Fans over 50?
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I'm 55 and have been a Beatles fan in love with Paul since primary school. I was too young to go to any of their concerts, sadly. I do feel privileged to have grown up with their fab music.
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I'm DEFINITELY not in this range but I wanted to just leave a post saying how much I enjoy reading all the stories from those of you who were there in the height of Beatlemania. I'm a second generation fan (my mother would qualify on this thread) but neither of my parents have any good memories of the Beatles. It's so nice to find people who do!
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MECCA GIRL I'm sorry, " none of us parents have a good memory".... or something........?????????????????????? Well your parents didn't chase them, what can you say?? Not many did, which is something most people don't know. You see, it could and did start many fights, between the SURFER beach boys and the BEATLE fans in 1966-67 California. One guy got beat up for claming to be a Beatle Fan in my home town of Chula Vista. And I mean serious "beat up", he ended up in the hospital. We all took notice of that, who wanted to end up in the Hospital. For the rest of us, we just kept it down, under cover so to speak. We were very verble when requesting the release date of their first album or when concert tickets went on sale, but at school or on the party scene we were pretty quite. I never wore Beatles Buttons on my clothes, etc. or talked much about them until after their concerts in 1966. Then pretty much everyone was on board until it ended in 1967 when it was no longer fashionable due to the influx of "the summer of love." JUST HOW IT WAS...
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Well, I'm a first generation fan...even if I WAS just a toddler! I'll be 50 at the end of August! Yikes! Where has the time gone???
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lindafan:
What does CYO stand for?
Catholic Youth Organization We had a CYO basketball league back in the day. Not that that has anything to do with the Beatles LOL.
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love2travel:
oobu24:
James Rowat:
James Rowat:
SillyLoveSongs:
I'm heading for 49 and have been a fan since the age of 3. Tagged along with my big bro and saw A Hard Day's Night and HELP! on the big screen, every day for a week when they were new. One of my earliest memories from then, is when I learned to use scissors - by cutting the faces of The Beatles from those over-sized tickets from the movie theatre. Click for example of original theatre ticket.
How can you have been a fan since the age of 3?! XD not sure how you would have understood their music back then.
Wow I just saw the price of them theatre tickets. It said 'all seats $1.25 I know that was worth a bit back then, but that's sooo cheap!
How could $1.25 ever been a lot? Isn't that strange to think about?
Not really, my first job as a teacher's aide I made $4,000 a year and I remember premium gas being .32 cents and regular was .28 cents You can trust your car to the man who wears the Star The big bright Texaco star!
I made $70 a week as a secretary for my first job and I used to get glasses for the .28 gallon gas! Movies cost 25 cents or 35 cents if it was Disney and they were usually double headers.
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I decorated my entire bedroom with pictures I cut out of magazines like "16". I thought it was beautiful! I didn't realize that I had destroyed my magazines.
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I still have some of my 16 magazines with the Beatles.... where we found out the favorite foods, colors and other "facts" of our fav Beatle!!! (Did they really love Jelly Babies?) I have them preserved in gallon zip lock baggies... I'll have to dig some out now.... I had Beatles and Paul pictures all over my closet doors!
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All this talk reminds me I never really did get to know how to do the "STROLL". Anyone remember? Its side, side, tap, side, side, tap, then somehow, cross in front, cross in back. Oh I can't remember. Who gives dance lessons on this site???
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Hi Nano, Here's a you tube on the Stroll. I remember doing this dance for Hang on Sloopy... at my school. I always thought it was called the Sloopy.... When you strolled down the center you could break out your best dance moves.... I loved it!!
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love2travel:
Hi Nano, Here's a you tube on the Stroll. I remember doing this dance for Hang on Sloopy... at my school. I always thought it was called the Sloopy.... When you strolled down the center you could break out your best dance moves.... I loved it!!
Is that an actual clip from the movie?? I also did the dance to sloopy!
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Thank You Love2travel: I'm learning the Stroll now! Look out, I'm pushing the furniture back and getting the steps down. That really is a fun dance. Thanks again.
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You are welcome! The actual thing to that dance and hence the name "The Stroll" is that there are two lines of people, standing across from each other forming a lane of sorts. You and your partner, who is across from you, work your way to the top of the lane and then you join together to take your "Stroll" down the lane formed by the other people. The couple that was strolling/dancing between the lane of people, would bust out their best dance moves and it always gave me some new ideas about dancing. Remember, we didn't have uTube to show us things. I can remember watching American Bandstand to learn how to do these dances. I got a kick out of this... this is how it was...remember? Loved those fringes or ruffles on the itsy bitsy bikinis And the bathing caps with the petals How we thought those were so great at the time! Oh and those men's bathing suits!! HOT! Like the Beatles bathing suits in Florida!
I bought a dress last year with long fringe going down the entire length... I LOVED it, it so reminded me of back in the day! I can remember seeing a movie...from maybe the Renaissance period in England. In the movie, they did a dance very similar to "The Stroll" in a Renaissance style of dance, of course. It made me wonder how accurate those dances are, in the movies about history. -
I was about 7 when a girl at school had photos of the Beatles with her. I thought those guys looked really strange with their long hair. Then my older sister started listening to their records on the radio, my mother stuck their pictures on the kitchen cupboards, my aunt thought they were cute and there was no return for me and my sister! We went to the neighbours to watch the Beatles on tv, in later years we saw them outside the studio while recording "Abbey Road", we had John and Yoko staying in our capital and Wings came for one of their first tours here in 1972. We saw one concert in the wings.....incredible. Great memories.
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lindafan:
love2travel:
Hi Nano, Here's a you tube on the Stroll. I remember doing this dance for Hang on Sloopy... at my school. I always thought it was called the Sloopy.... When you strolled down the center you could break out your best dance moves.... I loved it!!
Is that an actual clip from the movie?? I also did the dance to sloopy!
Hi Lindafan, I think it might be from Grease... so you did the dance to the sloopy also... did you also think the dance was called the sloopy? FUN!
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I had one of those bathing caps with petals, but it didn't keep the water away from my hair. My sister had a beehive, but I never did. American Bandstand was a great show to learn dances.
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MaccaScruff: Hello. I had a French Roll...probably my best "do". That was after high school. The day I got next to George Harrison I had on my bright yellow "angel blouse", the kind with all the ruffles down the front, remember? They don't have it guite the same now (although this probably belongs in Yesterday, Oh Well).
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Remember when they rated the records on American Bandstand? "It's easy to dance to.." I think Please Please Me got a bad rating. Or an average one. I'm looking for a YouTube clip of it. this one's good...
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I remember when AHDN opened, we bought our tickets early (they were huge) days before it opened. We lined up at 10am (my dad dropped us off) the line went from the theater to the street (a long way) We sat in the front row and screamed our heads off! To see cute Paul on a big screen-WOWZA! Back then you could sit through more than 1 showing, we saw it 3 times that day, my dad came and picked us up at 6pm for dinner. Next day-same thing-different driver.
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We saw A Hard Days Night however many times it was shown the days we saw it, too--for 35 cents. We couldn't buy tickets ahead of time. We just had to get there early.