Posted on 09/09/2014 7:36:46 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Thanks Kiddo !!!
I sort of flew past 60. I’ve retired twice and now back to work again as a journalist. My grandkids look bewildered when I tell them I could listen to the Bee Gees all day long. They groan when I offer to gift them with any of my clothes.
I fondly remember cherry and chocolate phospates at the soda fountain. I recall when no one felt the need to lock their doors or cars. I remember what a thrill it was to have permission to wear pantsuits to the office for the first time.
Most of all, I so fondly recall the time I met Sen. Barry Goldwater and he put his arm around my shoulder as we posed for the picture. I was in a cloud carrying home his signed copy of Conscience of a Conservative. God rest his soul.
- depends now means more than undetermined
- you are now a prime target for the knockout game
- Ethel Mertz is starting to look good
- Ginger vs. Mary Ann ? ...nope..Lovey Howell
- trying to get out of the car
- parking by sound
- locked bathrooms
- low pressure..you never know when you are done
Shoot most of those apy to me and I only just turned fifty!
Time flies. I’m trying to make it through the 60’s into the my 70’s.
Unfortunately, I had to retire at 58 due to cancer of the bile ducts. I barely survived a “whipple” (radical surgical) procedure and the prognosis was maybe 2 - 5 years at most. I was disabled and had to close my business and start living life one day at a time after that. It’s been nearly 12 years and each day is a blessing.
I had planned to retire at 65 and start playing some R&R with my old band members from my high school and college days. Didn’t happen. I was 58 and they were still working. Sad to say some never made it to retirement :( and the rest won’t be eligible for parole for a few more years :).
I now have the time and am more active in the conservative grassroots movement in Texas. I get to meet some of the local and state candidates and representatives from time to time. My wife is also disabled and more active than me. She is bound and determined to meet and shake Greg Abbott’s hand. And I think she will do it. Disabled people are that way when they set their mind to it. It’s a shame that we were not as active when we were younger, working, and less disabled.
I never met Barry Goldwater but I can relate the day Kennedy was assassinated. I had skipped my morning classes at UT-Arlington to go into Fort Worth and see Kennedy (and LBJ and maybe Jackie) stand on the balcony of the Worth Hotel at around 10:30 and speak. It was cloudy and kind of foggy and I could barely see them from the parking lot below. I could not hear much from my vantage point and it seemed like the whole deal lasted no longer than 5 minutes. Anyway, the crowd began to disperse and I decided to do some shopping at Leonards department store while downtown and then head back to my mom and dad’s home in Cleburne to do my laundry.
When I arrived, mom was at the kitchen screen door to greet me. The first thing I did when I entered was to tell mom why I was home and then turn on the TV to hear the news about Kennedy’s visit to Dallas. The time was a little after 12:30 and the noon news program was still on. You may not know it, but Dallas was very conservative and Protestant at the time and Kennedy was liberal and Catholic. And everybody knew what LBJ represented. There was a lot of interest (political tension) and people turned out to see the President and FLOTUS and to see how this would go down.
I had no longer started my laundry and sat down in front of the TV, when the bulletin came across the news desk that “something” had happened during the parade. For the next 20 - 30 minutes, bits and pieces of news, some accurate and some inaccurate, told us that Kennedy had been “shot” and was either dead or still alive. Some unconfirmed news source stated that a priest had be summoned. We knew then that the President was dead. The official bulletin from CBS confirmed it a little after 1:00. The next three days were filled with anger and sorrow as people tried to rationalize what had happened.
All this to say, none of my kids or grandsons were alive when Kennedy was shot and those of us that were can relate to our younger generation where they were and their experiences when it happened. The same can be said of the first moon landing.
I didn’t mean to bore you but older people tend to be that way sometimes. May God bless you and may GOD bless America.
Being “over sixty”....means being able to look back over the last few decades woth some degree of perspective and wondering whatever became of the world as we used to know it.
2.You always leave an extra house and car key in some hidden spot.
3. Time goes faster, I don't understand it, bet even Einstein knew it
4.You remember the stages of television, 50's Westerns, followed by spy shows, family situation shows, cop shows, investigative shows. reality show.
Yeah, whenever I think of buying something I have to remind myself that I am basically getting it for my Grand children.
” We talked her out of water-skiing on her 90th birthday though. (She was serious about that too!)”-—
Yikes ! She sounds like quite a lady.
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Good for you.
My only child says he'll not have any children, he's 46 now.
Thank you, I though I was alone in that feeling. And was I ever in my 20’s. What happened to my 30’s...damn if I remember. I know I am me until I look in the mirror. Who is that wrinkled old lady looking back at me.
And our parents, at least in my case, were born when Wilson was President.
Its both! Hahahahaha
Thanks for sharing your memory
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