Do you ever look at a photograph/movie from a previous decade,

[raccoon]

the '70's, '60's, maybe even '50's,and you know intellectually that it was a long time ago, decades ago, but somehow, to you, it doesn't seem old-timey?


Because I've experienced this.

[pleah]

1. Happens to me all the time.

:rofl:

[jody]

2. "'70's, '60's, maybe even '50's" and back to the 40's and 30's. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Absolutely. Time plays many tricks on us. Some things seem like only yesterday and others

seem incredibly far away.

[Staph]

4. In someone else's post today on Kent State,

I looked at the photographs of the students, and I was transported back in time. They look to me as if they are my age, though I know that they are dressed and coiffed in the style of forty years ago.

It's a sad anniversary for me. No personal connections, but memories of idealism unfulfilled.



Edited, because proper grammar is our friend.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

8. It's May 4

I hadn't thought of the Kent State murders. It slipped my mind. Thanks for reminding me.

That should never be forgotten. Never ....................................

[robinlynne]

5. Depends on what you're smoking at the time.

[Hangingon]

6. Not unusual

I see pictures that were magazine covershorts in the '50s and remember when they were current.

[Golden Raisin]

7. Just yesterday

I saw a little bit of "The 7 Year Itch" (Tom Ewell/Marilyn Monroe, circa mid-1950's) and there's a scene in the beginning of the movie of Ewell seeing off his wife and kids for summer vacation at the old Penn Station. It was a magnificent railroad station, modelled after the ancient Roman Baths of Caracalla, and torn down much to New York City's shame. I remember arriving via train at that Station as a child.

[CrispyQ]

13. If they remade that movie they'd have to title it "The 4 Year Itch."

No kidding.

[Pyrzqxgl]

9. a good story is timeless

[Moondog]

10. At least once a week.

And the rate appears to be accelerating.

[AnnInLa]

11. Sure

That's why my preferred TV watching takes place on Turner Classic Movies. I've seen those old movies bunches of times, but they are so comforting to me (and seem to be much better movies than what they are making today anyway.)

Maybe that's why they say older people remember the past better than they remember what happened last week!

[Stuart G]

12. Today I looked at pictures taken in the 90s

on a trip out West. It seemed like just a couple of years ago.