Open thread for Sunday, April 28th: I’m Eighteen
Here is the open thread for Sunday, April 28th: please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever topics arise during the course of the day.
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Earlier this week my youngest son turned 18 which means that technically I am the father of two adult children and that is making me feel pretty old right about now.
But hey, it is not about me, here is Alice Cooper performing I’m Eighteen. Enjoy:
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Hey Steve,
Along with my girlfriend and some others I saw Alice in concert in the summer of 1973 at the now long gone Roosevelt stadium in Jersey City… Feel any younger?
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Thanks Peter, I do feel younger now. I was only seven in 1973. Sorry.
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Haha, Peter, I was in college (19 yrs old in 73)and going to Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis and the Mississippi River Festival on the campus of Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville…good times! My “kids” are 33 and 38, so Steve, you will survive….give it a couple days!
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Yeah, I am sure I will be okay. It kind of hit me when I wrote this post!
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Here’s one: we saw the Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden, Thanksgiving evening, 1969, $11.00 a seat.That’s $11.00 not $1100.00.
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Well, we do have a bit of inflation! Ahhh, for the good old days, huh?
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You bet…..
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Now that was a bargain! My first concert was Ozzy and Motley Crue back in the mid ’80s and the tickets were something like $15-$25, times sure have changed!
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$15-$25, that’s concert parking …or a pizza.
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Parking for a red Sox game in Boston is $40, I felt like I got a deal when I took my some to the Bruins game last week because parking only cost $26.
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They probably didn’t see the impeach Obama sticker on your bumper…
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You know, I remember being 18 in 1972, vaguely! Fresh out of highschool and starting college, working in an office between classes on campus and working a night shift at a place that made small motors for things like blenders. I did the shimming of washers for just the right amount of “play”, it was piece work rate, haha! I was fast, that is how I paid for my classes. I was one of two females who worked that shift, but I managed, there were no harrassment charges even thought about, unlike today. I imagine I slept sometime, but cannot remember when. I did not expect the government to give me anything, but that has sure changed. Things were sure different, gas lower in price and I felt like there was a future….what do these kids think now days? I just do not know.
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