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In reply to the discussion: What is your earliest memory? [View all]mulsh
(2,959 posts)5. I remember batting the bird mobile above my crib.
I told my mom about that when I was in my 20's. She didn't believe me until I told her the color of each of the 6 birds. She said they got rid of the mobile when I was about 6 months old.
Around the same time the old gun powder factory in San Leandro, CA about a mile or so away from our house blew up. I remember both times that place blew up. Those events happened sometime between 1957 & 1960.
I have pretty consistent memories from around the age of 5-6 month on. Of course as I hit my 50's my short term memory is mercifully vague.
My twin brother's memories start for him around the time we were 4 years old. He has a difficult infancy but made up for it as teenager.
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I can remember being pushed in a carriage down the walkway of our house. I can also
applegrove
May 2012
#1
I vaguely remember my crib, but the memory is jumping around round robin style
angstlessk
May 2012
#31
Of my dachshund standing next to me on his hind legs at the screen door...he was taller then me. n/
HereSince1628
May 2012
#4
At age 4 begging for cash for a soda and snack from the workers at my fathers
angstlessk
May 2012
#26
I remember from the time I paid my nickle till I ran across the field in fear
angstlessk
May 2012
#29
Then there was the time before that..(still age 4) when I went to the store to purchace
angstlessk
May 2012
#28
I don't know how old I was, exactly. The memory is like a snapshot, but when I described it,
Arkansas Granny
May 2012
#40
Eating soup with the oyster crackers on top at the counter of a diner in Chicago when I was 3.
undeterred
May 2012
#43
Still in the crib. Standing up in it and seeing my dad with his arm cradling my mom.
alphafemale
May 2012
#45
My tribe went to visit a tribe of Neanderthals over the river and through the woods. nt
raccoon
May 2012
#53
My two cousins coming to live with us after their mother died, their father had died 3 years earlier
Throckmorton
May 2012
#54