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Feel Old?
email from a friend | 6/11/2023 | unknown

Posted on 06/17/2023 5:02:57 AM PDT by sodpoodle

Do you feel old?

The TV show Bonanza premiered 60 yrs. ago.

The Beatles split 50 yrs ago.

The TV show Laugh In premiered nearly 52 yrs ago.

The movie Wizard of Oz is 80 yrs old.

Elvis is dead 42 yrs. He’d be 84 today.

Michael Jackson’s Thriller video is 36 yrs old.

Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin dead 49 yrs.

John Lennon dead 39 yrs .

Mickey Mantle retired 51 yrs ago.

The movie Back To The Future is 35 yrs old.

The movie Saturday Night Fever is 42 yrs old.

The Ed Sullivan show ended 47 yrs ago.

The Brady Bunch TV show premiered 50 yrs ago.

The triplets on the TV show My Three Sons are now 50 yrs old.

Tabitha from the TV show Bewitched is 55 yrs old.

The Corvette turned 66 yrs old this year.

The Mustang is 55.

Gotta be a senior to appreciate most of them.


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To: sodpoodle

What about WW3 (I forget how to write Roman numeral 3 on keyboard)?


21 posted on 06/17/2023 6:02:34 AM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Obadiah

I remember when cigs were 35 cents a pack


22 posted on 06/17/2023 6:03:18 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Obadiah

When I was a teen, we used to drive over to the Cherokee Reservation and pay $1.10 for a carton of cigarettes...We’d buy all we could afford and come back to East Tennessee and sell them at a bowling alley for $2.50 a carton...We were cigarette bootleggers...LOL


23 posted on 06/17/2023 6:06:58 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: sodpoodle

As a kid, my dad would send me to the local store with a $2 bill and buy a carton of cigarettes, a gallon of milk, and a loaf of bread and get change back.


24 posted on 06/17/2023 6:13:09 AM PDT by Fish Speaker (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Oh, and, "Let's Go Brandon!")
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To: Rummyfan

It was 25 cents per gallon in 1974. There was a “gas shortage”; however, they discovered large deposits of the more expensive stuff.


25 posted on 06/17/2023 6:16:33 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: oldasrocks

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/6d4cdfe9-c092-4093-a743-f2dd9121c50c


26 posted on 06/17/2023 6:18:27 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: sodpoodle

I am old, but I don’t feel old.


27 posted on 06/17/2023 6:18:34 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: BBB333

Great story.


28 posted on 06/17/2023 6:21:04 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Obadiah

I started when they were 60 cents a pack. They seemed to go up a nickel a week.


29 posted on 06/17/2023 6:25:45 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: sodpoodle

I think the theme from Bonanza is the first music I ever heard.


30 posted on 06/17/2023 6:40:07 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: sodpoodle

At 63 I feel young, a bit self-conscious at recent weight gain, but do notice just how dated all of this is, things that seem fresh, now happened before most people I know were even born.


31 posted on 06/17/2023 6:43:05 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Donald Tantrum? No Thank You. We Can Do Better! I am a Veteran Supporting Veteran DeSantis.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

MLK and RFK were still alive when I was born, and the grotesque oaf LBJ was still president.


32 posted on 06/17/2023 6:46:17 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: JBW1949

In high school (ear.y/mid 70s) I worked for the local supermarket (one of a major chain) and I distinctly remember cigarettes were 42 cents per pack. You had to hit a special key on the cash register because they were accounted for differently than other groceries.

I was just looking in my curio cabinet and saw a small commemorative snifter from my 25th HS reunion. I quickly did the math and thought, “oh, that’s 1999 - not so long ago.” Then realized my 50th will be NEXT YEAR!!!!


33 posted on 06/17/2023 6:49:51 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Baldwin77

Jurassic Park just celebrated its 30th anniversary. Here’s another fun fact: “Jurassic Park” was released on the same date as “E.T: The Extra-terrestrial”, June eleventh! And speaking of “E.T”, it just celebrated its 41st anniversary!


34 posted on 06/17/2023 6:49:55 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: John Milner

I got through high school in mid ‘60’s...Military late ‘60’s to early ‘70’s...I have a 60 year reunion coming up pretty soon...(sigh)


35 posted on 06/17/2023 6:53:38 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: TermLimits4All

While it isn’t apparent to me ... have you ever been to the Dan Blocker museum in O’Donnell, Texas?


36 posted on 06/17/2023 6:55:09 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: sodpoodle

JFK has been dead 60 years.

And my TV could only get 3 TV stations. (That was enough for back then).


37 posted on 06/17/2023 6:56:05 AM PDT by adorno
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To: BBB333

Didn’t Jon Erik Hexum blow his brains out (unintentionally) with a blank? I think he was goofing around on set and had no idea the damage would be so great. Something like that. Or maybe it was someone else . . .


38 posted on 06/17/2023 6:58:35 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: oldasrocks
Built new home for $28.000. and the list goes on.

Yep, my parents bought their first home in the S.F. Bay Area for $28,000. Dad was stationed at Alameda Naval Air Station and my brother and I were little kids. My sister, Kid #3 was born there.

39 posted on 06/17/2023 7:02:02 AM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: sodpoodle

Heck NO, I don’t feel ‘Old’ - just arthritic is all...


40 posted on 06/17/2023 7:22:37 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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