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Smitty37

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My wife and I will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary on the 26th. This coming milestone has caused me to think back about things and I discovered that there isn't much that's really new.

In 1962 we moved into our first home - a two bedroom apartment. You would recognize the kitchen - gas range (our home today has electric but when we replace it we'll probably go to gas again) 2 door over/under refrigerator today we have a side-by-side. Two slice toaster, electric knife (I hated it then and won't have one in the house today). Mix master, blender.

The bath was virtually the same, commode, vanity sink, tub shower (tile rather than plastic one piece).

The living room - convertible sofa/bed, recliner chair and two other chairs, coffe table and a lamp stand. Television was 23 inch black and white. Stereo Record player and changer that I could put 8 33 rpm records on and it would play for about 4 hours before the were all finiished. Today our living room has virtually all of the same stuff, CD player instead of a record player - sounds about the same. We do have a big screen TV and it is color but chairs tables etc are about the same.

Bedroom we had a bed, two dressers and two night stands with a full length mirror on the door. Today we have a bed 3 dressers 2 night stands and a full length stand alone mirror. We have much more closet space.

I drove a car powered by an internal combustion engine, it had a V-8, power steering, power brakes, am radio, automatic transmission. If you got in it today you could go anyplace today's cars will take you. Mileage was about 17 mpg and there was a lot more maintenance needed but essentially it was the same as now.

I am reminded of a book I once read, that said everything was invented by 1950 and that since then all we've done is refine things. The author had a pretty good point. Think about it....What is truely new.

Telephone
Television
Electronic Computers
Automobiles
Airplanes
Space rockets
solid state electronics (transistors)
microwave ovens
washers
dryers
refrigerators
freezers
electric typewriters
air conditioning
gas and oil furnaces

Practically everything in our home today had it's beginnings between 1900 and 1950 - what a generation of people they were.....
 
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Your house sounded very much like my parents house that I grew up in, in Palos Hts ILL accept there stereo was a monster cabinet. Congrats on your upcoming anniversary. 50 years is a long time for two people to live with each other. Although as I get older (45) time seems to be speeding up quite a bit.
 
Ruby pen turning said:
Although as I get older (45) time seems to be speeding up quite a bit.
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When I hear about this I'm reminded of the roll of toilet paper - As the paper gets closer to the end, it seems to unroll faster. :biggrin::confused::eek:

Just a thought........Hang in there - life is great!!!

AND to Smitty and wife -a big congratulations on the big 5 Oh. It sounds like you have had a great life with lots of familiar memories.
gordon
 
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Smitty, I had 18 years the first time and 32 this time...Does that kinda qualify for the 50th?

Congrats on the 50 year union for real, both of you. God Bless

Ray
 
Congrats on 50 years of marriage! You and your wife are very fortunate.
 
True - the internet didn't get it's start until the late 1960s. The miniaturazition had to get more advanced in order to be able to get enough storage for it. But, computers talking to other computers was in peoples minds. In 1961/62 I worked on a unit developed by IBM and it was called a Communications Processor. IBM Teleprocessing was used on the ID Tag. I worked on several projects between 1961 and 1964 that were designed to test digital data transmission quality of existing telephone lines.
 
Hi LeRoy,

Congratulations, did a little trip down memory lane from what you said in July it will be 57 yrs for us and what a journey. School in the 40,s at work in 51 etc. I was born about 3 yrs before you, met my wife at 15 yrs of age I was 17 married 3 yrs later.

Well done you two.

Kind regards Peter.
 
pwhay said:
Hi LeRoy,

Congratulations, did a little trip down memory lane from what you said in July it will be 57 yrs for us and what a journey. School in the 40,s at work in 51 etc. I was born about 3 yrs before you, met my wife at 15 yrs of age I was 17 married 3 yrs later.

Well done you two.

Kind regards Peter.
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My neice (more like my sister than her mother was) is about your age....she also married young (in 1953 as I recall) and is in her 58th year. I didn't get married until I was 24.
 
Smitty,
Congratulations to you and your wife on reaching this milestone.:highfive::highfive:

My wife and I have been happily married 36 years this coming Tuesday. People always ask what is the secret of such a happy arrangement. Simple. Each week we go out to a nice dinner at a restaurant. We have a good meal and wine. She goes on Monday, I go on Thursday. :biggrin::biggrin:


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... as I get older (45) time seems to be speeding up quite a bit.
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Ruby,
There's a simple explanation to that. When you're 5 years old, a year is 1/5th of your life. As you get older (45) a year is a shorter portion of your life, 1/45th.:biggrin::biggrin:
 
Great job Smitty for so many years and I must say hats off to your wife for keeping you for so long. Just think she could have traded you in for a newer model but she instead held on to you. Mrs Smitty you have taught him well, I'm sure it was not easy but thanks for sharing him with us. Hope you two have a great day and many more to come.

Gary
 
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