They call us ”The Elderly”

[Hazelelponi]

At my vocational school in high school, I always thought typing was for girls. Boy was I wrong.

Yeah I didn't learn typing either and I'm a woman (born in '68), simply because I wasn't getting into secretarial work...

Hahaha. I didn't have much foresight when I was younger.

Kids that type 170 wpm these days just make me a little jealous... Lol

 

[Laodicean60]

There was a moral underlayment that is almost gone now... we see the effect on everything

I wasn't brought up religious but I never liked Heckle and Jeckle or the Roadrunner (a couple of others?) cartoons because the characters were mean in my opinion. I viewed my son-in-law as Eddie Haskel in Leave it to Beaver. lol Does anyone remember Threes Company, as a young person, my thoughts weren't pure. Looking back I recognize how media shaped my thinking. And today, now I know what my parents were thinking.

 

[Laodicean60]

Standing. Along the side of the road waiting for President Kennedy to go by in his white limo. We waved and he waved back. Typing this tears came. I can still see it in my mind. He was sure special.

You showing your age lol. This is the first remembrance of trauma. I was 3 years old and my mom was balling her eyes out and confused I was wondering why the TV was making my mom cry. I can still remember the image.

 

[Laodicean60]

The op isn’t really a Christian, the owner of this forum, through many accounts on here he runs, he wants you to ‘CHANGE’. He wants you to be a pro lgbt antichrist like him, I know him and he ain’t Christian. Good luck at the judgment don’t fall for it anyone.

Look, Dude try not to be too legalistic. All I see here is people giving past experiences and seeing how they relate to my own. Now that I'm older I kind of like reminiscing on the past.

 

[MForbes]

The op isn’t really a Christian, the owner of this forum, through many accounts on here he runs, he wants you to ‘CHANGE’. He wants you to be a pro lgbt antichrist like him, I know him and he ain’t Christian. Good luck at the judgment don’t fall for it anyone.

jibber jabber.....

 

[MForbes]

Walt Disney every Sunday for me.

Yup....Wonderful World of Color (later changed to Wonderful World of Disney) was our favorite show Sunday evenings. What I didn't care for was Lawrence Welk....sometimes us kids had to sit through that if we wanted to watch our Disney show.

 

[Laodicean60]

Yup....Wonderful World of Color (later changed to Wonderful World of Disney) was our favorite show Sunday evenings. What I didn't care for was Lawrence Welk....sometimes us kids had to sit through that if we wanted to watch our Disney show.

I guess Lawrence was a thing back then for our parents. I hid out in my room. Learn something new every day "Wonderful World of Color ", and I forgot the name "Wonderful World of Disney",

 

[MForbes]

I guess Lawrence was a thing back then for our parents. I hid out in my room. Learn something new every day "Wonderful World of Color ", and I forgot the name "Wonderful World of Disney",

It was Wonderful World of Color from '61 to '69, and then changed to Wonderful World of Disney. We never saw the "color" though. We had a black and white TV set until around '72.

 

[Laodicean60]

We never saw the "color" though. We had a black and white TV set until around '72.

Same here, our kids don't know how hard we had it.

 

[MForbes]

Same here, our kids don't know how hard we had it.

We had it hard.....our parents had it even harder....and our grandparents were in the Great Depression.

It's incredible to think back now. Our black and white TV set was 13"....and all 5 of us sat around watching it. Didn't think twice about how small it was. When we finally got our color set, it was 19"....HOLY COW it was BIG to us!

And nowadays....well, I don't think I need to explain, do I?

 

[Tuur]

It was when The Lawrence Welk Show was in syndication, but they did cover One Toke Over the Line. I kid you not. I guess they were being current.
It's interesting to think about the old shows, because we had limited TV reception, and it seems one station changed affiliates.

I can't nail down the earliest show I can recall due to syndication. That mixes things up. The earliest one I can pin down to an exact date is when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. Can close my eyes and still see it. Can remember bits of JFK's funeral. The boots backward in the stirrups really stands out, as does the drum cadence. Can remember a theme for The Huntley-Brinkley Report. I had to look it up. It's Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, 2nd Movement.

For whatever reason, I could always remember music. I don't recall watching The Ed Sullivan Show, but must have at one point for when I watched a rerun one night, immediately recognized the theme.

There was a syndicated program we watched Sunday mornings while getting ready for church. It was called Jubilee, and was gospel singing. That show ran over a long span of years.

 

[Tuur]

We never saw the "color" though. We had a black and white TV set until around '72.

We got a color set maybe about that time. Let's see...yep. We saw the Apollo 17 mission in color.

 

[returntosender]

I was enamoured with Liberace, perry como, when i came home from school. Plopped down in front of the TV with my tuna sandwich

 

[MForbes]

There was a syndicated program we watched Sunday mornings while getting ready for church. It was called Jubilee, and was gospel singing. That show ran over a long span of years.

I remember that show.

Jubilee (Jubilee)
Jubilee (Jubilee)
You're invited to this Happy Jubilee!
Jubilee (Jubilee)
Jubilee (Jubilee)
You're invited to this Gospel Jubilee!

Of course, who can forget the Davey and Goliath cartoon on Sunday morning?

I can also remember when JFK was shot. My mom was bawlin' her eyes out....

 

[Tuur]

Okay, how many of us remember using slide rules and log tables? Taught myself how to use a slide rule I bought from the drug store, but a few years later transitioned to a scientific calculator. Some teachers and professors required us to use the then ubiquitous logarithm tables in the back of math and science text books. But a coworker who was just a year behind me in school had never used a slide rule.

 

[Laodicean60]

We had it hard.....our parents had it even harder....and our grandparents were in the Great Depression.

I didn't realize it till I was older, can you imagine how our kids are going to think about their youth 20-30 years from now? I still remember the 36" TV I had and it was a two-man lift.

 

[MForbes]

I didn't realize it till I was older, can you imagine how our kids are going to think about their youth 20-30 years from now? I still remember the 36" TV I had and it was a two-man lift.

There are times when I wish we knew what we know now when we were kids. I would've been the "perfect" son, and would've understood what my parents went through and were going through. I sometimes lament what I put my parents through.

 

[Laodicean60]

Okay, how many of us remember using slide rules and log tables? Taught myself how to use a slide rule I bought from the drug store, but a few years later transitioned to a scientific calculator. Some teachers and professors required us to use the then ubiquitous logarithm tables in the back of math and science text books. But a coworker who was just a year behind me in school had never used a slide rule.

You must have been a nerd. jk I never used slide rule but I remember asking for a TI calculator and boy was it expensive. Did any of your moms have to work? When my mom started working it was a shock to me.

 

[MForbes]

Did any of your moms have to work? When my mom started working it was a shock to me.

My mom started working after I graduated high school and joined the Army. Not sure if she needed to work, or just wanted to work.

 

[Laodicean60]

My mom started working after I graduated high school and joined the Army. Not sure if she needed to work, or just wanted to work.

My mom started working around 75-76. I tried to join the Navy in 78 but I had a hearing problem with too much rock and roll. Then in 81, I cheated at MEP and was able to get into the Army. I pulled back the curtain and pressed the button when I saw the guy next to me pressing. I had to take the hearing test twice. I was desperate to join the service because I knew where I was headed because friends were going to jail at that time.