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

[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!

[bleudevil]

James Taylor and Carly Simon sang "Mockingbird."

I liked Carly's 1970s stuff - "You're So Vain," "Anticipation."

Don't know if anyone here has mentioned the movie "Dick" yet. It's about two teenage girls who stumble onto the Watergate burglary and get crushes on Nixon - very funny, with lots of period music.

[PjhCPA]

King Vitaman was the BEST!

[CheneyChick]

Remember Crazy George? (SJ girl here.... Cupertino HS, actually)

[PjhCPA]

Duncan Yo-Yos I still have mine!

Kung Fu

Gun Smoke

[CheneyChick]

Wild Wild West (Robert Conrad!!)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

How about a Julia doll? Remember her - she was (I think) the first black woman to star on a tv show - Julia Carroll.... I thought she had to be the most beautiful woman on earth..... I got a Julia doll for christmas that year.... same size as Barbie, but she was a nurse!

[Sabertooth]

I thought Crazy George Henderson had the COOLEST job. Did you ever go to San Jose Earthquakes games at Spartan Stadium?

[Bush2000]

They knew about grits but boiled peanuts and southern style BBQ were a surprise...

OMG... I'd almost forgotten those: boiled peanuts! My folks used to drag my brother, sister, and I from Miami up to North Carolina (Fontana) every year when we were kids to spend a couple weeks in the woods. People had these big cauldrons by the side of the road filled with green peanuts (I'd rather not speculate why they were green).

[Bush2000]

You know what I would give anything for? An ice cold Pepsi in a glass bottle.

Me, too. I was just telling my kids the other day about how you could once buy bottled Pepsi and Coke in machines. They gave me that "I think the old guy's gone over the hill" look.

[DouglasKC]

Yeah, but didn't you all hear about the kid in the next neighborhood who got his eye put out by those clacker things when they shattered? So they made them illegal and you can go to jail for having them. I swear, I heard it from Tony on the next street.

LOL...I was just going to respond about all the urban legends behind those....some kids broke his arm, some kid, put out an eye, some kid stuck his head in there while some other kid was doing it and got killed, the power line thing...all led to them being outlawed.

[PjhCPA]

W.C. McCall's (aka Chip Davis) "Convey" and the CB radio craze.

Smokie and the Bandit

Goldie Hawn (hot hot hot)

Electric race car sets

Five speed bike with banana seat and chopper fork

[PjhCPA]

Michael J. Fox in Family Ties was a REAL role model

[Joan_of_Argghh!]

Young man, give me that knife! Thunnnnggg!

Thenkew!

[Bush2000]

I saw Beatlemania in CA, in 1978.

Too young for disco. Too old for grunge. ;-)

[Sideshow Bob]

I think that NFL/Sunoco sticker book is still in my mom's attic.

Do you think it's worth anything?

[CheneyChick]

Did you ever go to San Jose Earthquakes games at Spartan Stadium?

Yup - it was one of my first dates!