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Oh Noes, Help Me, I've Become OLD (Original Post) NightWatcher May 2013 OP
The alternatives are unacceptable! yortsed snacilbuper May 2013 #1
Do you know how long ago I saw Hair? dixiegrrrrl May 2013 #2
I saw it on Broadway in March of 1969. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2013 #6
You got me dixiegrrrrl May 2013 #8
Kid, I watched Elvis live on the Ed Sullivan Show. nt sarge43 May 2013 #9
Which of the 3 appearances did you watch? dixiegrrrrl May 2013 #10
57 sarge43 May 2013 #14
I was 12. And after his appearance I KNEW he was a whole new ballgame. dixiegrrrrl May 2013 #15
I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. 1964. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2013 #12
Oh yeah??? I watched Woodie Guthrie perform in the DUST BOWL!!! Taverner May 2013 #13
It's happens to all of us if we live long enough. Arkansas Granny May 2013 #3
There are worse things. In_The_Wind May 2013 #4
Just a youngster hobbit709 May 2013 #5
I wanta go home "to" the Armadillo !! Tuesday Afternoon May 2013 #7
I totally remember that tour!!!!! Taverner May 2013 #11
By the time I got to Woodstock .... kwassa May 2013 #16
The dude to our right of the blue shirt does not look pleased NightWatcher May 2013 #17
Sleeping out in the rain all night does that to you. kwassa May 2013 #18
in 1990 my eldest son SteveG May 2013 #19

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
10. Which of the 3 appearances did you watch?
Sat May 25, 2013, 08:59 PM
May 2013

I think I saw the '57 one..
but I WAS pretty young then, gotta admit.


One day in 1980, my then 12 y/o son asked me, in all seriousness:
"Mom, were you alive when the Beatles first came to America???"

Sigh.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
15. I was 12. And after his appearance I KNEW he was a whole new ballgame.
Sat May 25, 2013, 09:18 PM
May 2013

My poor parents, so used to Perry Como and Frank Sinatra. and they hated it when he came on the radio.




 

Taverner

(55,476 posts)
13. Oh yeah??? I watched Woodie Guthrie perform in the DUST BOWL!!!
Sat May 25, 2013, 09:03 PM
May 2013

Actually, I didn't

I was born in 1970

But that totally sounds cool, don't it?

SteveG

(3,109 posts)
19. in 1990 my eldest son
Sat May 25, 2013, 11:45 PM
May 2013

who was a jr. in college at the time, told me I was older than dirt (I was 40). Little did I know that my best years were yet to come.

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