Posted on 04/19/2019 4:42:05 PM PDT by Maceman
I am a baby boomer (born 1950).
I have the impression that most Freepers are baby boomers or older. Am I right?
What generation are you in? When were you born?
1955...
This has been a great place to grow old with.
Happy Birthday, bramps! You’re just a youngster!
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Thank you very much!
18th century Rockingham Whig.
So far i’m the oldest. GenABC!
What date in August? I was born August 8, 1947.
My Mom was born on 12-12-12....
“Yep. And if that 1890s cohort lived to 80-100, they witnessed more dramatic change than any other generation ever has.”
My dad was born in the late 1890’s and died in the late 1970’s. He was injured in a training accident in WWI and was discharged in 1918 was a disabled vet for the rest of his life.
His brother and his wife visited him in a VA hospital. Ten days later, his brother and his SIL died from the Spanish flu. He lost a lot of friends and relatives from the Spanish flu.
His mother like many women born during or after the civil war, died early. She died when he was 3.
He lost friends and relatives in WWI and II. He worked at a military base in WWII.
He thought that the Korean war and Viet Nam were caused by what Ike warned us about.
Our kids and his other grand kids couldn’t believe that there were no cars, planes, tvs or computers when he was born,and no phones and no AC.
He would bring them marbles on his trips and play marble games or checkers with them. Now, with the electronic games, they would probably laugh at him.
He loved to fly the passenger planes to visit his kids and grand kids.
He loved to pay monopoly with his grand kids.
During the early 1900’s, to visit relatives/friends 50 miles away required a couple of days to get there and back.
He thought that the Grey Hound buses were a wonderful invention. He used them to visit friends and his relatives for decades plus.
He felt that the private vehicles and trucks were the greatest freedom inventions for Americans first and for the Euros later.
He loved tv and in particular the world series, college football, the westerns, any news about our astronauts, the weather and local news. He said watching the network tv news and most cable programs were a waste of time. For his national and foreign updates, he tuned in Paul Harvey on a radio during the noon hour.
He often drove to his favorite fishing lakes listening to Paul. A good friend to save money went to the local college in our home town for the spring semesters.
He would often buy lunches and pick up my dad for lunch, for Paul Harvey, and some fishing and post Paul Harvey discussions.
At breakfast, my mother would read the interesting things in the local newspaper, and they would laugh and joke or cry. By this time the obits of people they knew were often in the local paper.
So, he went from riding horses and horse buggies to personal cars/buses/planes and good air travel some good stuff on tv.
He thought that his time here was an amazing time, and he was so lucky to be alive during this time.
Silent
Roosevelt was President (again)
LaGuardia was mayor of my town
WWII was still a two front war
Still have my ration book somewhere.
1948
At night - just not last night ;-)
1963
After the war in Europe ended but before the war with Japan ended.
Old enough to call myself “American First, American Always, and everything else a far distant second.”
Anyway- I never go to the doctor, I go to the geologist.
Even publishing your age is an invasion of privacy. It’s no ones business and it gives fodder to those would throw a label on Freepers like a bunch of doddering old people. Why give them that?
1950
great post
1955
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