I am SOOO old.

[Leatherneck]

Meh. You young whippersnappers are wet behind the ears. I was around for the invention (or popular distribution) of:
TV of any kind
FM radio
dial telephones (rotary of course)
transistor devices
the laser
the computer
the jet aircraft
the radial tire
the LP ("Hi-Fi") vinyl record

In addition, my first non-farm job in high school was pumping gas that sold for 27.9 cents a gallon and had lead in it and came  pumped by me, with transmission and crankcase oil check and a washed windshield.

THAT's old, Young'un. 

TC

[Perd Hapley]

Well, I didn't say I was used-up, decrepit, older-than-dirt, ready to be put out to pasture, false-teeth old.     

[MechAg94]

One thing I like to remember is the TV Premier of Star Wars.  And it was a very big deal.  They had little actor interviews at every commercial and it was 3 hours long.  Everyone I knew watched it. 

I guess the opposite was guys I knew in college trying to tell me that records had a better sound than CD's. 

[Monkeyleg]

Wait a minute, Leatherneck. Rotary dial phones were invented in the late 1800's and push button phones didn't come out until the 1960's.

Also, I think FM radio is more than 50 years old.

And I remember gas being 19 cents a gallon in 1966.

Are you sure you don't have Alzheimers?

[Ron]

Lee...

If you grew up in the Chicago area in the late 70s, one name for ya: Ray Rayner (sp?)

When visiting Lincoln Park Zoo as a grade school age youngster I had the chance to meet and shake Rays hand. My mom was quick with the camera and got the pic. They were filming a segment down there so he was even wearing his signature coveralls.

[Gowen]

I am SOOO old.

Yep!

Get over yourself!  I'll be 42 in August.  I've got a lot of years left to me.  I have at least another 42 years left to live and with medical advances, I could have another 62 years or more.  I'm having kids when most my age are having grand kids. A 4 year old and a 1 year old.  The only thing that makes me older is I have been married to the same woman for almost 20 years. 

Oh, I remember Regan and George H W Bush.

[seeker_two]

Well, I didn't say I was used-up, decrepit, older-than-dirt, ready to be put out to pasture, false-teeth old.     

...but you could..... 

[280plus]

I

guess the opposite was guys I knew in college trying to tell me that records had a better sound than CD's. 

It's true. Don't make me explain. 

[Mike]

I used to listen to The Lone Ranger, Hoppalong Cassidy, Jack Benny on the radio. I think I liked it better as it let your imagination go wild. I couldn't wait for the nexr episode. And it was on late or early, before TV came on in the morning and after TV went off at night. Nothing like laying in the dark listening to ghost stories, etc. on the radio. Scary stuff. lol

[Leatherneck]

Wait a minute, Leatherneck. Rotary dial phones were invented in the late 1800's and push button phones didn't come out until the 1960's.

Also, I think FM radio is more than 50 years old.

And I remember gas being 19 cents a gallon in 1966.

Are you sure you don't have Alzheimers? Wink

The progression of phones in our rural area of Eastern Long Island was:
1. The kind where you pick up the phone and on a party line with two or three neighbors, talk to the operator.
2. Rotary dial phones came in around 1955 I think. Still a party line though.
Private line (rotary) in about 1960.
3. New-fangled push-button phones (that had a switch for "rotary" or "digital") around 1965.

FM was no doubt invented much earlier, but i remember the first broadcast station in that area in the late 1950s.

And I don't remember coming down with Alzheimers. 

TC

[209]

My first issued rifle in the Corps was the M-14.  But, that was the Old Corps. 

If anyone here can say they had the M-1 or even the Springfield I'm seriously trumped and still a baby.

[280plus]

Gee, the more I read this the younger I feel. 

[Perd Hapley]

Then this thread is a failure. 

[BryanP]

You don't reach the first stage of old until you're 36.  The second at 42.   So you're not old.

[Ex-MA Hole]

Records do sound better than CD's.

Remember when the came out with remote controls...the original ones had cords...the original cordless ones had what looked like small red lights....I remember looking at them and hitting buttons trying to see something!!!

[Desertdog]

As far as I am concerned, the oldest guy I can remember was the one that said, "Im 40 years old, I can't start over".
Old is a state of mind.

[RoadKingLarry]

Things I remember from my early childhood
Milk came in glass bottles with a paper cap, delivered fresh by the milk man.
CBS, ABC, NBC, B&W, I was the remote.
Dad's '57 Chevy Belair wasn't cool yet
Clear plastic seat covers that could reach 4 digit temps in the summer.

Visiting my granparent's on the farm-
Water came from a well via a long skinney bucket attached to a rope and pulley.
Getting up to go to the bathroom in the winter meant shoes and a coat, and a flashlight. In the summer you took the garden hoe with you in case of snakes.
The neighbors 1/2 a mile down the road had a phone they would let us use.
The "tractor's" name was Jo-Jo and he liked carrots.
Milk was "delivered" fresh every morning there as well, but it came warm.
TV?, yeah right.

[Monkeyleg]

You don't reach the first stage of old until you're 36.  The second at 42.   So you're not old.

The birthday that hit me the hardest was 30. When I was in my mid to late twenties I was getting my career started, most people took me seriously, yet I was still young. Thirty was different. I was no longer young.

Forty wasn't bad, as it wasn't that much different from thirty.

Fifty was a shock. I recall returning from my annual July motorcycle tour of the West and thinking to myself that I may only have another twenty or so summers left in my life. That's a sobering thought, especially considering that the first fifty summers seem to have lasted just a few seconds.

[Strings]

And how did you feel at 90, Dick?

[Balog]

Just turned 26 today, and I was feeling old until I read this thread. And i still maintain I'm middle-aged; life may not end at 50 but most it's definitely a transition to old folkdom. 

[Nick1911]

I'm 23, and I don't feel old at all.

I don't remember when George H W Bush was president.

The oldest vehicle I've owned was made in 1982, and it was 20 at that point.

We got our first computer when I was about 7, and it came from a dumpster.

We got the internet to the house when I was in elementary school.

[Monkeyleg]

And how did you feel at 90, Dick?

I dunno. Ask those ladies at my mother's assisted living center.

[Uncle Bubba]

The birthday that hit me the hardest was 30. When I was in my mid to late twenties I was getting my career started, most people took me seriously, yet I was still young. Thirty was different. I was no longer young.

Forty wasn't bad, as it wasn't that much different from thirty.

Fifty was a shock. I recall returning from my annual July motorcycle tour of the West and thinking to myself that I may only have another twenty or so summers left in my life. That's a sobering thought, especially considering that the first fifty summers seem to have lasted just a few seconds.

My Uncle Edward, my mother's next-to-youngest brother, grew up as one of the "Don't trust anyone over 30" generation, graduating high school in 1970. On his 30th birthday he spent the day in bed with the covers over his head.  

[Uncle Bubba]

As far as I am concerned, the oldest guy I can remember was the one that said, "Im 40 years old, I can't start over".
Old is a state of mind.

Hear Hear!

[Racehorse]

Hear Hear!

What if I'm too old to hear?