On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:03 PM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
I do. But only because we spent some time studying the history of radio in junior high. Two blocks of wood banged together makes a convincing Saturday Night Special on the radio. "The Shadow knows..." >> Walking home from school to eat lunch > > Every day. School was just a bit more than half a mile from home. I didn't walk home for lunch, but I walked to school and back from Kindergarten to the 6th grade with no adults in sight. >> 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. Luddite. <g> >> Lawn darts that had points Mom and Dad still have the ones we played with as kids. Sometimes I think we're all a bunch of pansies these days, but then I realized there's no way in hell I'd send my girls outside with Yard Darts. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ __o _'\<,_ (*)/ (*) -- 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.
