Posted on 10/02/2001 10:38:59 AM PDT by WIMom
Last night, there was an anti baby boom thread that started with a rant, and before some disruptor trashed it, some of us who were born at the tail end of the baby boom - from 1956 to 1964 - were having some nice recollections. The things that we seem to have in common are the following:
1. We were too young to serve in Vietnam, but remember the news.
2. As far as we're concerned, the music, television and popular entertainment and heroes of the 60s were and still are a matter for personal taste, and don't represent the shining apex of all civilization, icons to be revered by generations to come - in short, the Beatles were just a band that some might not like, and old Trek was cheesy and not well written.
3. Old boomers came into adulthood at the ideal economic circumstance - we've had to work for ours.
4. Our clothes and music tended to be lighthearted, and we are more conservative/libertarian as a whole than the older boomers.
So post your memories of tunes, movies, shows, fashions, school stuff, etc.
And enjoy yourselves!
Watching Brady Bunch BEFORE it was on re-runs (followed, of course, by The Partridge Family)
Shaun Cassidy? pah! Parker Stevenson from Hardy Boys!
Reading Amityville Horror at age 11 and then waking up at 1:15am scared to death!
5 kids stuffed into the back of a 1968 Ford Galaxie 500 (we finally got a wagon when #6 was born.....)
Star Wars trading cards
King Kong trading cards
Charlie's Angels
Not being allowed to watch Happy Days because there was necking on it
The frogmen that retrieved the astronauts from the water
When AM radio used to play MUSIC
The Carpenters
A banana seat on my bicycle
The Bicentennial
Does anyone else remember The Freedom Train that was a train that was a museum of Americana?
Not being able to "feather" my wavy hair :(
How about diasater movies?
or my big brother babysitting me and letting me watch a movie about earwigs that bore into people's brains.
And thinking thoughts like "Wow! in the future, that is in the year 2000, we'll probably have flying cars!"
Exactly! It was my older brothers album. It came with a giant piece of rolling paper, but I didn't realize what it was until much later.
Her name was Sister Mary Elephant.
Wasn't that Carly Simon and James Taylor??
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