Grandma and Momma
|26.Jan.2007This is Grandma and Momma on the couch in Grandma’s apartment above the Barber Shop. They watch a lot of “Days of our Lives”. When they aren’t watching soaps, Grandma is busy bailing momma out of jail. She struggles with stealing.
The only reason I knew about soaps at that age was because my great grandfather watched DOOL (no joke) and I would watch it with him (along with the show Dance Fever – he really liked that one) when my cousin and I stayed with them for a week in the summer. My great grandfather was about 80 at the time. My momma? She wasn’t a klepto, nor did she watch soaps. Cross my heart.
And this is why Fisher Price Little People live on – at least in our house.
I’ve provided commentary on my Fisher Price sets. Take a trip down memory lane with me, will ya?
23 Comments
some girl
I grew up watching DOOL and still watch it to this day. And I had all of these toys! Great pics, great post!
Did you have the FP milk bottle set? My fav was the brown one..chocolate milk.. :)
OMSH
I did! I did! I had the phone and the chocolate milk. Didn’t they have orange juice too? I remember an OJ bottle.
Angie
When I was young my babysitter was often the mother of my mom’s best friend from high school. Did that make sense?
The only thing I remember about going to her house is how she had to watch her “stories”. I still remember Luke & Laura from General Hospital.
OMSH
I didn’t watch General Hospital, but whenever i see the name LUKE, I think of Luke Duke from The Duke’s of Hazzard and every memory of racing around on a go-cart and saying, “I’m Daisy! I’m Daisy!” crowds into my head.
And I smile.
Like, really big.
Like, totally.
kerflop
Yours are in SUCH BETTER SHAPE than mine are. Between my grandmother and me we have almost all the same ones you do. I have the train though and my boys took it in the tub and now the paper is peeling. Boo hoo.
I love these. Love them all. FANTASTIC photos too.
kerflop
OMGOSH why did my trackback include all the most recent sideblog entries? That is bizarre.
OMSH
HA! I’ll edit it – but yes, it did.
We have a few broken parts – the crumbling side wall on the right side of the city – but for the most part it survived.
Plus, I was an only child and have been anal retentive since the day I arrived.
I would DRY THEM OFF (the wooden people) when I got out of the tub. I spent hours in the tub with the boat and people until I discovered Barbies.
Tina
That was way too much fun! Thanks for sharing. Sadly, my mom sold our cooler FP stuff when I was in High School (we had the house and a Sesame Street play set that are gone…yet still have the zoo and Western set.) Some how the new ones aren’t quite as cool.
Nancy
Thank you for this post and the amazing pictures. What memories! I used to take out all our Fisher Price toys at once and line up all the people. My mom still has some of the sets at her house — now I’m fighting the urge to drive 6 hours to play with them. ;-)
elizaboothy
I visited your blog after seeing your amazing little people photos on flickr. My daughter (age 2) loves the little people too — we still have the Sesame Street playhouse and the Village from the ’70s and my heart swells whenever she plays with them. We have some new little people too, but they just don’t cut it. They carry cell phones? What’s that all about?
Jenna
Wow. My Grandmother still has the house and garage at her house for the kiddos. My MIL has this strange saloon at hers for Nicholas. I had forgotten about the mean-looking boy with the red/orange cap and freckles.
Thank you for the nostalgia. (Clicked over from Kerflop!)
another heather
I *think* we had the airplane, but not enough people to fill it. My in-laws still have the bus and it is my son’s favorite toy to play with when we visit.
I posted a picture in flickr with a link back here for you.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awindow4me/370361184/
chris
Oh my goodness. I have all those same Little People and I was an anal retentive only child as well, so they are all perfect. And as ashamed as this makes me to admit it, I rarely, almost never, let my children play with them because they aren’t as anal as I was.
Lanna
Oh how I loved my old FP stuff… Thought it was gone forever to one of my dad’s freakish episodes of clearing out things-that-were-not-his only to discover my mom had hidden them somewhere he didn’t know about. :) My 3yo adores them. And is it just me or do the new FP people kinda suck compared to the old-school ones?
Jill - GlossyVeneer
I love your Flickr set. I had the barn, but I always looked forward to visiting my grandmother because she had the garage with the elevator. I can’t believe your collection, it’s amazing!
OMSH
Tina – I’m going to have to be careful not to be the mom that sells the important stuff. My mom was very clever to know what to keep and I have several childhood memories wrapped up in those FP toys!
Nancy – I would take all mine out and line them up too, but that was because my friend (or my cousin) and I would say, “Okay, you can have the smooth faced momma today, but then you have to take the short boy with the broken cap and I get the cowboy and the horse.” It was all about divvying.
elizaboothy and lanna – cell phones? See, I knew there was a reason didn’t “go” there yet. Yes, the new FP people, in a word, suck. They remind me of Weeble Wobbles – so clunky.
another heather – I am sooo laughing at your son diggin’ up your mother’s yard to put in his FP bus. Bwahahaha
chris – you must RELEASE … let the children PLAY … let them PLAY!
It has been so fun everyone! Oh, and thanks for visiting (for the newbies here) b/c I worked my tail end off to hold off my boy long enough to get these pics and sharing it all with y’all has been well worth the memories!
whimsy
I am SO jealous! The Sesame Street set was my favorite. I loved Mr. Hooper!
I clearly remember being a flower girl in a wedding when I was 4-5. They promised me a LP set. But they gave me a weeble wobble instead! OH the disappointment (that of course I did not show)
kerflop
Eee! My best friend had the Sesame club house, oh how I loved the trap door in the roof.
OMSH
Now now, be nice – Weebles Wobble but they don’t fall down. I had the Weeble Wobble bus … wasn’t there a bus? I’m remembering a bus.
Mom2Six
My children still play with those old Fisher Price Little People at Grandma’s house. My mother-in-law kept them from when my husband was a child. I never had them, but played with them at MY Grandmother’s house (and a few cousins’ homes, too)!
OMSH
Memory lane is starting to make me feel old. My mother said, “How does it feel to see your childhood toys in a Vintage Toy Pool at flickr?”
Um … I hadn’t really considered it – yet, THANKS MOM!
heh heh
Big Mama
Looking at those just brought back so many memories. I am envious!
Also, from the time I was in third grade, true love for me was the love between Bo and Hope.