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Re: O/T Boy, Do I feel Old Now !!!!!


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Posted by Buzzman72 on June 05, 2010 at 07:34:40 from (74.129.194.33):

In Reply to: O/T Boy, Do I feel Old Now !!!!! posted by Whizkidkyus on June 04, 2010 at 20:44:06:

I graduated from high school in 1972...the grade school I attended, built in 1914, no longer stands. Our playground was asphalt. My junior high school was my dad's high school [built in 1928], and is now a privately-owned youth center for the community. My old high school, which was new in 1953, is the oldest building in the system still having classes. We had no air conditioning, and those warm spring days it was hard to keep your mind on the subjects being taught.

But at least we didn't have to haul water or coal to the classroom, as previous generations did. And we occasionally got to see some TV in class, if it was deemed "educational." In grade school, we actually got to see some of the World Series on TV...because they still had DAY games back then in the Series.

The Vietnam war/conflict/whatever was still going on, but the draft had turned to the lottery system by then...and my birthdate got me number 352, high enough I knew I wasn't going to be called up. You could buy a new VW, Pinto, Vega, or Gremlin for a base price under $2000 then, but we talked about how nobody but the rich could afford a Corvette--why, it cost a dollar a day to insure one of those beasts! And Honda and Toyota only sold "tin can" cars back then, that would only last a couple of years here in the Rust Belt. So we bought Fords and Chevys and Mopars and even AMC's, and you could often buy a 5-year old car for under $1,000.

Yeah, I feel old, too.


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