Innovative Entertainment

Lynn was a "Tomboy"and liked to play cowboys and Indians with our neighbors, Rocky and Michael. She made a horse out of socks and a stick and used a rope for the bridal. I am pretty sure she had a western gun and holster and wore a cowboy hat.

Michele and I liked to play with paper dolls. We acquired some of these from a babysitter; made others from the Sears and Spiegel catalogs. Grandma would save the "Betsy McCall" paper dolls from the McCall's magazine. When we visited her on Sundays, she would give them to us.
Grandma had twelve children and that meant a lot of grandchildren. She had to divide up the paper dolls between her granddaughters; I am sure that my cousin Ruthie also got some of the paper dolls.

One of my favorite past times, was playing "office" in our basement. Little did I know then that my career choice would afford me the opportunity to play "office" for a very long time. Daddy's old carbon paper was fascinating to play with; also very dirty. We would play for hours and be very entertained.

Lynn invented the skateboard. Take a book and put a roller skate under it and you have a toy that had not been invented yet. However, you must sit; standing could result in disaster.

Glamorous movie star pictures were in all the magazines. I had to wait for mother to finish reading the magazine and then I would attack it with my scissors. Collecting the pictures of the movie stars and putting them in an album was fun; Lynn would sometimes help me paste them in. Just as the boys would trade baseball cards; the girls would trade movie star pictures. The lid of Dixie cup ice cream had pictures of stars and that was another way of collecting them to put into your album. The best way to get pictures was the Movie Star magazines; that was not always an option for me. I wish I had saved that ablum; it would be fun to look at it today.

Mother would give us a bar of Ivory soap and an empty thread spool to make our own way of blowing soap bubbles. It worked very well and was another inexpensive way of having hours of fun.

I never remember being bored.