Anybody remember Xray machines in shoe stores? Hell, I can remember when ball point pens were a new thing. Gawd, I'm old...

Saturday morning TV. Sky King. The Lone Ranger. Westerns ...where they fired 18 shots (you never saw a reload ...or blood!)

And you had to love the 'wrist action' as they sort of threw the gun barrel from 'up' to 'horizontal' as they fired ...several more F.P.S. I assume?

Y'all is a bunch of old farts! :D

"Muppet Babies" was my favorite Saturday morning cartoon.

My parents didn't get cable until '90, so I did grow up with changing the dial and we had 13 channels is SoCal!

I do remember the candy counter at Sears, I can't remember the name of the mall, (it wasn't Monteclair Plaza). My dad would get us chocolate-covered peanuts and we got to wipe our hands on our jeans--and not tell mom.

"Days before dial phones, the operators asked what number you wanted to call. Party line, you had to wait until your neighbor hung up to make a call...."

Wow! I grew up in a small community, 15 miles from the nearest town. We had the local telephone office in our home from 1946 to 1976. I was allowed to 'take calls' from the time I was 10. When Mom & Dad went to church, I was your operator! "Number please?"

Thanks for the memory!

Les

Ice makers...my Dad didn't think they had been "perfected"!?!

West Point, MIT grad degrees in Civil and Nuc Engineering and he couldn't wrap his arms around an ice maker!

His opinions on color TV are best left to the Flat Earth folks...;)

Microwave ovens, that was Buck Rogers...

I remember:

When our phone number began with two letters;

Looking into the back of the TV set and watching the tubes as they warmed up - I will never forget the smell when they were hot; and

Our dog's "jangling" collar/tags triggering the remote (that only advanced the channel, not backwards!) for the TV when he ran by.

Few years later:

Microwave popcorn at 7-11;

8-track and big, padded head phones listening to "The Wall";

My first Sony Walkman - truly "space age" miniaturization;

The computer at my Dad's office that filled a room and came with an IBM guy to run it;

Girls looked more innocent and played more naughtily. :)

Best,

Kurt

I remember about 3 years ago.........

That years grad class was born the year I graduated (well most of them :) )

There was news story about the things this class has never known and always known.

They always lived while HIV and AIDS was with us.

They always had CD's

They never heard of Jordache Jeans (sp?)

45? LP? Album? What?

And the list went on.....

These kids were born in 87, now in there 20's....

Feel free to add what has changed since you grew up compared to this group.

This only came to light again for me, as my 20 year reunion is in September........

Cheers

oops. A duplicate.

I'll tell you all the thing that blew me out of the water age-wise. A couple of months ago someone told me that the "We Are The World" song was 22 years old.........and I "about shat" as the expression goes.

WTF? 22 YEARS? Holy Mother of GOD.....it can't be.....but it is.

My son is almost exactly half my age - he turned 26 about a month ago and I am 52. His wife is pregnant, I did the math and it almost duplicates the age when his mother was pregnant with him. On closer examination, a LOT of his life is being done event by event at the same age as I did them. Thing is? I remember all these things so well and it doesn't seem possible it was half my lifetime ago!

Old timer reminders: Having to come inside the house when the street lights turned on...but begging to stay out to play hide-and-go-seek but really going to check out the hot neighbor wife through the window (not as bad as it sounds, I was only 10!)

Playing "over-the-line" for hours. Do kids play that anymore? Tube testers, "box boys" that ACTUALLY used boxes! Dad standing in line to cash his WEEKLY paycheck at the grocery store convenience booth. The produce scale that hung from the ceiling. "Hey Culligan Man!"

Several years ago I pulled into the drive-thru at a Burger King in my '67 Camaro (still have it) and the cute blonde in the window leaned out and said "I REALLY like your car!". I thought to myself "If i were a few years younger, I'd have a shot at a date with this chick". Wait... I counted back using my fingers and figured, "No, If I were 10 years younger I'd have a shot at a date with this chick." Wait... I counted back, using my toes now as well and came to the realization that if I were HALF my age, I might have had a shot at a date with that chick.

I smiled, kept my mouth shut, took my burger and left.

Brent, The sad truth? She really DID like your car.......only. She not only is not intersted in you, she doesn't even SEE you!

How do I know? I've had several young women comment about my 911 since its been complete. It is a light soft yellow (Sahara Beige) so it seems to attract them. I was ..ur...er "enjoying the company of" (ogling) this woman; she was maybe 30, I was answering her questions about the car and she said, "Gawd, my Mom is single and she would be so into someone with a car like this...".

Uh huh, thanks, nice to talk to you, Im out of here.

A few years ago I dropped one of my teen daughters off at school on my crotch rocket and a group of kids asked her what her brother's name was. :eek: (my daughter made the fatal error of telling me about it later and I used it everytime she claimed I was turning into an old fart :)) A few years ago, I also often got carded when buying beer at a convenient mart.


I guess I am slipping now (41 yrs OLD), I have not been carded for probably over a year.:(

Kind of funny....I used to hate getting carded....now I miss it :D

Ah yes. Cars used to have 20-gallon gas tanks and it was impossible to put $5 worth of gas in. That much gas would never fit.

I'm 28-going-on-29.

I start a college class today (welding) at the local community college. I have a feeling that I will be at the high end of the age spectrum.

I'm a pretty youthful looking 44 with a little grey around the temples. Wife wanted to go to KFC the other day and we placed an order.... the kid asked me if I wanted the senior discount!:eek:

Okay..........and so you're on a thread entitled, "Gawd, I Feel Old" because.....?

Up until two months ago, I still worked out at the university gym.

And I was starting to feel invisible to the hot young co-eds...

Legion,
You know it's your use of the expression "...going on 29" that is the dead giveaway that you're still young. No one I know my age says, "I'm 52 going on 53."

Instead they say what Garth said above, "...I'm a pretty youthful looking 44"....uh huh, right. Sorry Garth, you're apparently so "youthful looking" that the "kid" at the KFC ignored you! You (and I, more so) are absolutely invisible to any woman under say 30 years old and ESPECIALLY if she is truly exceptional looking. They get so much attention elsewhere ffrom men they actually look at, they couldn't see us with a tractor beam on us. Painful but true.

you don't have to rub it in...

:D:D Sorry. Didn't exactly mean to rub it in. Maybe (since I'm still older than you) I'm just so used to them not looking I don't notice it anymore. eek, that REALLY means I'm old!

P.S. Stop checking out the 17 year olds at KFC...and STOP eating KFC! That crap will give you a friggin heart attack...THEN who's going to be checking you out!;)