- 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 August 1970.. AND we
had already been out of high school for 7 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
"house calls"
- 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 33 years ago
(1972)!! 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.. Hell we never knew what they even were!
- The Beatles, Elvis, and countless other rock stars came and WENT during our 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
Elsie's at 16!!
- Do you remember coming home from school and watching "American Bandstand"? IN BLACK and
WHITE.
- 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 33 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 12 Presidents.. Can you name them in order?
Click here to see if you were
right!
- Just think how time goes by… It has been 25 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.
- The Number 1 song the week we graduated was
IT’S MY PARTY by Lesley Gore, when was the last time you heard that song?
- 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.
Rock and roll was still a singles medium at this
point; US LP charts were dominated by the likes of Andy Williams and comedian
Allen Sherman, who hit the top of the charts twice during 1963. But there were
signs of change: Little Stevie Wonder topped single and LP charts with a
breakthrough live recording; and folkies Peter, Paul & Mary became the first
of many acts to have success with songs written by Bob Dylan. Dylan himself
produced the year's best album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.
- Other artists who would dominate the mid and late 60's
were just finding their way: the Beatles released their first two LP's, though
neither was available in the States yet: Please Me was enjoyable if
trivial, while With The Beatles started to reveal their formidable songwriting
talent. The Beach Boys were a huge commercial success, but their album releases
were inconsistent: Surfer Girl was the best of three albums charting during the
year. The Motown machine was also far from its peak: the best effort coming from
Detroit was Mary Wells' Two Lovers. James Brown had his first major crossover
success with his thrilling Live At The Apollo, while fellow Georgian Otis
Redding struggled with his debut, Pain In My Heart.
- Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05
- In 1963 gasoline was 27.9 cents a gallon. Beer was
.50 cents.. Cigarettes were $1.99 a carton! And milk was delivered to your house in BOTTLES.
- Some of us remember when the ticket price for the Paramount Theatre was
.50 cents for a Saturday matinee.. Now there is no
Paramount 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
- Do you remember "Parkside Drive
Inn" Vanilla and cherry cokes.
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