Today in History (non aviation)

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I saw this in my "Today in History" files today... and it caught me by surprise. Dayum...I'm feeling old.:eek: I remember thinking he died too dang young:


One hundred years ago, on May 26, 1907, actor John Wayne was born Marion Morrison in Winterset, Iowa.
 
ausrere said:
I saw this in my "Today in History" files today... and it caught me by surprise. Dayum...I'm feeling old.:eek: I remember thinking he died too dang young:


One hundred years ago, on May 26, 1907, actor John Wayne was born Marion Morrison in Winterset, Iowa.
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100 years is not that long ago when you really think about it.

That fact occurred to me when I realized that my mom had seen US Civil War veterans in the flesh and the last one died in the 1950's
 
yea they're having a big party in Winterset, IA this weekend to celebrate. His birthplace home is there, now houses the only museum solely dedicated to The Duke.

I spent much of my childhood weekends on the farm with my grandparents. Every evening grandpa watched a different John Wayne movie. I hated it then, but now I love watching the movies.
 
Not quite as earth-shaking, but I saw a VW Bug today with Antique Vehicle plates on it. Man, I feel old!
 
gprellwitz said:
Not quite as earth-shaking, but I saw a VW Bug today with Antique Vehicle plates on it. Man, I feel old!
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How about when you find a paper from high school and it's yellow and dried out and tattered, and the font looks very strange. It was typewritten, and the font wasn't proportional.

I remember later when PCs and printers and you as coder had to figure out how to deal with proportional fonts.

You kids GET OFF MY LAWN!
 
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