Mom
According to mom, this is the name of the game that was "invented on Vine Street".
What is Kick the Can?
This is the golf course that Dad and Omer Dailey played at every week.
What is Old Wayne?
This was the name of the Stime's dog.
What is Fritz?
She appeared on the front page of the Tribune after mom called her in sick.
Who is Joan?
This was required to be just to the right of the sink.
What is a tin cup, used for drinking.
This is the name of the company mom worked for before marrying dad.
What is Continental Bank?
This was Dad's drink of choice after work/before dinner every night.
What is a martini?
This was where special sleepovers took place at the Lewis's.
Where is the loft? (in the garage).
She had her arm ironed.
Who is Pat?
We were not allowed to do this if the dryer was running.
What is make toast? (Because it would blow a fuse!)
This was mom's favorite (or at least most used) perfume.
What is lily-of-the-valley?
This is the first newspaper Dad worked for.
What is the Journal of Commerce?
This is the name of the bank Mr. Lewis worked for.
This Cahill child thought doggy bags were only for dogs, much to mom's dismay.
Who is Jim?
This common security feature was not installed until the early 1970's.
What is a lock on the back door? (The screen door had a hook, but the entry door did not have any lock until dad put a sliding bolt on in the early 1970's.)
This was the main idiosyncrasy of the way mom drove a car.
What is using her left foot to operate the brake?
Why were Bill and his sister Dorothy in the same classroom?
Because St. Pet's had just opened, and the 1st and 2nd grades were combined.
This is the reason Steve Allmart would sit in his car for long periods of time.
What is so he could listen to his 8-track player music?
This Cahill learned a hard lesson about eating ice cream cones in the car.
Who is Anne?
This was the only designated gardening spot.
What is Dad's Rose Garden?
This is the instrument Mom played in the Glenbard band.
What is the clarinet?
This is the highest rank in the Army that Dad achieved.
What is private?
Visitors to our house often called this neighborhood feature "deafening".
What are the Edmun Chapel bells?
She took first place in an area-wide math contest.
Who is Kacey?
This was where the emergency key to the house was kept.
What is on the shelf in the garage under the 3-in-1 oil can?