Memory Lane

Welcome to Memory Lane!

Obviously, Memory Lane is going to be much more heavily focused on nostalgia than anything else on this blog, and really quite personal. Not just specifically personal to me, but to my siblings too.

We didn’t have a lot growing up. We weren’t wealthy. Our parents worked hard and did their best to provide for us and on the whole, they succeeded. We were never hungry, never neglected. There were family holidays and gifts under the tree at Christmas. But, speaking personally, I always had the feeling as a child that everyone I knew had more. Not a true perception, I know this, but it was how I felt.

One thing we did have in our home was a video recorder and lots and lots and lots of tapes. We had – still have – a father whose greatest love in movies was the biggest pile of old crap he could rent from the man in the video van. Watching movies on video was something we did as a family activity, and usually those movies would have been taped off the telly.

Come Saturday morning, one of my sisters, or both, would pick a tape, shove it in the slot and settle in for a peaceful hour or two of whatever we had. Sundays, too. Evenings as well, but then me or my brother would pick. I asked them to help me reconstitute a list of what we watched together, and it comes to forty-nine movies.

It's time to revisit them...