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Hey Guys........lily here!

With all the youngsters like Eric and Jaga on this web site.....I thought I`d go back to memory lane and ask us old timers to fill in the gaps....kind of a history lesson in time.

BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU.....

AND, WHILE THE EGGNOG CURDLES, HERE ARE SOME THOUGHTS ON THE AGING PROCESS., and something for the kids.



1974: Long hair
2004: Longing for hair

1974: KEG
2004: EKG

1974: Acid rock
2004: Acid reflux

1974: Moving to California because
it's cool
2004: Moving to California because
it's warm

1974: Trying to look like Marlon Brando
or Liz Taylor
2004: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
1974: Seeds and stems

2004: Roughage


1974: Hoping for a BMW
2004: Hoping for a BM

1974: The Grateful Dead
2004: Dr. Kevorkian

1974: Going to a new, hip, joint
2004: Getting a new hip joint


1974: Rolling Stones
2004: Kidney Stones


1974: Being called into the principal's office
2004: Calling the principal's office


1974: Screw the system
2004: Upgrade the system


1974: Disco
2004: Costco

1974: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2004: Children begging you to get their heads shaved

1974: Passing the drivers' test
2004: Passing the vision test

1974: ...Whatever
2004: ...Depends

AND...

Just in case you weren't feeling old enough today, this should change things.
Each year the staff at Beloit College, WI, puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of the year's incoming freshmen.
Here's this year's list:

The people who are starting college this fall, across the nation, were born in 1986.

They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.

Their lifetime has always included AIDS.

Bottle caps have always been screw-off and plastic.

The CD was introduced the year they were born!

They have always had an answering machine.

They have always had cable TV.

They cannot imagine not having a remote control.

Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.

Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave oven.

They never took a swim and worried about Jaws.
They don't know what hard contact lenses are.

They never heard: "Where's the Beef?", or "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", or "The pause that refreshes".

McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.

They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter, nor have they ever seen one.

Do you feel old yet?

Notice the larger type, that's for us senior citizens.

.......GO AHEAD AND ADD TO THE LIST, NO MATTER WHAT PART OF THE WORLD YOU LIVE IN!

GOD BLESS

lily

Thank you for the smile and humor Lily. Here is my list:
TV???????????
I remember the following radio programs.
The Green Hornet, Jack Armstrong "The All American Boy", The creaking Door, Grand Central Station, Mayor of the Town, Kate Smith, The shadow, Archie Andrews, Lights Out.

Comics:
The Katznjammer Kids, Gasoline Alley, Nancy, Prince Valient, Archie, Joe Palooka.

Signs Of The Times:
Rationing, Black Market in rationed items, The Western Union delivery man with bad news, The small flags in the window with Blue or Gold Stars, Black outs, Air Raid Warnings.

Education:
Ink wells in desks, Learning Phonics, The teacher that you Thought was mean and cruel only because she knew that you were capable of doing better (who remembers the nice ones?)

Medicine:
Sulfa and Penicillin were wonder drugs, iron lungs were wheeled into a home, during the Summer, swimming pools were verboten.

Modern Marvels:
The ball-point pen was introduced.

McDonalds and Burger King?????????????
I remember cruising the drive-ins on Woodward ave. on a Friday night after the football game.
Burning leaves on a Fall day.
Hayrides.
"The Prettiest Girl I Ever Saw Was Sipping Cider Through A Straw"
12 or 13 very good hamburgers could be bought at a White Castle for a Dollar.
The Saturday Matinee at a theater cost 9 cents.
1, 5, 10, 25 Cent pieces were deposited in a box so that you could have electricity in the house.
The coal delivery man, The ice delivery man, the vegtable and Fruit man who pulled his wagon through the streets with a horse.

That is a partial list for me Lily. I am sure that Carl can give you a good run-down on Flash Gordon. "Let The Good Times Roll". <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> :music: :music: <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Lets not forget the Studebaker The Hudson,and Hupmobile.. Then there was the Packard that the Bankers drove

The ten cent pitcher of beer

The sound of the beer bell Polka coming from te corner Gin Mill on a warm summer nighr

Sundays at the Polish picnic grounds.. Drinking beer and dancing to the Polka and Oberek

No air condition.. Screens in the window..

No TV The old Philco or Zenith radio with a record player

The Polish owned grocery store on each corner where you could go and order one pork chop.. The bill was put in a little book and paid on pay day.

When a kid fell of off a bike.. Five Mothers would come to his or her aid

Your Uncle who you could call to replace the spark plugs in the old clunker

Going to the market every Saturday with your Mother with a basket in her hand.

Watching your mother buy a live chicken fo Sunday dinner.. The trick was to part the feathers and look for yellow skin.. That was great Smaltz

OH my, such wonderful memories


The time when a guy could get excited just by holding a girls hand

Love!!!!! that posting of your Izcuchet.

Frank, " watching your mother buy a live chicken for Sunday dinner"? Do you also get a civil war pension?
Only kidding Frank

Mason
I am pushing 80 yrs old.. I saw a lot of water flow under the bridge.. No civil war pension. But one hell of a WW2 pension.Along with a Police pension,and SS.. I have been retired very comfortably since 1962..So what. Me worry.. Nah no need to.

i can remebr popping popcorn in a electric popper and im only 22!!! and i still do. my grandparents always talk about life growing up, there was frisco kid, gene autry, lone ranger,etc. with my parents generation, there was hippies,bell bottoms (i wear them), disco (I WILL SURVIVUE__BEST SONG, walking a mile to bus stop, etc. funny how things change? i wish i could buy 12 hamburgers for a dollar! itll be lunch 4 a few days.... :rolling:

What about your moms beehive???

Or dad and his bermudas?

All of us, mom, me , Wendy, Libbi with "pixie" cuts...

Remember staying up late on Friday nights to watch Brady Bunch...and hating Marcia and loving Jan?

What about the Partridge Family?? Remeber when Laurie got her braces and could pick up radio signals?? Never happened to me...

And "Danny" was a kid and not a drug addict?

Mom cried when the POW's were released... remember when they came off the plane and Walter Croncrite got choked up? Remember when you asked mom about Uncle John (not really an uncle, just your real uncle Eddies best friend) and mom explained that he wasn't coming back..he had died in a tunnel....then remember when you were old enough to understand just how brave Uncle John really was?....

Remember the "first steps for mankind" Dad let us stay up late to watch them walk on the moon...cool...

Remember when John Travolta was in Saturday Night Fever?...first movie mom let me watch that had a man in his undies.... <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> we knew all the dances...remember the Hustle?

Remember watching the "Exorcist" and having the hall light on for a year afterwards....

The Beach Boys
The Doors
Bread
Barbra Striesand
KISS
Led Zeppelin
Tom Petty
Cars
Joni Mitchell
Queen
Rush
AC/DC Back in Black on 8TRACK!!!!!

Transistor radios...AM!!! :music:

RECORDS!!!!!!!!!!

1 TV in the house....
phone with a rotary dialer...
huge gigantic microwave....

swimming at the Y and then later at the highschool for a dime all day!...
running through the sprinklers...with the whole neighborhood!!!!
riding bikes with banana seats....and wicker baskets..you had to have just the right one..with the flowers on the front, yellow and pink and blue...and streemers from the handlebars...

Schools without metal detectors
Skateboards and surfboards and ragtops... vans tennis shoes slip ons...
concert tees...didn't count if you went if you didn't have the T-shirt. (Buying the shirt with babysitting money from your friend who went and bought one for you so you could say you went <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> )

Cholos vs surfers (if there were gangs..I didn't know it)

all day everyday on the beach with baby oil...no sunscreen....(now it's no sun and self-tanning lotion)
Huntington Beach Pier and Sunset going to Jack in the Box and eating sandy food...
Jacks surfshop..
Allen and Paul and Kelly and Adam
Sherrie and Joy and Karen and Julie
miss you guys!!!

Taking the bus to the beach..and it was safe to do so....

Ahhhh... the golden years, like Bruce Springsteen used to sing about...
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I'm 68. I remember:

Radio:
Radio shows that Bob listed plus:
Terry & The Pirates, Superman, Suspense, Escape, Jack Benny, Your Hit Parade

Movie serials:
Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Capt. Marvel, Superman, Dick Tracy

WW2:
Buy War bonds & stamps
USA drops atom bomb on Japan
Neighborhood block parties when war ended

After WW2:

Cold War between USA & USSR: A waste

Early TV:
Capt. Video, Howdy Doody
Milton Berle, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca

Korean War:
Truman fires General MaCarthur (a mistake IMO)
Eisenhower endes the war

French-Algerian War (1954-1962):
French army kills almost a million Algerians & loses the war.

Wow I am very new to this forum and I amazed at how well I can identify with many of you. Growing up in Detroit I remember, Chris Craft boats, New Era Potato chips and Sanders chocolate. Hello to all od you !! Judith

Judith. Welcome to the forum. You're an old Detroiter if you remember Faygo, Vernors, Pfiefer Beer, Kowalski's Quality Meats, The Bob-Lo Boat and Midnight Crusis, Michigan Outdoors with Mort Neff and Altas golden lager as the sponser, scooping up Smelt during the Smelt run. Going to the local police station to get your drivers license and when that examening officer was through with you, you were afraid to drive. In the Mid-West Hamms Beer "The Beer From Sky Blue Waters". In detroit it was the old Strohs Brewing plant and then there was that time of year when Boch Beer came out. Soupy Sales, who started out in Detroit, Hudson's Dept. Store and the Fisher Bldg. with the Fisher Theatre. Belle Isle and the unlimited hydro-plane racing. The Rooster Tail, a bar and restraunt set up to watch the spectical. Singing Sams Pizza. The trip to Windsor to try some of the adult beverages. The run to Toledo to get a case of that 3.2 beer and then the run back to Detroit or Hamtramck. <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> :music: :music: <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />