Comments | emily_swank: Sambo's

emily_swank

Sambo's

Jan 07, 2009 16:19

I've been having this persistent memory of going out to breakfast with my mother when I was very young, most likely in the late 1970's. The memory only has so many facets, but it's strong. I can feel the sunlight pouring through the windows-it must have been a nice warm summer day and I can feel that the aroma of the restaurant was so ( Read more... )

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gfrancie January 8 2009, 00:40:42 UTC

My Mother remembers going to Sambos as a kid. Oh those were the days....

seasecret January 8 2009, 00:59:14 UTC

I am glad you have undeleted.

tracijean January 8 2009, 01:09:21 UTC

I have v. vivid Sambo's-related memories from childhood too. Yes, lots of orange and brown wood paneling.

jillithian January 8 2009, 01:11:06 UTC

It is weird. I have a memory of being young and eating carrots out of the garden. We'd wash them off with a garden hose and then eat them right away by the back door. I was not even four in that memory because we moved after I was four when my mom was pregnant with my brother.

There's no particular reason why that memory stands out, but it does.

That and scribbling all curly on paper and saying it was cursive and writing myself notes in "cursive" and not being able to read it.

loolica January 8 2009, 01:18:13 UTC

I frequently stamp my feet in frustration that time is a one-way thing. WHY?! It makes no sense to me. I always want to travel back to certain moments, do certain things again. It kills me that I can't do it.