age - Page 6

Originally Posted by patriot76

i can verify olddude has not aged in the last three months. He still looks 21 and would be carded if he wanted to buy a six pack of soda. Just my perspective.

thanks, think any one will go for that.

Part of the reason I joined in on the visiting around this forum is that I noticed that there were many members that were around my age and older.

Being born in late 1958 makes me a baby boomer as they call it as there was a baby boom season around those years.

It takes certain types of people to be truly interested in the salvage and recycling biz. And if you look at the age groups of such types of people it seems to be part of the baby boomer concepts and the rise and fall of economy.

I find that many people like their things of the past when they get older and will pay what ever it takes to get what they desire. I know that I have paid high values for certain items that I just had to have for my collections. I have versions of all the books I had when I was in grade school, the **** and Jane books and such, as well as many of the books from later years. I have always liked books and have a nice selection of them with my favorites being older children's books.

I was reading over this after I posted it and saw where the bot had bleeped a word. I'm sure that those that know the school books from then know what word it was. Sort of funny in a way what the bots will do.

Maybe it was the "bot" comment.
I remember the **** and Jane books very well. And you can't forget Spot.
I'm 51.

OK, the bot got me too so in any future posts he will be called Richard.

Thought I would add this:

1946 - 1964, the baby boomer years.

Because there were so many born during those years and the consumer goods markets were also booming. Many that were born during those years get interested in items they had when they were growing up.

About 10 years back when I had been playing around with the internet and eBay for a few years I went about seeing what school books were available that I didn't have as well as getting a idea of their values. I found that some of the books were selling well on eBay with a few around $850.00 each in mint condition. That was when people had money to burn and the collecting of them become very competitive. They can be bought at far lower prices these days, that is IF you can find what you want for sale and then you can expect to pay around $100 on average for many of them depending on rarity, supply and demand. You will find that the early educational books are not all that common these days.

There is money and fun in old books and other interesting paper products. Valentines and Halloween cards. Old advertising of many types. Old letters and what ever was made of paper and other paperboard and such. There are many that make a good living from selling old advertising, interesting old letters and papers such as old stocks, bonds and such that are just fancy wall paper now. Also maps of many types, movie posters and such. The list is endless.

As for those spiders and bots. They are interesting to study as they study us. Google it for more information on the little cyber critters that crawl about the web seeking every crevice they can find and they never quit searching.

thought I would add that there are the good bots and spiders and the bad ones. A bit like Star Wars and such.

Old enough the TV didn't have a remote, computers were only used once a week at school and most of them had a green and black for display colors

Originally Posted by taterjuice

Old enough the TV didn't have a remote, computers were only used once a week at school and most of them had a green and black for display colors

Hahaha, One tv and one very large radio(tubes)at our house when I was kid. Also I or one of my siblings WAS the remote, for the younger folks there a knob on the front of the tv to change the station. Oh and our first tv had a round picture tube and a rotary telephone with a party line(only the old folks will get that one).73, Mike

Originally Posted by miked

Hahaha, One tv and one very large radio(tubes)at our house when I was kid. Also I or one of my siblings WAS the remote, for the younger folks there a knob on the front of the tv to change the station. Oh and our first tv had a round picture tube and a rotary telephone with a party line(only the old folks will get that one).73, Mike

For those that do not know about the party line, each neighbor was assigned a different number of rings. As a kid we use to listen to the neighbors conversations when the parents were not around. It was better than TV. I was never assigned the duty of being the remote because there was only one channel available and that was only when everything was perfect. I was assigned antenna duty which involved re configuring the aluminum foil flag on the antenna.

Technology was boring in those days. In college I remember writing loops using 0, 1, and 2 on computer cards because they said it would be the future. I did not listen and they were right. The only time I remember sitting down with my family to watch TV was the assassination of JFK and the moon walk. Otherwise we would rather play kick the can or flashlight tag, if your family could afford a flashlight. Some used a candle, but that was a handicap if the wind was blowing.

Old timers like to brag they had to walk uphill to school and back. I am so old that we had to swim upriver both ways to and from school. After that they built roads and my kids are the ones that had to walk up hill both ways. It was because of this that God decided we would only have to fight gravity in one direction. That is how old I feel tonight, but tomorrow I will wake up the rooster to start another day.