[Nearsification]

You guys grew up in all these things in history! In historical events!



Share your stories!

[LostInMyOwnMind]

In November of 1963 John Kennedy was scheduled to visit my town. Back then Tampa wasn't really on the map so it was unusual for us to get a visit from someone of his stature. The town was a buzz and most everyone was taking at least a little time off to get a glimpse. I was in the second grade at the time and my mom said it would be ok for me to take the day off from school. We lived a block away from where his motorcade would pass. As the time grew near we walked up to the corner and waited. As the top down limo passed I frantically waived. The president tuned my way, looked me right in the eye and waved, I was nearly so close I could have reached out and touched the shiny black Lincoln as it passed.

Two days later my second grade class and I were out on PE when my teacher stood in the door to our class frantically waving for us to come back to class. As we all filed back into the class the television set which hung in the corner of the class and which I had never seen turned on, was relating the news of the presidents shooting. A short time later, Walter Cronkite came on and announced the president's death. Class was dismissed and we were all send home to be with our families. That was honestly a very long and sad walk home.

As a side note, imagine letting a second grader walk a couple miles home from school? Times were different.

[yesiknowbut]

I remember my Dad renting a colour TV for the first time so we could see the moon landing in colour in 1969, and I remember watching it: I was 6.

[Blue Butterfly]

I remember the time when the cool thing to have was a cassette tape player/recorder. It was so awesome to be able to record voices or our favorite songs. There were no cell phones, ipods, computers or any of that other stuff. To have a cassette tape player/recorder was a major upgrade to eight track tapes.

[Blue Butterfly]

Here is another one that the current young generation may enjoy. Back when my family first got a telephone there was not such thing as cordless phones or cell phones. And to have a phone we had to share the line with eight other families. That was called a party line. To use the phone we would have to wait until our neighbor was finished with their conversation before we could make a call. Then when we would make a call someone would listen in on our calls. I hated that phone system. It started so many neighborhood fights. I am glad now each family has their own private phone.

Young ones how would deal with such as a party line?

[LostInMyOwnMind]

8 tracks, yea what a horror. How many people carried a match book or two in their car for those tapes that just wouldn't track right?

[Blue Butterfly]

8 tracks, yea what a horror. How many people carried a match book or two in their car for those tapes that just wouldn't track right?

Those things were just bad. And how they used to wind up in the machines. The cassette tapes used to do the same thing too. Try to listen to music and end up with a machine full if would up tape. Nasty!

[Dear Sigmund]

especially when the 8 tracks were 70's music. Disco on 8 tracks. Cassettes, whatr a pain in the tushy.Once they were damaged there was no turning back.

I remember the TV shows. The original Star Trek, Hogans Heros. and in the 80's we had the night time soaps Dallas and Dynasty. Everyone was going around wondering who shot JR.

[Blue Butterfly]

especially when the 8 tracks were 70's music. Disco on 8 tracks. Cassettes, whatr a pain in the tushy.Once they were damaged there was no turning back.

I remember the TV shows. The original Star Trek, Hogans Heros. and in the 80's we had the night time soaps Dallas and Dynasty. Everyone was going around wondering who shot JR.

I loved Dallas and Dynasty. I did get fed up with both of them after JR's brother got killed at the end of one season and since he was so popular the writers decided to being him back the next season. If I remember right they had it set up that his wife was dreaming her husband was killed. That killed the whole show for a lot of us. I never watched it again after that.

[Aqualung]

I remember putting that little plastic disc over the spindle of my mom's record player so I could listen to my "Monkees" 45 records when I was 11. And hearing about their $5.00 concert. I thought "Wow! That's a lot of money!" I can't even park for $5.00 now. And, the family doctor smoking cigarettes in his office. 5 cent sodas out of the machine. Age 6, Halloween; walking around distant neighborhoods at night for 2 hours alone in complete safety. Learning how to ride a "wheelie" on a Schwinn Stingray bicycle. Flying 10 cent kites. Riding 1 hour in the back of the station wagon to the closest town with a public swimming pool once every summer. Trucks spraying DDT fog through the neighborhoods for mosquitos. Buying 12 cent comic books & baseball cards with a stick of gum inside. Making a fishing pole out of a long stick. Good times. Then there's the TV shows & movies; dang where do I start?