Where Were You 40 Years Ago Today?

[doh_phooey]

Feb 9, 1964

George was AWOL from rehearsal.


BUSH GOOP

:silly:

[afraid_of_the_dark]

Just a twinkle in my daddy's eye... n/t

[GOPisEvil]

1. I was a glint in someone's eye!

I'm 35. :hi:

[supernova]

20. I was toddling around

:hi: I was 18 months old. :D And damn cute to boot. ;-)

[GOPisEvil]

21. But of course you were.

I'll guess ya still are, too. :-)

[supernova]

25. Yes, I'm still cute

Execpt I'm taller and more shapely.

I'm looking at a picture of me and daddy circa about 1965. He's sitting in a chair and I'm standing on his head. It was a favorite activity. Interestingly, my face hasn't changed that much.

[GOPisEvil]

26. Awww!

My favorite baby pic is me sitting next to our toy poodle on the couch. He's taller than me! :-)

[supernova]

27. Oh that's sweet!

What a tiny thing you were! LOL! That sounds so sweet. :hug:

[Thomas Servo]

2. Wasn't even born yet. Probably reincarnated from a hippie...

:evilgrin:

[slackmaster]

3. Riding a blue tricycle around the sidewalks of Bird Rock

California (suburb of San Diego).

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. My mother was eight months pregnant with me!

:-)

[maddezmom]

49. my mom was 4 mos. pg with me !

:)

[doh_phooey]

53. PG-13?

:P

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Waiting for tomorrow

when I would turn 13.

[DemExpat]

15. That would put me waiting for 4 weeks when I'd turn 13!

:hi:

DemEx

[foreigncorrespondent]

6. four years and one day away...

...from being born. LOL

[Duncan Grant]

56. Happy Birthday foreigncorrespondent!

Tomorrow of course...:evilgrin:

:party: :party: :party: :party: :party:

[bif]

7. In 3rd grade at a catholic school

Being yelled at by a nun. (I was a trouble maker).

[Gman]

8. Sitting in front of the TV waiting breathlessly

for Ed Sullivan to start! I was in 4th grade.

[WiltedFlowerChild]

10. I was 10!

and watching Ed Sullivan. Had received the album "Meet the Beatles" for my 10th birthday and had decided to be in love with John Lennon instead of my first love....horses.

[otohara]

9. Watching Ed Sullivan

like a giddy school girl groupie

[Don_G]

11. Listining To My Father

Plan his vacation to the Big Apple and the World's Fair.

Do you want me to tell you about Shea Stadium now or later?

[Faygo Kid]

12. 12 years old, watching Ed, jumpin' up and down on my bed

Mom let me watch it, but wouldn't watch it herself, so wheeled the ol' black and white with the rabbit ears into my bedroom to watch it. I remember jumping up and down on my bed to the great music (and I was no longer a small fry at 12). Talk about excitement! Great to have the memories flood back. Don't forget Motown in that era! Some great music.

[mac56]

13. Watching Ed Sullivan.

I was seven. We had seen the film clips on Walter Cronkite's news and heard the news reports on the radio. My dad, 30 at the time, said, "We have to make sure to see that." And he made sure we did.

No matter how he and I locked horns over stuff later in my adolescence, I've always remembered what a cool dad he was in early 1964.

[SOteric]

14. Non-existent.

[madrchsod]

16. jr in high school

caught between the "greasers" and the "preppies"....

[Bozola]

17. Probably watching bad wine being made, Iráklion, Crete.

At least Crete was nicer than Tripoli.....

[Solly Mack]

18. I was 7 days old, living in Atlanta and was getting all the attention

and being pinched by my older siblings, no doubt.

[tsakshaug]

19. Watching ed

With my big sister-she was 14 I was 3.
at least that is the story she tells me

[bearfan454]

22. I was in school in 2nd grade.

I'm 47.

[49jim]

23. I was a..

freshmasn in high school...just hearing about these 4 guys from England. Shoveling snow from the stairs of the neighbors for 50 cents a house. Saved my money and bought a Beatle magazine cost 4.99 that day. Think I still have it somewhere. Probably could sell it on EBAY at a profit!

[RebelOne]

24. Can't tell you. 'Cause then I'd give away my age.

[supernova]

28. What's so bad about how old you are?

It's just a number. What matters is your outlook.

[Bertha Venation]

29. in hospital, open heart surgery

How's THAT for a reply?! ;)

I was born with a ventricular septle defect, VSD -- layman's terms, a hole in my heart. Took 'em four tries, but they fixed it. My mother claims I was the first infant in California to undergo this surgery. I don't really have any way of verifying this.

[supernova]

30. How old were you?

:hi: fellow CHD patient!

[Bertha Venation]

33. you're kidding!?

3 mos. first surgery; last one just before 2 yrs. You?

[supernova]

34. Wow! you were young. I had VSD repair in 1967

when I was five. I had mine done at Duke Medical Center and they were not doing infants at that time. Do I remember everything? Hell yes!

Do you have other problems today? Besides the VSD repair, I still have two other wonky valves that may go on me at some point, but then again may not. :shrug:

[Bertha Venation]

35. only problems today are

a murmur, obviously caused by the surgery (they cut through a bundle of nerves), and obesity, obviously NOT caused by the surgery. ;) My heart's in great shape.

You remember?! Damn. I don't remember a thing.

Do your valves make you nervous? Any talk of replacing them? How's your health in general?

[supernova]

39. General health is pretty good

Replacing valves? Not so far. I have both aortic insufficiency and MVP, so that's two murmurs. The AI isn't really a bother, just sounds noisy. The MVP does contribute to some profound fatigue if I don't keep up with the exercise.

I try to do some aerobic activity at least 3x-4x/week. Usually walking. If I work long enough, I can get up to a kind of slow jog for short spurts. I do some mild weights, b/c I can't control my weight without gaining muscle.

I had been overweight most of my adult life. But I'm controlling my weight well now with the Atkins plan. I eat most everything except high flour content, high sugar content, and high starch content. That let's go of most breads, grains, most legumes, potatoes, rices, cookies and cakes of course. If I eat candy or other sweets, I eat the sugar-free stuff.

[Bertha Venation]

42. Well done!

Admirable... a woman who knows she has limitations and sets her jaw to working at making them null. Imagine that. You're an inspiration.

[supernova]

44. Oh thanks Bertha, you seem to be doing well yourself

Hat's off to you! :bounce:

It's so nice to meet another CHD person. I rarely get to talk to others with this history. :pals: It truly is a remarkable journey.

[regnaD kciN]

31. In Geneva, Switzerland...

...probably helping my mother as she looked for a rental house or apartment. (I was 7 at the time, and my father had just been transferred to Europe by his company.)

[Parrcrow]

32. astonishingly proud of my ability to walk.

and expressing my opinions at the top of my lungs.
I was a few months into my terrible twos and, no doubt, thoroughly enjoying myself. I could be "Parrcrow the Terrible" with no significant repercussions.

[NoPasaran]

36. Security, Colorado

I was in the second grade then.

[woofless]

37. North of Boston.......12 years old

[noonwitch]

38. I wasn't born for another 9 months

Maybe I was conceived after my parents watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan? Nah, my dad was into Glen Miller/big band and my mom still loved Elvis.

[Lostmessage]

40. I was in training panties and I had a Pug Puppy

My Mom and Sister had Ed Sullivan on and they were going nuts over the Beatles. My Mom wasn't screaming like my Sister was but she fell in love with them and she couldn't let me Dad know about it or he would have gotten mad at her because she was only suppose to like country music.
(My Mom played the Rolling Stones, 10 years after and other 60's music when he wasn't around)

I had just received a Pug Puppy for Christmas and I was playing with my Sinbad in the living room floor. I had on my training panties and no top. I remember drinking my bottle and swinging it by the nipple from side to side and playing with my very curly hair. I got my fingers stuck in my hair on many occasions from constantly playing with my curls.

That day I decided that I was a Stones fan well the Stones weren't out yet but I became a Stones fan when I was a kid all the way up to Get Your Ya Ya's Out.

[Skittles]

41. I was a little girl in England

a major Beatles fan well before they hit the United States. :D

[nini]

43. waiting for the Beatles.

I remember the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Big deal, My mom let us stay up late that night to watch it. Mom was and is cool :-)


on edit: I remembered I was in 1st grade but home sick. I missed about 1/2 of the 1st grade with tonsil issues. I passed though because I am so stinking smart :evilgrin:

[Edge]

45. I was nowhere.

My dad's sperm which made me wasn't made yet...just like my mom's egg wasn't matured to spawn me.

My mom was 3 during that time, and I believe my dad was 12.

[Lindsay]

46. Sheesh, y'all are babies!

:P

I was a senior in high school. I had heard about the Beatles from my British pen pal, and had listened to them on CKLW, a radio station that boomed into Cleveland from Canada. (Canadian stations were playing the Beatles earlier than American stations did. But before too long, you could switch around stations and ALWAYS be listening to the Beatles!)

So on that fateful Sunday evening I went to my best friend Laura's house, so we could watch the otherwise-dorky Ed Sullivan show. We were far to sophisticated...lol...to scream, but we had fun watching, and then talking about them afterwards.

[Faygo Kid]

50. CKLW - in the Motor City

Out of Windsor, with Detroit as its main audience. Glad you got it, across the lake. Wish we could get together to exchange memories, my compatriot. Do you remember Robin Seymour, and Swingin' Time?

[geniph]

47. Probably at the babysitter's

I was in kindergarten that year, but would have been at the babysitter's by noon, until some of my elder siblings came home to watch me.

[doh_phooey]

48. More on George being AWOL

He had a sore throat.

(Don't know if he choked on a pretzel, though)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

51. I was in eighth grade

The teacher let us play the radio in home ec. class. We were in the midst of a unit on cooking breakfast foods, and every time a Beatles song came on, the whole class of 13-14 year old girls would fall silent.

[doh_phooey]

52. When the Beatles hit America

U.S. arrival 40 years ago changed pop music, culture


http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/05/beatles.40/

[bikebloke]

54. Third Grade

Everyone was walking around singing "...yeah, yeah yeah...". And I didn't know what it was all about. Turns out some band (The Bugs or something) was coming to america.

[MrSlayer]

55. Unborn.

[Duncan Grant]

57. I was learning how to walk.

Hated those little white shoes! :evilgrin:

[ScreamingMeemie]

58. I was less than a twinkle...6 years too early for me.

:hi:

[Corgigal]

59. I was in 1st grade

and I loved them. I took in Meet the Beatles for show and tell but the teacher wouldn't allow me to play it. HAha