I Was There - Where Were You?  

hi dear granny
will you permit me to say that to you dear terilee?
i am only 22 and you are like my granny.
i do appreciate your golden days.
and i have a regret that we have not seen those days.
who is to be blamed for that?
now even the water and the air is not clean enough.
the prices are sky high
the love is lost.
only money matters.
well no problem we are still here to survive. we will definitely keep sharing more in these columns.

What a wonderful post! Thank you for sharing your childhood!

I suppose I remember getting 50p a week pocket money (I think that's the equivalent of a dollar at the moment.)

I remember when the Berlin Wall came down and I didn't understand its significance until I was much older. I remember people crying and I knew I was seeing something amazing, but couldn't understand why.

I remember riding my bike around alone and my mother wouldn't be worried about me.

I remember that there was no such thing as a cell phone.

What great memories you have! I also remember the first moon landing ... just. I was made to watch it, but I didn't really understand what it was about. I remember going and seeing a model of a building that was to become the Sydney Opera House, and I staying in a unit opposite the Opera House on the day it opened and seeing all the celebrations on the harbour. I also remember waiting for hours just to see the Queen that week. I used to visit my Dad at work. He would type something into the computer, and we would then go down to the level below to see it print out. The computer took up two floors, but was less powerful than something you'd fit in your pocket today. There was huge excitement when my Dad brought home a video game ... we fought desperately over that game ... a blip on the screen which we paddled back and forward. I remember when our phone number had six digits. I'll be remembering things all night now ... thanks for a chance to be nostalgic!

Very excellent memories.
For everybody, at the bottom their heart, there are something they will cherish forever.Perhaps this is the memory.
Nobody in the world have the same memory with others.
But for me, memory is just something that I choose from the past.May be happy or greived, but beneficial.

well i don't have quite as much life experience as you.....
but i do remember when i started the disgusting habit of smoking.....cigarettes were .55 cents a pack, and i remember saying, "when they get to be a dollar a pack i'm quitting!" and now here they are pushing $5.00 a pack and i'm still fighting the battle.
i also remember the pre-cable antenna on top of the house.
i remember "Gilligan's Island" going from black and white to color and not even noticing.
i remember my dad and me watching "The Flinstones" which was a weekly prime time show.
i remember going on a field trip with my science class, we went to this ladies house and she had a computer.....it took up a large room.....nothing like a desktop or laptop.

I don't really remember much about the prices, I do remember when JFK was killed, I was 3 and we lived in Mesquite, a suburb of Dallas. I do remember when going to the movies didn't cost much and we could take our own bag of goodies in with us. I do remember black and white tv, and only having a few channels and we watched tv as a family, of course there was only one tv in the house. I do remember when the first video games came out, and we used a typewriter, not a computer program to type papers for school. And I remember playing outside, not sitting in front of a computer, tv, etc. Cell phones, what was that? And no answering machines, if someone called and we weren't home, they would call back later. I also remember party lines, and our phone number when I was young started with BR not numbers lol.

I can identify with you for sure! I can remember getting 25 cents for lunch at school, and keeping it until I got off the bus to buy an RC Cola and moon pie and then have change! We didn't have a car when I was younger, so I only remember the 19-25 cent gas. We didn't get a television until I was a 9th grader and it was still black and white. No computer games, and we played out until after dark! I do remember JFK's death. I was at work and heard the news. I was dating my husband back then. We also had the 8 party line phones where everyone listened to your conversation. I remember when the first 2 party lines came in and finally the private lines,thank goodness! I don't remember what the hourly wages were, but, on my first job, I was paid by the month, and drew less than $400! But, to me, that was a big salary! I also remember penny candy. Wouldn't it be nice for that to come back! These $.50 candy bars were then about a nickel. You could get an ice cream cone for $.10. I wonder how many know that a dime once was made of silver. What memories!

I was born in 1949 so I remember all that. Also the cars had no AC, also no power locks or power windows. FM radio was not around and when it did arrive it was considered a luxury. TVs did not have remotes or buttons....a turn dial for channels. (MY mom still has one.) I remember getting $.25 to WALK to a store for my mom for a loaf of bread and a quart of milk. I was so happy because I got to keep the change for PENNY CANDY.

Hmm...let me think. I distinctly remember the fall of the Berlin Wall. That was in 1989, around November I think. The movie E.T. came out. The Cosby Show and Cheers ruled mainstream television. Michael Jackson was still sure of his gender back then. Internet was still a thing of the distant future then. Our TV set still had an indoor antenna attached to it. Those are what came to my mind instantaneously.

big events? fun fair in brunei which built by sultan specially for his son's brithday. went there once, free to play everything.. Somehow it is a playground belong to me.. hihi...brunei even invite michael jackson for the open ceremony