<p>Pepsodent powdered toothpaste anyone? :p</p>
<p>“Brusha, brusha, brusha…New Ipana Toothpaste…” Oh yes, and add to that Bucky the Beaver!</p>
<p>When we first moved to the Southeast someone called me “ma’am” and I almost passed out. BOY, did I feel old! The worst.</p>
<p>How about easy-bake ovens and those hanging macrame hangers for plants and candles.</p>
<p>they have reprinted " The secret life of plants"
Now if they would only start up the whole earth catalog
*and if Banana Republic would go back to their travel themed catalogs and stores with jeeps in the window my life would be complete 
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<p>You know you’re old when you hear that CLAPTON is playing the new arena and your colleagues don’t care (I imagine my student workers will say “who?”).</p>
<p>I can’t believe my luck. We had The Rolling Stones last year and we already have James Taylor and Eric Clapton on tap for this year.</p>
<p>The kids seem more excited about DMB coming back to town.</p>
<p>I am really excited about PJ at the GORGE!
too bad my H didn’t want to go both nights- what a party pooper.
( isn’t DMB kinda for people * my age*?)
Heard they are good in concert though</p>
<p>Doesn’t the DMB live in the town?</p>
<p>The arena needs a abbrev./nickname, ala the Deandome. How about the Jones?</p>
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Most of the older people around here remember the old days, when DMB played at Trax. I don’t think the adults are keen on paying $70 to see them these days.</p>
<p>At college fairs, I constantly get questions about DMB. It makes me laugh to tell the kids that we see some of the band members around town and that John D’earth (a collaborator of theirs) is on faculty.</p>
<p>I’ll share this little bit: After The Stones show, one of my student workers confessed that he only knew ONE song (Satisfaction). The setlist (see below) that night might as well have been a “greatest hits”!</p>
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Agreed. I’ll see what I can do. ;)</p>
<p>Another quick story: When I first got here, everyone was talking about JPJ. I asked one of the new counselors (new alumni) if it was named after “THE” John Paul Jones and what the connection was. They told me that it was “THE” John Paul Jones and that his son had gone here. We have a pretty significant international population and John Paul Jones is now into bluegrass, so it’s not THAT far fetched. </p>
<p>So, you can imagine how excited I was. I had pictures of a Led Zep reunion in my head. Coupled with The Stones, I thought I was in music heaven (which Cville is, anyway). </p>
<p>It was months before I found a picture of the groundbreaking with “our” John Paul Jones. Just a cute, old man with a very wealthy son.</p>
<p>Dave lives in Seattle ( his wife is in school at Bastyr) I dont know where the rest of them live
PJ all live in Seattle though except for Jeff ( he lives in Montana)
The Rolling Stones has been a "oldies’ act for some time- a high energy oldies act maybe- but still.</p>
<p>Dave still has his house south of town. The studio is here as well.</p>
<p>Stefan is the only one who completely left town. He’s now in Orange County.</p>
<p>How about Barbie when she was still a member of the DAR? I remember my first one, which was wearing a navy blue with white polka dot off the shoulder cocktail dress (identified, I think, as a frock), elbow length white gloves, a little white fur stole, and a string of pearls (matching her pearl stud earrings, of course.) Her next outfit involved a twin set and a grey woolen skirt. </p>
<p>As for myself, I’m thinking livid chartreuse hot curlers that got hot by being dropped into boiling water, cat eye glasses (came back on Lina Wertmuller, but I don’t think that counts), Guatemalan embroidered skirts that were supposed to be ethnically correct but were nevertheless kelly green, felt jackets with a guy in a sombrero lounging between the shoulder blades, rick-rack, boycotting table grapes, my mother’s firm belief that canned foods really were healthier leading to a diet heavy on mushy peas and – do these still exist? – canned asparagus and fruit cocktails with chunks of fruits you couldn’t actually identify, and waiting eons to fit into a bra only to encounter societal pressure to burn the damned thing!</p>
<p>I feel ancient!</p>
<p>The last time I was involved in a thread on this topic, jmmom and I had a somewhat lively debate as to who was older - in which I was either the winner or loser, according to one’s perception. At that time i asserted that I was one of the oldest posters on these boards, if not possibly the oldest. And judging from what people remember, that still seems to hold.</p>
<p>No, I don’t remember the horse and buggy that our family used to have (we may have had one in the Old Country) but I do remember getting our first car with an automatic transmission. Getting our first TV (ten-inch black & white screen, with lots of different tubes and the test patterns that showed when the stations stopped broadcasting. My first transistor radio - of course. And a few other things.</p>
<p>If’n all you folks whose memories of olden days go back as far as the Beatles, Janis Joplin, Nehru jackets and the like want to consider yourselves old folks, who am I to disagree?</p>
<p>I didn’t have an automatic until I got my van when my youngest was 2.
Having a neighbor who wasn’t born until my house was 14 years old ( it was built in 1900), makes me feel like a baby.</p>
<p>I still have my Barbies that don’t have bendable legs and have those blue painted eyelids and “older” looking face. </p>
<p>I was hoping to pass them to a D, but now will have to wait for a GrD</p>
<p>Planning your day on Saturday around American Bandstand…the spotlight dance and rate-a-record.</p>
<p>There’s a scene in the movie “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” where Mr. Hand (the late, great Ray Walston) hands out a History test printed on a ditto machine. All of the students put the test sheet to their faces and take a long “sniff”. </p>
<p>What memories! Nothing like sniffing a combination of menthanol and isopropanol in schools across the country. And kids think we’re not “hip”.</p>
<p>Eating paste, indeed.</p>
<p>As a “test”, show your kids that movie and stop it at the “sniffing” scene and ask them if they understand what’s going on. “Priceless”.</p>
<p>regrets take the place of dreams</p>
<p>When getting your EARS pierced was a big deal, and few people had tattoos, and when people that road motorcylces were "bad’- now its geezers in chaps</p>