- peasant skirts
- gypsy blouses
- painter's pants
- mood rings
- down vests and jackets
- clogs
- toe socks
- tiddies
- trench coats
- wrap-around skirts
- feathered bangs
- the earth shoe!
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!
I have a red, white and yellow Duncan Butterfly around somewhere, vintage 1970.
If anyone ever gets up to Chico, CA, there's a sporting goods store downtown with a very cool International Yo-yo Museum in the back corner. They've got 400 to 500 yo-yos from the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. Very comprehensive collection, many still in their original wrappers.
I have read through both threads and I have been trying to think of something new.... how about gasoline that was $ .33 per gallon..... and saying "I will NEVER pay $1.00 for gasoline! I will park my car before I will pay that!" Someone mentioned fashions: everything from the 70's is back again including hip huggers, bell bottoms, "love" beads, afros (yes, they are back on the college campus), platform shoes, Navy P. Coats, purses with fringe, etc...
We only received 3 tv stations, NBC, CBS, and ABC.... Sundays were all sports... horrible for a kid..until 6:00 and Walt Disney came on...!
If you got in trouble at school, you were REALLY in trouble once you got home.....
Most of us grew up in households with two parents, we had rules to abide by, schools still honored the 10 Commandments and we prayed in public school, we said Grace before dinner and went to Church on Sunday, we showed respect to adults. We lived on the edge of war - either Korea, Cuba, or Vietnam..... we grew up knowing there was a price for liberty and we loved our country. I can't, for the life of me, understand how the GenX'ers who keep trashing us have come up with this "boomers are all hippies and the cause of all the problems on earth" crap.....
Saw Blue Oyster Cult, Pat Travers, and Cheap Trick at Spartan in the Summer of '79, though.
BTW, check your Freepmail.
Battle of the Network Stars (Kotter beating Jim West in a race -- that had to be fixed)
Planning which new Saturday morning cartoons we were going to watch when the new season started.
My father making all the kids stay up to watch PBS' "The Ascent Of Man." Me falling asleep.
Quisp cereal -- but what about Kwangaroo? And that other cereal freakythings (or something like that).
The Clash -- Rockin' the Kazbah. I'd like to hear that song and CDB's "In America" make a comeback. (The cowboys and the hippies and the rebels and the yanks!)
MTV -- my parents still haven't gotten cable, I had to watch videos at my friends' houses and they would all complain because they had seen the video 10 times already!
Bulletman and GI Joe with the Kung Foo grip.
Stealing my older brother's beers.
My father and older brother arguing who was better, Fred Lynn or Jim Rice.
Bicentennial beer cans.
My best friend and I used to sit around eating King Vitamin and watching Buck Rogers reruns. Wow, that was thirty+ years ago! Hard to believe. How about the Incredible Hulk, and watching all the Disney originals at the matinee for $.50. Parents could just drop kids off and pick us up when it was done. Andthe playgrounds at the drive thu—sitting there with the commercials and previews seemed like being in the movie. And remember when Drive thru's started AM simulcast—wasn't that something? LOL
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