<p>What is this, Ask the Geezers??</p>
<p>I googled “convert betamax to vidoetape” and got answers. I don’t think I can post the link under the CC rules since it is a for profit site.</p>
<p>Andreaaaa,
I googled betamax tape transfer and found a number of folks who provide this service. Cost seems to be about $50. Can’t vouch for any of them – perhaps someone here will pipe up. We didn’t videotape our 1983 wedding – it was very expensive at the time – all that new technology and such!</p>
<p>I won free wedding videotaping services. My darling H decided it was too weird to have some guy follow us around the church & tape everything. It was just too new & strange! After hearing that story, our kids told us WE are the strange ones!</p>
<p>OK–What is going to be the official “Geezer” cutoff date for the marriage that resulted in the child that is now 18-19?</p>
<p>Mine was: August 9, 1974</p>
<p>I think the only option back then was a sketch artist, but that was a while back. Perhaps Matthew Brady was available.</p>
<p>07DAD,</p>
<p>I think anyone who has a child in the 18 - 19 range automatically qualifies for “old geezer” status, at least to our 18 - 19 year olds.</p>
<p>BTW: Dec 30, 1988</p>
<p>We hadn’t even heard of videotaping weddings in 1979. But by 1982 we had a child and one of the first video cameras. So we taped my sister’s wedding for her. Priceless!!</p>
<p>Haha. (Matthew Brady).</p>
<p>Well, I was married in 1976 (divorced) and in 1989. Both kids come from second marriage, even though one was born in 1987. Made me happy to do something Dan Quayle so heartily disapproved of. We had ten people there in our living room, DD was the most beautiful bouquet anyone ever carried, good thing she was 18 mos. old to hide DS in me, and we had professional protraits taken but no wedding photos. DD started crying so I sat down on floor in the days when even pregnant me could easily get up, DH sat down, folks standing up with us sat down (haha) and officiator sat down after announcing that we were the only couple who said their vows sitting on the floor. I wonder if we are legally married? LOL.</p>
<p>There was nothing to photograph but us, and DH, who is a professional photographer, wanted to see how a particular portraitist worked, hence the photo shoot. All black and white.</p>
<p>bulletandpima, your wedding date was my birthday & I was pregnant with my first child. Yup, I’m definitely a geezer.</p>
<p>kelsmom,</p>
<p>The dates might be right, but there is no way I’m a geezer! Our children just don’t know the new rule that 50 is the old 40, and 40 is the old 30. Guess that makes them 8 -9 year olds? They sure act that way sometimes! :)</p>
<p>Geezer?!? </p>
<p>At 53 (2004), I took my then 15 year old S to New Zealand. We both hang-glided, para-sailed, boogie boarded, cave explored and rappelled. We didn’t sky dive because HE didn’t want to.</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, sometimes I wonder who is old and who is young. I’m offering Madagascar this summer. We’ll see who is “old.”</p>
<p>My grandfather lived to be 100. Now there’s a geezer!</p>
<p>mythmom</p>
<p>You weren’t kidding about long-lifer!!!</p>
<p>I must be old. I remember all of these things. I also remember having to use a trampoline in gym, with fellow students as spotters (as if that would have stopped an accident), jarts- now they were fun! Taking the Greyhound bus into the city to go to the new mall. I also had a professor who told us that if we learned key punching (for our computer program) we would always be employed. 
No box stores and not much variety when it came to shopping.</p>
<p>We had a trampoline for gym class, but that wasn’t half as amazing as climbing those stupid ropes! One time I got to the top & my arms gave out. I slid to the bottom … my thighs were covered in huge scabs for weeks … and remember, we didn’t get to wear pants to school. Lovely sight that was.</p>
<p>oh kelsmom: I am so impressed. I could never get to the top on the ropes. I could, however, clear everything on the horse, thank god, though much easier.</p>
<p>I found myself writing about that tonight. Synchronicity.</p>
<p>DD couldn’t believe we had to go after the knees of other girls with field hockey sticks.</p>
<p>Ah, the ropes! The bane of my existence. I was the one who stood on the bottom knot and cried because I couldn’t climb them at all!</p>
<p>Thank G-d that in high school, I was busy with EC’s like the play and lab assisting that I had ready-made excuses to get out of gym!</p>
<p>Off topic, but if you dread geezerhood and don’t want to be mistaken for one, read “Younger Next Year.” 07DAD, you sound like their poster boy.</p>
<p>Here are other school memories. I wonder with the different diseases that we know about today whether any of these labs still take place in hs. We drew our own blood to test for bloodtype in 9th grade, we also chewed crackers and spat them out to look for digestive enzymes that breakdown starch, and we dissected worms, frogs, and insects. The advanced bio class advanced to dissecting cats.</p>
<p>I tell my son that in 25-30 years from now when he has teenagers that they will think that the technology of today is old fashioned. that stuns him.</p>
<p>I can’t even fathom what will be the ‘norm’ in the future.</p>