Monday, September 24, 2007

Day with Grandma

Kali, April and Louka (and Tammy) had a great day visiting Grandma Linda on Sunday, Sept. 9. Olivia, Lindsey, Grace and Jon came over too, and we all had a great time, with the boys rough-housing and the girls talking about school and stuff. We all went for a walk for ice cream, but the shoppe was closed, so we all got treats at the gas station. Several kids had dibs (ice cream bits coated with chocolate), Kali had capacchino, Louka had popcorn.

Dennisons, do any of you remember the "Wee Store" I think it was called, on the corner of Main and Madison? Tammy remembers her aunties walking her down there for a cold glass bottle of flavored soda (grape, etc.). Tammy kept a collection of bottle caps for a long time, but threw them out as a young adult (what a shame).

Other snacks Tammy recalls her aunties and Grandma Anna Dennison giving her were saltine crackers (always), bananas and Oreos and white bread with sugar sprinkled on it. White bread with sugar sprinkled on it? Yuck. But as I recall the Dennison girls loved it. At Grandpa Harry Dennison's house, he used to make frosting out of confectioners sugar and water and spread it on graham crackers for a treat. What other foods/treats did you eat as kids that we wouldn't consider eating now? Louie recalls eating potatoes right out of his garden and eating lard sandwiches for lunch. Double yuck! My, how "treats" and our eating habits have changed.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tammy, do you remember when Aunt Alice took you to the A&W Root Beer stand. She was working there, and one day when she wasn't working she took you there. You wroter her a note on the order pad that said, "Aunt Alice thank you for taking me to the Root Beer Stand." I still have that note. It was pretty cute!

Anonymous said...

I wish I could remember that. I also worked at the A&W Rootbeer Stand on East Main Street in Evansville (Wisconsin Gas/WE Energies located there after they closed and then it became the Evansville Police Station) as a teenager. Sharon (Schnabel) Redders was the manager.
I do remember going to the Dog Wagon and getting donut holes (what a novelty that was then) and silver dollar pancakes (another novelty, especially since silver dollars were really a hit then) and chocolate milk and writing notes to someone on the waitress' pad of paper. I'm sure it was one of my aunts, but don't remember who.