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In this month of Mother’s Day and auto racing’s iconic event, the Indianapolis 500, we’re celebrating both with newsletter items we hope you enjoy: a story and a quiz about mothers along with a collection of photos and a book review involving the Indy. Throw in some spring fashion and you’ve got a fine May bouquet. As always, consider passing our newsletter along to a friend or family member who may occasionally enjoy living in the past. If you’ve received this from someone, go ahead and sign up yourself.
—John Burlingham at Reminisce
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“Yes, I know—you walked five miles to school, barefoot in the snow, and it was uphill…both ways!”
That’s how I sometimes tease a friend whose memories of the Depression are of dark and difficult times. My own recollections of those days are much more upbeat. Why the difference? Thinking about it now, I realize that my mother set the tone of our lives back then.
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For a boy living in Speedway, Indiana, what better thing was there than to have racecar drivers and their wives staying at your house? That was the sweet reality of my early childhood. It had its beginnings in 1939, when my father opened Skid’s Barbershop on Main Street, one block away from the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Barbershops being what they were, friendships were formed and my dad became an insider at the 2½-mile oval.
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Haven’t seen our May issue of Reminisce Extra just yet? You can get a sample of the type of 1950s fashion featured inside with our online slide show of pages from a 1955 Lana Lobell shopping guide shared by Lorine Petty from Placerville, California.
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In an era when families were still wondering if they should convert the horse stable into an automobile garage, the Indianapolis 500 was born in 1911. With flying debris—some thrown by competing drivers—and spitting oil thrown up in their faces, racecar drivers from all walks of life tested their nerves and their machines all over the country at reckless speeds that could make the primitive tracks deadly.
Charles Leerhsen’s book Blood and Smoke: A True Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and the Birth of the Indy 500 (Simon & Schuster, 2011) is a fascinating, fun chronicle of auto racing in its infancy and the colorful drivers who drew fans to the tracks.
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Remember the days when you scrounged for coins and beat your brain for a gift idea with the approach of Mother’s Day? Sometimes all you had for your precious mother was a homemade “I Love You, Mom” card and a little bouquet of wildflowers picked from the field out back. And often those were the gifts that made her tear up the most.
Now that you’re older and hopefully have the kitchen skills to whip up something for Mom or your wife or any special lady in your life, here’s a yummy recipe to try from our friends at Taste of Home. Plus, there’s plenty more ideas here to browse over for a sure-fire hit on Mother’s Day.
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Amusing morsels and bits of wisdom encountered here and there.
Famous men and women in history, despite all their achievements, still had mothers to reckon with if they got out of line. Here are some fictional and funny ways in which those moms might deal with their famous offspring in modern times.
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We’re celebrating Mother’s Day early with a collection of famous mothers. The catch is they’re all fictional. See if you can guess who they are from the clues given. Then click on the Reminisce logo for the answers, but no peeking!
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A Thought to Remember
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling every woman ought to know. — French actress and singer Mistinguett
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