So long Walter....

[tux_linux]

long way to go - wonder what he thought about life nowadays.

Walter Breuning - one of the oldest persons ever died

regards
Torsten

[Mainewoods]

Amazing people to have experienced so much! 

My wife's Great Aunt is 113!  She lives in Athens, Georgia.  We got to meet her last year.  What an outstanding life she has lived!

[tux_linux]

amazing!

Those people not just lived before World War I, but where old enough to be aware of all of those things happening around them. They where in their 20's when the big recession happened - they read the newspaper about the Black Tuesday 1929! I wonder what they thought about our economic downturns now!

regards
Torsten

[Gabby]

amazing!

Those people not just lived before World War I, but where old enough to be aware of all of those things happening around them. They where in their 20's when the big recession happened - they read the newspaper about the Black Tuesday 1929! I wonder what they thought about our economic downturns now!

regards
Torsten

My dad was just a couple of years younger than Walter, being born in 1897, I wish I had a tape recording of all the things he saw and did, it would make a great book. Dad lived to 2 weeks shy of his 89 th. birthday.
He grew up with horses doing the majority of the work, and saw men in space before he died.
If you think about it the past 100 years have seen the most advances in man's history!
Gabby

[Mainewoods]

amazing!

 I wonder what they thought about our economic downturns now!

regards
Torsten

I'm sure they'd think us all a bunch of wasteful crybabies who have no idea what a real struggle is!

[Bill P]

I live in a manufactured home community...okay, a trailer park...and one of my best friends here is 82.  My best neighbor is 96.  When I first moved here I owned an '08 Harley Deluxe.  Both men brought me photos of their bikes from years gone by and we sat out on the deck, drinking various things, while they told me some of the best motorcycle, airplane, WWI, and WWII stories I've ever heard.

I love these guys, and think we could all learn so much from those that society sometimes forgets.

Bill

[slowcutter]

I grew up in a small logging town in North Idaho==I'm 71
The stories the old timers back in the 40's use  to tell were fascinating.
Stories about working the woods,moving the logs on the river & working the river boats.Boy do we ever have it easy.

[Rapid Roger]

My dad used to say "Ain't no such thing as the good old days! I've never had it as good as I do now." He was born in 1920 and grew up during the '30s so, you can understand where he was coming from.
Still, it is fun and entertaining to hear of the times gone by, I just wish that mankind would learn from the past or we are destined to repeat it.

Rog

[dgman]

Just think what stories our kids will be able to tell their great grandchildren! Things like they actually had to use a keyboard to text messages to each other!

[Gabby]

Dan if anyone is left by that time, they'll have brain implants at birth. They'll say what's a keyboard?
Gabby

[Bill P]

A young girl my wife works with was telling her about these "huge CD's" her father has.  It took a while for Lisa to get that the girl was talking about LP's.

Bill

[Gabby]

Ok so what's a telephone operator?
Most of the kids would probably fail that quiz.
G

[slowcutter]

Telephone operator

I think that is the Doctor that works on the dumb (|) that was using a cell phone while driving.

[Gabby]

LMAO!
G