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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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1 posted on 10/02/2001 10:38:59 AM PDT by WIMom
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To: WIMom
Going to the drive-in in pajamas to see the "Gnome Mobile".

Family vacations in the station wagon, also used for the drive-in.

Hippity-hops.

Chatty Cathy or Chrissie.

There were still drug stores with soda fountians.

Liquor and beer were bought at the beer depot.

Gas lines in the 70's.

2 posted on 10/02/2001 10:55:09 AM PDT by WIMom
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To: WIMom
Thing is, as a GenXer, I have memories of this too!!!

ARGH!!! I was born in 1967

3 posted on 10/02/2001 11:02:01 AM PDT by Alkhin
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To: Alkhin
Are you a GenX-er? That is the point, here. We're stuck inbetween, not really a baby boomer, not a GenX-er. Have fun!
4 posted on 10/02/2001 11:04:13 AM PDT by WIMom
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To: WIMom
true...I'll leave y'all alone now...but it breaks my heart...cause y'all sound more like me than the "GenXers..."

God bless...

5 posted on 10/02/2001 11:09:06 AM PDT by Alkhin
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To: WIMom
The Outer Limits - still the scariest show ever on TV.

Lost In Space

My Favorite Martian

Variety shows where people actually performed live - Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason, Smothers Brothers, Sonny & Cher

F Troop and Hogan's Heroes - most un-PC shows ever!

Monty Python - I have ordered the Time-Life videos of all the shows from the 70s and am enjoying them along with my kids. "The Spanish Inquisition" and "Ministry of Silly Walks" are total comedy classics. One of the first things my husband and I realized we had in common when we met in 1982 was the ability to recite the entire "Penguin on the TV Set" routine, sing all the words to "Spam" and "The Lumberjack Song," etc.

R & B music, radio stations, and dance clubs that both white and black people enjoyed - the O'Jays, the Spinners, the Isley Brothers, TSOP, etc. It's sad to see how segregated our culture has become; this is not "progress" at all in my opinion.

6 posted on 10/02/2001 11:14:26 AM PDT by Dems_R_Losers
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To: WIMom
The '70's were awful...malaise hung around for 10+ yrs, constant boom /busts, the Soviets lying about EVERYTHING, about the only good thing was sports.Football was fantastic, when the NFL had players with style and charisma;NHL had the HABS steamrolling to greatness, the NBA had the great Celtic teams, plus the Olympics seemed to matter.
7 posted on 10/02/2001 11:14:53 AM PDT by habs4ever
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To: Dems_R_Losers
My favorite was Carol Burnett. That was just plain silly.
9 posted on 10/02/2001 11:25:03 AM PDT by WIMom
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To: WIMom
Thanks, I forgot about Carol Burnett!! Tim Conway and Harvey Korman - two of the funniest people who ever lived! But Gleason was my favorite - my nickname in my family was Crazy Guggenheim! And my dad at that time was big and round and crazy just like Gleason. I wanted to be one of the June Taylor Dancers when I was little. And awaaaaay we go!!!
10 posted on 10/02/2001 11:29:34 AM PDT by Dems_R_Losers
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To: habs4ever
Baseball was pretty good in the 1970's: the Swinging A's, the Big Red Machine, Yankees-Dodgers.

Some rock music was pretty good: the Rolling Stones, Little Feat, and some other music.

Aside from sports and some rock music, the rest of the decade sucked.

11 posted on 10/02/2001 11:31:27 AM PDT by pchuck
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To: pchuck
The clothes were the worst. Remember those horrid platform shoes, Afros and puka beads? (puka beads, at least, are back.)
12 posted on 10/02/2001 11:34:24 AM PDT by The Right Stuff
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To: Dems_R_Losers
Family Affair

That Girl (In color)

Medical Center

CHIPS

Animal House

Star Wars

The Love Bug

The Six Million Dollar Man

13 posted on 10/02/2001 11:34:27 AM PDT by WIMom
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To: The Right Stuff
Permed afros on white guys. Like Mike Brady.....BWAHAHAHAHA
14 posted on 10/02/2001 11:37:11 AM PDT by WIMom
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To: laconas
Those removable rings on top of soda and beer can. What do you call those things?

Pull tabs! you could build an entire suit of clothes if you found enough.

(B 1961)

Does any one remember beer can collections or was that just a Wisconsin thing?

CB radio. 10-4 good buddy!

Loved Johnny Quest. Quisp cereal. Badfinger. Hot wheels tracks (with the loop-the-loops!)

(To the person who posted the Boston and Styx covers, I've still got both!)

God Bless America (Please)

15 posted on 10/02/2001 11:39:57 AM PDT by John O
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To: John O
Remember Soap? Billy Crystal was in that. Remember when Bert saw aliens? Or when that guy drowned in his bowl of soup?
17 posted on 10/02/2001 11:45:33 AM PDT by WIMom
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To: one_particular_harbour
From one fellow Parrott Head to another - Excellent! I've been humming that tune for a few years now.
19 posted on 10/02/2001 11:46:24 AM PDT by peteram
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