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Post by tvlover on Mar 27, 2015 12:15:56 GMT -5
Ever since I started watching the show, the Baldwin sisters have become two of my favorite characters. As I have watched episodes where they appear, I have found that they remind me of two teachers I had in high school. The two teachers were in the same department and were very good friends. The two of them were so close that they were practically like sisters. One had dark hair like Miss Mamie and the other had gray hair like Miss Emily. And the two teachers were very sweet and kind, just like the Baldwin sisters.
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Post by Kathy Lee on Mar 27, 2015 16:52:06 GMT -5
I can't think of anyone they remind me of but I do love their characters in the show. They always added such a nice touch!
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Post by coriscapnskip on Mar 27, 2015 22:31:20 GMT -5
When I read Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (which I have four times since 1976) I always pictured the Baldwins as Miss Fern and Miss Roberta, also as other characters in appropriate stories of his. The Walton grandparents and parents were of course the grandparents and parents in the book but I did not imagine any Walton kids as Douglas and Tom.
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Post by sdw on Mar 28, 2015 11:47:38 GMT -5
There were two sisters that lived near Papaw and Mamaw Purkey,they were Grace and Addie Boles,Grace never did
marry,and Addie married,and she was divorced.When they could not live by themselves anymore,they went in a local
nursing home.We enjoyed going to see them in the nursing home.They both have been dead for along time.
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Post by Kathy Lee on Apr 3, 2015 14:21:22 GMT -5
Just thought of a few people.
When I was a little child, the house next to ours was a side by side twin. Two widow women lived in the houses. At night they would sit on a glider in the back yard and talk for hours (in Italian). My father always said they sounded like cackling chickens!
Also, when I was a bit older, my parents bought a house from two old maid sisters. I can't remember what they looked like. Their father built the home and they lived there all their lives. We bought the house from them when they were in their seventies. It must have been so hard for them to leave that house. It was an amazing house with two staircases, a wine cellar, a two car garage (rare in those days), a stain glassed window, a huge attic, and more windows then six houses. Loved that house!
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Apr 3, 2015 23:41:24 GMT -5
Just thought of a few people. When I was a little child, the house next to ours was a side by side twin. Two widow women lived in the houses. At night they would sit on a glider in the back yard and talk for hours (in Italian). My father always said they sounded like cackling chickens! Also, when I was a bit older, my parents bought a house from two old maid sisters. I can't remember what they looked like. Their father built the home and they lived there all their lives. We bought the house from them when they were in their seventies. It must have been so hard for them to leave that house. It was an amazing house with two staircases, a wine cellar, a two car garage (rare in those days), a stain glassed window, a huge attic, and more windows then six houses. Loved that house!
Is the house that you loved, still standing?
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Post by oldmacb on Apr 27, 2015 12:08:20 GMT -5
Remind me of two aunts I had on Grammys side. That's mama's mama. Gramma was paps. Anyway these two took a liking to recipe so much so they ended up never marryin because they couldn't find fellers who liked to let them sip.
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Post by carol on Apr 27, 2015 13:51:21 GMT -5
They remind me of my great great Aunt Marge and her cousin Katie who I always called Aunt Katie. I guess that was because of her age. They grew up together and neither ever married and they lived together in their old age. They were sweet old ladies. They lived in a Victorian row home across the street from us. The one big difference from the Baldwins is they wouldn't have been caught dead with so much as a drop of alcohol in their home. LOL
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Post by patriciaanne on Apr 27, 2015 16:34:04 GMT -5
They remind me of my grandmother's first cousins, Hazel and Louise. They were sisters and never married. They stayed in their parents' home in a ritzy section of CT until they died. Unlike the Baldwins, they did have jobs in nursing. Like the Baldwins, they were unmarried. I don't think Hazel had much in the way of prospects, but my grandmother told me Louise had a very nice suitor...a doctor I believe. And her mother chased them away. Rather like Miss Emily. Not sure if she ever kissed him in a swirl of autumn leaves, though. Like the Baldwins, they were very gentle, delicate spirits and lived very sheltered lives. They were very active in their church and I think that was their primary social outlet.
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