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SPC Nancy Greene
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CWO3 (Join to see) I remember learning to ‘twist’ to “Rock Around the Clock”!
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SPC Nancy Greene
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I was 5 at the time and I remember Chubby Checker, Rick Around the Clock, & Jailhouse Rick! My Aunt taught me to twist as she played 45’s! CWO3 (Join to see)
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Later you might have watched American Bandstand in B&W, with Dick Clark.
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SPC Nancy Greene
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I definitely watched American Bandstand CWO3 (Join to see)! That’s how I kept up with the news dances! We had one black & white TV until we moved to NC in 1967! Then, I watched it in color!CWO3 (Join to see)
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SPC Nancy Greene - we still had B&W when I watched Oswald get shot live, color sets in town of 3500 amounted to maybe two hands, wasn't long till parents got a Curtis Mathis from Zenith dealer, we'd seen Wizard of Oz in B&W, but whole new world around 65
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CPL Douglas Chrysler
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I'm not telling.
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I'd bet it had bagpipes.
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CPL Douglas Chrysler - Hard times then, folks in kilts fighting Kingsmen with broadswords and claymores, hatchets, axes
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SGT Mary G.
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My folks must have listened to radio music a lot because I remember hearing all those songs from the 40s and 50s when I was very young in the early 50s - before we had t.v.
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I came along in 57, but radio was common in the house then. Not like fireside chats in WWII, but often played.
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OT - but noticed your QM MOS, how did you guys order parts? We used 80 column worksheets until PCs came out, on the maintenance side. Keypunch entered them, a courier disk went to data center for upload, monitored on reports. Thanks in advance.
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