I'm Chia Wald and this is my blog. Here is where I share my thoughts and my art. Sometimes it is good, sometimes it isn't. That's life... and that's me. 
I’ve been window shopping on Memory Lane. OK, so it is actually Ebay, but with so many of my childhood favorites up for auction it feels like memory lane. This plate is a match for one my grandmother owned. Every time we visited she would serve us from it. Usually it was piled up with hamburgers. I loved that plate and I love the warm memories it brings back for me.
Remember when products came with cool and useful items tucked inside. There were dishes in the laundry soap and these wonderful spoons in the cereal. I had a Huckleberry Hound spoon while my sister had a Yogi Bear spoon. We loved our spoons. I still have my Huck but her Yogi has been misplaced.
My mother had a chalkware string holder that looked like this. Kids today don’t even know what a string holder is but back then just about evey mom had one in the kitchen.
I think I was in the 4th grade when I got a toy Noah’s Ark. I wish I’d taken better care of my treasures back then.
This has to be our all time favorite toy. Every year or so we would get a new can of bricks and my sisters and I would spend countless hours building our dream houses. I loved, loved, loved these. The company that made these bricks changed hands a few time and over the years they lost out in popularity to Legos. Given the choice I’d still prefer the American Bricks because the buildings looked so realistic. Well, to a 10 year old they looked realistic.
There was always one of these beat up old metal cars in the toy box too. I’m not sure where it came from or how long we had it but it seems to me that it was always beat up. You would pull the lever on the side and it would roll across the floor.
If I could find my old Donald Duck lamp online I’d be one happy gal. I’ve been looking for a long time but have yet to see one just like the one I had. Another treasure I didn’t take good care of. That poor thing had a burn hole in the shade, missing fingers and countless lines where my dad had glued it back together again. I was always a big Donald fan and this lamp was my prized possession at the time.
It’s been a lot of fun looking for the old goodies on ebay. Every search seems to remind me of other memories, and lead to new searches, so I’ve lost a bit of time this week. It’s all been worth it though, because I am basking in the warmth of good times now. I’ve been sharing these finds in email with my sister and sharing that warmth, which adds it’s own good feeling to the mix.
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11 responses so far ↓
1 Jolene // Jan 9, 2010 at 1:04 am
Thanks for sharing them here… You can send them on to me anytime. I remember the old car too, but not the when or where we might have gotten it. From Santa I guess!!!
2 Jolene // Jan 9, 2010 at 1:10 am
One of my favorites I’d love to see again was a little box of bird pictures, you could send for from Arm & Hammer Soda. They put out a 2nd set a few years later. That was when I was a kid, but I think I let you kids “see” them, and that was sort of the end of them. Do you remember those? Then when you were kids, we could buy cool Bird books with pages longer seft to right than up and down. I think we had a series of about 4 of those. No wonder we all love birds. We started early!
3 CeCe DuPriest // Jan 9, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Chia,
My mother had a serving dish just like the one in your first picture. I am not sure it was or is ( it may still be in a cupboard somewhere in her kitchen ) the exact same color. Did they come in different colors? As I recall, hers is a shade of green.
4 CeCe DuPriest // Jan 9, 2010 at 4:43 pm
I just looked at your color again and yep, I think it is the same. I will be looking for it when over at dad’s and in the valley again!
5 chia // Jan 9, 2010 at 5:21 pm
CeCe, they did come in a variety of colors. Twelve colors I think. I think it would be fun to have a set of the dinner plates in all the colors so that I could mix and match them.
6 Kim Johnson // Jan 9, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Fun trip down memory lane. Jennifer is a big fan of replacing childhood memories on ebay. I just wish I had all of your memories. There’s very little that I remember from my childhood. Probably a protection mechanism!
7 chia // Jan 9, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Kim, I had forgotten most of these items and stories. I saw one thing and then that caused me to remember another, when I found it I also found myself remembering another good thing. You could also just type is something like 60′s toys or vintage kitchen and then thumb through all the pages just to see what looks familiar. Some of our good memories end up hidden with the bad and aren’t gone but just waiting to be found again.
8 Jolene // Jan 9, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Unless I’m mistaken, that green plate of Opal’s was of the earlier Fiesta… In the past year or so they have re-introduced the Fiesta line. Penney’s carries it, and I’m sure other stores do as well. My favorite of her dishes was the turquoise water pitcher with the flat sides. So you could still get a new set with a variety of colors, but the are different colors.
Have you been finding some of the dolls you use to have?
9 chia // Jan 9, 2010 at 10:30 pm
The plate was made by Universal Pottery and is part of their Ballerina line. The color name is Chartreuse.
10 Wendy Gunderson // Jan 11, 2010 at 8:10 am
I’ve been loving these memory lane visits too! Did we have a Tinkerbell spoon?
11 chia // Jan 11, 2010 at 8:28 am
I don’t remember the Tinkerbell spoon if we did.
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