Posted on 03/09/2006 9:23:36 AM PST by laney
In the 1960s and '70s they burned their bras and draft cards, marched on Washington, founded Earth Day and vowed never to trust anyone over the age of 30.
Today, the baby boomers are doing the limbo, dancing wildly and waving their arms in the air to the unintelligible lyrics of "Louie, Louie."
At least that's what they're doing in Portland, Oregon, at the Baby Boomers' Social Club Friday night dance at the Red Lion Hotel.
"We have a live band once a month, and we do all sorts of different dance styles," says Melanie Pedersen, co-founder with Julie Dahlman of the Baby Boomers' Social Club.
"Julie does a wall sweep," Pederson says. "She says, 'come on gals ... go get the guys that are holding up the walls.'"
"You know, we're in our 50s now, so it's okay to ask the guys to dance," Dahlman adds with a laugh.
Indeed, this mammoth generation -- at once lauded for its commitment to social change and derided for its perceived self-indulgence -- has grown up and is now going gray.
So, how did the "Me" generation do for itself? Have the boomers prospered as much as they could have, or did they miss key opportunities to better their nation and their lives?
It depends on whom you ask.
Some experts say the boomers did not plan well for their future, especially their financial futures, relying instead on the whimsy of a historically rosy economic era to carry them along.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
*YOU* are wrong my friend, for all the bad you think the 60's and 70's were most of us knew a world besides (Sex, drugs and Rock and Roll) that was innocent and non-violent in our schools and neighborhoods, we did not grow up with friends on computer, but we made friends in-person we could play outside until dark without worrying about being molested or kidnapped, we had neighbors we knew, who looked out for one another, we did not have massive frivalous lawsuits clogging up the court system.
I could go on and on with this, for *US* that knew this life we wish it could return.
We had a sense of knowing what FAMILY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS were...
The 80's was a time for massive spending, Miami Vice wanna bees, Cocaine and Credit Card hysteria.
I'm looking to see Allen/Rice 2008 ............ but probably won't come to be.
He was cool, loved Robert Redford's Old Movies but I liked the little younger versions which included the cuties in Tiger Beat Magazine! LOL...
I sure wish they would make the Old Movies that's for sure!
Yes, and the 50's were even better (jmo)
We used to be able to buy a nice big ice cream cone for 7 cents.
;-)
Steve McQueen was pretty great too.
The 80s were a return to AMERICA as it might have been had we not had to deal with Lefties monopolizing the national conversation.
That tells me all I need to know. It's just another attempt to pass off responsibility for their decisions onto someone else.
So, what else is new?
I hear ya..The 80's were the beginning of the end as far as the innocence in society, the decade of Addictive Spending that never stopped...
Flippin' freakin' flying pigs at the trough. And then raised kids the same way.
but man, New Wave was so much better than watching mudcovered hippies writhing to screeching guitars. And the clothes of the early 80s with the strong Japanese influence was such a wonderful way to forget about love beads, fringed jackets and dashikis and frizzy out of control hair!!
Yea, but we had some good bands.
yeah, I guess that *would* be the reaction after a decade or so of being forced to wait in gas lines and being made to feel bad for running your faucet for a bath more than once a week and having little choice but to wear industrial strength polyester that will STILL be viable 3000 years from now in horrid psychedelic colors and not having much of a market choice for things to eat/drive/entertain because we were made to feel bad for even wanting to participate in a free market society.
Yeah...I guess the 80s *would* be seen as greedy when people decided that they were fed up with being lectured and talked down to about how they had to give up everything for the comfort of elitists conscience.....
Sorry I don't remember the 80's being that way, but I also did not know a soul who was interested in politics guess I was with a different crowd although the Mid 90's they came around to being more political and religious on a conservative basis..I think alot of people think the word *Hippie* was anyone who (Male) had long hair smoked pot and drove a VW Fan, sorry that is totally in-correct.
Tune out Tune in whatever that was about was started by someone that was not a *Baby Boomer*
It took alot of Baby Boomers who could of cared less about Politics any of it, to come around until the 90's.
BUMP
"I was in college 1969-1973 and I didn't do any of that BS either. I even registered in 1972 as a REPUBLICAN. I never liked smelly hippies."
We must have been twins separated at birth! That is MY bio exactly!
What planet did you live on??? The 80's The Miami Vice look all though that was a Cool look, the 70's especially that late ones were Disco Danny Clothes Silk shirts gaberdine pants nicely blow dryed feathered hair..
Oh the 80's Madonna the Culture Club and Cindy lauper..
The Days of Mohawks Big Hair and Spandex....
Congressman Billybob
Thank you..I will read it.
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