Since July 22nd, we’ve been raising funds from Conejo Valley Guide Facebook Page followers and using these funds to purchase gift cards at local Conejo Valley eateries. Each day since then, we’ve run a drawing to give away a gift card, Through November 6th, we’ve given away over $5,000 worth of gift cards at 111 local eateries!

One of these drawings asked folks to recall their favorite childhood memories. Let’s share some of them here.

• Spending time with sisters

• Summer trips to…Michigan

• Summer campouts with the family

• Going to….Disneyland

• Skateboarding in the streets with friends

• Beach house in…Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Catalina

• Going to the drive-in theater in Newbury Park

• Playing dress-up and pretending to play double dare at a slumber party

• Visiting relatives in…San Francisco

• When it snowed in Thousand Oaks

• Grandparents surprising the kids at Christmas

• Riding down a big hill on my bike

• Dad taking me to see Led Zeppelin in 1977

• Playing with the neighborhood kids

• Dad winning a stuffed animal for me at the county fair

• Conejo Valley Days parade down Thousand Oaks Boulevard

• Cruise to the Mexican Riviera with family

• Fishing with dad

• Learning to ride a bike in Agoura

• Beach days at Zuma

• Special birthday dinners with family

• Going on family road trips in the “big blue van”

• Summer trips to Big Bear

• Christmas morning brunch at my grandparents’ house

• Tent camping with the family

• Dodger baseball games

• Playing tag outside with my sisters in the yard

• Riding bikes all over the neighborhood for hours on end

• Ice cream trucks

• Drive-in movies with the family

• Boating on the lake

• Building treehouses

• Making mud pies

• Going to the Ventura County Fair

• Raking leaves with grandpa

• Staying up late on Christmas Eve on Santa lookout

• Sunday mass, followed by family breakfast

• Summer camp

• Riding my Big Wheel down the sidewalk and spinning out into my driveway

• Piling into the station wagon and driving to Ventura Beach

• Yosemite, Sequoia

• Barbecues in our backyard and roller skating down our driveway

• Getting ice cream cones at the local Thrifty Drug Store

• Going to Farrell’s with the family

• Family ski trips

• Swimming in the pool all summer long

• Getting my first puppy at Christmas

• Friday night dinners out with the family

• Dairy Queen after church

• Drive-in movies in the back of a truck with dad getting everyone KFC

• Roller skating around the neighborhood