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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: Baldwin77

Omg we’re that old?


41 posted on 06/17/2023 7:42:14 AM PDT by 5inch38gunner
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To: Rummyfan

I got my first truck and was having a ball driving too fast, tuning and making it faster at least in acceleration. Point and valve float was always a problem and difficult to solve. All was well until gasoline went up to $0.279 a gallon! It put a dent in my fun.


42 posted on 06/17/2023 7:59:55 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: JBW1949

“I remember when cigs were 35 cents a pack”

In early ‘50’s Virginia, cigarettes were twenty cents per pack from vending machines. Actual cost was .19-cents per pack. Change was provided via a shiny new penny tucked under the cellophane wrapping. Apparently, “change” was placed during the packaging process. Presumably the change process also applied to over-the-counter sales.
Joke during the increasing popularity of color TV and Bonanza was who benefited most; NBC producers for the opening “flaming” credits of Bonanza or the actual TV manufacturers. My guess is that NBC and some affiliation with then premier color TV marketer RCA scored a twofer.


43 posted on 06/17/2023 8:48:50 AM PDT by Huaynero
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To: sodpoodle

At least I have money don’t have to work and don’t need libtards out their corrupt government


44 posted on 06/17/2023 9:04:03 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Blurb2350

Yes.


45 posted on 06/17/2023 9:10:40 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: oldasrocks

Remember making $1.50 an hour (under the table) ..

Now making $80+ an hour - above the table.

Prefer the $1.50 an hour days...


46 posted on 06/17/2023 9:18:53 AM PDT by dakine
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To: Rummyfan

I did the same thing. Worked at an Exxon station.

Regular was 47.9 a gallon.


47 posted on 06/17/2023 10:28:02 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: marktwain

“Forty is the old age of youth and fifty is the youth of old age’’. Victor Hugo.


48 posted on 06/17/2023 10:31:28 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: sodpoodle

The Future depicted in Back to the Future, part 2” was eight years ago, while the one shown in the original “Blade Runner” was four years ago.


49 posted on 06/17/2023 10:46:50 AM PDT by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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To: JBW1949
"I have a 60 year reunion coming up pretty soon...(sigh)"

I had a 70th HS reunion (class of 1951) two years ago and am hoping someone is still above ground when I go to the 75th three years from now...

50 posted on 06/17/2023 11:13:15 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: SuperLuminal

Having a great life!!!!!! Way to go......


51 posted on 06/17/2023 11:17:50 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: sodpoodle
Star Trek was canceled 55 years ago.

-PJ

52 posted on 06/17/2023 11:20:25 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: CIB-173RDABN
I will add a personal one - Married 53 years.

Congratulations. My wife and I will have been married 51 years tomorrow.

53 posted on 06/17/2023 11:25:09 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: JBW1949

wh does the word “drive” mean?


54 posted on 06/17/2023 11:36:54 AM PDT by Exit148
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To: SuperLuminal

I graduated from high school in 1971 and just turned 71.


55 posted on 06/17/2023 11:41:00 AM PDT by mware
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To: Exit148

Driving a car...


56 posted on 06/17/2023 11:53:14 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: sodpoodle


57 posted on 06/17/2023 12:08:48 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: adorno

I remember when JFK was assassinated — I had just started graduate school the month before.


58 posted on 06/17/2023 1:04:39 PM PDT by powerset
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The sixties were 60 years ago....I know, I know.


59 posted on 06/17/2023 1:08:04 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: gitmo

My wife and I will have been married 51 years tomorrow.

Congratulation.


60 posted on 06/17/2023 1:37:13 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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