Am I the oldest GLP'r online today?

When my husband worked in downtown Denver there was a particularly darling little old man who would dress up in his military outfit and go sit where the business men would eat their lunches outside in the summer. My husband would buy this little old guy an ice tea or whatnot and sit and eat lunch with him and ask him about his life. He talked of the wars he served in - and my husband said you could tell how proud he was to have served. He talked about the women he loved, what the city was like in the old days, etc... My husband just loved it and so did the little guy. You could tell he was lonely.


When I see elderly in the store or on the street I always try to help them by holding a door open, reaching for things out of their reach and whatnot. They are precious.

Every time my grandfather would come over to visit, he'd have a trunk full of empty one gallon milk bottles. He'd get out of the car and in his booming voice yell to me..."Go fill up my bottles!" He preferred my dad's well water to the city water in his home. Seems like another lifetime ago.


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If my parents were still alive they'd be in their mid 90's. I wondered what it was like to experience the technological advances. Cars got bigger and faster. Air travel became more common place. Television. Space travel. Artificial hearts. Computers. They remembered what it was like before all that.

5* OP and thank you.

Same here. My parents aren't that elderly yet, but they are older and I always hope that there are people watching out for them. I never had grandparents of my own, but I have adopted a few. :)

my Dad has aged quite a bit in recent years. He's only in his mid sixties, but I worry about him. Though he's a scrapper. He lives in downtown phx and I swear he will get himself killed. He walks down his dark alley to take out the trash and yells at the drug dealers dealing. Thank God he's moving to rural Washington in a few weeks!

Will, surprise, here is a respect pin from the most unpredictable Mod on GLP. Enjoy old friend. I'll give ya at least an hour, what to hell.

Last Edited by Desert Fox on 04/24/2014 06:33 PM

Hooray you are awesome DesertFox! ....I hope he's still awake;)

You had music.
I envy the people that lived in the 20's, 40's and 60's their soundtrack.

Wow! Must be a bit shocking to see how things have changed so fast.

Ya me too. I've been out most of the day.

Yep.

Morning, sunshine.

Cool, saME AGE AS ME!

That statement made me feel like a baby...

Me too. I got to talk to my grandmother once about how things were when she was young. It was awesome to hear how different life was then.

Tell us stories from the past!!! We need to hear them :)

Was it ice that they cut off a lake, Old Timer?

Cool book to read "The Frozen Water Trade" about the international trade in ice from New England lakes and the technology they developed to do such a thing long before any kind of mechanical or chemical refrigeration.

Cheers old brit!!

Please

No, their are a few in their eighties I've come across that post here from time to time.

If you want the soundtrack of the 20s, 30s, 40s, and even some before that, try this station broadcasting from the Spark Museum of Electrical Invention (formerly the American Museum of Radio and Electricity):

KMRE-LP

Listen live on the internet, it does tell who the artist is for each song as it comes up:

[link to www.kmre.org]

Sometimes they are spinning 78s, they even play wax cylinder recordings sometimes. In the daytime it is mostly music, in the evening they have radio theater from the old days.

What do you miss the most about the old days? What do you like the most about the present? What was a turning point in history for you? How did you end up on glp?

My parents too. Imagine being brought up with no antibiotics - or political correctness.

They went from horse drawn vehicles as the norm to moon landings and beyond. I think they coped with the meteoric changes so well. Ducks to water.

One thing that really helped was that they were both very into learning and had endless curiosity about everything.

You and your Wisdom are appreciated!

Age is but a number. Maybe you are the wisest.

mind blown

Cool.

I've read old newspapers around the turn of the century when the automobile was invented. It was interesting to see people say that the horse was still better basically because if the buggy driver passed out, the horse would find his way home, where the automobile would end up in a ditch, or hitting a tree....

5*'s great thread.
I'm 50 this year .... the oldest I've ever been.