Originally Posted By Mr X Geez these pics are killing me! I'm glad *I* didn't grow up in the stone age! ;p
Originally Posted By Mr X Geez these pics are killing me! I'm glad *I* didn't grow up in the stone age! ;p
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I'm looking at them also and thinking - "Good God I'm Old " the speed at which change has occured in my lifetime is unreal. Although those before me might have felt the same way. My great grandfather told me stories of Buffalo Bills Wild West Show - and how Sitting Bull was killed. ( he was born in 1881 ) - and Harry Houdini ( whose birth date I share ) -- He lived to be 94 and say TV of men landing on the Moon....imagine that time gap -- cowboys and indians to lunar landings
Originally Posted By Mr X That sure is an incredible timespan right there. Imagine, in his adult lifetime he witnessed the birth of powered flight, all the way to landing on the moon! I think the progress was grander back then, but it seems more rapid now (I'm sure it's just a matter of perspective, but still).
Originally Posted By vbdad55 A lot of the 'mystery', is out of the world now-which I think changes things. When I grew up - so much was still unknown....places that today people are walking around with cell phones were deep mysteries. I think that is why things were 'grander'. The world is much smaller now - we can fly anywhere and Lord knows we are 'plugged in' 24 x 7...... I don't believe this change is for the better for the most part. Imagination is hard to find - reality is in our face very second -hard to unwind if you will. same for the elections - the candidates are 'live' every second of every day ,that has got to be brutal
