Get off my lawn! (the over 50 thread)

[wjag]

duck and cover nuclear bomb drills...  

[mphs mike]

duck and cover nuclear bomb drills...  

 

Winner!

 

What about the gray seats in the Aud?

[woods-racer]

duck and cover nuclear bomb drills...  

 

Completely forgot about those in the basement of every school I went to (moved a few times).

 

.... don't forget to kiss your azz good bye...

[Doohicksie]

.... don't forget to kiss your azz good bye...

 

Even as 8-year-olds, we said that.  We were convinced we were at Ground Zero since North Hill Elementary School was just a few blocks from Buffalo Airport.

[JJFIVEOH]

Seriously, us Gen X'ers got the raw deal here. 

[beerme1]

Seriously, us Gen X'ers got the raw deal here. 

 

 

That's all you've worked for. Gimme.

[gilbert11]

Sheriff's cards and 18 year old to drink

 

I still have my Sherrif's Card.  I show it to people because I have really long hair in the picture.

The Carol Burnett Show.

 

 

My God, I think this is when America was great!

 

And what Trump wants to take us back to!!

[woods-racer]

Even as 8-year-olds, we said that.  We were convinced we were at Ground Zero since North Hill Elementary School was just a few blocks from Buffalo Airport.

 

 

You very well might have been. A friend of mine at the end of his tour of duty in Vietnam was asked to re-sign as a technician in a nuclear missile silo. He half hearty said... Sure, if you get me close to home. I live in Erie PA..... Thinking there was no way that would ever happen.

 

He was told.. We have openings in Pittsburgh and Buffalo.....He'd be working in one of the airports. He thought about it but never accepted.

[Doohicksie]

Album rock.  Remember album rock?

[3putt]

Mimmeographs...and paper....

[Doohicksie]

Mimmeographs...and paper....

 

[Tondas]

8 Track tapes - Especially when they couldn't fit a song on a track and had to fade it out <CLICK> and then fade it back in.  I remember Hitch a Ride from BOSTON did that.

[beerme1]

Quadraphonic sound.

[Doohicksie]

Quadraphonic sound.

[hsif]

Lew Alcindor and Cassius Clay

[North Buffalo]

Parkside Candies with cinnamon sticks... Red and hot. The zoo oh wait its still there.

[Stoner]

Takin' out the slop bucket.

[wjag]

Smoking on airlines...  Ended in '88 I think.. 

[BMWR100RT]

Is it OK to just proclaim "no cell phones" because that was the thing that best makes my youth better than today's. "Get off my lawn" indeed!

[Huckleberry]

last week I told the beatles were the worlds first boy band.   That really didn't go over to well with the 50 + people :p

[Eleven]

last week I told the beatles were the worlds first boy band.   That really didn't go over to well with the 50 + people :P

 

I agree with you.

[MattPie]

last week I told the beatles were the worlds first boy band.   That really didn't go over to well with the 50 + people :P

 

I've made the argument before, but the more I think about it I'm not sure I agree. I'd say one of the primary requirements of a boy band is that each member has mostly equal standing in terms of singing, and Ringo blows that out of the water. The Beatles lack of dancing also works against them. I'd go with the Jackson 5 before the Beatles.

[Doohicksie]

I'd go with the Jackson 5 before the Beatles.

 

I think the Osmonds are just a bit before the Jacksons, although they were pretty much contemporaries.  Osmonds recorded their first pop song in 1967, the Jacksons in 1969.

[That Aud Smell]

last week I told the beatles were the worlds first boy band.   That really didn't go over to well with the 50 + people :P

I agree with you.

 

I'm trying to choose between calling this rubbish and nonsense. I'll go with both.

[K-9]

The lack of appreciation for musical talent, evolution, and innovation is staggering. Some of you would have me believe The Beatles were the blueprint for Menudo. There was no shortage of cookie cutter boy bands before and during the Beatles reign. You should look to those as examples. The Beatles were on an entirely different playing field.