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Fun Stories

Old Swimming Hole

Dad Didn't Drive

Our First TV

Fifties Teenage Hangout

Momma's Kitchen

Christmas at Yosemite

Air Raid Sirens

One Room Schoolhouse

Dressed to Kill

American Scandals


Remember the Special Times and Share with Family and Friends Names and Aliases or Our Great Story Tellers and Their Tales Work Stories, to Holiday Events, to Our Gang, to Home Towns, to Bloopers...All the Good Times are Here Senior Book Reviews and Recommendations by other Senior Bookworms Trip Reports by Seniors, for Seniors Who Have Been There From Getting a Job to Learning a Trade Lemonade, Swimming Hole, Penny Candy, Clubhouse, Our Gang True Stories and Tall Tales Around the Old Pot Belly Stove and Oak Table Roller Skates, Model T, Rumble Seat, Crank to Start, and more Mud Pies, Party Line, John Deere, Grandpa and Grandma, The Old Farm, and more

Readers' Stories

Our mission at BackWhen is to keep the great memories of our youth alive, stir old memories you thought were forgotten and pass the word that the Good Old Days really were the Best Days of Our Lives.
Our readers are sharing hundreds of their stories, of those days BackWhen we were kids, growing up, in high school and at work. They are the stories of family, love, fun, goof-ups and successes. They are short word pictures of the “little things” that make a lifetime. You may call them nostalgia, memory lane, personal journals or notes from the past, but one thing is for sure: these stories paint a picture of what your life BackWhen was all about. For example, one of the 20 categories of memories is about Momma’s Kitchen. The stories bring back the smells of home made pies, stews and bread. The great black stoves and brass faucets we cleaned and the old linoleum floors we washed. But most is about Momma making life great without all of the modern conveniences and usually with little to spend


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Then we have Kid’s Stuff that readers recall. It brings back memories of cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, baseball cards, tape covered baseballs, the play yard at school and the old swimming hole. No memories can match those days. Another is Getting Around, where readers share stories of fat tired bicycles, skateboards, scooters, soapboxes, rumble seats, getting a drivers license and their first cars. Those are really personal memories. We also have a category about Travel Memories, where readers send in stories of things that happened on trips over less than perfect roads, to places that were not so overly safe as today, and maybe stayed at fun places that today’s travelers would consider too rugged. Can you recall your worst trip ever?? Getting lost?
Another category is It Happened at Work, where many of us spent a good part of our lives. The stories cover strange bosses, weird rules, lucky events, and disappointments. It covers working when it was fashionable to work and is a fun trip down the nostalgia trail. You have probably said, “It was a good company when I worked there.” Others say the same.
There are many other categories, as well. Books I Recall reminds us of great old books from Ferdinand to The Bobbsey Twins. High School Daze is rich with the events of a time which we thought was the high point of our lives! The same is true of My Old Gang, Uncle Sam Wants You and Holiday Stories and many more. Each is a small story that was a page in someone’s life, and each will recreate a memory just for you.

Please enjoy these memories and share a few of your personal pages with our readers so they recall their story as well. We also suggest our Your Life Story Tools where you can capture your personal life stories and save them for future generations. I think it is safe to say that our personal Good Old Days will never happen again. Capture them now for the ages.

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