I'm Old Enough to Remember....

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Comment by Steen Krause on July 13, 2011 at 5:44pm

I remember Pluto being a planet. 

To piggy back off of Robert's post... I was in the sixth grade on 9/11. I watched the second tower get hit and both towers fall live on the news with two fellow students, two teachers and the principal of my school. After that day, I remember hearing about a several second delay being instilled on all "live" television broadcasts in case of those situations... not sure if it ever came to fruition.

Comment by Robert Muscovitz on July 13, 2011 at 5:21pm

Here's one I'll never ever forget.. Where were you when President Kennedy was killed? I was in Jr High Orchestra when the Principal announced it and that the buses are on there way to take us home. The director left the room to go into his office where the band director already was and the both wept while we put our instruments away and headed for our lockers to go home. The silence were terrible in all the hallways except for the sniffles you could hear as you went outside. No noise..Just quiet.. even on the bus..

Comment by Robert Muscovitz on July 13, 2011 at 4:53pm

Lizards were fun. I would grab one or many just for their tails because they would always keep moving. I'd put them in my pocket and go in the house to show mom. That went over well.. And downtown was fun for us two littles boys and grandma first on a streetcar and later a bus,, I swear there were no mufflers back then.. LOL! We always had to pass a place downtown where all the local bums lived in front of the Coke plant and some of the things we saw were not pretty. I could swear that there were many many more homeless back then whether war vets form WWII or the Korean War. They were on every bench in every area and some hid under a main bridge. Grandma always would take us to a chow mein place which was exciting considering we never had this at home back then...Fun though....

Comment by nancy Sanchez on July 13, 2011 at 4:37pm

oh the back of comic books were so cool...I keep thinking I still have my secret decoder ring somewhere...

the air raid things were scary...when the Korean war started I went outside and sat staring up at the sky for the bombers to come get us.......

Comment by Sherry Somach on July 13, 2011 at 4:34pm

I just posted my song "Remember" on my page here at Wiffledust. A little fidelity lost in transition , but you will get the idea. I wrote it right after 911...as a response to 911.

It talks about a lot of the things we have been mentioning here. It is all about this thread, in fact.

I don't think you have to be a friend to listen....but if so, I can always use mmore friends!!

Comment by Tom McMurray on July 13, 2011 at 4:18pm

Maggie, I remember those poor little lizards. They were sold as chameleons but were actually geckos. Let's see, what else could we order from the back of the comic book? Sea monkeys were big disappointment, no prehensile tails and we couldn't even take them out to play with.

Comment by Tom McMurray on July 13, 2011 at 4:10pm

Ok, I've succeeded in confusing myself on this thread. Come to think of it, I succeeded in confusing myself by getting out of bed this morning. :)        I can't seem to find some of the comments referred back to..... My apologies if I don't give proper credit to what some have said. Bob, the air raid drills were often welcomed because we were able to escape the 3 R's for awhile.  The fallout shelters were always a mystery to me. I wanted to see what was in all those great barrels stacked to the ceilings in school basements and similar places. Wiffledust, before the oral dose was developed, we lined up for shots. Along with the polio vaccination shot was the smallpox vaccination that left a cool scar. As to the little wooden desks, most of us kids knew they were useless in case of attack but we were told to get under 'em. Oh, there's Maggie...... The Cuban Missle Crisis seemed to have bring the world to a stop, did it not? Better dead than red!

Comment by Sherry Somach on July 13, 2011 at 3:37pm

Lisa..speaking of going down town, I remember shopping in department stores with my mother, and she would go to the ladies' lounge to smoke cigarettes! We took a street car, which were prevalent in Pittsburgh, where I grew up

Comment by wiffledust on July 13, 2011 at 3:32pm

i grew up outside a big city. not far outside. only a few miles outside! but i am old enough to remember that we got dressed up to go downtown! nobody wore their regular everyday stuff to go into the city! ;-) this seems so funny to think about much less write

Comment by wiffledust on July 13, 2011 at 3:31pm

bob, that is soooo americana and beautiful! maggie, tell me more about what it was like to live through the cuban missile crises? how scared were you? how aware was everyone of how bad it could be? bob m, don't the kids still get the polio stuff? i remember some  liquid being put on my tongue..i thought that was polio. no ??? sherry, publish it!

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