Born at the wrong time?

[david_b]

Welcome, welcome, welcome..!!

I would have liked to have been born a few years earlier, just to have experienced more of the Beatles and the Apollo program (I remember the MLK and RFK funerals as my earliest recollections), and more of the Captain Action line when it was active, but I consider my life very fortunate.

david_b

david_b

[littlewink]

Welcome aboard Mark, glad to hear that you are so attracted to this time, the 70s. I was extremely lucky to have grown up in this time and I do go back there mentally on a daily basis. Things were different then, we spent a lot of time outdoors building forts, riding our bikes without helmets, burning models with lighter fluid(not sure why but fun nonetheless) burning things with a magnifying glass, playing in the park, playing tag.......I can go on and on with smile writing everything.

As for your fascination with the 60s and 70s, I do understand as I am extremely fascinated with 60s movement, hippies, the Vietnam war, the corrupted President Richard Nixon, Martin Luther King and everything that made the 60s what it was. Although I only spent 2 years in the 60s the thing I was most fascinated with was Woodstock and felt the strongest attraction at a very early age, to this magical weekend that changed many lives. I went to the original site in Bethel New York last year when they celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the Woodstock festival, there were many people there, many had not been back since 1969. They shared their stories with me, we sang old songs together at the monument, I heard stories from people that weekend that unless you were there, you could not have known, it was very touching. Some people were crying and sharing their stories about that weekend on how that weekend changed their lives. I was so at home with this place and these people, I am very glad I went.

I was born, raised and reside in Canada, why at such a young age was I fascinated with issues in the United States?

[Gorn Captain]

This is a good time for 70s collectors.
I mean, as a kid, I would have given my right arm for Star Trek phasers, a 12inch BSG Cylon,....
Now all of that is here!

[Mark]

Maybe you're a transmigrated soul who died prematurely in the 1970's.
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Just throwing it out there...

I have always had a feeling like that.

[Mark]

Welcome aboard Mark, glad to hear that you are so attracted to this time, the 70s. I was extremely lucky to have grown up in this time and I do go back there mentally on a daily basis. Things were different then, we spent a lot of time outdoors building forts, riding our bikes without helmets, burning models with lighter fluid(not sure why but fun nonetheless) burning things with a magnifying glass, playing in the park, playing tag.......I can go on and on with smile writing everything.

As for your fascination with the 60s and 70s, I do understand as I am extremely fascinated with 60s movement, hippies, the Vietnam war, the corrupted President Richard Nixon, Martin Luther King and everything that made the 60s what it was. Although I only spent 2 years in the 60s the thing I was most fascinated with was Woodstock and felt the strongest attraction at a very early age, to this magical weekend that changed many lives. I went to the original site in Bethel New York last year when they celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the Woodstock festival, there were many people there, many had not been back since 1969. They shared their stories with me, we sang old songs together at the monument, I heard stories from people that weekend that unless you were there, you could not have known, it was very touching. Some people were crying and sharing their stories about that weekend on how that weekend changed their lives. I was so at home with this place and these people, I am very glad I went.

I was born, raised and reside in Canada, why at such a young age was I fascinated with issues in the United States?

If I was alive, I would have been there. One of the greatest concerts ever staged in my personal opinion.

[VintageMike]

Welcome Mark. The 70's and early 80's even were a great time to be kid. I was born in '71 so I got best of both was just the right age bracket when original trilogy merchandise was first released. That said enjoy being 22 and and the good years ahead. As many here will testify it seems to end all too soon.

[Mark]

Welcome Mark. The 70's and early 80's even were a great time to be kid. I was born in '71 so I got best of both was just the right age bracket when original trilogy merchandise was first released. That said enjoy being 22 and and the good years ahead. As many here will testify it seems to end all too soon.

I would do anything to be able to have grown up in the 70's. It's to great to be young, but as you said it doesn't last for too long.

[Joe90]

Overdose at the Disco?

No. I was thinking younger, like 6 or 7.

[Mark]

No. I was thinking younger, like 6 or 7.

Strangely I have always felt, that I had experienced growing up in a different decade. When I was younger, I would sometimes experience some type of a flash back every now and then. I have asked my parents if certain recounted events have actually happened to me and they have dismissed most of them.

But if this is the case, it is great to know this part of my former life has been integrated into my current one.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

Strangely I have always felt, that I had experienced growing up in a different decade. When I was younger, I would sometimes experience some type of a flash back every now and then. I have asked my parents if certain recounted events have actually happened to me and they have dismissed most of them.

But if this is the case, it is great to know this part of my former life has been integrated into my current one.

I know plenty of people probably will roll their eyes at this whole thing, and I can understand the skepticism surely.....but man I know precisely what you're talking about, because I've encountered the same thing personally! I've had certain "flashbacks" and memories of things that were before my time and I've asked my parents about it, if there's any way these were things I'd seen or heard at an extremely early age and just don't remember, and they have no idea. I've never bothered to put too much thought into the whole thing because it seems crazy but really, who the heck knows??

I think it's pretty cool that you're interested in the 1960s/1970s, it's not a bad thing to be able to appreciate what came before and find inspiration and fun in it all. Welcome aboard!

[Mark]

I know plenty of people probably will roll their eyes at this whole thing, and I can understand the skepticism surely.....but man I know precisely what you're talking about, because I've encountered the same thing personally! I've had certain "flashbacks" and memories of things that were before my time and I've asked my parents about it, if there's any way these were things I'd seen or heard at an extremely early age and just don't remember, and they have no idea. I've never bothered to put too much thought into the whole thing because it seems crazy but really, who the heck knows??

I think it's pretty cool that you're interested in the 1960s/1970s, it's not a bad thing to be able to appreciate what came before and find inspiration and fun in it all. Welcome aboard!

Who really knows the truth? But as you said it's cool that a person my age can appreciate what came before me and have a passion for it.

[sauce]

Nice to have you here, Mark. I once bought a jacket that I swore was mine, even though I had never owned it before. It was for sale in the window at the Salvation Army and I actually felt upset that someone had taken my jacket from me.

So, naturally, I went in and bought it. Wore it for a long time until I had decided it was cursed and left it in an alley.

True story!


Bryan

[Mark]

Nice to have you here, Mark. I once bought a jacket that I swore was mine, even though I had never owned it before. It was for sale in the window at the Salvation Army and I actually felt upset that someone had taken my jacket from me.

So, naturally, I went in and bought it. Wore it for a long time until I had decided it was cursed and left it in an alley.

True story!


Bryan

Something very similar happened to my dad, he bought a book from a yard sale once. He opened up the cover and he discovered, that the person who had owned it before him had the exact same name as him.

His name is John Belcher, it doesn't seem to be a very common name.

There can be a few bad omens with these types of things, like your jacket. But sometimes it just feels like it's meant to be.

[Karen-bionic-fan]

I wish I was a teenager or about 11 /12 /13 when watching the bionic shows originally on tv I was still young but I was watching re runs on UK TV circa 1980/1982 so I was still part of it , i got my first set of figures in 1987 from a local shop in my home town that had old stock I got both figures for 4 pounds each brand new (still own them) and an original kids outfit

[Mark]

I wish I was a teenager or about 11 /12 /13 when watching the bionic shows originally on tv I was still young but I was watching re runs on UK TV circa 1980/1982 so I was still part of it , i got my first set of figures in 1987 from a local shop in my home town that had old stock I got both figures for 4 pounds each brand new (still own them) and an original kids outfit

It is great when you can revisit your childhood, there is so much that I would have liked to experience. It's a great feeling when you stumble across such a bargin. I came a cross a mego spiderman and batman for a dollar once at a flea market.