the past: history

I used to believe that in the 1960s' and 1970s', EVERYTHING was tie-dye and EVERYONE was a hippy.
Needless to say I'm only 11, so I did not grow up in those decades

When I was younger, I was totally convinced that the only person who knew everything was George Washington, and that he was still alive. I told my mother that someday I would meet him, and I would ask him how many people knew everything, and he would respond, "Why, just me, of course!" (OBVIOUSLY because he knew everything.)

I used to believe that Davey Crockett was a wonderful, gentle frontiersman, just like they portrayed him on the Wonderful World of Disney. I recently found out that he killed MANY Indians! Interesting how Disney left that part out. I don't care for Davey Crockett anymore. Maybe I was confused because Fess Parker also played Daniel Boone.

A family member (I don't remember who- not me, I swear) was once told to write a story in school. He began:
"Once upon a time when diosaurs ruled the earth and Grandad was a little boy..."!!!

When I was little I thought those old photos and portraits (Napoleon, etal) with one hand in the front coat lapel meant that they were scratching.
Actually, maybe I was right.

I used to believe that a childs life was a warm fuzzy, always happy one, having always lived on a small farm in Illinois. Then one day I went to the movies with my mother and father. Seen the huge bombs falling like rain on the German, English, Japanese towns,just to name a few in the world at that time. "Where do the kids go Dad?" He never answered me. I never seen life in the same happy eyes again.

I thought that most if not all dinosaurs turned into fossils when they died and I didn't know it took a long time but thought they just turn into a fossil instantly when they die

Ancient Egypt always seemed to a very young me a very exciting place, but I was scared of actually being there, because historical egyptians were often shown in my pictures with heads of crocodiles, dogs, birds and other animals. I took this to be some sort of occupational hazard in being an egyptian, as they must have existed, or how otherwise could anyone have drawn them?

While going to school in Chicago and learning about the great Chicago fire, I was sitting in the back yard with my mother while she was feeling great, young and healthy, I asked "Mom...whatever happened at the end of the world"

When I was in grade school we sang a song about the Erie Canal. I thought the Erie Canal was still in use until I moved to New York at age 24. Now I drive down Erie Boulevard, where it used to be.

One day I stared at the cover of a Peoples magazine which said that Ford was the sexiest man alive. At that point I was extremely disturbed because I thought that they meant Gerald Ford, the ex-president, not Harrison Ford,the actor!

I used to believe Bob Dole was Bob Dylan. In second grade we had a mock election when the 1996 presidential election was happening. So I thought that Bob Dylan was the person running against Bill Clinton. So I voted for Bob Dole thinking I was voting for Bob Dylan. The teacher called my parents wondering why I voted for Bob Dole.

Somehow i used to belive that knights wore jeans! and that everyone started a one. i thougt the king was a bald guy with his own tower and a crown. ???!
i also thaugt they rode dinosaurs and drew any sybol on their sheild that they liked!! I thought knights only fought against evil people who were anywere withing a 7 mile radius of their castle!I was a strange kid

when i was little i used to beleve that everyone in the 70s were hippys and all lived in mobile homes and no one lived in houses and dressed in mulitie coulourd clothing and there skin was the same

I used to believe in the 3rd grade that when the first president was born the world was born, and that the presidents have existed for 1000s of years ...

I recently visited madame tusauds in amsterdam and noticed that it hasn't really been that long since einstein died, i found this extremely hard to believe as i always thought he had lived in the 17th/18th century, it wasn't til i thought about it logically i realised that it makes alot more sense he was around in the 20th century!!!