So yea, I'm old, I remember getting indoor plumbing, going to a one room school 1-8 grades with 9 students and a 16 year old teacher, I remember getting electricity, riding a horse to school. Mom cooking over a stove fueled by corn cobbs. I remember seeing a TV ( color tv came about 10 years later) for the first time, I remember standing around the radio (before we had tv) with my sisters listening to Roy Rogers and the Lone Ranger. I remember Joe McCarthy on the radio going on about the communists. I remember the "Duck and cover" drills incase of a nuclear attack. I remember watching the glow of sputnik flying in the night sky, I remember the first landing on the moon. JFK being shot..... And all of those happened before 1970.
Now just because someone is "Old" certainly doesn't mean they are mentally dead. That's the thing that irritates me the most about getting old or as my neighbor said "Elderly". Yea that p*ssed be off a bit.