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!

[HapaxLegamenon]

8-track!

[WIMom]

I can start another one.

[CheneyChick]

Yes - and how about those S&H green stamps?

[Josephine]

I remember on one episode where Laurie mentioned that she was 17, and I was honestly stunned at how very old that was.

Here's a few more I thought of.....

- Swine Flu shots

(for my fellow sisters)Did anyone else love the bandLoverboy? My friends & I were absolutely crazy about them in the early 80's I guess.

[antidisestablishment]

That was the brother of the kid who's stomach blew up from drinking coke while eating pop rocks. LOL

[WIMom]

THREAD 3

[Bush2000]

Ha! I remember using Green Stamps to buy an AM transistor radio in the early 1970s. I read once that Jackie O had never heard of Green Stamps until someone discussed it with her -- and she became fanatical about collecting them! Talk about out of touch! How could you go through daily life without buying groceries? Oops... oh, yeah ... I doubt she shopped at Safeway very much. LOL.

[Gothmog]

Now that you mention it, I do remember something like that. We had the same taste in cereal, too. That Freaky stuff, or whatever. I have never found anyone else who remembered it.

See ya'll over at thread three.

[Josephine]

They were called sleestack (sp?)

Whichever one of you mentioned painters pants and mood rings has sent me back to high school.....it's like it was yesterday. And how about cowl neck sweaters?

[MichelleWSC]

1968 I wanna play too LOL

"The Freedom Train that was a train that was a museum of Americana?"

OMG I remember that! Our whole school went. Remember it had the convyer-belt type thing you rode through it on?

How about...

Thriller on saturday nights

Gumsmoke was still on Mondays nights

King Kong the remake (ironically Kong climed the WTC)

Grease -- still a good movie lol

Sneaking into the drive-in with my older brother's in the truck of their friend's car

Bionic Woman

Wonder Woman

Hawaii Five-0 (book-em Dan-o)

Good Times

All in the Family

Silly-putty

Evil Knevil with the bike and ramp

Anyone remember the Lemon Twist?

1980 boycott of the Summer Olympics in Moscow

Iran Hostages

Nixon's resiggnation

[pray4liberty]

b. 1960

I have unpleasant memories of "older" boomers (about five to seven years older than me) who were protesting or otherwise acting indecently in the streets of San Francisco.

Speed Racer was on TV at 4 o'clock every day, and afterwards the Monkees and the Partridge Family. I liked the mom the best. The Brady Bunch wasn't on until 8.

Favorite shampoo: Dark Green Clairol's Herbal Essence, and Yucca Dew.

Oh, and Michael Jackson still had his nose!

[erkyl]

Now when I was young, I used to dream about one day owning a Pacer, SO COOL!

I thought I was the only one! How wonderful to find a soulmate!

[buickmackane]

Remember when Mary Hartman had an affair with Dennis Foley -- in his hospital bed!!

[glory]

See now, I'm with the other guy..I'm considered Gen-X, probably firmly gen-x at that(1970) but I remember TABS on cans that came off. My mom used to hate when we put them back in the can and you could find a dozen or more of them crushed in the street;-)

I think the main difference is I don't remember tv shows and some of the music mentioned here. By the time I can remember tv I watched Scooby Doo for cartoons and the Waltons for primetime. I remember hearing the music for Dallas and Knots Landing which I was NOT allowed to watch--LOL--even though my mom had no qualms with me sitting next to her during an episode of Y&R. LOL

My husband is an in between though(1961)

glory

[glory]

ha ha..my husband remembers all those and adds a couple...

Remember the:

"knit beer can label hats"

banana seats on bikes

whirlybirds

SST's

he's also circa 1961