From: Scott Loveless
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.
I rarely walked to school. My dad's route to work took him right down
the street my elementary school was on, and we always caught a ride with
him. I've got a sister who's 11 months younger than I am, and we pretty
much went through school together. It was too far to walk home and back
for lunch, especially since I could have taught Billy in Family Circus a
thing or two about wandering.
In Junior High and High School, I got dropped off as near the school as
my father's drive to work took him. My family had an old car and once my
sister got her driver's license, I got to drive to High School in the
mornings, and my sister drove the car home in the afternoons while I
walked to work before walking home later in the evening.
I remember the Kennedy Assassination. I was in gym class, out on the
field playing touch football (because I never learned how to do a lay-up
and never got picked for basketball). The gym teacher came out to tell
us the President had been shot. One of the students said "good, I never
liked him" and the gym teacher went off on him.
First time I'd ever heard a teacher say anything bad about a student.
I won't give my opinion on lawn darts, except to say it's definitely not
P.C.
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