Quote Originally Posted by catherine View Post
I think it's pretty neat, too, Mrs-M!

A few excerpts from my diary:

2/14/65: I went the shopping center and got 5 records and a magazine. I want to get a Granny dress. All the girls in England wear them. All the styles are going back to "granny's" age. No more high, teased hair. We now have long straight hair, with maybe a little curl at that ends and bangs. I'm still waiting for mine to get long. No more spiked heels and pointed toes. Now it is stacked heels about 1 to 1-1/2 inches and rounded toes, "granny" style.

1/17/65: Yesterday I went with Dad to see "That Darn Cat" with Hayley Mills & Dean Jones. It was hilarious!

2/1/66: "We Can Work It Out" has been No. 1 for six weeks! Isn't that fab?

2/10/66: Phooey! We Can Work It Out never made it to seven weeks. Rats!

2/11/66: Today in school, Sallie was putting the nurse's chart in the office when Jimmy walked up to her and said, "Wait! I have to write down somebody's phone no. first." He looked up MY number! The only trouble is, he wrote down my old number, TR4-7133.

3/27/66: My birthday came last night and I had a blast! I got $27 and apple seed beads, two records, a china doll that sings "I Could Have Danced All Night" Ben Franklin glasses, and a granny gown.

4/30/66: On Thursday went to the Post. Got "The Sonny Side of Cher" LP at Sabres. Good day. On Saturday, I went to N.Y. City. We climbed the Empire State Building. It was wicked!

6/14/66: For our class trip we were told we'd be going to Palisades Amusement Park. Of course, that "amused" everybody because Palisades is ONLY the biggest and greatest amusement park in the country!

Fun reliving those times--and that neat-o, wicked language we used!
Catherine, that is so neat (get the language LOL!) that you posted from your diary inserts - could have been mine in most places. I have diaries and journals going back to 1965. I may steal this idea and start a thread for people to post to from their old diaries, for those that have them. Maybe we could pick one day, say June 15, 1968 and have everyone post, (what they want to share only of course), what was going on in their lives that day. Or maybe we should make it a choice of 5 dates randomly scattered because not everyone would have entries on the same day due to age, not consistently making entries etc. What do you think?