Betsy if neither of you have paid us a visit! You and Billy are our treasures!
We love your childhood stories. You tell them so well!!
Granny Pat. You are so funny!, I love your
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I remember all those movies and the old movie stars...those were the days...I just turned 77 in Dec.
I don't keep up with the stars of today because I don't care to.
Love your stories..
There were 10 children in my family.
7 girls and 3 boys. I was the baby girl.
@@fayebelew1620 You and I have something in common. I was also #7.
Miss Granny Pat, thank you for being you. I love my beautiful 88 year old Italian mother and we live together in Florida and love all your videos! ❤ Peter and Domenica
@@PalmBeachPeter Invite your friends to watch my channel.
Your stories are getting better and better ❤
Yvonne De Carlos also played Lily Munster on the comedy television show called The Munsters, in the early sixties. Have a great day Pat!
@@garybrunet6346 HA! I was going to say that, but forgot!
Hi Granny Pat , Nice Memories for You and Nice Memories for Me ! Thank You! ❤️😘🐝
On many saturday nights we played pinochle or hearts with my mom and my step dad.. wasnt yvonne decarlo in the Munsters on the television! Remember Peter Lorree...eeek! I liked vincent prices ' voice. Once in awhile I would ride the streetcar to downtown Portland with my Gramma. We would go have a fancy meal at the Bohemian Restaurant! Then go over to the NightClub where my mom was singing and they had these nice semi circle bench seats all nice and padded, tuck and roll.leather! We would stay for a few songs then take a taxi home.Everything was free, even the taxi because my mom was the singer there. It was lots of fun and sort of glamorus too, even though I was a tomboy! I had a little purse to go with my dress and balero top, and I kept a pack of candy cigarets in it along with a,cherry sucker to make my lips red.! Remember how it seemed like all the adults smoked! That was crazy , At 15 I tried my first cigarette, newport longs for the ladies...well I threw up afterwards and that cured me of ever wanting to smoke again! You just put me in mind of our sawdustburner in the floor of the living room. It was a heavy metal flowery design and you could look down into the furnace. Our house always smelled good of sawdust mixed with all kinds of wood including cedar! The house was two story and we had what they called registers in the upstairs floors where our bedrooms were.! Since heat always rises our bedrooms were warm if we remembered to leave the registers open. I loved those days from the 1940s to the 1960s! ..seemed we had all four seasons where we lived, and had snow in the winter time around the holidays! Wish I could go back! I had the best relatives, and cousins and grammas and granpa and all those fun games...red rover, hop scotch hide an seek! Thanks for reminding me Granny Pat! much love to you! I love your storys!
@@barbarahouser2193 You had a very interesting life…and your mother was a singer!
Great stories G Pat!
I loved playing during the summertime. I am the youngest of 4 so by the time I came around, mom and dad pretty much let me run in our small town. We had no need to lock our doors and everyone knew each other or were somehow related. I would hear my dad say, “well there’s Bob; he’s my second cousin”. Bob was the town policemen. Us kids never got away with anything like sneaking out at night or soaping the windows with ivory bar soap at Halloween. We always got caught and were told by Bob, “now you give me that soap and I expect to see you tomorrow with a towel and bucket of water to wash that soap off.” Yes we did.
We rode bikes to the “2nd bridge’ which was on the road leading out of the town to the country side. Under the bridge ran a little creek that snaked its way through the timber and farmland. Oh we had fun playing like we were explorers discovering new territory.
I had friend when I was 7-12yrs old who lived just a block or so away on the edge of town, on a rural road. I didn’t know it at the time but they were dirt poor. Her parents had an old truck that was parked under a big maple tree. We would grab blankets and pillows and sleep the night away in the wooden bed of the truck, looking up at the stars and talking about everything. In the morning we saddled the horses and went for early morning rides in the country. Oh my…what wonderful memories. My town had 1600 people, a farming community. Remember Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird? Yeah, that was me. All the farmers knew me as “Charlies girl”. They all knew dad. He knew all them as well.
Your post today is so good Pat! You really made me remember things I had forgotten.
Youth today are empty of good experiences. They have NO idea what they have missed. You start out just riding a bike in the morning but by the time the sun set you walked aways with a day’s worth of experiences you never anticipated.
I know I write too much but Pat, you really brought things back to mind. This world would be a much better place if kids and young adults would put away electronic devices. They are OK but they can never ever create the beauty of interaction and life around you.
I’ll stop now.
You had the best era. You are blessed Pat.
Cheri from IL
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@@cheririchardson457 If my stories cause you to remember, then I’ve accomplished my deed for the day.
@@chitchatwithgrannypat7900I so agree with you…I was born in 1950 in a small town where everyone knew everyone and had a very similar upbringing as you. We were so lucky to have lived in this country when we did
Start writing. The memories will come a few at a time. I started writing in the 1990s. I wanted to record my family history. My mother was a world of information.
Granny Pat, thank you for writing and getting many other people to start writing and remembering! It’s wonderful reading all the comments and memories! I was born in 1945 and I can remember most all the top things you comment about! We all love your column/video!
PAT😊, That was a wonderful story. It sounds like my childhood , except my mother was scared of water and wouldn't let me be around water. I've had a great time listening to you. You are a blessing to us.
I’ll be 60 in March….Saturday nights when I was little….when old enough I could sleep over at a friends, or have a friend at my house, we would go roller skating or ice skating, maybe a movie at a theater. Your story about the heated bricks made me remember a night maybe 10 years ago now. My husband and I were traveling between WA and CA and it got late, the roads were covered with snow, it was cold…..we stopped at a motel asked about a room…..we walked in…..no heat on in the room! And the heater was a small radiant heater in the wall…..we cranked it as high as it would go, but it was gonna be hours before the room would even be warm. I remembered I had a microwaveable rice bag for sore muscles…..we got that and zapped it and put it in our bed to help take the chill out of the sheets……that was a cold, long night.
@@robingoff322 Good thinking!
@@chitchatwithgrannypat7900 we wished we had more of them!
Wow, Granny Pat -God surely protected you when you fell off that bridge! Oh my!
Your stories are such a delight to hear! Thank you so much for sharing❤ I’m sure you have lots more stories and we find them all very interesting and entertaining.
p.s. you look beautiful in red! Have a wonderful day.
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Enjoyable video🌸
Hi Dear Pat! I'll have to watch that movie "ABand Of Angels." I love anything with Sidney Poitier. Such a talented actor! I loved Yvonne DeCarlo. She played Lily Munster. I loved watching The Munsters in the 60's. Your neighbor that had the movies for a nickel. That was so fun! You had a great childhood. The kids today have no idea. I love your stories. Never stop! Love you my Friend. Have a wonderful weekend. Shirley from PA
Hi Granny Pat! You look very classy today. The red top and black frames look great. Your haircut is perfect for you. Loved your story. The bricks at foot of the bed made me renember my grandma did that for me several times. Very toasty!!!!!!! Great chit chat, as always. 😊❤
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Thank you so much - I love listening to all of your Stories.
Pat I love any video you make. I especially love your reminiscences of childhood fun and adventures. Simple joys and pastimes are the best. Some things I remember doing and some I remember my mom and dad talking about. Thank you for giving me something worth watching. Tv is terrible these days. I remember Yvonne Decarlo playing Mrs. Munster on tv. Then I saw her in old movies too and thought how beautiful she was! ❤❤
“Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost over night?” Do you remember that song? I loved 🥰 this story tonight.
@@sharonedwards-kk1pd Oh yes! I believe it was sung by Little Jimmy Dickens, Grand Ole Opry.
@@chitchatwithgrannypat7900 Thanks. I didn’t know who sung that song.🎵
I watched an old movie and liked it. An Affair to Remember.
@@juliana-g1u You chose the number one favorite love story!
I saw that movie also.
Very good movie...
Hello Granny Pat
I love your red top and black rim glasses!❤ I try and catch all your videos and stories.
@@debbietanner9172 And I thank you.
Sunshine I enjoy your stories I'm from Massachusetts around the Boston area we're out in the country 15 Deer came in the other day Plus in the summer I feed 20 raccoons play the birds and the squirrels and I even have a possum plus a few skunks waiting for all the babies waiting for all the babies to be coming up on the porch raccoons like peanut butter sandwiches it's so exciting say hello to Billie Jean and Mama love you all hi Jan
@@dianethisltlewood4327 I’m not sure about the raccoons and skunks. (My son had a pet skunk years ago!). Raccoons can destroy a farmer’s entire cornfield. That hurts when it is your livelihood. Deer come up to my daughter’s door. They are beautiful animals.
This was a real delight,, I listened while eating dinner tonight, brought back memories riding the bus to the matinee on Saturday, riding bikes, swimming, playing tag all those fun days, sure love you, stay warm and Know I am waiting for the next story❤
And your right kids back then before all kids have now we kids played outside only in for meals & chores & yes outside with annie annie over etc. Long after dark - kids DO miss alot now - and aren't safe alone like we were outside - in our small town we kids could go anywhere in town unafraid - bikeing - sledding etc.
when we were young momma would put a small blanket on the warm morning stove and warm it and wrap one on my sister feet and then mine and I always told her I wish there was a blanket that stayed warm all night well in 64 after I was married, I got to buy a electric blanket and I told my momma I should get some of that money cause I felt like I invented the electric blanket and she would laugh
That was the sleepover night for me also. My best friend and I would gather up whatever change we had and go “paint the town red”, which consisted of going to the smoke shop and picking the latest comic book or teen magazine, then stopping at the sub shop and getting an italian sub with all the trimmings and a sour pickle. Then we would go back to her house and have ourselves a great time!
@@stoughtoniana Those were the best days!
Good to see you Granny Pat.
Yes; we're in the same boat!
Pat, Love your beautiful haircut ;blouse, and red earrings😂❤❤
Hello Pat! Yvonne DeCarlo was Lillian Munster on The Munsters. I love her and I'm going to watch Band of Angels!
@@CoCo-bb6ou Is the movie on utube?
Yes we had homemade stilts too & was fun
My dad made a pair for me…lots of fun walking on those!
Hi granny pat loved your story today l can relate to the cold weather l live in one of the northern states and it's 10 below 0 so maybe that brick sounds pretty good 😆 lol
@@BrendaKiefner sounds like you may need to gather a few bricks just in case! I would get out the grill and charcoal as well. It comes in handy for heating bricks.
I enjoy all of your videos. Love you
Great video Granny Pat
On Saturday nights I watched The Love Boat and Fantasy Island ☺️
Wonderful memories Granny Pat! Thank you for sharing! You truly were blessed for your sisters. Can you expound on " the branch"? I'm from Southern California and have never heard of it. I do remember the tire ride in " To Kill a Mockingbird ".
@@rebeccamartus5859 A branch is a creek, only smaller. A branch might start as a stream of water flowing from the hillsides. Like a ‘spring’. As the branch water continues to flow it gets wider and deeper, becoming a creek.
A branch ran through our back yard.
Thank for enlightening me! I'd heard you mention your backyard " branch", and looked it up, but was not able to find a definition. How wonderful it must have been! I love, love, love all of your stories, especially your life's memories! God bless you!
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I say you are looking sassy today, the red and black is very becoming and I do love your new haircut and it’s not any trouble with I like stuff like that that’s why I like my wig. I just go, but it’s so good to see you Deer so I know you got your iPad fixed and I’m tickled about that. I just keep extra cords and stuff on hand for my iPads cause I got two or three we have more than that James has got iPads. I got iPads because he likes to mess with him too. He likes to look up houses and stuff and the News right on his iPad and get the weather and everything you know of course you know that so I’m enjoying your story today and brings back a lot of memories to me what we did one of these days I’ll have to do another one on what we did when I was a kid we went rollerskating and I never had the money to pay the $.50 it needed, but there was an old farmer that came that lived close to us and he would give some of the kids enough money, including me that I could skate
I love your stories!! ❤
Well let’s see. I only have one sister and she was 11 years older than me and married during a lot of my young years. I didnt have any siblings to play with and we didn’t live near anyone else. I had to entertain myself. I did play a lot in the creek that ran behind our house. I rode my bike a lot. No movies because our town didn’t have a theater and my parents probably wouldn’t have taken me anyway. When I think of Saturday nights I think of Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk. We could only get two stations. The story about your sister eating her jelly sandwich while you were in dire straits cracks me up!
Those were the days!
Chewing gum on the bedpost overnight!’ 😄I remember this song. ( Im 71 now)Thanks for triggering our memory banks Granny Pat.❤
@@francegilbert6364 People today can’t imagine what a stick of gum or a jaw breaker meant to kids in the early days. And yes, we put our gum on the bedpost overnight!
I think most of the kids now prefer vaping over chewing gum.
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Granny Pat good video, Yevonda decarlo was famous this day and age as being Lillie Munster "The Munsters" ... Well talk later. ❤❤❤
@@justmebillygene Yes, I had that in my notes.
We used to catch a bus and went to the movies we got pocket money about two shillings the movie cost six pence the bus also. Then we spent our change on sweets or candy as you call it. I loved Esther Williams the swimming dancing movies or Fred Astaire and ginger rogers or Shirley temple or Gene Kelly. I just love your storys granny pat ❤❤❤ being eighty three i love to go on about the old days. My grandkids and great grand kids dont want to listen . They find me boring lol😂😂 ❤❤❤
The day will come when they say, “I wish I had listened.”
Didnt get to go to the movies much with a friend, but when i did, we stopped at a place beside the Theatre and bought peanut butter fudge or something else from the big selection of goodies. The place always smelled like freshly roasted peanuts
Also it was nice to go back to the theatre and the other place (before the shoppe closed down) after I was older
Then they stopped showing movies at the old theatre :-( but still use it for plays and other venues
It's an example of how one business(like the movie theatre) can bring customers for years to a nearby business in a town. Before the internet when people shopped a lot downtown
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You were lucky enough to have an idyllic and innocent childhood. Can you imagine what would happen today if a man showed movies to kids in his basement? I think the police would be called! We sure are living in different times now.
The movies were outside in the yard. Popcorn machine was in the basement. Times were quite different in those days. No worries or fears.
I'll be sure to comment every time.
@@moviestarmemories630 Let the ads run at the beginning and end of the video. I make money that way.
OMG my favorite movie my mother introduced me to as a young girl. #BandOfAngels
I love your stories so much! You were talking about just wanting to bring some pleasure to people that were listening to you, and I want to make sure you know what a talented story teller you are and what a difference you make in my life and I'm sure lots of others, too. I hadn't thought about all those games we used to play outside when I was a kid in a long long time. Thank you so much for all your delightful stories that bring back memories that were lost somewhere in my mind!
👋 missed again
@@DorothyDeschane You didn’t miss anything.
Pat I comment
but mine wont stay posted.
I am listening ❤
@@debbiebeal8206 Do you go to the end of the Comment list and click before typing your response?
@chitchatwithgrannypat7900 Yes ma'am
But when I checked to see if it all was typed out correctly
It's gone.
A couple of times now.
@ I can’t answer that problem. Sorry!
Love your stories. I am 73 & did many of the things you talk about. Your life was filled with love & happiness & some sadness. Please tell your stories as they bring happy memories. ❤️👏👏🙏🏻
Thank you Granny Pat! Love from Holland..⚘️🪻🌷
@@tommeltje1 Will the tulips be blossoming soon? Now, that’s something I would love to see.
Hy my granny Pat Karen forestparkga love you
‘The Thing”? Remember?😂
@@sharonpapastathis1236 the song or the movie? “While I was walking down the beach one bright and sunny day, I saw a great big wooden box a floatin’ in the bay. I pulled it in and opened it up, and much to my surprise,
I discovered a …. (Boomboomboom). Right before my eyes.”
A big hit!
Notice your turkey❤neck more with your new haircut. ❤
@@Linda-o6r Keep your eye on my glasses!
Who cares about the neck, seriously! If that’s your takeaway, from all the beautiful history, you should, probably be watching something else!
@@chitchatwithgrannypat7900 that was really a good answer there I had to chuckle
@@garybrunet6346 Amen.
I don't agree..her hairstyle is perfect..
We heated with wood and coal burner stoves , my mom cooked on one as well it had the water reservoir on the side , pop belly stoves had one of those too , mom would make my brothers the down mattresses , us girls would sleep on a regular mattress, makes me happy and sad at the same time ! I wouldn’t change a thing of my childhood loved it
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