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!
What about toilet paper? I remember when that narrator said "Great Scott", you were supposed to throw rolls of TP.
Yes, I went, and found it shocking, embarassing and funny at the same time.
Scrumpdiddly-icious thread. Will return later.
Which is not to be confused with 5 finger discount candy bars.
Dusty's Treehouse, Romper Room and Hobo Kelly.
Bill Graham presents... "Day on the Green" at the Oakland Coliseum... AC/DC, Van Halen, Pat Travers, Foreigner, and Aerosmith. July 26th, 1978...
Yet another "Day on the Green".... Peter Tosh, Eddie Money, Santana, and the Rolling Stones.
"Dude! It's Mick's 34th Birthday, and Kieth is facing 10 years Toronto... We GOTTA go! Could easily be their last show."
34 was SO frickin' OLD.
The thread would be more fun if you didn't make up fairy tale history like this.
in the early days there was no throwing stufF....
however, it was possible to hear empty bottles being kicked over on the floor and there was a strange "fog" that hung in the air.....
Quisp cereal, my parents fondue craze, seeing the original Saturday Night Lives as a teenager and not being sure what was going to happen, Steve Martin, drugs galore, Cheech and Chong.
Being excited about getting our first color TV, bowling and wrestling on Sundays, three channels on TV, the Detroit Tigers from the 70's I can still remember without trying (Al Kaline, Jim Northrup, Mickey Lolich, Eddie Brinkman, Aurelio Rodriquez, Norm Cash, Bill Freehan, Rusty Stub, Willie Horton, Mark "The Bird" Fidyrich.)
Green Slime
Oooo is right! We had a babysitter during the summer and we would watch this show with her every afternoon. One time our TV was broke and we had to go over to her house and watch it.
At one point, the babysitters mother started pointing at my little brother and making clucking noises at her daughter.
There my brother sat picking his nose and wiping the boogers on the arm of their chair.
A memory that will stay with me always...
Can't believe you left out Oasis
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