I was looking at news headlines over on MSN and saw on with TV programs that first broadcast on the year you were born.
Sadly mine was The Guiding Light soap opera but in 1965 The Days of our Lives debuted;
Fortunately my mon did not watch soap operas very often but I often heard the opening jingle before she turned channels, you had to get up and walk over to the TV back then, so those jingles are stuck in my head -- BUT -- way back in the eighties, she will not admit it now, the other half was hooked on THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES for some time when I was in college yet , and I started watching it if I was not in class.
This was fortunately when soap operas switched from whoring around to quasi-action drama.
I was hooked at one point , so that when I was in school, if I did not have class, I would find an empty class room , turn on the wall TV, almost all class rooms had them, and watch the days episode, in glorious black and white, only a few rooms had color.
Now at that time there was a real cliff hangar going on who might have gotten shot and died, but I am amazed at how in pre-internet days one often would spend ones time.
That TV show is still on the air, sole survivor or those that started in the fifties and sixties.
56 years, I wonder if any of the characters from the eighties are still there.
I still miss the little eateries at school. (now they shut them all down and brought in chain store crap) German Burgers, huge tacos and giant cheap submarine sandwiches.
Once after I graduated and was landscaping near the college I told my boss you want good food lets eat at the college joint.
Now they were working on the school then so we parked in the non-public parking lot with our work truck , where the contractors were parking no problem, so it was a short walk.
My boss was amazed how good the food was.
