1/3/14
Dear Thelma & Barbara,
Thank you for your most informative book. I’m so proud to have been mentioned three times. Thank you!
This is the 100th year for me since I was born in 1914 and this is an entirely different world today. I remember that when I was a child we could play in the street since there hardly ever was any traffic other than horse and wagon. We were the only household in a building housing 15 apartments that had a phone. When neighbors needed to phone my parents allowed them to use ours. They always left five cents on the library table. We lived in N.Y.C. in upper Manhattan in the Washington Heights district and no one ever locked their door. The subway & street cars cost five cents & the 5th Ave. bus was 10 cents. I could go on with the differences/improvements but we all know them. I’m now compiling my memories which start in 1919. Hopefully you will get a copy – hopefully in 2014.
With best wishes for your continued success and with my LOVE,
Thelma aka giraffe
ElderChicks 
Hey Thelma/Giraffe, I can’t figure out who you’re addressing this beautiful and inspirational mail to. But anyway, I too have lots of memories, no matter that I’m a youngster of 83! I always tell my grandchildren things like when my cousin and I sneaked a ride on an ice wagon, that butter came in tubs, not bars, that we had groceries, butcher shops, bakeries, vegetable stores, candy stores, never knew what supermarkets were, or air conditioning for that matter, that we planted victory gardens in our small backyards, how….. oh I could go on and on and ON with so many wonderful memories. And thank you for sharing yours.
Thank you, Thelma for your article. I can’t wait for your book! Please keep telling us the wonderful stories. Being 83 I remember some of the things you mention, and love being reminded.
Keep well.
Roz Bornfriend
I really enjoy hearing everybody’s memories. One of my friends just asked if I remember the sirens announcing WWII was over. I had to say I was born just a month after Pearl Harbor, so no, I was too young to remember.
Wow, Thelma/Giraffe! What an inspiration you are.