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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 05:53 PM Original message |
How long ago are the 50's? |
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SharonRB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
1. I was a child in the 50s |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. When I talk to my folks, "after the war" is always |
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SharonRB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:15 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I would say the same for my parents |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:20 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. The weird part for me is realizing that 1950 is more than half a |
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SharonRB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:46 PM Response to Reply #4 |
15. I hear ya |
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qnr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 08:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
43. I know. Kind of strange to be more than 1/5 as old as the whole country |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-06-06 09:13 PM Response to Reply #2 |
63. Always after the last *declared* war. |
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GalleryGod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:57 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. And Sharon and I both recall when these guys "Invaded" |
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SharonRB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 09:58 AM Response to Reply #20 |
44. We were so much younger then... |
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greatauntoftriplets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
25. Also August of 1949.... |
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SharonRB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 09:59 AM Response to Reply #25 |
45. There certainly have been. |
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smitty (580 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
5. I remember the 50s well |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
6. I remember when Roosevelt died. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:30 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Wow - that made quite an impression on you then |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:32 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. My earliest memory is from the spring of 1968 - I wasn't even two yet. |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Oh yeah. 60s is recent history for me. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:24 PM Response to Reply #7 |
37. I remember my mother announcing that Stalin had died |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
8. When I say the "postwar era" I am referring to post WWII. |
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AKPacker (335 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
11. I was born in 58. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:40 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Well, I'm not so much interested in what you remember as I am |
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AKPacker (335 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:06 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. Our memories |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:13 PM Response to Reply #13 |
28. My mother and father had tickets for what was to have been... |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 12:06 PM Response to Reply #28 |
49. What's weird now is that Vietnam vets are old guys. |
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smitty (580 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:38 PM Response to Original message |
12. One of my fondest memories of the 50s is |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 03:43 PM Response to Reply #12 |
59. Jonny Podres, right? |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
14. 'The war' will always be WWII to me |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:51 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. I think you're right about that. |
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smitty (580 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
16. Back in November of 2003 |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:53 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. The oddest thing that ever happened to me |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:56 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. We remember Kennedy vividly from then but for so many now |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:10 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. A tarnished icon. |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:16 PM Response to Reply #19 |
31. We can understand it because we know people who lived it... |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
21. Born in 1943 |
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smitty (580 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:12 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. My old neighborhood on Long Island is still there |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 03:38 PM Response to Reply #27 |
56. I grew up in Roslyn, Long Island, and my neighborhood's still there. |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:24 PM Response to Reply #21 |
36. Sputnik! On our local TV stations they would tell when Sputnik |
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henslee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:09 PM Response to Original message |
23. I dig the pre transistor fifties. |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:11 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Vacuum tubes and testing them at the drug store. |
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smitty (580 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:14 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Having to wait for the radio or TV to warm up before it could play. |
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henslee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:14 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Pop into ebay and see what some of those tube amplifiers are worth |
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smitty (580 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:18 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. Unfortunately all my 50s collectibles |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
32. I remember the 50's quite well. |
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Benfea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
33. Vietnam ended before I learned how to talk. -NT |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
35. I was around for almost all of the 1950s |
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Shine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
38. Yes, Time is relative for all of us, isn't it? |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
39. I remember my parents celebrating because "the war is over" |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 08:07 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. I was 12 when the mass suicide in Jonestown occurred... |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 12:01 PM Response to Reply #39 |
48. "It's still 1986 somewhere in my head" |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 03:31 PM Response to Reply #48 |
53. Ha ha! |
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CatholicEdHead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
40. A while ago, I remember hearing the "olides" on the radio |
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Capn Sunshine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 03:39 PM Response to Reply #40 |
57. Child of the 50's |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
41. The whole communication thing blows my mind |
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yvr girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
46. The first war I remember is Viet Nam |
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momophile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
47. I was born during Watergate and before Vietnam ended... |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
50. My MOTHER was just being born in the fifties. |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 03:38 PM Response to Reply #50 |
55. Same here |
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ghostsofgiants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 03:42 PM Response to Reply #50 |
58. My dad was born in '58 I think. |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-06-06 07:32 PM Response to Reply #58 |
60. My mom entered the world in '55. |
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billyskank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
51. If you say "the war" to me, I understand you to mean WW2 |
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DarienComp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
52. I was born in 1980. |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
54. Born the day the NYT carried the huge headline: "HITLER DIES!" |
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Burma Jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-06-06 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
61. After the War = Nam |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-06-06 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
62. I was born in 1970...I have vague memories of watching the fall of |
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