Remembering

the Good Old Days

by: Lee Denney

I don’t live there anymore. I have lived here in New Castle (Indiana) 57 years, most of my life.

When I was a kid in the country, in the Cabin City area, I think back in the winter when my mother made snow cream. I never went to town to get ice cream. So we made our own, which was called snow cream. And I never ate a hamburger until I moved to town.

I remember when my mom and dad would go to town to buy new shoes for my brother Jim and I. She would measure our feet, cut a piece of card board and they would always fit. I never tried on a new pair of shoes as a child–and at Christmas we would get only one toy, which we were proud of.

My brother Jim and I had only one bike between us, a used one at that. My dad paid $8 for it. But I look back and think it was the good old days.

If anyone would like to get in touch with me, such as some of the kids back then that I used to go to school with, write to: Lee Denney, 210 Glenwood Dr., New Castle, IN 47362 or call me at 765-529-6018.

Lee Denney

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