Without using numbers, how old are you?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

I’m iceman old

Nickel pay phone calls old

Corduroy pants old

[samnsara]

1. Ozzie and Harriet ( the college years) old...

..'Boy friend' wrap around sunglasses

Peppermint flavor lipstick

flash cubes that I wore as earrings with my mini skirt and knee high white boots

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. Youngster!

[JenniferJuniper]

2. We wore corduroy pants in the late 70's,

I had a rainbow assortment of corduroy Levis.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Fifties corduroy pants ruined me for corduroy forever. I can still hear the sound they made when I

walked to school!

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Bell bottoms and long hair aside, I got a kick ...

out of your post!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. Hippie!

[soothsayer]

6. 6.5 oz nickel bottle Coke machine old

[Just_Vote_Dem]

7. Nehru jackets

Never owned one though

[Lars39]

8. Older than my teeth, younger than my hair.

[MichaelSoE]

15. Great answer!! You win

[Lars39]

43. Can't claim credit....read it here loooong ago.

[dixiegrrrrl]

102. good one!!!!!

[The Genealogist]

10. Saturday Night Massacre old

Angie by the Rolling Stones is the top song on the chart old. No Vice President of the United States because the crook had to resign last week old. That is what was going on in the world during the week I was born.

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. 7 person party line old

McNally maps old

No air conditioning in school or home old

Watching new episodes of Bugs Bunny on Saturday morning old

3 channels of TV old

[gibraltar72]

12. Pumped gas at 19.9 cents per gallon.

Though not born by WW2 wars end I still have my ration book.

[MichaelSoE]

13. The first phone number I can remember had less digits than a person has on their left hand

and it was a party line.
As a matter of fact you could dial the operator and tell them, "Connect me with Dr. Loo." And they knew who you wanted to call.

and on edit ... Alaska and Hawaii were not states yet.

[Laelth]

14. 100 years younger than Canada

and just as old as:

Pink Floyd,
Tangerine Dream,
The Grateful Dead, and
Fleetwood Mac.

I was born into great music.



-Laelth

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

16. This was the hi tech phone of the day when I got my first cell phone in high school

I think I still have it a box somewhere. I never threw out my nextel phones for some reason.

[beachbumbob]

17. I remember Ike as president

[csziggy]

74. Me, too - but he was not president when I was born. nt

[ChazII]

18. Dwight Eisenhower old. n/t

[Kahuna]

19. I'm Jimmy Dean, Arthur Godfrey and Sing Along with Mitch old. nt

[redwitch]

20. Doing the garden, digging the weeds...

Also thinking about renting a cottage on the Isle of Wight (If it’s not too dear)

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. My first president of memory is Carter. My biggest concert

was Bon Jovi's "Slippery When Wet." Before Smart cars, there were Yugos. The Viet Nam War was still going on when I was born. As a teen, I saw a wall fall, a shuttle explode, and a president and Beatle shot.

[stopwastingmymoney]

32. I'm your age

Excellent description

[northoftheborder]

22. Remember Pearl Harbor

[rurallib]

23. black and white tv with 3 networks old

and let me add - daylight time set at the county level inside our state old (boy was that confusing)

[Chipper Chat]

24. Listening to the radio in the evening.

Suspense
STOP the. Music with Bert Parks.
OXYDOL 'S OLD MA PERKINS
THE Fat Man
Your Hit PARADE.

[agingdem]

25. As old as the State of Israel...

[unc70]

26. Vaguely remember Truman as president

No television, no telephone, no paved road, no indoor plumbing. We were in the boonies of eastern NC. We did get all of those except telephones by the time I was six; I was ten when telephones reached us.

[Dustlawyer]

27. 30 cents a gallon, hang 10 feet, black & white TV with 3 channels, Indian fringe leather jacket.

[Binkie The Clown]

28. I'm Kate Smith, Kookla, Fran and Ollie old. Plunk your magic twanger Froggy. nt

[Backseat Driver]

30. Haha - every day I "push the magic button, Froggie" on the Mr. Coffee.

[Backseat Driver]

29. I could never tell a lie while hooked up to this wretched machine,

but a decade later, I still barely knew enough to even consider disliking Ike or his warning; then in just a couple more years, this child's mind would have lots of damn good reasons not to trust any member of the GOP ever again! I asked what I could do? - "VOTE Blue when you can; however long you can" came the answer! - And so I shall, today!

[WePurrsevere]

31. I'm, 'John John' saluting his daddy's casket, old...

He was so very sad and around the same age as I was. Even being rather young it hit me hard enough that it's an image I've always carried in my heart.

[DBoon]

33. Same age as Johnny Rotten and Exene Cervenka

part of the punk generation

[Wicked Blue]

34. Vaguely remember Winky Dink and You on tv

but couldn't understand it because I didn't speak English yet

[vsrazdem]

35. The Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee the year I was born.

[Chainfire]

36. Moses and I were in Elementary school

but he was one grade ahead of me.

[Wawannabe]

61. Hehe!

😂

[Wounded Bear]

37. Went to grade school when Christ was a Lance Corporal...

Semper Fi.

[mnhtnbb]

38. I'm old enough to remember the Brooklyn Dodgers moving to Los Angeles!

[whistler162]

106. My mother grew up on the same block/area

where some lived.

[Clearly fogged in]

39. Grounded! You are NOT going to Woodstock.

Got to see some dinosaurs grow feathers though...

[panader0]

40. I remember when my dad got back from the Korean War.

I didn't really know him, he'd been gone for two years. He hadn't shaved in a couple of days
and his whiskers scratched my face.

[Fla Dem]

41. Coal shoot in House old.

Saw Ted Williams play at Fenway Park old.

Wringer in basement sink old.

Party Line Phones old.

No filter cigarettes old.

No MacDonalds old

No Car seat belts old.

Watching Alan Shepard's 1st space flight on a B&W TV old.

Watching Howdy Doody, Buffalo Bob Smith and Clarabell the Clown old. What Time Is It????? It's Howdy Doody Time!!!!!

[wnylib]

82. Do you know what time it is?

Don't forget Princess Summerfallwinterspring. (A character that just wouldn't be done today.)

[Fla Dem]

86. Gosh, should not have left her off the list.

[wnylib]

88. We had one of the first TV's

on our block. Kids gathered at our house to watch.

[Fla Dem]

89. Great memories for sure!!!

[wnylib]

90. Yes, early TV memories remind me

of another age marker - a time when TV's were a piece of furniture, standing on the floor in cabinets that were double or triple the size of the screen. Also, "snowy" reception and adjusting rabbit ears to make it clearer. Then, getting a roof antenna in order to receive the UHF station.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

42. I saw the opening of Disneyland. It was broadcast on TV.

Steam locomotives weren't operating through my home town during my memory, but I did see the attempted demolition of the coaling tipple.

[LiberalArkie]

44. I watched Tobar as a kid when the TV station started their day in the afternoon.

[Aristus]

45. I'm rotary phone years old.

I'm aluminum foil on the TV antennae years old.

I'm Funshine Saturday on ABC years old.

I'm embroidered jeans and sunhats years old.

I'm 45-rpm records on the backs of cereal boxes years old.

I'm Chemistry For Kids! boxed sets years old.

[Ron Obvious]

46. Old enough to know better

Young enough to still care.

[jmowreader]

47. JFK died when I was in diapers old

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

63. jfk died when i was in 3rd grade old.

my folks were picking up report cards when he was declared dead.
they announced it on the pa. my mom came home in tears.
he had visited my little town, they drove right past my house. my mom shook his hand.

[Iggo]

78. You, me, and Obama.

[BainsBane]

48. I'm Obama old.

[cloudbase]

49. I started going to sea

when Noah was a seaman apprentice.

I can remember these at night:

[ProfessorGAC]

50. Beatles Song From Sgt. Pepper

There are several here that song describes.

[Tracer]

51. Actual icebox in my aunt's house old.

Seeing a bonfire in the street at the end of WWII old.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

52. Four score minus twenty-seven years ago.

N0t sure 1f that c0unt5.

[IcyPeas]

53. pay toilets

I think it was dime.... maybe a nickel

[Ron Obvious]

54. I sound a lot younger in hexadecimal

But you can only realistically do that 10 out of every 16 years.

Ooops. Sorry, I used numbers.

[malthaussen]

55. That's easy: when I was born, the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn. n/t

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

56. Dad trying to build a fallout shelter, JFK assassination & funeral, Bull Conner

on the good side Romper Room, Captain Kangaroo, and wringer washers!

[nuxvomica]

57. I'm lots of official-looking-but-not-official-government junkmail old

From health insurance companies.

[Brother Buzz]

58. I'm test pattern old.....

I actually enjoyed watching the test pattern, waiting for TV broadcasting to resume. The first program of the day was The Wonderful World Of Brother Buzz, and I NEVER missed it.

[Wawannabe]

59. Born the same year the KC Chiefs

Won their last SuperBowl. (Not this year!)

They gave me a wonderful bday present earlier this year. Friday is the "big day"!

[Major Nikon]

60. Not as old as the rest of you old farts

[Mad_Dem_X]

62. My first memory is the moon landing

I was a toddler.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

64. I remember when roller skates had keys to tighten them onto shoes.

Bicycle helmets were unheard of.

Milkman delivered to the house.

[marie999]

65. First memory North Korea invaded South Korea.

My husband remembers Japan's surrender.

[sinkingfeeling]

66. As old as the Marshall Plan.

.

[ironflange]

67. I was on Romper Room the day JFK was killed

[LeftInTX]

68. Elvis was becoming a thing, the year I was born.

I wanted to see John Glenn's spacecraft fly over our house! (Thanks mom for teasing me with that...dad says it will be too small to see)

[vercetti2021]

69. I'm this old

Super Nintendo old

Twin peaks old

Fresh Prince old

Home Alone old

[Totally Tunsie]

70. I'm $0.03 First Class postage old.

[Solly Mack]

71. Cost a nickel table top jukebox old.

[Piasladic]

72. I'll play

Scratch and sniff stickers old

Fat shoelaces and plastic earrings old.

[deepthought42]

73. I am E.T. old

when the movie was first released.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

75. I'm old enough to know better👼

But still too young to care.

[ploppy]

76. First Edition Barbie old.

[Iggo]

77. I'm orange van with Cragars and big ol' meats old.

[TexasBushwhacker]

79. I'm Sputnik old n/t

[Phentex]

80. I'm snack pack pudding in a can old...

But I’m not as artificial.

[Wolf Frankula]

81. Old enough to retire

if I was my parents' generation.

Wolf

[My Pet Orangutan]

83. Two.

Two old.

[wnylib]

84. Truman was president when I was born,

Don't remember him, but I do remember Ike. Vague memory of the last McCarthy hearings on TV.

Wearing pinafores in kindergarten. Crinolines, poodle skirts, and saddle shoes in grade school. Nickel candy bars and popsickles.

[Shrek]

85. LVII n/t

[sarge43]

87. Every Sunday morning, I'd read

Prince Valiant, Terry and the Pirates, Black Hawk and Steve Canyon old.

[mentalsolstice]

91. Silly Putty + Sunday funnies old! nt

[packman]

92. I remember Hoot Gibson, B&W Philco TV (With no remote)

and playing outside until my mother called me in

[Niagara]

93. I was in diapers when Elvis died.

I was in elementary school when students were still allowed to wear Halloween costumes to school and we walked down to a nearby nursing home to parade our costumes for the elderly. I also in elementary school when the Challenger disaster happened.



I was in junior high school when Baby Jessica fell into the well and was rescued.




There were plenty of payphones to be found and Saturday morning cartoons was the best part of the weekend.

[Ohiya]

94. Same age as Opie

[smirkymonkey]

95. I was on the Bozo the Clown show.

[Niagara]

107. You were in the audience?

Or did you get to participate for prizes?



That's really cool that you got to see it live.

[smirkymonkey]

109. No, I was actually on the show.

I don't really remember it because I was only about 3 or 4, but my dad showed it to me years later. They had kids on bleachers on the stage and I was one of them.

[Niagara]

111. Yes, that's too young to remember.

That's still neat that you got to be there.



I use to practice throwing ping pong balls in my mom's buckets, mixing bowls and whatever else that I could find hoping one day I got to participate on the show.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

96. WW II old...FDR was President.

[struggle4progress]

97. I still used slide rules for some years after hand-held calculators became common

and I learned programming with hollerith cards

[DFW]

98. In geological terms

I own fossils of animals that used to be my house pets.

For some of them, today, there would probably some kind of leash requirement:

[OxQQme]

99. Born the same year as McDonalds

Bell Laboratories' physicists invented the transistor. Smaller, cheaper, and faster than a vacuum tube, it revolutionized the field of electronics. Edwin Land invented the Polaroid Land® camera. It was the first camera to produce finished prints “instantly” – in this case, 60 seconds.

Same age as Ringo and John Lennon.

Average Price for a new car $850.00.

Nylon stockings.

Older than Rosie the riveter.

[krispos42]

100. Bicentennial baby old

Mine's easy!

[marmar]

101. Disney World (Florida) opening old. (same age as me)

[Iggo]

103. I'm New Episodes of Gilligan's Island in Black and White old.

[Duppers]

104. Dirt. 😁

[whistler162]

105. I like IKE

but that JFK guy is looking better than the VP!

[sakabatou]

108. I am as old as the film "Full Metal Jacket"

[Kaleva]

110. Teachers could beat the shit out of schoolchildren old.

[frogmarch]

112. Sparkle Plenty doll old, but

a few years too old for Betsy Wetsy.