Childhood crush?
I am so enjoying TurqoiseRose's thread on unlikely crushes...but what about a childhood crush?
For me, it was always Nick Barkley (Peter Breck). When I was six years old, I was planning to marry him when I got old enough. He was just wonderful : )
Looking back, I think I had a crush on the entire family. They were able to take care of themselves, help their neighbors...and always be there for each other. And they had a wonderful ranch! And horses! LOL
And it would have been great to be Audra's best friend...she could do almost anything.
Maybe it was moving around on Air Force bases, but I always wanted to have horses and live on a ranch. And now we do : )
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cattyles
7 years agoI saw Phantom of the Paradise when I was about 10 and fell in love with Paul Williams. I wrote him a true fan letter and received a signed photo from him.
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Comments (8)After going back and rereading your post, i could see,in my opinion, the mistakes made by a man is almost the same as that made by mankind also by empires built through the centurys. I guess mankind has neither evolved nor learned, we keep making the same mistakes. Number 5 is subtle but it still fits as in the valuable information lost when libraries were burned throughout history instead of being saved and studied. There is still individuals and groups which do'nt follow the norm,and we have a beautiful period of enlightenment as in the Greeks,the Rennasance(sp) and the founding of our own Democracy. Than medeocraty always seemed to take over,after that seemingly a descent into destruction. There is always the hope that mankind will grow into middle age wisdom, at least we know there will be sparks of enlightenment along the way....See MoreChildhood traveling memories.......
Comments (21)We didn't take vacations when I was growing up. The road trips we took were to move from one of my dad's duty stations to another. I vaguely remember driving from Virginia to California, via Alabama to meet my dad's relatives. I was only about 6 years old. When I went back to visit them years later, they told me a funny story about that trip and my mom. The water quit or power went out or something so they couldn't take a hot bath. My mom asked for water from the stream by their house because she just couldn't go without a bath, even for a day. They got buckets of water and poured them over my mom so she could get clean. She's Japanese so I guess she wasn't embarrassed bathing in front of the female relatives. They said she yelled and carried on from the cold water but got her bath. This was the year my brother got three birthday parties! One in Alabama on this trip, one in San Deigo at another stop we made at the home of one of my dad's old friend's. Bill got a puppy from them too! Then when we got to San Pedro, my dad was assigned to a submarine and they had another party for him, in the sub! Brat. The other big trip we made was from San Pedro to Fallon, NV when my dad got stationed there. We drove through Sequioa and Yosemite National parks, and through the Lake Tahoe area. The only thing I remember about that trip was the trees. When I was in high school a friend came to visit from Virgiina and my dad took us to Bodie, the ghost town in California. (I forgot about this trip!) Then after I grew up and was in the Air Force, I came home on leave and my dad and I took a trip out to New Mexico to help his step mother and brother. We went through Utah's Bryce, Zion and Capitol Reef parks. On the way home or to, we stopped in Santa Fe and visited his dad's grave, went to the capital building. I'm glad we took that trip, even though it was kinda sad. The kids and I took a short trip to Cave City here in Kentucky a couple years ago and stayed in the teepee motel...they still joke about that place. It was old, with no updates to the electric or rooms, probably built in the 50s. Then we went cross country last year out West. I don't know if they are going to remember anything, though...I bought them both moose Christmas ornaments to remember Yellowstone..or rather outside of Yellowstone. Coming into it we saw a moose and then after we left we saw a mom and her baby, but Alex said "what moose?" when I explained the ornaments. How could his memory be that short?!!!...See MoreEstrangement by daughter. My unusual story.
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Comments (30)My all time hero and perhaps the greatest love story I ever heard was my Grandfather. In 1908 my Grandmother came to America from Holland as an indentured servant. In exchange for paying her passage and providing her room and board she had to work as a cook and housekeeper for a well to do family in my hometown for a period of 7 years. Grandmother worked 6 days a week from 6am till 9pm and on Sunday if she had the family dinner servived buffet style by 11am she was free to go off for the afternoon providing she returned by 6pm. It was my Grandfathers job to hitch a team of horses every day and haul the milk from the family farm to the creamery and on his route he would stop by the house where Grandmother was working to sell them fresh milk, butter, eggs and whatever produce they had in season. Grandfather had a few minutes everyday to talk to Grandma and within a couple months Grandad started hitching a buggy and picking her up on Sunday for a short picnic in the local city park. That continued for three years until Grandfather and Grandmother decided they wanted to be married so Grandfather went to the rich family she worked for and negotiated what they felt the balance of her contract was worth. He then paid off her contract, relieving her of her last three years of servitude and they were free to go off and get married. For the first couple years after Grandma and Grandpa were married they lived at my Great Grandfathers farm until Grandfather could raise enough money to make a down payment on a farm. In 1919 my Grandfather bought a 160 acre farm where he and Grandmother raised 12 children and when Grandad died in 1965 he had the entire farm, all the livestock and all machinery completely paid for. Not a single bill in the world. In addition to being a dairy farmer Grandfather was a well renown blacksmith, wheelright, and harness maker, all of that with an 8th grade education....See MoreLavender Lass
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoThank you for all the comments!
Rockybird- I'm with you. After Big Valley went off the air, I was 'crush-less' until Han Solo. And now it's probably Flynn Rider from Tangled. When they made the movie, the writers/animators imagined him as the cartoon version of Han Solo : )
One of my favorite clips...I love the horse! LOL
flowerpwr45
7 years agoOnce I realized that Roy Rogers and Michael Landon were out of the picture, it was David Cassidy.
I don't even need to check with dh to know his.
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terezosa / terriks
7 years agoContinuing on the Western theme, I had a crush on Robert Conrad in The Wild Wild West
I once waited on Jan Michael Vincent at a restaurant I worked at in my twenties. Unfortunately, he was rather drunk at the time. It was a Mexican restaurant, and I do remember that he asked for extra cilantro. William Shatner came in another time, but he wasn't seated at one of my tables.Lavender Lass thanked terezosa / terriks
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neetsiepie
7 years agoFirst crush was a boy in my 3rd grade class, but my first celebrity crush was Pete Duel from Alias Smith and Jones. I cried my eyes out when he died-committed suicide and I was just devastated. From there it was Bobby Sherman and then David Cassidy. Swoooon.
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amykath
7 years agoI was in love with John Taylor from Duran Duran. I will never forget how much I wanted to meet him. So silly.
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IdaClaire
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoThe mention of Paul Williams upthread made me start thinking of how much he and Toby Jones (another star of Detectorists, which seems to have become my favorite series as of late) resemble one another. I mean, they really resemble one another strongly! I'm guessing they are also roughly the same height.
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7 years agoTrying to post a pic ... here I am, age 10, with Chachi. 1979. See how he's looking at me? If that's not true love, I don't know what is.
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robo (z6a)
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoI was scared of David Bowie in Labyrinth. I think it was the tights...they revealed a little more than eight year old me was ready for at the time.
For me it was Christian Slater. He seemed like such a bad boy at the time.
He seems like a pretty likeable adult now so I can't be too ashamed.
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoMizGG- That is wonderful....you two must have been thrilled!!!
The only celebrity I've ever hugged was Lassie. And it was one of the high points of my life! I was three and my dad worked part time at the Coliseum to supplement his Air Force pay. He got me backstage after the show and I saw Lassie! I hugged her for what seemed like forever. My dad finally said they had to go, but the trainer was very nice about it. I got an 'autographed' picture and everything. I loved that show...I watched it all the time and remember waving good-bye to Lassie when the music came on at the end : )
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