the OLDEST thing you own
the OLDEST thing you own
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#1re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 3:59pmprobably my tiny stuffed bunny that i got 2 days after i was born from my grandparents.
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
#2re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 4:01pmmine is my nana or my grandma im not shour witch one is oder
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#3re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 4:02pmyou 'own' her though?
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
centerstage
Featured Actor Joined: 10/20/04
#4re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 4:02pmprobably my bedroom furniture, it was my mom's when she was a little girl...bleh I hate it
"Past the point of no return, no backward glances: our games of make-believe are at an end"
Phantom
#6re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 4:05pmMy Bunny-Foo Foo that I got when I was born.
ChicagoBwayFan
Featured Actor Joined: 12/24/04
#7re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 4:06pmA train set received from my parents when I was 4 years old.
#8re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 4:08pmA shawl my great grandmother knitted....I still wear it. :)
"Years from now, when you talk about this - And you will - Be kind. "
#9re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 4:08pm
i never got any cool obect
my grandma beter live verry long b/c after her i have nothing!
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
maybethistime
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/04
#11re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 4:27pmall my old theatre books from used bookstores!! from the 30's and up... I heart them, and probably my furniture. My mom's obsessed w/ antiques so my bed is like from civil war days.
billygoatgirl300
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/04
#12re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:01pmMy teddy bear that I got a few days after I was born.
The towel waving reminded me of a Per?nist rally. I kept chanting "Evita!" whenever they'd pan to the crowds. - SM2
#13re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:06pmI have a pin that used to be my great-grandmothers. I wear it on my coat.
HROK?
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#14re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:14pmMy bubby's diamond engagement ring. But non antique- a plaid pink elephant flower container ( not really a vase) that my mum recd on the occasion of my birth & she decorated my nursery with.
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#15re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:33pm
Actually I do have a couple of old books that I really love.
One is a first edition of "From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne. Inside the cover the first owner wrote his name, the place and date. It says "Lieutenant Thomas Mayhew Woodruff, Jan 1st, 1874. Fort Gibson, C. N., Indian Territory. That place later became the state of Oklahoma.
I did a little research into Lt. Woodruff and found out that he had stayed in the Army, got married and had a little girl. When he was in his 40's he was killed in the Spanish American War. He is now buried close to me - at Arlington National Cemetary.
My other old book is called "A Theatre For Everybody - The Story of the Old Vic and Sadlers Wells", 1945. On the title page is Sir Ralph Richardson's autograph in ink. In the back of the book, someone has attached 3 old theatre programs from the Old Vic in 1945. Remember that paper, among other things, was rationed so these programs are very small, only 5"x4" and have 4 pages. One is for "Uncle Vanya" which starred Lawrence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Ralph Richardson, and Margaret Leighton. It has been autographed on the cover by Lawrence Olivier. Another is for "Arms and the Man" with the same stars and also autographed by Laurence Olivier. The third is for "Peer Gynt", same group, autographed by Ralph Richardson. (Each of these little programs contains a warning that sirens may interrupt the performance if there is an air raid!)
I discovered when going through this little gem that the book contained a few more autographs. Sybil Thorndike, Margaret Leighton, and Michael Warre (another actor in the company) all signed in pencil in the front.
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Updated On: 1/30/05 at 05:33 PM
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#16re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:35pmmy great grandfathers copy of Admiral Perry's accounts of his trips to Japan. And a blanket that i got when i was born. (i think its in my chest, i'm not sure though...)
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
LilElphaba
Broadway Star Joined: 10/20/04
#17re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:00pmI have this little pink doll i got when i was born. It has a yellow leg because my brother got mustard on it when we were little. ew right?
I LOVE SHOSHANA BEAN.
#18re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:10pmActually I have a 25 year old Japanese wallet.
#19re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:45pm
I have my mom's bedroom furniture from when she was younger also... and I LOVE it 
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#20re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:47pmNursie must be pushing 80
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#21re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:47pma small stuffed bear i've had since i was born... i have pics of me in the hospital with it. it goes with me everywhere if im away from home for more than 1 night
::bust a move::
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#23re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:58pma penny i just found from 1918
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#24re: the OLDEST thing you own
Posted: 1/30/05 at 8:07pmMy Lionel train set. Dad gave them to me for my very first Christmas (that was 57 years ago, for those who are interested). I still put them up every Christmas and they still run well!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
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