How o-old are you? (different approach)

[Bossy Monkey]

Somewhat Rolling Stones obsessed today; forgive it please. Anyway, if this were going to have any meaning, I'd arrange it from most recent to most distant, but because of my own middle-agedness, they all kind of revolve around stuff that happened in the early '70s. Gimme brilliant suggestions and I'll add them, if you're kinda quick about it. (Register Other votes by replying below.)

I'm SOOOOOOOOO old that...

[tjwash]

1. ..

[ceile]

2. Well, I got 4...

so, I just went with "3 channels"

[hfojvt]

3. uh, we had four channels

CBS, ABC, NBC and PBS, and I believe we even watched that last one, wasn't Sesame Street on it?

[Bossy Monkey]

5. It's confusing and I can't remember clearly

Smithsonian Magazine is commemorating events from the year of its founding, 1970, and one of them was the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS. Now in SC at least, there was already ETV, and as SC is the most bassackwards of states, presumably everybody else had some kind of public television, too. But Sesame Street I'm pretty sure predates 1970, so how that works out I don't know. Presumably CTW sold it to the individual states' networks.

(People who missed our earlier exchange and don't know that you're originally from my hometown and high school class are going to be awfully bewildered that you know how many tv stations there were here in the early '70s.:))

[hfojvt]

7. well I moved from my hometown in 1964

but I do not remember that even though I was mad about it for much of my childhood. I do remember one event from the first day of kindergarten, and also, apparently my first recess, and waiting at the airport to see Bobby Kennedy in 1968, but the rest of the sixties are a blur to me. Maybe I was doing alot of drugs or something.

Wikipedia says about Sesame: "It premiered on November 10, 1969 on the National Educational Television network, and later that year it was moved to NET's successor, the Public Broadcasting Service." And it says that NET began in 1952 and expanded in 1954.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. All of the above

Guess I'll be dying like really, really soon. :cry:

[Bossy Monkey]

6. Ha! It was a trick question! The computers on Star Trek NEVER looked

futuristic. (Also, as I mentioned, there is the "jive turkey" question.) There will be no dying soon permitted here.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. They did to a 10-year-old

in 1966.

:hippie:

[trackfan]

8. I remember when calling someone "dude" was old fashioned

It had been cool in my late grammar school years, then was basically NEVER heard during my Jr/Sr High School Years (70s). Suddenly, in the early 80s it came back BIG TIME, and has been a pretty standard form of address ever since.

[Bossy Monkey]

27. I think this goes back to Sean Penn's part in Fast Times at Ridgemont High

then Bill and Ted cemented surfer-speak in the public consciousness. Some better pop culture watcher may correct me, though.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. We had ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS, car phones were huge, and the STTNG

computers and special effects were awesome, dude!!!

[Ptah]

10. I'm so old,

I remember a neighbor harvesting his wheat with steam powered
implements.

[no name no slogan]

11. I got you beat

I remember cranking up the ol' Model T to get into town. 'Course, back then we called it a "towne", but we don't know, on account of the Kaiser stealing all our silent "e"'s during the war. :P

[Ptah]

13. Yes you do have me beat.

But not by much.
I remember my grandfather's 'stone boat'

The sled he used to haul water to his homestead.

[terrya]

12. I remember when JFK was assassinated.

I vividly remember the principal of my grade school announcing on the PA system that President Kennedy was dead...and telling us that school was cancelled for the rest of the day.

I remember going home and seeing my mom in tears,

I remember going to my grandmother's and all of us watching JFK's funeral on teleivision.

What a very sad time that was.

[Bossy Monkey]

16. I thought about putting this on, but it wouldn't have matched the ironical

tone of the rest of the poll. While this wouldn't be a bad thing per se, it seemed a little disrespectful to the memory of President Kennedy. (I was in the high chair when my family heard, I'm told. As I was 1 1/2, I have no memory of the experience, just the air of sadness that hung at the edges of my childhood.)

[tjwash]

14. I got every single one of them. I've been called a JAMF too.

nt

[GCP]

15. I remember my Dad's head about to explode when he saw Mick Jagger

For the first time on UK TV in 1964 - dancing and shaking his hair and maracas -I was in love!!

[tjwash]

19. My pops thought that Elvis Presly was a complete disgrace.

nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Stuff I remember:

Not having a TV at all
Having a pair of roller skates that you attached to your shoes with a little key
Kids' shows on the radio
Kennedy's election
the Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK's assassination
RFK's assassination
MLK's assassination
Want ads that divided job classifications into Help Wanted: Men and Help Wanted: Women
Wearing a hat and gloves to church
When a loaf of bread cost a quarter
The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show
Waiting in line to buy gas in the '70s

I'm so damn OLD.

[yellowdogintexas]

21. that and a bit more:

those heavy heavy old rotary phones
having an operator who placed telephone calls..local calls. You picked up the phone and asked her to connect you to whomever.
party lines
hardly anyone had air conditioning and if you did, it was a window unit and you only kept one room really cold. Usually the same room that contained the TV.
The Army McCarthy hearings

separate water fountains and rest rooms (you all know what I mean)

[cwydro]

20. darlin,

I remember when there were NO car phones.

[sakabatou]

22. I am too young

I know none of this! :cry:

[DanCa]

23. I am with the three channel crowd

my old man still has the original atari pong and color tv screen converter in the attic.

[fortyfeetunder]

24. Hell I am so old

my first pet dinosaur was named Goo (the first word I could make)!

[Scoots]

25. I remember when 64k was state of the art.

[In_The_Wind]

26. I remember when there were only 48 States ...

http://ltgov.state.ak.us/constitution.php

[Lilith Velkor]

28. Actually, it was 'jive motherfucker'

'Jive turkey' was what they could say on TV.