You know us as the last generation that wears
their clothes with the label on the INSIDE!
We were able to buy our first homes at a price
that is less then an automobile is today
Can you believe that Woodstock took place 30
years ago.. AND we were already out of high school for 10
years.
In our lifetime the following were
assassinated…. John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Mahatma
Gandhi.. We also lived through the ENTIRE cold war..
We were born before anyone heard the
expression "Global Warming" , before AIDS was in the news on a daily basis,
and before man went into space. Not to mention the Atomic and Space
Ages.
Do you remember when television sets had
vacuum tubes and if your set broke the local dealer would actually give you a
"loaner" until it was repaired?
Do you remember when you were sick and the
doctor actually came to your house? I think they were referred to as
"housecalls"
Do you remember when everyone had a single
phone in the house.. with an actual dial? Touch tone was unknown, and cordless
was something in a Sci-fi story..
Timeline… The Watergate breaking occurred 27
years ago!! What ever happened to the missing 20 minutes of
tapes?
Do you remember when cloning was something
only mentioned in science fiction?
Do you remember when an endangered species was
a Ford Edsel or a two-seat Thunderbird? You do remember Edsel don’t you?
Do you remember when cars had almost as much
chrome as paint? When seatbelts were an option? The first "padded dashboard"?
Tail fins? When white wall tires meant that your car was
cool..
We managed to get though high school without
ever thinking of the advantages of digital over analog.. Well we never knew
what they even were!
The Beatles, Elvis, and countless other rock
stars came and WENT during our adult life
Global warming meant that spring was here and
final exams not to far ahead.
We lived in the age of the draft card, no
pictures on driver licenses, no credit cards, ATM machines, the drinking age
was only 18 which meant getting served at Sheik’s at
16!!
Do you remember coming home from school and
watching "American Bandstand"? IN BLACK and WHITE.. The number one song the
week that we graduated was "Personality" by Lloyd Price, when was the last
time you heard that song?
America’s favorite Sunday night show in the
50’s was Ed Sullivan who brought us Elvis (from the waist up) and the Beatles
in the 60’s
Neil Armstrong first walked
on the moon 30 years ago!!
The "WEB" was something that appeared when the
house wasn’t cleaned in some time.
We are children of the "Vietnam Era", We lived
through the disco craze and polyester suits, bell bottoms, long hair and now,
in some cases, NO HAIR. We witnessed the senseless killing at Munich during
the 1972 Olympics, as well as the Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream". Yes we
were there through the good and bad of the 70’s
During our lifetimes the USA has had 11
Presidents.. Can you name them in order?
Just think how time goes by… It has been 20
years since the hostages were taken in Iran. Putting it another way. It was
about half way between graduation and today!
Do you remember the Sid Caesar show, Red
Skelton, Milton Berle (and the men from Texaco) and The Howdy Doody Show all
done LIVE.
Trivia: What was the theme from "Victory at
Sea"? The Lone Ranger?
You know you are getting old when you look at
the movie listings and see movies that are re-makes of the ones you saw as
originals! Psycho, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Godzilla
etc.
How come our generation was born a few years
BEFORE the "Free Love" era?
We lived through the morphing of the recording
industry from 78 to 45 to 33 RPM until they completely disappeared into
something called Compact Disks
In 1959 gasoline was 19.9 cents a gallon. Beer
was 15 cents.. Cigarettes were $1.99 a carton! And milk was delivered to your
house in BOTTLES.
The first 3D movie we ever saw was a real
classic called "Bwana Devil", I bet you can’t name anyone in
it.
Some of us remember when the ticket price for
the Peekskill Theatre was 20 cents for a Saturday matinee.. Now there is no
Peekskill Theatre
We lived without fliptop cans and twist off
bottle caps.. we had a gadget called a "Can Opener" (a.k.a. Church Key) to get
to our refreshments
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