Going Back in Time
Nov 9, 2018 08:29:40 #
scatman
Loc: Waterbury, CT
quagmire wrote:
Can't complain from 1946 til now.
Ditto. The things we've seen!
Nov 9, 2018 09:55:44 #
Surno: Very well said. We don't stop and think how fast our language changes. Case in point , last summer I at a Civil War reactment. For pictures I was using a Retina Reflex IV. Had people come up and ask me about my camera. I had one person stop me and ask and than he began to explan his camera, which was some kind of digital camera, I had to stop him because I did not understand one word of what he was saying. True be known I don't want to known.
Nov 9, 2018 10:25:42 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
I was born in 1942 in San Francisco and lived there for six years. We then moved to the Sacramento where I lived until going into the Air Force in 1963. I moved back to Sacramento when I was discharged in 1968. My dad was too young for WWI and too old for WWII. I agree with you that California was a great place to live.I was born in 1943 while my dad was off fighting WW II. He came home alive and all in one piece. I was raised in central California when the State was still great. We were number one in education, tolerance, and quality of life. Everyone wanted to come here, and too many did.
"Everyone wanted to come here, and too many did." You got that right.
Nov 9, 2018 10:35:34 #
jerryc41 wrote:
This surprised me since I thought you were born in 1941 based on your user name being jerryc41. Live and learn, as they say. DOB for me is 1944.
Nov 9, 2018 10:46:37 #
Just out of curiousity...What is indoor plumping? Is that like getting fat from sitting inside too long? 
Nov 9, 2018 10:49:01 #
And if we could travel through time, and didn't take space along with us, the Earth would spin right out from under our feet. Then where/when would we be?
Nov 9, 2018 10:50:51 #
I was raised in Tracy, CA at about the same time. I am four years older than you, and you hit it on the nail.
Nov 9, 2018 11:18:07 #
Nov 9, 2018 11:34:35 #
Quinn 4 wrote:
I have people asking me if I would like to go back in time. As for in my life time hell no. I just make more mistakes which in turn would making live today a lot more harder to deal with. How about going back to the time of Civil War, no way. I was born in 1945, the house had center hearting (coal ) indoor plumping. My mother or father could get in the car go to the story to get food. As for food we had a refrigerator. We had radios. ( In 1950 we got our first tv.) What do you think?
I have frequently thought about this subject.
I would be born in 1853 which makes me too young to participate in the Civil War. I would then be an adult during the massive changes after the war through WWII including major medical advances. Giving the longevity of my predecessors I would live to about 95 seeing as those that preceded me living in this time period averaged this age. It just seems like a perfect era to live through, not too primitive but not so technological as we have today. I would see advances from sail to steam, trains to automobiles, walking to flight including the beginning of the space age. From letters to telephones to radio to television.
It just seems like a very exciting time, yes there were some rough things then but in general it seems like a good period.
Nov 9, 2018 13:09:35 #
Quinn 4 wrote:
I have people asking me if I would like to go back in time. As for in my life time hell no. I just make more mistakes which in turn would making live today a lot more harder to deal with. How about going back to the time of Civil War, no way. I was born in 1945, the house had center hearting (coal ) indoor plumping. My mother or father could get in the car go to the story to get food. As for food we had a refrigerator. We had radios. ( In 1950 we got our first tv.) What do you think?
The open minds on this site never cease to amaze me.
Nov 9, 2018 13:49:27 #
Quinn 4 wrote:
I have people asking me if I would like to go back in time. As for in my life time hell no. I just make more mistakes which in turn would making live today a lot more harder to deal with. How about going back to the time of Civil War, no way. I was born in 1945, the house had center hearting (coal ) indoor plumping. My mother or father could get in the car go to the story to get food. As for food we had a refrigerator. We had radios. ( In 1950 we got our first tv.) What do you think?
Guess they didn't have SPELLCHECK back then.
Nov 9, 2018 13:53:03 #
Quinn 4 wrote:
I have people asking me if I would like to go back in time. As for in my life time hell no. I just make more mistakes which in turn would making live today a lot more harder to deal with. How about going back to the time of Civil War, no way. I was born in 1945, the house had center hearting (coal ) indoor plumping. My mother or father could get in the car go to the story to get food. As for food we had a refrigerator. We had radios. ( In 1950 we got our first tv.) What do you think?
I have long believed I should have been born in 1898. That would make me the perfect age to be in the Golden Age of Aviation. Learning to fly way before a college degree was needed for an entry level flying position.
Just Sayin'
Nov 9, 2018 13:57:01 #
BboH wrote:
I was born I '36 - I remember climbing the tree which was my play...
Yes! Lots of tree climbing. That was fun.
Nov 9, 2018 14:17:54 #
My wife and I both claim 1937 as our birth year. A great many of our years since then have fabulous a very few not so. For us and our generation today is a gift, I guess that's why it's called the present.
Nov 9, 2018 15:02:15 #
Quinn 4 wrote:
I have people asking me if I would like to go back in time. As for in my life time hell no. I just make more mistakes which in turn would making live today a lot more harder to deal with. How about going back to the time of Civil War, no way. I was born in 1945, the house had center hearting (coal ) indoor plumping. My mother or father could get in the car go to the story to get food. As for food we had a refrigerator. We had radios. ( In 1950 we got our first tv.) What do you think?
One other thought.
TV in 1950. Very well off family.
Our first was in 1969 in time for the moon landing as dad wanted us to see it as it happened and it was a real luxury.
We never had a color TV while I was at home and when the original TV failed it was not replaced for about 10 more years as I remember.
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