Timeline Twins

Scary!

If you're around my age, how old do you feel right now? Here are some other examples of timeline twins:

Watching Star Wars today is like watching It's a Wonderful Life (1946) in 1977. It's a Wonderful Life was nominated for an Oscar the following year along with Ethel Barrymore (b. 1879) and Lilian Gish (b. 1893).

Listening to Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit today is equivalent to playing Terry Jack's Seasons In The Sun (1974) in 1991.

Watching The Godfather today is like watching Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936) in 1972. Modern Times was a silent film (Chaplin's last).

Listening to the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks (1977) today...well, they didn't really have rock or pop albums back in 1946. But popular songs on the radio were sung by Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Nat King Cole, and Dinah Shore, as well as many performers and their orchestras.

Back to the Future (1985) --> To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Die Hard (1988) --> Bullitt (1968)

Radiohead, OK Computer (1997) --> Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet (1986)

And from Jonah.

I've thought about this when I've listened to the radio. Greenday or Live or Pearl Jam or U2 comes on, and it takes me back now 14 years or more to college/high school. That would've been like listening to stuff from 1980, music that even now escapes me.

Thirty-two years and 8 months ago, I was born. Thirty two years before that, we were in the throes of WW2. Scary, considering that someone who was my age in 1944ish, someone old enough to be my grandparent, was Grandpa's age, and probably deceased. 94 years old.

We are as far away now from JFK's election as he was from Taft's election.
As far away from Reagan being in office as was to LBJ being in office.
The Simpsons premiered 19 years ago (1989!). 19 years before that, wasn't that when All in the Family premiered? Before my time.
Far away as the Cosby Show premiered (1984) as JFK's election was then.
And I'm as far away from being a college freshman as I was to being in 4 year old Sunday school.