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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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You guys are gonna get me started about the Flash Gordon serials fighting the evil Emperor Ming, the Gene Autry serials fighting all those crazy underground empires (amazing what you can find in a cave), the original black and white George Reeve Superman, the black and white Popeye cartoons (with the clapping doors). The new stuff was Mighty Mouse (with his girlfriend Pearl Pureheart), Rocky and Bullwinkle, Father Knows Best, etc. You know, college kids these days missed a lot. We old farts pre-date PCs, PDAs, and iTumes. Then there's cable TV, cell phones, foreign cars, freeways, the moon landings, Vietnam, the race riots, Civil Rights and desegregation, space travel, all the assasinations, knowing about hurricanes days in advance, microwaves, drive-thrus (we just had drive-ins), and for some of us, Korea and the atomic era. Then I think about my grandmother who knew life before TV, radio, theaters, electricity, indoor plumbing, cars, planes, tractors (the mule pulled the plow), telephones and enough to make us old farts feel downright young! What are today's college kids' grandkids going to miss out on? Man this thread is a trip down memory lane. Our tractors had steel wheels (no tires) when I was young but no mule. We did not have a phone but my granddad did. It was on a party line and his ring was 3 longs and a short. We have covered a lot of ground. My brother was a radar guy on a AWAC in the gulf during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I stayed up most of the night and watched the moon landings. I was at a wedding when we heard of JFK's assassination. Later my good friend the groom was killed in the Tet Offensive. Dad cut a hole in the wall in the living room so the back of the CRT Television could fit inside the wall. BTW tomorrow is my 46th wedding anniversary.---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by RT at Jul 19, 2009 3:51:42 AM] |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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 You guys are gonna get me started about the Flash Gordon serials fighting the evil Emperor Ming, the Gene Autry serials fighting all those crazy underground empires (amazing what you can find in a cave), the original black and white George Reeve Superman, the black and white Popeye cartoons (with the clapping doors). The new stuff was Mighty Mouse (with his girlfriend Pearl Pureheart), Rocky and Bullwinkle, Father Knows Best, etc. You know, college kids these days missed a lot. We old farts pre-date PCs, PDAs, and iTumes. Then there's cable TV, cell phones, foreign cars, freeways, the moon landings, Vietnam, the race riots, Civil Rights and desegregation, space travel, all the assasinations, knowing about hurricanes days in advance, microwaves, drive-thrus (we just had drive-ins), and for some of us, Korea and the atomic era. Then I think about my grandmother who knew life before TV, radio, theaters, electricity, indoor plumbing, cars, planes, tractors (the mule pulled the plow), telephones and enough to make us old farts feel downright young! What are today's college kids' grandkids going to miss out on? Don't start me on Flash Gordon!!! I had a very, very serious childhood crush on Dale Arden.  I think the death of Walter Cronkite has taken me on a trip down memory lane. At our age, memory lane is about all we have left these days! |
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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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BTW tomorrow is my 46th wedding anniversary. CONGRADULATIONS!! ----------------------------------------  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Dataman at Jul 19, 2009 3:53:41 AM] |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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...BTW tomorrow is my 46th wedding anniversary.   Now there's something that really dates our generation! |
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Former Member
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You guys are gonna get me started about the Flash Gordon serials fighting the evil Emperor Ming, the Gene Autry serials fighting all those crazy underground empires (amazing what you can find in a cave), the original black and white George Reeve Superman, the black and white Popeye cartoons (with the clapping doors). The new stuff was Mighty Mouse (with his girlfriend Pearl Pureheart), Rocky and Bullwinkle, Father Knows Best, etc. You know, college kids these days missed a lot. We old farts pre-date PCs, PDAs, and iTumes. Then there's cable TV, cell phones, foreign cars, freeways, the moon landings, Vietnam, the race riots, Civil Rights and desegregation, space travel, all the assasinations, knowing about hurricanes days in advance, microwaves, drive-thrus (we just had drive-ins), and for some of us, Korea and the atomic era. Then I think about my grandmother who knew life before TV, radio, theaters, electricity, indoor plumbing, cars, planes, tractors (the mule pulled the plow), telephones and enough to make us old farts feel downright young! What are today's college kids' grandkids going to miss out on? Don't start me on Flash Gordon!!! I had a very, very serious childhood crush on Dale Arden. I think the death of Walter Cronkite has taken me on a trip down memory lane. Heck -- I even remember "watching" shows on the radio. We got our first TV in 1948 (My father worked for Hallicrafters which manufactured them for a short while in the late 40's and early 50's). Edit: I think we had the Model T-67 [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 19, 2009 4:14:15 AM] |
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Heck -- I even remember "watching" shows on the radio. We got our first TV in 1948 (My father worked for Hallicrafters which manufactured them for a short while in the late 40's and early 50's). Me too. The Shadow, Sky King.... ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by RT at Jul 19, 2009 4:06:49 AM] |
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...BTW tomorrow is my 46th wedding anniversary. Now there's something that really dates our generation!Congrats, RT. If we had been able to stand each other, I would have hit 42 this year. Instead, I have hit 20 as a divorcee. |
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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...BTW tomorrow is my 46th wedding anniversary. Now there's something that really dates our generation!Congrats, RT. If we had been able to stand each other, I would have hit 42 this year. Instead, I have hit 20 as a divorcee. Thanks to you guys. I have often thought that neither of us had any idea what we were getting into and just as easily could have married someone else. But via blind dumb luck I married the right woman for the wrong reasons. I heard a guy once say that he was scared to get married because about half of them last forever!!! |
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darth_vader
Veteran Cruncher A galaxy far, far away... Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Post Count: 514 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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<snip> I have often thought that neither of us had any idea what we were getting into and just as easily could have married someone else. But via blind dumb luck I married the right woman for the wrong reasons.<end snip> I know the feeling. 27 years last month... still going strong. There's no substitute for good luck (and hard work). - D |
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darth_vader
Veteran Cruncher A galaxy far, far away... Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Post Count: 514 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Heck -- I even remember "watching" shows on the radio. We got our first TV in 1948 (My father worked for Hallicrafters which manufactured them for a short while in the late 40's and early 50's). Me too. The Shadow, Sky King.... We got our first TV in 1963, so that we could watch the Kennedy funeral. I was still a preschooler ... but somehow I understood the gravity of the situation. Growing up in San Francisco in the 1960's gave me a front row seat to a lot of cultural history... and I was young enough to remember the sixties (except that one Airplane concert in the park ....). I don't think we'll see another decade like it for a very long time. (Explanation for you young'ns ... there's a saying that "If you remember the sixties, you weren't there.") - D |
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