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18. Imagine a time with only 9

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Fri Oct 24, 2014, 08:11 PM

Oct 2014

NFL teams. And no TV. We used to sit around and look at the radio. True fact.

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Were you alive before anyone had seen the earth from space? [View all] ashling Oct 2014 OP

I was alive when the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn. malthaussen Oct 2014 #1

The Dodgers were in Brooklyn? Callmecrazy Oct 2014 #2

That's like finding out there is no Santa Clause... Lochloosa Oct 2014 #3

They were once called the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers. RushIsRot Oct 2014 #20

They were once called the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers. RushIsRot Oct 2014 #21

Yeah, I actually saw Sal Maglie pitch. Kingofalldems Oct 2014 #13

Sal "The barber" Maglie rurallib Oct 2014 #31

My mom grew up in Brooklyn when whistler162 Oct 2014 #14

Oh yeah, my Mom and Dad did too shenmue Oct 2014 #28

So was I, Mal, elleng Oct 2014 #15

You didn't get Jackie's autograph! malthaussen Oct 2014 #22

depends on what month in 1948 . . . nt flamin lib Oct 2014 #4

There was an earlier photo in 1946 pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #5

Thanks ashling Oct 2014 #6

I stumbled onto it when, like flamin lib, I was trying to find out what month. :) nt pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #7

Yes GeorgeGist Oct 2014 #8

Oh, O.K., *that* view. I was going to address this other one. UTUSN Oct 2014 #9

No. Aristus Oct 2014 #10

I was born when FDR was president RebelOne Oct 2014 #12

Me, too...what an amazing ride it has been all these years... CTyankee Oct 2014 #27

Dickens still applies pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #30

I was alive when traveling to outer space was only science fiction. n/t RebelOne Oct 2014 #11

No, if you're talking about photographic evidence... Wounded Bear Oct 2014 #16

. baldguy Oct 2014 #17

Imagine a time with only 9 pscot Oct 2014 #18

I am old enough to see The Undertaker's Streak start AngryAmish Oct 2014 #19

Yes. I was three years old at the time. Glorfindel Oct 2014 #23

I watched the moon landing in Vietnam ('69) pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #32

I was born cwydro Oct 2014 #24

I was married with a baby when Sputnik went up. n/t RebelOne Oct 2014 #25

who the heck can remember? n/t orleans Oct 2014 #26

No. And thanks for letting me feel young momentarily. Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #29

not even close fizzgig Oct 2014 #33