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Post by joybelle on May 24, 2020 15:46:10 GMT -5
That happened in 1983 so I was 31.
How old were you when the Vietnam War started?
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Post by 2old on May 24, 2020 17:18:32 GMT -5
Wikipedia says the Vietnam War began in 1955. I would have been 9. I don't remember our... U.S... involvement until I was in high school. Probably 1963/64. I would have been 16/17.
How old were you when you first remember eating pizza?
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Post by Weezer on May 24, 2020 18:30:26 GMT -5
Pizza ?? 14 or 15 yrs old..was the New eating place for teens at that time..
How old were you when you got married..?
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Post by joybelle on May 24, 2020 22:20:07 GMT -5
22
How old were you when you first rode a push bike?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 20:51:36 GMT -5
I had a tricycle at 3.
How old were you when you first went to the public library?
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Post by 2old on Jun 8, 2020 21:09:00 GMT -5
4th or 5th grade. My mother was a telephone operator in our small town. I would walk from the school to the library after school and wait for her to get off work. This town had a population of about 400. They had a wonderful library for a town that small.
How old were you when you had your first interaction with a police officer?
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Post by joybelle on Jun 9, 2020 3:02:15 GMT -5
When I was 19 and took my driver's license test. It was back in the day when the local police took licence checks. My Dad obviously knew the officer because he said your Dad said you were coming in. Backing was my problem and he talked me through it. I am still hopeless at backing a vehicle. I would sooner walk than back lol
How old were you when you went to knowing everything to realising you didn't know much at all?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2020 13:18:06 GMT -5
23 when I moved from Cincinnati to Denver.
How old were you when your first child was born?
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Post by joybelle on Jun 9, 2020 16:16:59 GMT -5
26
How old were you when you first started in the paid workforce?
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Post by 2old on Jun 13, 2020 20:58:53 GMT -5
19 when I began working full time. Worked summers and part time for neighbor farmers from about age 12. Part time employment in college at a greenhouse.
How old were you when you really understood the fact that Santa Claus might just possibly be a myth?
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Post by joybelle on Jun 13, 2020 21:37:17 GMT -5
I can't remember exactly but I am guessing around 10 or 11.
How old were you when you left your family of origin home?
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Post by 2old on Jun 14, 2020 5:44:31 GMT -5
Left at 17 for college. Home was still "home". Married at 19 and we began married life in a small one-bedroom rental... with zero furniture. Got a bed that if you rolled over in the middle of the night, the slats fell out and you ended up on the floor. Our complete living room furniture consisted of a card table and four folding chairs.
How old were you when you first visited a zoo?
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Post by joybelle on Jun 14, 2020 14:51:03 GMT -5
I am thinking you and your good wife soon learned not to roll over too much 2old lol.
Again I can't really remember, but I am guessing around 5 because I have some vague memories of a carousel and Queenie the elephant at the Melbourne zoo. You could go for a ride on Queenie.
How old were you when you cooked your first meal?
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Post by 2old on Jun 15, 2020 15:36:47 GMT -5
Summers while in college. Mother always cooked while I was home. Live in a dorm with food service in college. Summers lived in an apartment with two other guys. We each had girlfriends that we took turns "coercing" to come wash dishes when we ran out of clean ones. Wow! Just think of the training my poor wife has had to do over the past 50+ years!!!
How old were you when your family got their first television... and was it color or black & white?
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Post by joybelle on Jun 15, 2020 16:07:49 GMT -5
1957 and it was black and white. My Dad bought it home and my Mum was livid because it cost a fortune at the time. We were the first ones in the area to have a TV. TV was available in Australia in Dec 1956. The push was on to have it up and running for the 1957 Olympics in Melbourne.
How old were you when you first saw a movie in the picture theatre (cinema)?
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