Interior Decorating
JEHP
ago,she nicknamed her "Lady Spearhead" ( my Dad was in the 3rd Arm. Div. at
the time), anybody else have similar items?
Jonathan
--
JEHP
"We don't have a King.We're an autonomous collective...ooww...oow..look look
he's oppressin' me!"
IndigoKat
writes:
>My Mom has a small marble staute she picked up in Germany many moons
>ago,she nicknamed her "Lady Spearhead" ( my Dad was in the 3rd Arm. Div. at
>the time), anybody else have similar items?
>Jonathan
hmmmmm you mean stuff like camel saddles and hassocks from Morocco, alabaster
grapes from Italy, zebra skin drum and elephant hide shield from Ethiopia,
wooden shoes from Holland, nutcrackers, cuckoo clocks, incense burners, beer
steins etc from Germany, a Peugeot from France :), a Volvo from Sweden :), a
wood troll figure from Norway, a Flamenco dancer doll from Spain(she wouldnt
let me get the bull fighters sword! :), crystal chandelier from Czechslovakia,
bunches of dried hanging red peppers from Hungary........can't think of
anything more right now but this got me thinking about something I really
miss........the Bazarres that were held in the big hangers with stuff from
around the world. The Ramstein Christmas Bazarre was the best x-mas shopping
around. Loved em.
Heidi
"There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically
impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being
touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny." Eric Allman, developer of
Sendmail
Chad
doll has long since vanished, but I am pretty sure Nancy still has
hers.......
The cuckoo clock is in its place of honor on the hall wall, but doesn't
run......for a surprise one Christmas my husband had it repaired at a cost
of more than double the purchase price (I've had it since I was nine) then
my niece came by for a visit and yanked the weights- once again it doesn't
work. We will wait till all the nieces and nephews are older before
investing in another repair.....
I never could get the hang of the castanets from Spain..any instructors out
there?
But I could sure use a nice crystal chandelier and dont think I'll make it
to Europe soon....the ones Ive' seen stateside just don't have the charm of
Mom's......Heidi, do you need yours.....?
Mari Kay
Diane Davis
Spain, the coffee table topped by marble from Italy? Toby mugs from the Torrejon
B.X. of Sancho Panza and Don Quixote...embroidered linen from Spain.
Diane
ma...@mail.sasquatch.com
>
>
> hmmmmm you mean stuff like camel saddles and hassocks from Morocco, alabaster
> grapes from Italy, zebra skin drum and elephant hide shield from Ethiopia,
> wooden shoes from Holland, nutcrackers, cuckoo clocks, incense burners, beer
> steins etc from Germany, a Peugeot from France :), a Volvo from Sweden :), a
> wood troll figure from Norway, a Flamenco dancer doll from Spain(she wouldnt
> let me get the bull fighters sword! :), crystal chandelier from Czechslovakia,
> bunches of dried hanging red peppers from Hungary........can't think of
> anything more right now but this got me thinking about something I really
> miss........the Bazarres that were held in the big hangers with stuff from
> around the world. The Ramstein Christmas Bazarre was the best x-mas shopping
> around. Loved em.
>
> Heidi
>
> "There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically
> impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being
> touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny." Eric Allman, developer of
> Sendmail
>
For several years, I ran a junk-tique shop in a little town called Salado,
Texas. It was just a few miles from an army town where I hit about 50 garage
sales a week. I stocked the shop almost exclusively from those sales.
Military people have the best garage sales in the entire world. The most
amazing mix of lederhosen and rosewood tables, Mettlach plates and Hummel
figurines, Czech crystal and Dresden china. All mixed together with
incredibly garish ticky-tacky from every corner of the world. And the funny
thing is that the civvies just ate it up. I never could keep enough beer
steins in stock.
Dan
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GGordon1
Eritrea, the Brass plates from Okinawa and Egypt, the porcupine quill box from
Ethiopia the picture of the Emperor of Ethiopia leaving your quarters on base
after a tour of the "new" quarters. Then there is the high school football
letter (big "A" for Asmara) with AFRICA written on it. As well as all the
Hummels also and I to have a camel saddle. All this along with a million
things that are still packed away.
gary g.
Lwbroomrdr
scorpian tapes (before they hit big here) that were stolen, now i have several
pictures and an autograph album that is fading, but i have some wonderful
memories. Does anyone remember some little submarines that you could put
baking soda in and they floated and moved in the bath tub? We had some in ulm
around 70.
Now my dad has a beautiful grandfather clock, and another clock that hangs on
the wall, Some wonderful plates (wood) and 5 boxes of slides and pictures from
all over germany, britain, and france. I think a few from Rome. He also had a
full bedroom set, that he is giving to me, we have the wardrobe(which has been
turned into a tv cabinet) and the beds. Hes having a problem letting me have
the marble topped dresser and night stands :)
ma...@mail.sasquatch.com
Or the cinnabar plates, the statues of Hoti, the lamps made from brass shell
casings, and the dozen Seiko watches they sent us whenever they were in Korea.
By the way, I noticed a few days back that you had been a Brat in South
Africa and you mentioned your mom hauling you out of there when you were a
baby. I'll bet there's a hell of a story there. Wish you'd share it with us
sometime.
Dan
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GGordon1
I was the oldest of 4 boys and a teen at the time of the trip back from Africa
(East Africa, Kagnew Station, Asmara, Eritrea) The youngest was by then just
out of that learning to talk well / walking stage. When we went to Okinawa I
was the infant and on the way to France I was a 3rd or 4th grader. When we
went to France we flew (prop) the Northern route and my mother had three of us
by herself at that time. I remember only one thing from that trip and that was
landing in Greenland, I think, for a refulling stop and getting caught for a
day as a storm raged outside. The snow was drifting as high as the roof of the
bldg. we were in. I can just wonder what was going my mothers mind. As for
the trip to Oki. My mother was leaving her home town for the first time in her
life, at 19 years old by herself with two infants heading to a country that
untill a few short weeks before she had never heard of. She made the trip and
we all lived thru it.
gary g
IndigoKat
writes:
>the coffee table topped by marble from Italy?
I almost forgot my parents moved four times with two slabs of marble
packed in wooden crates which they bought at some quarry in Italy for next to
nothing. Almost twenty years later my mom finally had some German fellow make
endtables to put the marble on. They are beautiful. Anyone every get to
Hamlin in Germany(of Pied Piper fame) and see the pagent there and get the rat
made out of brotchen? Or get a prune figure from the Nurnberg Kristkindel
Mart?
<, lwbro...@aol.com (Lwbroomrdr) writes:
>I once had a huge collection of smurfs that got lost in a move
My mom just sent me a box of stuff she has had since I was in high school and
in it were 20+ Schlumpfe. I still hate the word Smurf....gag.
>Does anyone remember some little submarines that you could put
>baking soda in and they floated and moved in the bath tub? We had some in ulm
>around 70.
Yes I had a yellow one but my grandmother in CA gave it to me.
Lwbroomrdr
i could kiss you heidi, everyone here thought i was going crazy. but i swore
they made them, i just couldnt remember if it was in ulm or right after in ms,
that my sister and i had them. just like the "freak brothers" comics everyone
said they had never seen them but i knew i had seen one at one time. I finally
found a company on the internet that sales them. sigh those little things you
remember huh?
IndigoKat
lwbro...@aol.com (Lwbroomrdr) writes:
>i could kiss you heidi, everyone here thought i was going crazy. but i swore
>they made them, i just couldnt remember if it was in ulm or right after in
>ms,
>that my sister and i had them.
yep I remember it well. It had a round little area where you compacted baking
soda into. It didnt go racing around the tub, just kinda bobbed up and then
back down. I was expecting more speed!
SAMike
from North Africa and machetes in tassled leather holders and molas from
Panama. My mother also collected plates from every state that we passed
through. Those were used for holiday dinners. And then there are the
tiny
little engraved silver spoons from every place we lived. I want to save
them
all - but I have no place to put them. I'm a big enough packrat as it is.
Sigh.
Michael Pruitt Gmelin
AF Brat '43-'67
Karl L. Sandwell-Weiss
My gosh, I'd forgotten all about those. I think I got mine in a cereal
box while we were stationed in Libya. It was red, as I recall. My
brother got a green one. We played with them in the kitchen sink.
Karl Sandwell-Weiss
Katie Mann
SAMike <mgm...@bestweb.net> wrote:
>through. Those were used for holiday dinners. And then there are the
>tiny
>little engraved silver spoons from every place we lived. I want to save
>them
>all - but I have no place to put them. I'm a big enough packrat as it is.
>Sigh.
>
>Michael Pruitt Gmelin
>AF Brat '43-'67
Hi Michael.
I collect spoons also. I just wanted to say, that if you don't have
somebody to pass the spoons on to, and were contemplating selling, you
might contact a fellow made Chris Mc... argh, I forget, but his email is
mcs...@aol.com, and he has a homepage on aol at
http://www.aol.com/members/mcspoon or something to that extent. There is
a link on my homepage about spoons which is
http://www.clark.net/kmann/spoon.html (or spoons.html). Looking at your
dates, I imagine there are some nicer spoons in your Mom's collection than
what is commonly manufactured these days. Chris has a spoon auction he
runs, and sells also, and could probably give you advise as to worth and
the like. (Disclaimer: I don't know Chris, he emailed me after seeing my
webpage, and I'm not endorsing him or making money off passing this
information on or something of the sort... it's just a suggestion).
Did you or other members of your family collect something? On our first
cross country trip, when I was in the third grade and my sister in first,
my parents decided we should choose something to be our souvenier wherever
we went. The idea being we should get something lasting instead of some
peice of junk that would be lost or thrown out at the end of the car trip
(which isn't to say we didn't get some of that also ;) ). Anyways, I
picked spoons because a friend of mine had some, and my sister picked
postcards. It made trips into the gift shop shorter, and put more
emphasis on visiting, I think. Having worked in a tourist place and
watched people shop, it makes me glad my parents had us pick a collection.
I also just like having them.
Katie
actively a brat in the 80's.
Chad
IndigoKat wrote in message
<199808200243...@ladder03.news.aol.com>...
Or get a prune figure from the Nurnberg Kristkindel
>Mart?
Prune figures? I don't recall those!!!! But we loved buying the miniature
wine goblets there...perfect for Barbie. I sure we I still had some of
them. And we always bought the marzipan pigs with a pfennig in mouth (for
luck?) Was that a New Years item? I don't remember!
Chad
Lwbroomrdr wrote in message
<199808191839...@ladder01.news.aol.com>...
>
>Now my dad has a beautiful grandfather clock, and another clock that hangs
on
>the wall
My folks collected a grandfather clock, a wall clock and a mantel clock from
various stays in Germany. Unfortunately there are 5 kids, and when they
asked who wanted what when the times comes, I got left out :( Therefore
I keep telling my husband we NEED to buy a grandfather clock......
Mari Kay
tee...@my-dejanews.com
My mom collected more teak wood furniture and accessories than anyone (other
than a brat) can imagine. She had a dining room table and chairs for 12
people, a china hutch, a lazy susan, those HUGE spoons and forks that hang on
the wall, a gargantuan punch bowl (came in handy for those pinochle parties),
memo boards, book shelves, salad sets...etc. Once a year, she'd buy a gallon
of linseed oil and start polishing.
I wonder where all that stuff is now that Mom and Dad's only house is a 32
foot long travel trailer that weighs less than all that teak wood did.
Regards,
Tee
http://www.Yosemite/Trails/8252
Diane Davis
You mean youdidn't get them?
I had the tables, including the marble topped coffee table for years, but gave
them to my daughter and son-in-law. The Army moves them, now.
As for the Seiko watches - Dad sent one back to me when he was in V.N. - it was
the first watch that worked on me. The wind up ones would stop - electric
personality, I guess.
I forgot a couple of items my parents brought back from Spain - brass bed warmers
(I still have one), and a huge oil painting - a sea scape - done by some Spanish
artist who was supposed to be in the "who's who" of artists. We still have that,
too.
Diane
Lwbroomrdr
dad said no when he bought them he knew one day who they would goto he was
waiting for me to settle down, get married, etc. Well hes still waiting...
..... :)
Carol Harper
> My Mom has a small marble staute she picked up in Germany many moons
> ago,she nicknamed her "Lady Spearhead" ( my Dad was in the 3rd Arm. Div. at
> the time), anybody else have similar items?
> Jonathan
>
>
>
> --
> JEHP
> "We don't have a King.We're an autonomous collective...ooww...oow..look look
> he's oppressin' me!"
Johathan,
Oh, Lordy! The "Collections." Let's see, when we were in Germany my
mother collected Meisen figurines and bolts of heavy brocade cloth. Many
years later, the brocade was used to re-upholster furniture, make drapes,
and sew clothes. I had a full length ball gown made from some of it.
Years later, when I saw the "Sound of Music"--and all those children
running around in the re-made curtains--I nearly had a stroke laughing.
We had the rosewood furniture, the urns, the wood carvings, etc. after my
father's tours in Thailand and Vietnam. And more brocade in case my
mother ran out of the German and French stuff.
We also had a small marble statue of "Diana," that was used as a door
stop. Later, my daughter used to dress her in doll clothes because "the
Lady is cold." When my mother decided to have everything appraised for
insurance coverage, the appraiser arrived to find the Lady dressed in a
pink plastic necklace with a pink knit baby hat on her head. He checked
her out and informed us that she was Greek, circa 800 B.C., sculpted as a
model for larger statues--and priceless.
Thanks for the memories!
Carol
Just Me
Karl L. Sandwell-Weiss wrote:
I vaugly recall having them in Turkey, but not having any baking soda to
work them
Kevin
Frank Shelton
sign of the zodiac on it. The name was something like "bully boch" beer, and
I'm sure the spelling is off. I still have a few of the things somewhere,
and they were a big item with all the military brats at Rhein Main in 1954
and 1955, and we used to play a game where you threw them towards a wall
about 10 feet away and the person who came closest to the wall got both of
them A leaner was a real winner. I wasn't very good at it, that's why I only
have a few of them. Ha! Can anybody help with more info like the proper
spelling of the brand name?
Cheers,
Frank
ma...@mail.sasquatch.com
Thanks. I was curious. That must have been very interesting to be a
teenager in East Africa. Was it pretty much of stay-on-the-base assignment
or did you get to go out and do some wandering? I had forgotten about
Greenland. We got to put down there in . . .um . . . 55, I guess, on our way
to Germany. One of the props stopped. Another adventure in moving. Thanks
again,
Dan
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baile...@my-dejanews.com
little closer attention to these collectibles we've lived with (and taken for
granted) all our lives. My mom did the Hummel thing, paying between $6-$25
for each of them. She has dozens. Recently I used the internet to try and
determine their value and found out that the collection is worth nearly
$10,000 at current market rates!!! I'm trying to get her to get an insurance
rider for them. Her original total investment couldn't have been more than
$500-600.
Susan
USN Brat
Chad
Frank Shelton wrote in message ...
>I recall a brand of German beer that had a square plastic tag on it with a
>sign of the zodiac on it.
Can't help with that, but it brought back memories of some beverage my Dad
bought in Germany that had a plastic tag shaped like a black cat on it. My
little sister and I always fought over those black cats. But I don't know
what it was that he bought, other than it was SOMETHING alcoholic so we
never tasted it. Any one know what that was???
Mari Kay
Chad
Lwbroomrdr wrote in message
<199808201835...@ladder01.news.aol.com>...
Hmmmm, you wanna ready made settle down, get married, etc,...? I want a
grandfather clock from Germany...........
Mari Kay
ma...@mail.sasquatch.com
"Chad" <ceve...@gte.net> wrote:
>
>
> Can't help with that, but it brought back memories of some beverage my Dad
> bought in Germany that had a plastic tag shaped like a black cat on it. My
> little sister and I always fought over those black cats. But I don't know
> what it was that he bought, other than it was SOMETHING alcoholic so we
> never tasted it. Any one know what that was???
>
> Mari Kay
>
There's a brand of wine called SwartzKatz, with a halloweeny looking black cat
on it.
Dan
Sara
price/quality range.
Sara
Chad wrote:
>
> Frank Shelton wrote in message ...
> >I recall a brand of German beer that had a square plastic tag on it with a
> >sign of the zodiac on it.
>
Lwbroomrdr
now, but i have a freind whos mother still lives in ulm, maybe i could set you
two up, actually you got me to thinking a few weeks ago i was in an antique
store, they had several german clocks, decent price too.
Charlie Andrews
Ceve...@gte.net, inquired:
C(>Frank Shelton wrote in message ...
C(>>I recall a brand of German beer that had a square plastic tag on it with a
C(>>sign of the zodiac on it.
C(>
C(>Can't help with that, but it brought back memories of some beverage my Dad
C(>bought in Germany that had a plastic tag shaped like a black cat on it. My
C(>little sister and I always fought over those black cats. But I don't know
C(>what it was that he bought, other than it was SOMETHING alcoholic so we
C(>never tasted it. Any one know what that was???
C(>
C(>Mari Kay
C(>
C(>
I would suspect it was Zellerswartzkatz, a Rhine wine. But I
have never seen any with a plastic tag, as you describe.
Charlie Army Brat 1939-1957
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American name Black Tower?
In article <35DDB970...@isrv.com>,
Sara <sa...@isrv.com> wrote:
> Fairly cheap Moselle white wine. Dryer than Blue Nun, but same
> price/quality range.
>
> Sara
>
> Chad wrote:
> >
> > Frank Shelton wrote in message ...
> > >I recall a brand of German beer that had a square plastic tag on it with a
> > >sign of the zodiac on it.
> >
> > Can't help with that, but it brought back memories of some beverage my Dad
> > bought in Germany that had a plastic tag shaped like a black cat on it. My
> > little sister and I always fought over those black cats. But I don't know
> > what it was that he bought, other than it was SOMETHING alcoholic so we
> > never tasted it. Any one know what that was???
> >
> > Mari Kay
Chad
Lwbroomrdr wrote in message
<199808211845...@ladder01.news.aol.com>...
Well I already have a pretty great husband so it'd have to be a REALLY great
clock I guess........
Chad
Ah, thanks all.....now I know Dad drank cheap white wine........ :)
As far as the cat, this was in the mid 70's so maybe the plastic cat was a
newer innovation.....
Diane Davis
much as a Hummel, but still up there, I believe.
Diane
baile...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> This is probably true of all family heirlooms, but we might want to pay a
> little closer attention to these collectibles we've lived with (and taken for
> granted) all our lives. My mom did the Hummel thing, paying between $6-$25
> for each of them. She has dozens. Recently I used the internet to try and
> determine their value and found out that the collection is worth nearly
> $10,000 at current market rates!!! I'm trying to get her to get an insurance
> rider for them. Her original total investment couldn't have been more than
> $500-600.
>
> Susan
> USN Brat
>
Frank Shelton
I'm still looking. How come the others got the info right away and I get
nothing. Ha! I was sure I'd get the info right way. Oh well, Maybe it was a
Rhein Main thing.
Cheers,
Frank
TSTONE856
>From: "JEHP" <jonat...@email.msn.com>
>Date: 8/19/98 12:14 AM Central Daylight Time
>Message-id: <OdbmyBzy9GA.174@upnetnews05>
>
>My Mom has a small marble staute she picked up in Germany many moons
>ago,she nicknamed her "Lady Spearhead" ( my Dad was in the 3rd Arm. Div. at
>the time), anybody else have similar items?
>Jonathan
>
>
>
>--
>JEHP
>"We don't have a King.We're an autonomous collective...ooww...oow..look look
>he's oppressin' me!"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
My Mom has a little round green alabaster table from "Jim's Alabaster" in Pisa
D'Tyrrhenia. It's moved almost as much as we have. It weighs about 40 pounds.
Bill Wood
antique dealer who displayed some of his stock in our apartment. My folks
took their commission in stock, and we came back stateside w/ eight antique
clocks: a wall clock for each of the 5 kids and one for the folks, a
grandfather, and a cuckoo, as well as several other pieces of furniture.
Chad wrote in message <6rhcbv$pak$1...@news-1.news.gte.net>...
IndigoKat
(TSTONE856) writes:
>My Mom has a little round green alabaster table from "Jim's Alabaster" in
>Pisa
>D'Tyrrhenia. It's moved almost as much as we have. It weighs about 40 pounds.
>
>
too funny, same place my mom bought her alabaster grapes :)
Heidi
"There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically
IndigoKat
back memories of some beverage my Dad
>> bought in Germany that had a plastic tag shaped like a black cat on it. My
>> little sister and I always fought over those black cats.
charlie...@commobunker.com (Charlie Andrews) writes:
> I would suspect it was Zellerswartzkatz, a Rhine wine. But I
> have never seen any with a plastic tag, as you describe.
>
> Charlie Army Brat 1939-1957
Yep I am pretty sure you got the name right and it did come with a black cat
with a hunched up back and on a yellow elastic band. We played with them too.
Ogden Johnson III
:
: Ah, thanks all.....now I know Dad drank cheap white wine........ :)
:
: As far as the cat, this was in the mid 70's so maybe the plastic cat was a
: newer innovation.....
Earlier than that, I found, and god forbid, drank it in the early '60s.
OJ III
[I'm not back, I'm cheating, and trying my best to keep it light as I
cheat.]
[BTW, that was in the US.]
Karl L. Sandwell-Weiss
>
> Frank Shelton wrote in message ...
> >I recall a brand of German beer that had a square plastic tag on it
> with a
> >sign of the zodiac on it.
>
> Dad
> bought in Germany that had a plastic tag shaped like a black cat on
> it. My
> know
> what it was that he bought, other than it was SOMETHING alcoholic so
> we
> never tasted it. Any one know what that was???
>
> Mari Kay
Black Cat Wine, Schartz Catz (sp), a cheap, drinkable white wine, as I
recall. Lots of the guys would get massive hangovers from it.
Karl Sandwell-Weiss
Karl L. Sandwell-Weiss
>
>
> Hummels also and I to have a camel saddle. All this along with a
> million
> things that are still packed away.
> gary g.
Camel Saddles!!!! I'd forgotten all about those!!! Got ours in Libya,
it's sitting in my mothers spare bedroom, next to the brass covered
footlocker. My youngest brother will get it when she passes on. Thanks
for reminding me about it.
Karl Sandwell-Weiss
Marc Curtis
us everywhere. I'll add some pics of them to the Yokohama page soon!
Marc
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http://www.military-brats.com
TSTONE856 wrote in message
<199808230244...@ladder03.news.aol.com>...
>>oo funny, same place my mom bought her alabaster grapes :)
>>Heidi
>
>My sister has the grapes and doves!
TSTONE856
IndigoKat
(TSTONE856) writes:
Ack!!!!!! is that where my mom's doves came from?!?!?!?
TSTONE856
>
Could be. These are beautiful white things, lots of detail. I got my chess set
there. My brother has this leaning tower model made out of plaster or something
like that that's about 18 - 20 inches tall. It's incredibly detailed.
Did your mother happen to have any of the alabaster eggs?
5mnryans
Christmas eve. Bout killed herself falling off the bed and into the army
issue desk stuck next to it- fond memories... Hey what neice?
Par
Chad wrote in message <6rerhm$md9$1...@news-2.news.gte.net>...
>My Nutcracker has lost his feet, but I love him still......my Vietnamese
>doll has long since vanished, but I am pretty sure Nancy still has
>hers.......
>
>The cuckoo clock is in its place of honor on the hall wall, but doesn't
>run......for a surprise one Christmas my husband had it repaired at a cost
>of more than double the purchase price (I've had it since I was nine) then
>my niece came by for a visit and yanked the weights- once again it doesn't
>work. We will wait till all the nieces and nephews are older before
>investing in another repair.....
>
>I never could get the hang of the castanets from Spain..any instructors out
>there?
>
>But I could sure use a nice crystal chandelier and dont think I'll make it
>to Europe soon....the ones Ive' seen stateside just don't have the charm of
>Mom's......Heidi, do you need yours.....?
>
>Mari Kay
>
>
5mnryans
Christmas shopping. Talk about a lot of memories...
Par ;-)
IndigoKat wrote in message
<199808190550...@ladder01.news.aol.com>...
>In article <OdbmyBzy9GA.174@upnetnews05>, "JEHP"
<jonat...@email.msn.com>
>writes:
>
>>My Mom has a small marble staute she picked up in Germany many moons
>>ago,she nicknamed her "Lady Spearhead" ( my Dad was in the 3rd Arm. Div.
at
>>the time), anybody else have similar items?
>>Jonathan
>
>hmmmmm you mean stuff like camel saddles and hassocks from Morocco,
alabaster
>grapes from Italy, zebra skin drum and elephant hide shield from Ethiopia,
>wooden shoes from Holland, nutcrackers, cuckoo clocks, incense burners,
beer
>steins etc from Germany, a Peugeot from France :), a Volvo from Sweden :),
a
>wood troll figure from Norway, a Flamenco dancer doll from Spain(she
wouldnt
>let me get the bull fighters sword! :), crystal chandelier from
Czechslovakia,
>bunches of dried hanging red peppers from Hungary........can't think of
>anything more right now but this got me thinking about something I really
>miss........the Bazarres that were held in the big hangers with stuff from
>around the world. The Ramstein Christmas Bazarre was the best x-mas
shopping
>around. Loved em.
IndigoKat
>>But I could sure use a nice crystal chandelier and dont think I'll make it
>>to Europe soon....the ones Ive' seen stateside just don't have the charm of
>>Mom's......Heidi, do you need yours.....?
>>
>>Mari Kay
A very sad side note to my mom's chandelier.......when we moved to Sembach in
76, there was an extreme shortage of housing. We ended up living in a
residential hotel(the Rosenhof in Mehlingen) in a nearby village for about 6
months. We finally found a house to rent in Sembach village. It was very nice
and had marble entryways and the dining room floor was marble as well. The
packers came and unloaded everything and asked my mom where she wanted the
chandelier. So she points to the fixture(also a chadelier) in the dining room
and the packers go into look at the hook holding the old one. They decide it
is not good enough so they put in a bigger hook. They hem and haw about how to
hook it up and finally hook up the electricity and get it up on the hook and we
all stand back and go AHHHHHHHH. And THEN the damn thing ripped out of the
ceiling, crashes directly onto the marble floor and hundreds of crystal balls
bounce across the hard floor! The stem is cracked and one of the arms(?) is
bent in half. I thought my mom was going to pass out! She was sick. It
remained wrapped in a sheet for several years. Then one day she ran into a
man selling crystal at a bazarre and she ended up telling him her sad story.
He said bring it to the bazarre next month in Heidelberg and I will take it to
Czechslovakia with me and see if they can fix it. So next month we took it, he
was there, she gave it to him in a box never really knowing if it would ever
come back. A year later she gets a postcard and it says come to the Ramstein
bazarre. She goes and there it is hanging up in the middle of his crystal
display, all fixed and beautiful again :) All's well that ends well. It
now hangs proudly in my parents home in FL and my two sisters and I are gonna
have it out when it comes to who gets it :)
Keith Green
[about her mom's chandelier.]
hehehehe....great story.
k
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Donna S. Knecht
prints she bought in Tokyo. When I had the prints reframed, Japanese
newspapers from 1952 were found behind them. Definitely am saving those!
My daughter has Mom's carved teak nest tables and the large silk
screened tiger prints.
I also have a carved ivory necklace Dad sent to me before we went to
Japan in 1952. Wouldn't dare wear that in public nowadays!
Donna
5mnryans
all about those darn Black Cats...we never fought did we????
Par
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5mnryans
overnight field trip. Some HS kids came with us...to chaperone with the
teachers. We had to stay in some dorm....I remeber being very homesick and
buying a bread mouse for my sister Nancy who collected mice...the first away
overnighter....I to this day, think that 4th grade is awfully young to go
away on a school overnighter...several of us kids where homesick...of course
I never told anyone...just bite my lip and survived...it was pretty fun
during the day
Par
>
>
Anyone every get to
>Hamlin in Germany(of Pied Piper fame) and see the pagent there and get the
rat
>made out of brotchen? Or get a prune figure from the Nurnberg Kristkindel
>Mart?
>
><, lwbro...@aol.com (Lwbroomrdr) writes:
>
>>I once had a huge collection of smurfs that got lost in a move
>
> My mom just sent me a box of stuff she has had since I was in high school
and
>in it were 20+ Schlumpfe. I still hate the word Smurf....gag.
>
>>Does anyone remember some little submarines that you could put
>>baking soda in and they floated and moved in the bath tub? We had some in
ulm
>>around 70.
>
>
>Yes I had a yellow one but my grandmother in CA gave it to me.
NHS76
>>bought in Germany that had a plastic tag shaped like a black cat on it. My
>>little sister and I always fought over those black cats. But I don't know
>>what it was that he bought, other than it was SOMETHING alcoholic so we
>>never tasted it. Any one know what that was???
>>
>>Mari Kay
Mari Kay, I don't remember a beer with a black cat, but there was a wine
called "schwartz catz" (black cat)
Debbie
STEAM GENE
And then there are the tiny
little engraved silver spoons from every place we lived. I want to save them
all - but I have no place to put them.
Michael,
In stores that sell knick knack type things you can find wooden display cases
for the souveniere demi-tasse spoons. We will need a third one real soon.
Whenever any of us goes on a trip we bring back one or more. My kids started
this by accident 15 or so years ago when they went to England with the church
youth group and brought back one silver spoon.
They also brought back two toby mugs.
Silver spoons are easier to find, though when I went to San Francisco for a
reunion of folks I was in Korea with, I couldn't find one!
Gene Moser
OpFoot
This Year in Kissimmee
STEAM GENE
Anyways, I picked spoons
Why didn't you tell me, Katie? If I'd known, you'd have one from the Western
Maryland Scenic Railroad right now!