Too busy putting all of my old hockey coins back into those plastic 'plaques' you had to pick up at ESSO.  Good ol' Murray.  100?  Old enough to be my Dad.  I know 3 different guys in their 90s.  Golf with one of 'em.  But 100?  Now that's gettin' UP there.  Maybe life begins at 75...even 80?  I hope to find out... ... ...someday.

Happy motoring!

My first memory of Murray Westgate was as host of Junior Roundup.  Then, of course, hockey...

unclefester wrote:

S.O.B. ate my muffler...

Don't you mean Esso B?

Lorne wrote:

unclefester wrote:

I had a great grandmother who lived to be 103 - had the opportunity to know her.

People get freaked out when I tell them she was born in 1865.

That is impressive. I had a great-grandfather who died in 1880. I sometimes have to explain that it's because of second and third marriages involving back-to-back generations.

Great grandfather died in 1880 -- that DOES sound hard to do - any idea how old he was?

I've asked around online etc.to see if anyone has ever met someone born earlier than 1865 - no takers yet...

But I'm sure there are more than a few...
 

unclefester wrote:

Great grandfather died in 1880 -- that DOES sound hard to do - any idea how old he was?
 

We don't know for sure because he deliberately obscured his true name and origins, but according to what was passed down through the family he was born in 1817. If that was the case, he would have been 62 when he died. But what makes the situation so unusual is that not only would he have been 53 when my grandfather was born, but my grandfather was definitely 53 when my father was born. 

Chuck99 wrote:

 many didn't realize he was an actor and thought he actually ran his own service station. 

Well, then, I'd say that was a successful ad campaign.