Ok Photographers, How old are you?

[DisneySuiteFreak]

I'm old enough to know that I need to start lying about my age! I'm going to be like Jack Benny and be 39 for life...

 

[MassJester]

I'm old enough to know that I need to start lying about my age! I'm going to be like Jack Benny and be 39 for life...

Oh, Rochester...

 

[DisneySuiteFreak]

Oh, Rochester...

Yes, Boss?

 

[YEKCIM]

...graduated high school while Corvairs (of which I had many) were still being produced.

~Y

 

[tinkbutt]

Rock on a film girl! and Nikon to boot!

This one sounds like a keeper for you young whipper snappers out there.

Seriously you dont see many younger people shooting film they go straight to digital, when you shoot film you have to get creative and think more about the shots cause you dont want to waste the film LOL.

Congrats on getting some good kit now show us some pics

I was originally a Drawing major and took Photo one and fell in love with the dark room and switched my major to Photo!!! my teachers had to pry me out of there every class!!! I would much rather be in the darkroom than sittin in front of a computer any day!!!

 

[jann1033]

~Y

weren't those the original "death traps"? i mean even before neons? my friend had one and my mother "had a cow"( hehe ) every time he picked me up in it , sure i was going to meet a fiery death when the engine went up in flames, ahhhh, those were the days..
meanwhilemy first car was a real VW Bug with a sunroof , so fun to drive except in the winter when i had to chip the ice off the inside of the windshield even after the defroster had been on for 30 mins or so;

 

[Groucho]

weren't those the original "death traps"? i mean even before neons? my friend had one and my mother "had a cow"( hehe ) every time he picked me up in it , sure i was going to meet a fiery death when the engine went up in flames, ahhhh, those were the days..
meanwhilemy first car was a real VW Bug with a sunroof , so fun to drive except in the winter when i had to chip the ice off the inside of the windshield even after the defroster had been on for 30 mins or so;

The Corvair was the car that Ralph Nadar's "Unsafe at Any Speed" was written about. IIRC, the early ones had swing axle rear suspensions, which means they pivoted from a point closer to the center of the car. That meant that instead of the rear tires moving straight up and down as it went over bumps, they would angle in and out. Do it right (or wrong) over a nasty bump around a turn, and one tire would tuck in under the car, sending it into a roll. I think it was also more likely to catch on fire than similar cars.

This is off the top of my head and I never really paid too much attention (I'm not a GM guy) so I'm sure the details are a little funky, but you get the point. VWs also had swing-axle rear suspensions, up until the late '60s or so, but I don't think they had this issue quite as much - maybe because they weren't sporty like the Corvair so they were rarely driven aggressively. The way I understand it, later Corvairs fixed most of these issues but the nameplate was poisoned by then and the car was axed - and it was the last time America tried to do a rear-engined air-cooled car.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Let's see, I was about a year old when JFK was assassinated. I remember a lot of the things mentioned here, like cable-less TV, 8 track tapes, The Partidge Family (my preference over Donnie and Marie ), and muscle cars (my older brother had a Boss 302 Mustang and he had lots of friends with others).

In high school and college there were no computers, just typewriters. Though I did learn to type, I wasn't great at it, and using a typewriter I always made a lot of mistakes and it took me forever which, after the drudgery of writing the papers themselves, I didn't have time for. So despite being a broke college student working two part time jobs, I actually paid a professional typist $3 a page to type my papers for me. One paper was 50 pages long and cost me $150! In the early 90's, my husband went back to college and I couldn't believe how cool it was to have a Brother Word Processor, thinking, Man, this would have made my life a lot easier when I was in college! LOL

Our first computer was a used Apple, the square kind. I believe we bought our first new computer around 96, an Apple Performa. We were in awe of the technology. Another thing I remember getting for the first time in the 90's was a cell phone, the type that's installed in the car. That happened after a road rage incident in which I was followed by a maniac and I was fortunately able to drive to a police station and run in. Have not been without one ever since.

I think it's interesting seeing today's kids, like my own, not realize any of this stuff wasn't always around. I've done some seminars on inter-generational and inter-cultural workplace harmony and they've looked back on things like work ethic, technology, role models, world leaders, music of the times, etc, to help understand where everyone's coming from. It's been very helpful to me on the job understanding that an older person who grew up with little technology had a work ethic of, when you're done with one task, you find another and keep busy; as opposed to a younger person, who has grown up with technology, to finish a task, and see nothing wrong with then making a call on a cell phone or surfing the net, for instance. Then you have people my age, who are in between. Different cultures are a whole different story, even more so when you figure in the generational stuff. It's interesting to think about and observe. I work in an inner city hospital in a supervisory role so this stuff comes into play for me every working shift.

OT but re: music, something many of you might already have but I never knew about. I just bought a new car (well, ok, a used new car) and it has Sirius radio which is pretty cool for a music junkie. I can listen to literally any type of music I want, or if I want a change, can hear comedy, news, entertainment, weather or local traffic reports. I'm not going to like paying the bill when the previous owner's subscription runs out, but I am enjoying it a lot right now. The only problem is that the kids like the Disney channel the best.

 

[Quicklabs]

Well, let's see.... I was in second grade when JFK was assassinated (I still remember the day well). My first car was a Chevy Vega with a racing stripe across the hood (Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!) I went to Disney World for the first time and traded E tickets to ride the Haunted Mansion and POTC. My dissertation was typed on a typewriter (at least it was electric, though I learned on a high school manual typewritee) I have Meet the Beatles and Beatles 65 in my record collection. I went to a Chicago concert when they were still called Chicago Transit Authority. I have BLood Sweat and Tears on 8 track. I remember taking B&W pictures using photo flash cubes. How's that? Old enough for ya? LOL