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#3,703
Yesterday was our daughter’s 40th birthday.

Today is me sainted grandmother’s birthday.
Kathleen was born on 9/9/1900.
She once told me that the first thing she remembered from her childhood, apart from family matters, was the sinking of the Titanic…1912.

She was married to a neighboring farmer in County Louth, Ireland, at 15.

She was the mother of 12;
11 lived into adulthood.

Me Da was the oldest.
 
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S-Bigbottom said:
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BBC - Adam Curtis, Extracts from James Mossman's 1968 BBC documentary 'America: Democracy on Trial'

It's called America: Democracy on Trial. It was basically about a typical suburban family (us) and how they were dealing with life and the political and social upheaval that was happening in 1968.

MLK had been assassinated just a couple of months before they started filming and Bobby Kennedy was killed in Los Angeles while the film crew was at our house in the Bay Area.

For me it's kind of the ultimate home movie. I was eight years old that summer. They filmed us and our friends and neighbors for hundreds of hours.

EDIT: It's 49 minutes extracted from the film. There's some scenes missing. I have my own full copy but this is all I can find on the web.
 
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BadSanta1281 said:
BBC - Adam Curtis, Extracts from James Mossman's 1968 BBC documentary 'America: Democracy on Trial'

It's called America: Democracy on Trial. It was basically about a typical suburban family (us) and how they were dealing with life and the political and social upheaval that was happening in 1968.

MLK had been assassinated just a couple of months before they started filming and Bobby Kennedy was killed in Los Angeles while the film crew was at our house in the Bay Area.

For me it's kind of the ultimate home movie. I was eight years old that summer. They filmed us and our friends and neighbors for hundreds of hours.

EDIT: It's 49 minutes extracted from the film. There's some scenes missing. I have my own full copy but this is all I can find on the web.
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That was neat.

Sadly, not a lot has changed. Except for the cars, clothing and people being different, this film can be made or released today.

Fun fact, the player of that video has a volume meter that goes to 11.
 
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BadSanta1281 said:
BBC - Adam Curtis, Extracts from James Mossman's 1968 BBC documentary 'America: Democracy on Trial'

It's called America: Democracy on Trial. It was basically about a typical suburban family (us) and how they were dealing with life and the political and social upheaval that was happening in 1968.

MLK had been assassinated just a couple of months before they started filming and Bobby Kennedy was killed in Los Angeles while the film crew was at our house in the Bay Area.

For me it's kind of the ultimate home movie. I was eight years old that summer. They filmed us and our friends and neighbors for hundreds of hours.

EDIT: It's 49 minutes extracted from the film. There's some scenes missing. I have my own full copy but this is all I can find on the web.
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Very cool.
 
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I've only eaten at a McDonald's once, in 1986 or '87, when myself and some of my fellow students were on an exchange trip to St. John's, Newfoundland.

Neither my hometown, nor any of the few nearby towns, had any of the major chain restaurants, but of course we were always seeing 'em on TV commercials...anyways...long story short, as a kid whose diet consisted of about 75% wild meat and fish, I just about puked when I sat down and tried McD's...never had it again...I'm sure I'd be fine with it now, but I find it kind of cool/take some pride in the fact that I've only eaten there once, and I don't want to break my streak...:laugh:
 
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HubbardsFate said:
I've only eaten at a McDonald's once, in 1986 or '87, when myself and some of my fellow students were on an exchange trip to St. John's, Newfoundland.

Neither my hometown, nor any of the few nearby towns, had any of the major chain restaurants, but of course we were always seeing 'em on TV commercials...anyways...long story short, as a kid whose diet consisted of about 75% wild meat and fish, I just about puked when I sat down and tried McD's...never had it again...I'm sure I'd be fine with it now, but I find it kind of cool/take some pride in the fact that I've only eaten there once, and I don't want to break my streak...:laugh:
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I passionately hate corporate fast food.
 
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