Comments on: Changes to our Tiffin Home

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:22:16 +0000

I remember that toy too, I would love to see a picture of it if we could remember what it was called!

By: Barb

Barb — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:28:02 +0000

yeah, I remember dawn richards starting that van with her fingernail once.

Mom designed that bird on the sign.

Oh, the print shop days. Do you remember before print shop, when we had the plastic thing we could make cards with- it had interchangeable plastic plates that said “Happy Birthday” and there was a cake with drippy frosting.
To make a card you had to put in the plastic plates, like a printing press. You could fit 2 skinny ones and 1 large. then you rubbed a crayon lengthwise along the top and presto, you had created a card for grandma! i wonder what that thing was called…

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:11 +0000

Your memory is much better than mine. I didn’t know about how dad bought the house or that they were the ones who painted it that hideous color. I do remember Dad changing his company colors multiple times. I may have to write about technology from my past one of these days. I remember thinking that light pen was amazing and spending hours creating cards and banners on print shop.

I don’t remember the white station wagon, but I do remember having a van that you could start with anything.

By: Barb

Barb — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:39:53 +0000

Mom and Dad bought the house at a sheriff’s auction, I believe. The bottom floor had been a beauty parlor, apparently. The exterior was originally painted army green, and when we moved in, Mom and Dad painted it that dark yellow color. I remember Dad got a little offended because someone came over while we were painting (I think it was Brother Runion, not the Runions who lived in the bottom floor), and asked why we were painting the house the color of baby poo.
Dad’s first business colors were green and tan, matching the house, and his bird sign out front matched. I don’t know when he changed- maybe at the same time we repainted the house?

Dad’s first office, on the side of the garage, had a Commodore 64 computer. I remember receiving a light pen as a gift, to use with an alice in wonderland game, and I spent a lot of time in that office playing on the computer.

At that time, we actually did keep a car in the garage, but I don’t think we ever kept a functional car in the garage. For a long time we had a white station wagon that ran on diesel fuel (It was a Rabbit, or something like that), and it was broken, for a while sitting in the garage. I remember going out with Mom in that car (to Fremont I think, maybe for a gymnastics meet) and she accidently put regular gas in it. They had to pump all the gas out, or it would have damaged the engine.