#71691 - 12/05/06 02:37 PM
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Erica
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"the waltons" was based on all you ppl, right? 
I was thinking "Little House on the Prarie"...Olsens Mercantile ....hehe jk
I only read first 2 pages
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#72236 - 12/10/06 04:46 PM
Re: Just plain ole aging..
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Paul I
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You're right Nancie and Erica our generation did serve as the model for some series. First ones that come to mind are West Wing and Star Trek Voyager, perhaps The Equalizer and I'm sure others can come up with some more. For you youngsters feel complimented you are the role models for the Simpsons and MTV. PI
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#72531 - 12/13/06 11:14 PM
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Just happened to catch the last 15 minutes of a biography of the Everly Brothers. Brought back some memories. My best friend in high school was a guitar player and he and another guy could sound just like and almost as good as the Everly Brothers. So they got up at the talent show and sang Dream. The place went wild! Then they did Bird Dog. These guys were more golden than the quarterback of the football team. Have to say I envied him like you might imagine.
His buddy there did cut a 45 that went no where beyond our town. Those were the days of payola I believe. At any rate seeing the Everly Brothers and hearing their story brought back real memories. Our high school gym could just as well been Carnegie Hall as far as we were concerned. How surreal things looked through the eyes of a teenager.
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#72605 - 12/15/06 12:10 AM
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 "Wake Up Little, Susie, Wake Up"..............going to have that song running through my head all night long now! Saw them back about 1958 when I was in rehab and they were the "cat's meow"! Can still see them bobbing their guitars in unison and all of us young girls screaming our heads off, lol.
They came to our little town fair in the late '70s and although their voices weren't quite as good us "vintage" people there still loved them!
I'd post a pic but all I get is a URL!
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#72687 - 12/15/06 06:13 PM
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You're right Nancie and Erica our generation did serve as the model for some series. First ones that come to mind are West Wing and Star Trek Voyager, perhaps The Equalizer and I'm sure others can come up with some more. For you youngsters feel complimented you are the role models for the Simpsons and MTV. PI
LOL Paul.... 
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#74031 - 12/24/06 04:38 PM
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Paul I
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1969- Midnight Cowboy- 37 years ago.
Got the DVD from Netflix and watched it the other night. What a movie! I had not seen it since I saw it in the theater back in 69. The film operates on so many levels. After thinking about it for the evening I decided it was also a Christmas film as it embodied a great deal of the spirit of giving and receiving. If you haven't seen it- get it. Paul I
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#74517 - 01/03/07 06:08 PM
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Paul I
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Where's Rosebud?
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#74561 - 01/04/07 12:34 PM
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Paul I
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OK, Old Timer Motorheads, you've got to check this out. I just subscribed to Hemmings Classic Cars magazine and got the first issue. It's pure nostalgia and I love it. This month's feature article was a retrospective on Cadillac. PI
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#74610 - 01/05/07 03:59 PM
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cbal-craig
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Cadillac always made a good car.
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#77068 - 02/13/07 08:05 PM
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Paul I
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TO ALL THE KIDS
WHO SURVIVED the
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we
rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and
NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because:
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day.
And we were OK.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down
the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD 's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms.....
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.
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We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang
the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!
If YOU are one of them . . . CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as
kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives
for our own good
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
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#78056 - 03/29/07 06:45 PM
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Just got here after many months away and, wow, really neat thread! I can't read it all, of course, but love this very last post, Paul I. Seems like the end, but I can't resist remembering....
walking to the swimming pool everyday in the summer in nothing but a bathing suit with a towel slung over my neck -- never got a warning I'd be picked up by some 'pervert'.
The hot tar from the road sticking to my feet. My girlfriend and I stepped in it on purpose then cleaned it up later with turpentine. As long as we took care of it ourselves our parents didn't mind.
Then there were single speed bicycles with footbrakes. A really fancy bike back then was an English racer -- three whole speeds!
Riding on the back fender of my sister's bike. Do kids still do that? do bikes have back fenders? I still have a scar from when I stuck my ankle in the spokes.
Being allowed to spend all day at the beach without an adult. They trusted the lifeguards even though the ratio was two to hundreds! They trusted us, too, of course.
Nevertheless, an older 'bad' boy drowned when he insisted he could tame the big Atlantic in a hurricane.
The farmer chasing us out of his field with a waving rifle. Didn't stop us from coming back the next day.
....Anybody inspired to write novel, full of Elvis Presley and Johnny Mathis and watching the Kennedy Assasinaton on TV -- watching your mother cry all weekend?
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#78126 - 03/30/07 01:44 PM
Re: Just plain ole aging..
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seabreeze
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I read the early posts on this thread and that's why Johnny Mathis was on my mind.
I remember that album cover! I listened to those songs over and over again. That's so cool you got his signature many years later!
My first awareness of Johnny Mathis was from my mother who pointed him out on the radio. She thought he was a wonderful singer and she said, "but he doesn't sound at all like a Negro!" LOL Maybe I shouldn't have said that, but that's she said.
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