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[mobyhead]

Originally Posted by Dralcoffin

My earliest memory is my third birthday cake in 1995 -- I was all excited because it had Lion King figurines.

(I'm the young un, I guess.)

Mine was in 1969. My dad woke me up and took me outside. Told me that there was a man on the moon. He was even looking at the moon with a set of binoculars. I was 2.

[Ex-Ithacan]

I remember hearing that the war was over. But then Woodrow Wilson couldn't get the League of Nations thing going in the US. Oh well.



Actually I do have one memory from about 3 years of age. My Mother ran away from home (with me) and she and her sister went to Florida to stay with another sister. I wasn't aware of all that, but I still have an image seared into my memory of a large alligator we saw when we stopped at Okefenoke Swamp on the way to Clearwater. Scared the sh*t out of me.

I remember a bunch of TV stuff from my young days, but the one thing that really stuck with me was seeing the NBC Peacock in color when my Aunt & Uncle let us watch their new color TV. A regular miracle.

[vid]

Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

I don't remember anything listed prior to Clinton's reelection.

Really? I remember Kurt Cobain's suicide and that was two years before. My first political memories are the Kosovo War. I grew up in a social housing development that got flooded with refugees from Yugoslavia at the time. Aren't we the same age?

I also remember when my brother was born, when I was just about to turn 3. I can also remember a nightmare I had at the house we lived in before he was born, I would have been 2. I remember counting down the days until Jurassic Park came out in cinema in 1994 or 1996.

I also remember when TVs were either "Black and White" or "Colour TV", and if you have one bigger than 21 inches, you were doing quite well. Cable had about 20 channels.

Originally Posted by touraccuracy

my life is really shitty romantic comedy. i stumbled across a website where my very recent ex has been making comics for a while. many of them are about me. what the fuck.

Are you... are you willing to share any?

[Strange Meat]

I don't remember too too much from early on. I kinda vaguley remember taking my little walker thing down the stairs to the basement when I was 2. That might explain the "hey I'm gonna throw myself off a cliff... it's cool, there's snow and I've got a board strapped to my feet" kinda shit I do now.

A lot of my memories from like 1992 to 1998 are MTV. I spent 8 years living in the 80s but can recall pretty much fuck all from it. Maybe that's also why I act 10 years younger than I am.

[rockyi]

I think it's time to get a new computer. I've had this one since 2006 and no matter how many times I clean it up it just runs slower and slower. I love it when it constantly locks up completely but when I punched the keyboard just now you should have seen all of the crumbs fly out.

[Robert Pence]

I have a clear memory of hearing the announcement on the radio that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. My mom's sister and some of her friends were there, and everyone was all worked up, and some were wondering where Pearl Harbor was.

The first time I saw television was Truman's inauguration. A local TV dealer brought a portable demonstration outfit with a trailer-mounted tall antenna that could be raised up, and set up the antenna outside our township school (a little more than 200 students in eight grades with five classrooms). Two adjoining classrooms could be opened up into an auditorium. and they set up two televisions there and gathered everyone to watch. Black and white, of course and very snowy because we were a little more than 25 miles from the nearest station, and that was about the limit then.

[jd3189]

My first memory was in the late 90s. I guess I'm the youngest forumer here.

[Buckeye Native 001]

Christ...I was a high school freshman in 1998. Some of you fuckers are making me feel old

[ChiSoxRox]

Minnesota cities through time.

AKA 1940 - no Twin Cities suburbs. 1970 on - five of them on there

[Ayreonaut]

Originally Posted by vid

Really? I remember Kurt Cobain's suicide and that was two years before. My first political memories are the Kosovo War. I grew up in a social housing development that got flooded with refugees from Yugoslavia at the time. Aren't we the same age?

I think you're a year older than me. I think I remember the Kosovo war, too. In particular, a newspaper article that showed some of the military vehicles that were being used by peacekeeping forces. I don't remember Cobain though.

[ColDayMan]

Christ, the first rock concert I attended was Nirvana...

[Centropolis]

I bridge gen x and millennials, maybe call me part of the "daria generation." I caught the end of beavis and butthead, barely, and had a NES when it first came out and was barely old enough for that. i remember the "first" gulf war very well as a kid, and in particular the emphasis on the "nintendo generation" being at the controls of electronic weaponry for the first time.

[Centropolis]

Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

I think you're a year older than me. I think I remember the Kosovo war, too. In particular, a newspaper article that showed some of the military vehicles that were being used by peacekeeping forces. I don't remember Cobain though.

i remember the same for the gulf war, there was a spread in newsweek that i thought was pretty cool.

[rockyi]

Originally Posted by ColDayMan

Christ, the first rock concert I attended was Nirvana...

My first concert was Foreigner in 1976 or 77. I was already in high school but most of my friends were already going to concerts back in jr. high.......I didn't even like Foreigner.

[Centropolis]

Originally Posted by Dralcoffin

Minnesota cities through time.

AKA 1940 - no Twin Cities suburbs. 1970 on - five of them on there

87/162...pathetic. i only do these when im exhausted and have had a few beers to be fair.

[Centropolis]

Originally Posted by rockyi

My first concert was Foreigner in 1976 or 77. I was already in high school but most of my friends were already going to concerts back in jr. high.......I didn't even like Foreigner.

mine was metallica! i was 15 and reeked of bad pot and bad stale beer when i came home and my mom weirdly didn't say a thing. i think generation x traumatized me, i didn't go to another big outdoor mega-concert for 10 years.

[rockyi]

One good thing that came out of going to that Foreigner concert was my appreciation of architecture, especially Art Deco. The concert was at an old theater in downtown Davenport called the RKO. It was in pretty bad shape at the time, there were large chunks of plaster missing from the walls, it smelled of mildew and our row of seats wasn't even secured to the floor and the whole row rocked back and forth as people moved. I just remember not even paying attention to the concert or joints being passed around and just staring in amazement at this faded beauty of a building. I wasn't familiar with Art Deco at the time and the futuristic design fascinated me.
Luckily it's been completely restored (actually it's been fixed up twice since then) renamed the Adler Theater and is now one of the finest theaters in the midwest.

[Buckeye Native 001]

First concert was Barry Manilow at age 9 in 1993...only because my parents couldn't find a sitter nor two other people to go with them to the concert, so they brought my brother and I with them.

[mobyhead]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

First concert was Barry Manilow at age 9 in 1993...only because my parents couldn't find a sitter nor two other people to go with them to the concert, so they brought my brother and I with them.

Aw wow. Did you like it?

My first concert was Black Sabbath. Quite Riot opened. Fantastic show!

[Cleveland Brown]

I'm 28 and my first few memories are from 1986 or 1987. I remember when Reagan was president and I remember coming home from school everyday sitting down with the family to watch the first gulf war.