On this day – March 12*
1948 Went to Lakers basketball game.
1949 Sallie and I walked home from school – 5 miles.
1950 Bought Revlon Pink Lightening lipstick.
1952 Date with Jimmy Brown (1 k).
1957 Started Robbie on fruits & vegs. Saw “Full of Life."
1958 Bought junior bed for Robbie. Took him to office.
1959 Mr. Ferrara ill. Saw Globe Const. Co. houses for $13,200 & $14,200. Very nice.
1960 Mixed ½ tblsp. Rice cereal with banana flakes for Janine. She was an angel all day.
1961 Took Sue to ear specialist. Another infection. $6.39 for medicine.
1985 Elizabeth had $3 and check stolen from purse. Cost $10 to stop payment.
1987 Power failure. Left work at noon.
1988 First grass cutting.
1989 Rummel prom for Christina. Went in limousine.
1990 Starting to catch a cold. Stayed home from work.
Disclaimer: The above historic events took place on various dates in March, not necessarily the 12th.
Was George Mikan in the line up for the Lakers that day?
I don't think so. I think he came later.
My only interest at that game was a young man who kept turning around to look at me. I was ignoring him until my mother poked me and said I think he likes you. And then my face turned purple and my night was ruined.
I had on a white Gibson girl blouse which just came into fashion and a navy blue skirt and for once looked fairly stylish, for an 8th grader.
Who do you think babysat for you to go see "Full of Life"?
Grandma Ferrara was our babysitter. Robbie was just a few weeks old and I think she held him the whole time. Did you ever see that movie? If it ever comes on, watch it because it was very good, very funny. Daddy especially loved it because
it was about an Italian father and son relationship.
Rob -- Thanks. I fought that last night for at least an hour until finally the computer said give it up and get on to bed. And then, this morning, when I went back to it, it gave me the same "error, get out of here" message. I guessed that you might have just left the site and it didn't want to be fiddled with by me again. All I was trying to do was correct a misspelled word and delete a double entry, and now that I have learned how to do that, I figured it would go quite simply. Wrong. So anyhow, thank you again.
Re: George Miken. I looked him up on the internet and learned that he was MVP for the 48-49 season of the Minneapolis Lakers. So that should tell you how much I watched the game, or what I knew about basketball!
Mom - I'll have to watch for "Full of Life". I'm Judy Holliday fan. In a comment on IMDB.com someone mentions that the film was made in 1956 but withheld from distribution by the Production Code Office because it showed a woman who was pregnant. Or should I say, "in a family way"?
I believe p.g.. was the correct term. Or "expecting" was also considered
appropriate. I'm not so sure, but I might still use that one. I'll have to
think about it. Can't remember just now. Let me know how you like it if
you get to see it. I watched a 1956 movie last night with John Wayne called
"The Searchers." It was very long and somewhat foolish and made me very
anxious about how they talked about and treated the Indians. They were
certainly not politically correct in word or deed! Actually it was quite
terrible and I thought that was modern times, somewhat.
The first time I heard the term "p.g." was when it was used by a high school teacher who then had to explain what it stood for. In a classroom of 30 freshman, none had ever heard that term used for pregnancy.
Look at all the things PG is an acronym for:
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/pregnant