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POST BOOMERS/PRE X - finally, a thread just for us - Thread 2

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!


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To: ecomcon
Dang!, who pissed in your cornflakes?
121 posted on 10/02/2001 1:08:58 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Rheo
Gaucho pants, elephant pants and crochetted sweater vests. Were we fasion statements!
122 posted on 10/02/2001 1:09:26 PM PDT by WIMom
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To: one_particular_harbour
Yes - smack dab in the middle of the age group! 1960. Thanks for the ping... Haven't had a chance to view the whole thread yet, but I'll add that on family night we would watch Gomer Pyle (Fridays). My first movie I can remember was Mary Poppins. And then all the Jerry Lewis movies were a lot of fun, too. I also remember playing with my brother's Hot Wheels cars (when he wasn't around) and setting up the orange race tracks all over the living room - especially liking the one that started on the dining room table. He only caught me a couple of times.
123 posted on 10/02/2001 1:10:14 PM PDT by CheneyChick
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To: dandelion
mention those glass "clacker" balls on strings

and they still hung on the powerlines in my neighborhood several years after the fad had run its course.

124 posted on 10/02/2001 1:10:24 PM PDT by Basil314
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To: ecomcon
You forgot the most important one: You suck.
125 posted on 10/02/2001 1:11:01 PM PDT by riley1992
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To: laconas
Those removable rings on top of soda and beer can. What do you call those things?

I don't remember what you call them, but I remember linking them together into a necklace and giving it to my grandfather as a gift.

127 posted on 10/02/2001 1:12:26 PM PDT by CheneyChick
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To: Hatteras: All
Dang!, who pissed in your cornflakes?

LOL!

Remember 'Don't Eat Yellow Snow'? :)

128 posted on 10/02/2001 1:12:35 PM PDT by MamaTexan
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To: DouglasKC
my parents fondue craze

Mine, too. Cheese fondue, deep fried mushroom caps, beef tips, just about anything that you could stick on the skewer. I inherited that pot and used it all the time until it blew up on me a few months ago. I almost cried. LOL

131 posted on 10/02/2001 1:14:43 PM PDT by riley1992
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To: ecomcon
1960, Class of '78
All the 70's sucked. Jimmy Carter SUCKED.

And especially disco.... I had a "Disco Sucks" t-shirt.

... '78 was Great

132 posted on 10/02/2001 1:15:20 PM PDT by PrivateIdaho
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To: habs4ever
"You didn't see the Zeppelin Day on the Green in '77 with Judas Priest?"

No, I stupidly, took a pass on that one (Led Zep's last American show), as well as The Who and the Grateful Dead show the year before (Keith Moon's last show). That's why it was so important to see the Stones. Saw them at Candlestick too, in '81.

I did see The Byrds play at the Boarding House (4 of 5, anyway) in '78. Dylan's Born Again Tour...The Kinks a bunch of times.

Saw Van Halen open for Ozzie and Sabbath at the Oakland Arena... Major Crowd Stampede, really scary. This was a year before the bloodbath at The Who show in Cincinnati. Bill Graham knew what to do: skip the tickets, quit frisking, and let us in 50 at a time.

Saw Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with Greg Kihn at Winterland. Petty fell off the stage during his second encore, and got roughed up by the crowd. Took the roadies 10 minutes to dive in and dig him out. What did he do next? Two more encores!

Then the next night, I saw The Tubes with The Ramones at the San Jose Civic. Gabba gabba Hey!

Saw the Clash (2nd tour) with the Dead Kennedys and the Cramps at the Kezar Pavillion a year or so later.

Anyone else go to the Us Festival? I was the guy in the tan Op shorts.

BTW, count me as another former Gremlin owner... A pukey bronze '74.

133 posted on 10/02/2001 1:15:35 PM PDT by Sabertooth
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To: one_particular_harbour
Real TV season....Reruns didn't start until school was out, and who cared then. With the exception of the Partridge Family because you just had to see David Cassidy. 3 channels and maybe an independant local (reruns of Leave it to Beaver and I Love Lucy) and a PBS (who'd ever watch that!). Remember when a hot movie was shown on TV for the first time? Or Christmas specials like "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" (my favorite to this day), "Charlie Brown Christmas", or "Frosty the Snowman". They were only shown once a year.
137 posted on 10/02/2001 1:21:07 PM PDT by WIMom
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To: MamaTexan
"The only soap opera I ever watched- Dark Shadows."

Though I'm a guy, I gotta confess there was another one worth watching... "The Edge of Night."

NO Doctors, and therefore, no mystery pregnancies.

EoN's fictional Monticello was populated exclusively by Cops, lawyers, and mobsters... Murder, mayhem, and weeks long courtroom drama! Perry Mason was kids' stuff.

After "Edge" of course, came the Mike Douglas Show.

"And we'll be right back..."

138 posted on 10/02/2001 1:22:44 PM PDT by Sabertooth
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