You Might Be Old If . . .

[Grainger49]

You are drawing retirement.

You remember JFK's assassination.

You remember Howdy Doody, Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring, Claribel (AKA Captain Kangaroo).

Just keeping in mind Dan is younger than I am and I Paul is older than I am.

The first one is what put me onto this.  It happened in October

 

[intojazz]

And I remember all that stuff, but hey older is better, wiser, more experienced, definitely more charm and well the good looks are gone but thanks for the reminder Grainger lol
John

 

[RayP]

If you can remember when you first heard stereo. For me it was when my father took me to some hi-fi shop in Sydney and they played the train going past record as well as some early stereo classical LPs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramophone_record#Stereo_sound

ray

 

[Grainger49]

I remember one of my father's friends playing a stereo demonstration LP where trains ran from the right speaker to the left speaker of his console.  Proving that there were two distinct channels!

I would really make fun of this but I have 3 of the early Mobile Fidelity albums, one is steam engines, one is diesel engines and the third is a rain storm.  So I can't make fun of my father's friend.

 

[richardl]

You get to draw a retirement rather than get a layoff notice.  Good for you Grainger!

 

[4krow]

You could be an old guy if:  " I can't believe you won't talk to me! You just stay on that phone and look away. Why are the cop's here? You know, I never cared for your mother. Just a minute occifer"....  "Excuse me, Mr. Peyton, but you are at the wrong house. Come with us."

 

[Grainger49]

It didn't happen, I wasn't there.

 

[Laudanum]

According to initial the criteria, Im right on the edge of old.  However, Im still damned good looking (best looking bald guy in America, maybe worldwide) and lacking in charm  ;D

 

[chard]

You remember watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. You did the twist with Chubby Checkers. You remember your grandmothers Rambler. You remember her pushing buttons to start it and shift gears. You remember your Dad going to the drug store to test TV tubes.

 

[Noskipallwd]

. . . you've read this thread more than once. ;D Chard, actually I remember my Rambler with pushbutton start and three on the tree, you could climb into the engine bay to work on it.

Cheers,
Shawn

 

[Doc B]

Grandmother? You guys are young. My mom had a '62 Rambler American. My older brother took it to college.

 

[earwaxxer]

I had a Rambler as well... It was my first car. The station wagon.  How about those 'vacuum' wipers!

 

[Grainger49]

You remember watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. You did the twist with Chubby Checkers. You remember your grandmothers Rambler. You remember her pushing buttons to start it and shift gears. You remember your Dad going to the drug store to test TV tubes.

Yes, I remember that Ed Sullivan show.  But it was Chubby Checker (no "S").  

I had a good friend whose parents had a Rambler station wagon.  The most interesting things about it were that the front rider seat folded down flat, he said it was good for dates, and he found that the letters spelling "RAMBLER" in the front grill could be rearranged.  He rearranged them to spell "MARBLER".

 

[4krow]

OMG! Did we ALL own Rambler station wagons?....Ours was blue

 

[Doc B]

Mom's looked like this one, same color:

I remember it having no power (compared to Dad's 59 Buick anyway, of which Mom called the color "Raspberry Puke", like this one)

and a really light tail end that required sand bags in the back for winter traction.

Ahh the good old days, sitting in the back seat where all of Dad's cigarette smoke would collect, getting nauseated on the twisty roads on the way to Seaside,OR.

Things got better later. When we moved from Oregon to San Francisco my dad had a series of lame company cars, but mom bought a 1970 Olds Cutlass S that belonged to the body shop manager at the local Olds dealership. She didn't like the baby blue '69 Pontiac Firebird convertible they offered her. She claimed it was because it had a few chips in the hood. I guess she thought it was too excessive. So she bought the conservative gold colored Olds with the brown vinyl top - and a 455 cubic inch engine

That was my ride in high school. It had drum brakes all around, with no power assist. Speedo only went to 120 and I pegged it more than once. This is the car I was in in the story I tell of being pulled over by seven cop cars and walking away from it without a ticket. Amazing I am still alive to talk about it.

 

[Yoder]

Hah! I bought me a 1962 Rambler American just like this one for $200 in 1969, and it only had 32 000 miles on it. Kept it for years, drove it the length of the Rockies via dirt roads, and then sold it in 1980 for $200. Same color, and had a flat head six. I put a Marantz 8-track in it, my old man got me some 8" Executone speakers from GTE that I installed in the back, and I lined the trunk with insulation. Bad ass sound system for the time. Had a surf board rack on top. The thing always reminded me of a hen chicken.

 

[Doc B]

I think my brother sold the one he inherited for $75 to a mechanic friend. IIRC it was the least expensive American car at the time.

 

[Wardsweb]

You may be old if you have ever used one of these.

 

[Grainger49]

I admit I don't know what it is.  Maybe it looked different in other parts of the country.

 

[Wardsweb]

I admit I don't know what it is.  Maybe it looked different in other parts of the country.

That is the tool used to pry up the divider in a metal ice tray like this. The back side is for bottle tops.