[rooster1]

Born in 1947. Remember those days well and wish time travel was a reality and I could go back.

[crystalk]

That is just what Trent Lott was tryin to TELL y'all. If Thurmond had won the 1948 election, none of this would ever have gone away, and none of this BS we live with now would ever have come upon us.

[carmody]

If you could go back you wouldn't have the internet, wouldn't be posting on this fine site and we'd still have to look forward to President Bill Clinton! Don't ever wish to go back! :)

[The Citizen Soldier]

Born in 1947

Vintage year my friend!

On my 25th anniversary, my kids invited my best man who was also my best friend growing up in those "formative years." After the celebration, he and I drove to where we grew up and drove all around at 5 mph recalling everything we could. Man, talk about time travel. Cheers.

[VMI70]

Another 1947 here--11/30--Born in Washington, DC, raised in Chevy Chase, MD.

The things I remember most were the stories my parents told about the Great Depression:

They were newlyweds living in a 3rd floor apartment in Washington Square in New York.
-My father was a Harvard Law ('32) graduate, and made $25.00 a week working in his uncle's law firm.
-He was a VMI graduate, so he was a 2nd Lieutenant in the reserves, which he thought would bring in some extra money. At the first weekend meeting, they were told to deploy at night to patrol the areas around the grocery stores. They were also told to shoot to kill anyone breaking in. He immediately resigned his commission because, as he said: "There were a lot of people who were (really) starving", and he just couldn't bring himself to shoot them.

-Mother said that a loaf of bread was a nickel,
-a quart of milk was 15 cents--a dime if you brought your own bottle,
-for $5.00 a week, they had a maid 6 1/2 days a week,
-one incident where the guilt stayed with mother all her life was when she interviewed a potential maid, who had come down on the bus from Harlem. When the interview was over, and she didn't get the job, she asked mother if she could have the 10 cents it cost her for the round trip bus fare. Mother refused to give her the dime and never got over it.

There were many more stories like that, but the most amazing thing was that mother said the depression was a cake walk compared to the upheavals of the 1960s and early '70s. That's saying something.