Are we THAT old?

fuzzybuddy

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This is an odd thread.
I like watching "Urban Explorers" on YouTube. If you don't know what a "Urbex" does, he sneaks into old, abandoned buildings and films what he finds. They consider this a sport. The best ones are called, "The Proper People", aka Michael & Bryon. They have over 1 million subscribers. https://www.youtube.com/user/TheProperPeople
These are "kids" in their 20s. For them, they have never known a date in their lives, which does not start with "20-something". They go into these old abandoned structures from the1960s.+ When they find things which date to the 60s, they think it's "cool", but extremely old. It's like us finding things from 1850. What gets me is that I LIVED through the 1960s. The "artifacts" are things I used. I just can't get over what they think is ancient history is what I remember. Are we THAT old?
 

The big question is.... do they envy those who lived through those years, would they like to be able to go back in time to the 60s, when so much was new and fresh.? These days, everything seems jaded and unexciting. We were lucky.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
This is an odd thread.
I like watching "Urban Explorers" on YouTube. If you don't know what a "Urbex" does, he sneaks into old, abandoned buildings and films what he finds. They consider this a sport. The best ones are called, "The Proper People", aka Michael & Bryon. They have over 1 million subscribers. https://www.youtube.com/user/TheProperPeople
These are "kids" in their 20s. For them, they have never known a date in their lives, which does not start with "20-something". They go into these old abandoned structures from the1960s.+ When they find things which date to the 60s, they think it's "cool", but extremely old. It's like us finding things from 1850. What gets me is that I LIVED through the 1960s. The "artifacts" are things I used. I just can't get over what they think is ancient history is what I remember. Are we THAT old?
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actually many of them are middle aged... not just young ones... in fact we've had 2 who have been members of this forum and another one that I'm a member of...in the past..both middle aged guys.
 
Rosemarie said:
The big question is.... do they envy those who lived through those years, would they like to be able to go back in time to the 60s, when so much was new and fresh.? These days, everything seems jaded and unexciting. We were lucky.
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Yes, we had the most exciting childhood and youth and adulthood: Wow, look at those jets go!!! We're going to space??? Really, space???? We're going to the moon??? Honest, the moon???? You mean there's going to be something called a computer that we can get instant information from??? Phones we can take anywhere and see people on??? Cars that can drive themselves???

Today's youth: We're going to Mars? Oh, well...…..what are the Kartrashians up to today?
 
I've been watching these Urbexers, and most are 20+. The one that got me thinking was a 20+, who was in this abandoned home from the 60s. He came across a Time mag. from 1968. The date of the mag. seemed to awe him. He kept saying over and over "Cool". "Aw,COOL. " This is so cool". He flipped through the pages, the car ads got " SOO ,COOL". The way he held the mag. was so delicate. I've forgotten who was on the cover, but I remember seeing it on newsstands. And that where I began to think that what was history to him was what I lived through. Was 1968 to his generation what 1910 was to mine?
 

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