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Who is the oldest here? (Original Post) trof Sep 2023 OP
75 1/2 sinkingfeeling Sep 2023 #1
74 Joinfortmill Sep 2023 #2
79 6/44 enough Sep 2023 #3
76 MOMFUDSKI Sep 2023 #4
Happy Birthday! brer cat Sep 2023 #6
Thanks! MOMFUDSKI Sep 2023 #9
Happy Birthday! I hope you have a wonderful celebration. LoisB Sep 2023 #12
74 3/4 Hello to everyone who is 74. We're all 49'ers! usonian Sep 2023 #5
77 brer cat Sep 2023 #7
Old enough to remember Pearl Harbor - reported on our radio northoftheborder Sep 2023 #8
So...90? trof Oct 2023 #24
88 northoftheborder Oct 2023 #26
I am 86, born October 12, 1936 turn 87 in about a week and a half. justhanginon Sep 2023 #10
Ding ding ding WINNER!!! applegrove Sep 2023 #14
You're clearly the winner so far. lamp_shade Sep 2023 #17
I am 87, born 11/1935 - hoping to reach 88 soon. No Vested Interest Sep 2023 #19
After 3rd edit my grandson's birthday math straightened me out. I'm 86 not 87. justhanginon Sep 2023 #22
I'll be 74 at the end of October. n/t KarenS Sep 2023 #11
83 Chipper Chat Sep 2023 #13
4. The Iron Fireman trof Oct 2023 #25
75.9 Xoan Sep 2023 #15
73 here. ShazzieB Sep 2023 #16
Turned 77 in August. lamp_shade Sep 2023 #18
I'm 74. DeeDeeNY Sep 2023 #20
I remember those xrays. Mickju Sep 2023 #21
YES! trof Oct 2023 #27
80 one week from today. DavidDvorkin Oct 2023 #23

justhanginon

(3,324 posts)
10. I am 86, born October 12, 1936 turn 87 in about a week and a half.
Fri Sep 29, 2023, 07:55 PM
Sep 2023

I still remember as a kid the celebrations at the end of WW two marching around the neighborhood with the other kids yelling and beating on garbage can lids. Everybody was happy and mostly relieved.

applegrove

(123,146 posts)
14. Ding ding ding WINNER!!!
Fri Sep 29, 2023, 08:29 PM
Sep 2023

I'm 58. I feel about 35. I remember the moon landings. My earliest memories are of looking from my crib to my twin brother's and seeing him as a baby.

No Vested Interest

(5,196 posts)
19. I am 87, born 11/1935 - hoping to reach 88 soon.
Sat Sep 30, 2023, 02:14 AM
Sep 2023

I remember when Pearl Harbor was attacked on a Sunday; my father came home from Mass into the kitchen and said "The Japs have bombed Pearl Harbor. Many memories of WWII - paper drives, scrap metal drives, saving grease in tin cans, stamps for gas, sugar, meat, shoes. Soldiers marching through downtown, my father & I watching, he with tears in his eyes. Also when a friend told me FDR was in a wheel-chair I didn't believe it. Remember FDR's death. -So much more.

PS - Check the math re our friend above. - Perhaps a typo...

Chipper Chat

(10,030 posts)
13. 83
Fri Sep 29, 2023, 08:28 PM
Sep 2023

Earliest things I can remember:
1. My dad and uncles returning from active duty in WW2.
2. Playing "cowboys and Indians" with my cousins.
3. The family gathering around the radio on Saturday night to listen to Your Hit Parade.
4. Excitement over getting an automatic stoker for our coal furnace.
5. My aunt getting her arm caught in the washing machine wringer.

trof

(54,273 posts)
25. 4. The Iron Fireman
Sun Oct 1, 2023, 06:57 PM
Oct 2023

That was the name of our automatic stoker. Grandpa still had to empty it and sprinkle the clinkers in the alley.
The alley was pretty much 'paved' with clinkers.

ShazzieB

(18,678 posts)
16. 73 here.
Fri Sep 29, 2023, 11:28 PM
Sep 2023

03/28/1950, to be exact. Which means I was born just about in the middle of the 20th century. I hope I can manage to stick around till the middle of this one, but we'll have to see what happens.

DeeDeeNY

(3,491 posts)
20. I'm 74.
Sat Sep 30, 2023, 05:00 AM
Sep 2023

I can remember growing up that when my mother took me to the shoe store, the salesman would first take an xray of my feet!

Mickju

(1,812 posts)
21. I remember those xrays.
Sat Sep 30, 2023, 11:15 AM
Sep 2023

We used to play with them and probably got a good dose of radiation. I'll be 80 in March. I remember my Aunt serving in the Navy during the Korean war. I remember Truman being the President and Eisenhower being elected.

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