Earliest memories

[wcirco]

[Curt Reed]

I remember when my sister was born and I was two years old. I also remember watching an F-86 Saber Jet crash and killing the pilot when I was four years old. Worst memory of back then was those damn leg braces I wore due to my having polio.
Curt
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Curt, N7AH
(Connoisseur of the cold 807) CW forever!

[Dave Allen]

I don't have any good time markers but I can remember standing against the side of my crib and having the edge of the rail in my mouth. Also crawling under it and looking up at all interesting springs and wires. I was destined to be an engineer!

We had a 1958 Plymouth Belaire when I was a baby and I can remember climbing up the back seat and I could fit on the package shelf under the rear window. I also remember having to stand on its front bumper so I could see Dad point out pieces of the engine.

[hoffies2]

Remember Mom telling us we couldn't go out because the Japanese just bombed Pearl Harbor. Stayed in for the day till it was over. Listening on our console in the livingroom.

[philco fan]

plymouth belaire?
two different cars-pretty sure about that!
phil
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i've been doing so much for so long with so little i can now do anything with nothing!

[Alpha1]

I remember how hot it was sleeping on the living room floor in July 1953, during the Detroit heatwave I was 3. No air conditioning.
Also remember Edgewater Park burning but I think that was 1954?

Ed

[Dave Allen]

How 'bout Plymouth Belvedere ? IE Christine's 4-door big sister..

[philco fan]

now that i believe!
what a beast!
i have her cousin,1956 chrysler newport,fins about as long as a corolla!
phil
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i've been doing so much for so long with so little i can now do anything with nothing!

[Tim Tress]

I can remember living at my mother's parents' house in New Brighton, PA, while our new house in neighboring Beaver Falls was being built. My mother and I would go to the new house after my dad got home from work, and kept him company as he worked on it.
I can still remember playing in the unfinished kitchen cabinets, and looking at the pipes in the bathroom before the drywall was up. The house was ready for Christmas 1957; I was a little less than 2 and a half then. Unfortunately, the house was sold out of the family after my dad passed away in 2000; I had a house of my own by then.

In my grandfather's house was a Philco console radio, and I can still remember hearing 1957-era tunes on it; "So Rare" by Jimmy Dorsey, "Melodie D'Amour" by the Ames Brothers, "Hot Diggity" by Perry Como, "S'Wonderful" by Ray Conniff, "Singing The Blues" by Guy Mitchell, and so on. Today, that Philco is in my collection; I can remember trying to look behind it to see the tubes, when it was bigger than I was!
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Tim KA3JRT

[Jack Shirley]

My mother died when I was two and as much as I would like to have a recollection there simply isn't one. A few foggy recollections from my threes. After about 4 memory seems to have kicked in big time.

Apparently we humans vary a lot in this regard.

[Ed Jacobs]

Here is a silly thought I remember having when I was about 3 1/2. We were taking our first airplane trip and at that time you would climb a big set of stairs unlike today’s ramps that you can walk down, When we got to our seats I couldn’t see the stairs from that vantage point and I was quite concerned about it so I kept looking for them to be wheeled back. I was sure they were still stuck to the side of the plane but mom insisted that the craft couldn’t get off the ground that way but I was still convinced they were hanging out there somewhere.
Ed

[canerods]

I remember crawling around on the living room carpet before I learned to walk. I picked up a shiny metal object from the rug and inserted into a wall outlet (I remember thinking at the time it seemed like a perfect fit – two prongs, two holes). That object was a women's hair pin (probably one of my mom's bobby pins) and I remember the loud noise and flash of bright light. It just burnt my fingers some and I cried like hell!!!!!! The year was 1947.
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Joe
WW8X

[Macrohenry]

I remember eating ants on the sidewalk in the town where I was 2-3. I remember climbing into the car steering wheel and riding it.

I remember my dad making us a push cart and telling my brother to go to the garage to get a bolt. I thought he said "boat." Made as much sense to me as anything else.

I definitely remember pulling out the stick that was holding up the window and the window slamming down on my fingernail like a guillotine. I remember my mom taking me to the doctor who lived next door and him stiching up my finger. It's disfigured still today. Years later my mom told me the doctor was drunk. I don't remember that.

Macrohenry

[Macrohenry]

[RadioNut39]

Earliest memories were strange. I have had a lifetime of unusual experiences.

Some background is in order: Mom had awoken one evening to see a "white see-thru figure" at the foot of her bed. When he/she/it saw Mom was awake, it disappeared by walking thru a wall and then floating up and over a hedge.
I did not hear this story until I was an adult, and did not immediately connect it with the memory of what had occured to me at about 3-4 :

I recall being sent to bed, and like most kids, did'nt want to go; I wanted to stay up and watch TV!
My bedroom was in the front of the house, Mom & Dad's in the rear- connected by a hallway, with the bathroom door in the middle on the right and the entrance into the living room also in the middle-to the left (from the rear bedroom.)

Anyways, after going to my room, and after Mom had come and 'tucked me in', I slipped out of bed, entered the hall, snuck past the Lv. Rm. entrance, and layed down on the floor of the hall so I could watch the TV from that position.

As I layed there, peeking around the corner, I had an uneasy feeling of being watched from behind, in the darkness of my parents room. I recall glancing back a couple times.

Suddenly, someOne? grabbed my ankle and began pulling me back into the darkness. I was terrified! I kicked and fought until it released me, and ran screaming into the living room and my Mother's arms.."Mommy! Mommy! Some'thin' grabbed me! Some'thin' grabbed me!" .."Whaat? No No...What are you doing UP?".. Why are'nt you in bed?"
She escorted me back to my room, and tucked me in.
"You must of been having a dream, that's all".
I could never convince her otherwise.
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"There you go, Man...Keep as Cool as you Can...Face Piles of Trials with Smiles.It Riles Them to Believe that you Perceive the Web they Weave...and Keep on Thinking FREE."

[Ken G]

Wow cant remember my age but ... I remember a 21'' Zenith B&W tv set . Dad covered the front window with plywood just before the columbus day storm hit . A red top chrome leg dining room set . Stuff about going to the moon . Casper the friendly ghost . 10 cent store with rows of tin cars . Micky Mouse club .

mmmmmm the good ol' days

[tube42]

Radionut loved the spooky stories.

Another of the earliest memories i have is seeing a woman with very curly hair stick her head in through the door which was closed and asking me if i wanted a bottle of milk. I remember answering yes. It was at night so i guess it was a dream. All i remember after that is shaking my mom who was sleeping going, "Mom i said YES!"
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[Delcoman]

I remember my father tickling my feet with his beard when I was still in the crib. I remember being in the car seat in our 1986 Ford Taurus.

One day while dad was working on it, it was running while he was listening to the engine for noises. I was sitting in the driver's seat ( I must have been around 5 or 6). He stooped in to turn off the car, I exclaimed "I'll do it" and proceeded to turn the key in the wrong direction. To this day I don't know who was louder, the car or my father!
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Michael T. Downes

[canerods]

[Gassy Tube]

I remember at age two, having to come home from the neighbors, but I didn't want to because I was watching Popeye on the TV (we probably didn't have one at the time). I cried and put up quite a fuss.

We were living in a trailer park at the time. It is my only memory of the time, because for the longest time I was convinced we lived in a silver Airstream when we didn't.
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-Cameron