On Dec 29, 2010, at 8:46 PM, Elizabeth Masoner wrote: > Ok, the age question thread made me start thinking how different each > generation's experiences are. Mine are kind of a mismash because my parents > were much older before they started their family and almost all of my > cousins were old enough to be my parents. Thought it might be fun to do > some comparing of stuff we remember. > > The Aldridge Family radio program > The Shadow radio program
Don't remember those. But I remember my mother listening to soaps on the radio while she ironed. "Life of a Bachelor" was one of them -- and of course General Hospital. > It being safe to eat anything you got on Halloween (homemade/unwrapped/etc) Popcorn balls and pennies used to piss me off. > Riding the go-kart down the main street in town and not getting in trouble > with the police Never had a go kart. But I drove my 34 Ford while sitting on a milk crate and pulling the throttle open with a piece of wire. > All grown ups having the authority to call you down if you acted up in > public My fourth grade teacher used to beat the crap out of me. > Walking home from school to eat lunch Every day. School was just a bit more than half a mile from home. > The first big CB craze (my dad bought us handheld CBs to use as walkie > talkies - wow did we hear some stuff) I had a CB in the deuce and a half on which I hauled my Corvette funny car across the country -- once a month from Chicago to Miami in the winter. The 'Vette was yellow, so my handle was banana boat. "You got that ol' banana boat out here in the Montfort lane. We got the hammer down and we're sunshine bound." > > Challenger Explosion Yeah, not good. > Ronald Reagan getting shot JFK getting shot sticks more in my mind. I was at the Maxwell Street Open Market in Chicago. I was in high school, but we had been released early for some reason. > When the K1000 was metal and glass (my first SLR) When the K series Pentax cameras were released, I switched to Fuji, because they retained the screw mount. > Lawn darts that had points Switchblades that had points. Paul > > ~Liz > http://lizmasoner.wordpress.com/ > http://thornsnclaws.wordpress.com/ > http://photography.about.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
