It's November, 1952. Where Are You?

[CO Liberal]

Eisenhower had just been elected, but Harry Truman was still president.

The Korean War was going full-bore.

You could still buy a brand new De Soto, Studebaker, Packard, Hudson, or Nash.

The Corvette was less than a year from introduction.

The first Thunderbird was three years from introduction.

The most popular TV shows were Milton Berle, Howdy Doody, and the Colgate Comedy Hour.

There were still only 48 states.

The first satellite (Sputnik) was about five years from launch.

And a little bundle of joy came into the world at Montclair Community Hospital in Montclair, NJ that would eventually join DU under the user name "CO Liberal".

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

Not even a gleam in the gleam in my father's eye

My appearance on this mortal coil was still 9 years and 9 months away.

[New Earth]

1. uhhh

i was still just a spark of a thought floating around in the primordial sea :shrug:

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

2. I was "just a gleam in my father's eye" as Mom would say..

I wasn't born until October, 1953!!!

[HeyManThatsCool]

I'm not born yet & neither is my mom

So either living my previous life or... well, I don't know! lol

My date of arrival wasn't until 21 years later

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. I was toddling around my family's home in

Lakeville, Minnesota, but I was only 2.5 years old, so I don't remember much.

[Left Is Write]

4. I was but a faraway thought, not even able to be a gleam in

my father's eye.

In November of 1952, my parents were 13 years old and attending school in Appleton, MN, where my mother's father was a shop teacher. My dad was a farm boy, and my mother was a town girl. I don't believe they made each other's acquaintance until they were 14. (They married in 1959.)

[B Calm]

5. Being potty trained

[Taverner]

6. Unborn

In fact my parents aren't even married yet, and my father has yet to finish up at University of Iowa or fulfill his draft...

[Maple]

7. I was in school

First grade.

[rwenos]

8. Gestating

Awaiting my birthday, near the end of January 1953.

[dflprincess]

16. Me too

But I wasn't born until the end of June.

[Straight Shooter]

9. I'm a spirit, deep in agony, because I'm looking at Earth ...

... and I see a little bastard named George W. Bush, and I foresee the hell he will bring to the inhabitants of Earth.

[StaggerLee]

10. Almost a gleam in my fathers eye

He was eleven at the time. My mom was seven.

[tyedyeto]

11. Lets' see...can I remember back then???

Nope was only 3 months old at the time......so was probably sleeping, sucking on a bottle (I think, cuz Mom didn't breast feed those siblings who were born after me), and shitting.....

[SW FL Dem]

12. Finally a thread where I can say I wasn't here

not even a gleam in my parents' eyes. They married in 1956.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

13. I was a year before production (nt

[Massacure]

14. I was in 4 pieces of DNA, lol.

My parents weren't even born yet. :P

[CBHagman]

30. Now THAT makes me feel old!

As my grandparents were born in the 1890s and my parents in the 1920s.

I think my parents were newlyweds in 1952, but I didn't show up until October 1958.

[catbert836]

15. My father was a gleam in his father's eye.

N/T

[NNadir]

17. I was two months old.

It's must have been great to live under Harry Truman, but frankly, I don't remember much about it.

[CO Liberal]

21. I Don't Remember Truman, Either

Since I was two months old when Eisenhower was inagurated. But I do remember watching the old DuMont Television Network on our old DuMont black-and-white TV (on WABD - Channel 5 in New York). DuMont would later become Metromedia (and Channel 5 would become WNEW-TV), and in the '80s, Rupert Murdoch would buy it as the beginning of the Fox Network (when WNEW-TV changed its call letters again to WNYW-TV).

[BamaGirl]

18. Not even a dream

My mom is 1 and my dad is 11.

[Penndems]

19. Alas, I was but a mere thought

My parents hadn't met yet, and when they did and started dating, the didn't get married until January 1, 1954.

I was born in June 1955.

[Bouncy Ball]

20. My mom

was just a little kid.

[ZombieNixon]

22. Not even a gleam in my 10-minute-old father's eye...

...course is was probably clamped shut and he was most likely bawling, so even if there was a gleam in his eye, there was no way anybody could have seen it.

[barackmyworld]

23. I don't even think I was an egg and sperm yet

given that my parents were about 4 years old.

[chicagojoe]

24. 6 and a 1/2 years from production.

I'm a 59 model.

[senseandsensibility]

25. Non existant

but I've always felt drawn to the fifties, minus the racism, sexism, etc. The innocence is attractive.

[DemBones DemBones]

26. Well, I'm asleep since it's past my bedtime!

Earlier, I would have listened to the radio with my parents and older brother. We listened to Jack Benny, Arthur Godfrey, "Fibber McGee and Molly," and "Amos and Andy." I also listened to a kiddie show called "Big John and Little Sparky." My brother plays Arthut Godfrey LPs on 78 and he sounds like Little Sparky, who is an elf!

Hey, actually, my brother isn't here because he has joined the Marines by now, hoping to be sent to Korea. I'm glad he's not here to tease me anymore but I don't like it that he's gone, either.

We have a Nash Ambassador and a Dalmatian named "Spot." I like comic books a lot.

[CO Liberal]

31. The First Family Car I Remember Was My Mom's 1950 Studebaker

A four-door Studebaker Champion - like the one shown below, only battleship grey.



And the first car I remember my father driving was a Nash Rambler Convertible - like the one below, only his was white. It was basically a two-door sedan with a cnavas roof. I remember when he traded it in on his first VW Beetle - my older sister and I couldn't understand why he would get rid of a convertible for an ugly little car that looked like a bug.

[annabanana]

27. Celebrating my 3rd birthday (if it's the 25th).n/t

[CO Liberal]

35. Mine's the 28th

I share a birthday with Paul Shaffer (David Letterman's bandleader) and Anna Nicole Smith.

[sparky_in_ma]

28. Same here

I was just arriving in the world. :toast:

[ikojo]

29. My mom was still in high school

so I wasn't even on the radar screen.....

[Betty]

32. My parents hadn't even met yet

I was very pre-fetal at that point. Maybe I was finishing up another life.

[ralps]

33. I wasn't born yet, although one of my brothers was 7 months old.

:hi:

[Ron Green]

34. I woke up in the middle of the night with an earache, and as my mom

comforted me and gave me some medicine, she told me that "the man we wanted to win as President did win," and that it was a good thing. I didn't know enough at the time to run away from home.

[flygal]

36. I was "still swinging in my father's sack"

as they say

[Spirochete]

37. Still 4 months from conception

hehe