19-Somethin’ #28

This challenge is sponsored by P.S. Annie! It’s called 19-Somethin’, where participants answer a question about their past each day of September. Sounds like a fun way to spend a September, right?

 

28. When did you go on your first date? What did you do? Where did you go? Did you go out on another date with that person?

I went to IHOP with a boy named Charles. I really liked him and we went out a couple of times  – this was when I was 17. He started talking about ‘going all the way’ and it scared me so I broke it off with him. Occasionally I wonder what happened to him!

 This isn’t the actual restaurant we went to but it looks just like it – this was 1976!!

19 – Somethin’ #’s 23 & 24

I’m playing catch up this morning. Friday’s are always an extra long work day for me (work 4 hours, 4 hour break, work 4 hours) but added to a 12 hour work day I went visiting family last night so I didn’t get home until really late. So here is my catch-up post for the 19-Somethin’ Challenge!

This challenge is sponsored by P.S. Annie! It’s called 19-Somethin’, where participants answer a question about their past each day of September. Sounds like a fun way to spend a September, right?

23. How old were you when you bought your first car? What kind of car did you get? Do you still have it?

I was 18 when I bought my first car, it was the Datsun 710 I mentioned in an earlier question. I learned to drive with that car and my dad made me buy it from him. I had to go to the bank and get a long (co-signed, of course). I hated him for that – my friends were just given cars. But years later I see his point and don’t hate him for that anymore. 

24. Is there another song that makes you reminiscent of your teenage years?

“One is the Loneliest Number” by Three Dog Night. I loved (still do) Three Dog Night’s music.  I remember wanting to marry Chuck Negron! Of course I don’t know what my other husband-to-be, Jay Osmond would have thought of a second husband!

Jay Osmond is on the left, Three Dog Night on the right. Chuck Negron is the hunk with the ‘stache!

19-Somethin’ #21

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21. Tell me about the first home you remember living in with your parents.

The first home I remember was in Gainesville, Florida. My father moved us there from Mississippi so he could get his PhD at the University of Florida.

The house was a one-story brick house on a crawl space. I shared a bedroom with my sister. It had another bedroom, a kitchen, dining room and living room. There was a detached garage and we had some nice neighbors. I have quite a few memories from that house, some good, some bad. 

One poignant memory I have is my sister and  I holding hands – each in our separate beds  –  while listening to the radio announcement of which birthdays were pulled for Selective Service. This was during the Vietnam War. We were young but we knew about the war and how many people weren’t coming back. As an aside, later on in the 70s I had a POW bracelet – my soldier never came home. He was and still is MIA.

Me on the front stops of the house, Summer 1966.

19-Somethin’ #11

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11. What was your favorite music genre when you were young and on what format did you first listen to it?

Rock and Roll!!!

– what we call Classic Rock today –

on am-radio!  I had one of these radios – only it was white!

Later on 45’s, then LP’s,

then cassettes.

19-Somethin’ #10

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10. What fashion did you like the most, and the least, from your younger years?

In high school I loved plaid bell bottoms!! These are images from the internet – I couldn’t any of me with some on!

 

Fashions I hated were prairie style maxi dresses!! (Also from the internet)

Later on in the 80’s I loved shoulder pads – the bigger the better!! I loved the way we dressed in the 80’s. People may think it’s tacky now, but it brings back wonderful memories for me!!

(In case you’re wondering, starting from top row, left, the movies are Working Girl; Heathers; Dirty Dancing (I think); and TV shows (bottom row), Designing Women and Dynasty. I didn’t watch Dynasty but I loved and still love Designing Women.)

19-Somethin’ #9

This challenge is sponsored by P.S. Annie! It’s called 19-Somethin’, where participants answer a question about their past each day of September. Sounds like a fun way to spend a September, right?

9. What was your favorite celebrity hairstyle when you were a teenager? Did you imitate their hairstyle?

My hair was – and still is – super fine and thin – won’t hold a curl without a perm, a curling iron and tons of hair spray  – only during the 80s did I have a ‘hair-style’ (that comes later in this month of questions – I’ll share my photo then!). So my hair-icon of choice while I was in high school was:

 Cher

and

   Ali McGraw

 

Of course my hair wasn’t as thick and beautiful as their’s but the effect was the same – long and straight`!

 Graduation Day, 1977 – long straight hair

  Senior portrait – taken during my Junior year – hair longish and straight!