I’m a coastal boomer. Lived in Southern California all my life.
We used to get LA TV. so I loved George Putnam. But the whole situation about many of our fellow boomers was crystallized for me when I taught college around 1996.
I was teaching out of a book called “Marketing to Generation X” and the writer was shredding the boomers. I didn’t want to get too graphic, but I told the students, “Ask your parents about the times. They’ll tell you.”
One young lady said, “My parents didn’t do that stuff.” I had known her parents in high school, and they always parked in the back row of the drive in and made the car jump. I just nodded back to her.