The Gap Historical Society Inc. by President George Stoddart
This article on Senior Citizens taken from the archives of the Russell Museum typifies the actual experiences of the membership of The Gap Historical Society whose ages range from mid-seventies to mid-nineties. WHAT ARE SENIOR CITIZENS? Senior Citizens are those persons who were around before the pill and the population explosion. They were here before television, penicillin, antibiotics and
microwave ovens, frozen food, radar and credit cards. Ti m e - s h a r i n g m e a n t togetherness – not a holiday apartment; hardware was hardware and software wasn’t even a word. They were here before men had long hair and earrings and being stoned meant having rocks thrown at you. Senior Citizens were before yoghurt, the forty-hour week and the minimum wage. They got married before they lived together – how quaint can one be? Closets were for clothes – not coming out of;
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gay meant merry and aids were for assisting. Senior Citizens were before pizza, McDonalds, instant coffee and decaffeinated anything. They thought that fast food was what you ate during Lent. They were before FM Radio, compact discs, word processors and the post pink period. Senior Citizens remember the days when cigarette smoking was fashionable, grass was for mowing and pot was something you cooked in. If you asked Senior Citizens to explain DSW, CIA, UFO, MOW, ET, MS
Established 2000 and IUD, they’d say it was alphabet soup. We must congratulate today’s Senior Citizens. They are indeed a hardy bunch when you consider how the world has changed and the adjustments they’ve had to make. However – they are blessed to mostly live in The Gap – a suburb they can love and mind. GOD BLESS ALL SENIOR CITIZENS
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