Early, early childhood memories

[27hand]

Mrs 27 and I were just discussing going on a cruise in a year or so.
She mentioned she had never been on any type of cruise and asked if I had ever done so.

I told her the only cruise I had ever been on was a 4 day cruise on the "General Miur" when we sailed from Germany to come to this country in 1952.

I had absolutely no recollection of the event but my mother had very detailed memories of me (a very young 27hand) crying ,screaming and kicking for the entire trip. I was 2 and a half yrs old and evidently did not sleep.

I do have one memory of when we lived in Germany. It was winter so I had to be 2 years old. I remember my grandfather pulling me on a sled. It is the earliest memory I have so my honey and i were comparing when we first remembered something in our lives.

How about Yinz? Any early memories?

27cantnowrememberwhathehadforbreakfasthand

[Emptymag]

Man... I flipped my mother out one day when I started asking about these "images" in my head, that I couldn't quite put a time or location on.

She was talking about being in Canada, and I said "I think I remember that."
My mother replied, "You couldn't remember that, you were only one!"(Pretty sure that's the age she gave)

I said, "I remember LOTS of colorful flowers, and a goat... there was a little goat, but that's it."

She then proceeded to tell me where it was that had all the flowers,(It was at Niagra Falls, but I forget exactly where.)and said the goat was a mascot or something. She just couldn't believe that I could remember being there.

[larrymeyer]

My memory was strangling a rabbit when I was three because the more I squeezed the more noise it made.

Walking down the Wisshacking to see the Indian (forgot his name0 statue down there. Walking up 52nd street in Phila.

[TonyF]

27cantnowrememberwhathehadforbreakfasthand

I thought I was the only one who can't remember that.

About 2 or 3 years old. My maternal grandparents farm in north central Ohio. A screened in back porch. A view of wheat and corn fields. Blue skies, summer breeze and sipping lemonade.

I close my eyes and go there often. Especially when life gets difficult. I get a peaceful, easy feeling.

[er2006]

I forgot what this thread was about.

Ed

[27hand]

Man... I flipped my mother out one day when I started asking about these "images" in my head, that I couldn't quite put a time or location on.

That's how I put it together. My mom and I were talking about my grandfather and i told her I remembered him pulling me on a sled. She told me that he had done that before we left to come here. Him and my grandmother didn't come to this country for another 6 years.

We rented a farmhouse in Finleyville till my dad could save enough to buy his first house. We lived there about 2 years and I have many memories from that time (age 2 1/2 to about 4).

27IthinkIhadcoldpizzathisAMhand

[roland]

Recently I've been working in the strip district, and right across the alley is the Penn Ave seafood market. I've been eating lunch there this past week. But in the morning I walk to a nearby coffee shop, you can easily smell the smell of rotting fish in the dumpster. My family used to go to Ocean City md every year and that was a common smell around the docks. It brings back good memories of my youth, although not as early as yins. I think those braincells have been long gone. But the smell of rotting fish seems to always put a smile on my face though.

[Karl/PA]

My earliest memories are of weekly blackouts, the victory garden, smashing tin cans for the scrap drive, blimps overhead and Walter Winchell and Gabriel Heatter on the radio.

[ChamberedRound]

My earliest memory is of a Christmas Party my parents had at the house for the people my dad worked with. I remember already being put to bed, and climbing out of the crib to rejoin the party. I toddled through the living room and into the kitchen, getting laughs and waves from the guests as I passed by. My dad asked me (I don't think he realized my Mom had already wanted me in bed) if I was able to find the Club Soda he needed to mix a drink. I climbed into the cabinet and tore it apart. I remember seeing a bottle and handing it to my dad; looking back on the memory it was the Club Soda, but I don't recall realizing that at the time; I think I had some help Next thing I remember was being put back in the crib by my Mom with my bear next to me.

Similar to EM's experience, when I told my parents about that memory, they looked at me surprised and said, "How do you remember that? You were only about 18 months old when we had that party."

I have other memories from when I was older (2 and 3 yrs old); walking through a grass field in summer with my Dad and Uncle, going to the store with my mom and the neighbors, being pushed in a stroller, and others. But the Christmas party is the earliest memory I have.

[P89]

My Grandfather holding me on his knee and taking a ride on the old Farmall to put me to sleep. I still have that tractor and did/do the same with my kids.
There are more but the time with my Grandfather are the most cherished.