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

[WIMom]

I wanted Francie, so bad (I thought she was really pretty). I never did get one, though, because I was starting to outgrow barbies by then.

[Question_Assumptions]

The years from around 1963 to 1967 or so are generally called the "cusp" and are neither Boomers or Xers in memory or temperment. Quite a few influential media people were born during this period and it is often characterized by nostalgia for media icons of the late '60s and '70s like the Brady Bunch and Scooby Doo. Take a look at a lot of the current retro fasions and elements that appear in movies and you will see that they are things that people who were children in the late 1960s and 1970s remember.

[Huck]

You probably wore a tee shirt with an iron on too.

[The Right Stuff]

James Bond

[HELLRAISER II]

Boston is one of the Best Rock N Roll bands ever, they were great in conert & I Spent many a night jamming & Partying to them. Don't forget the great bands like AC/DC & Van Halen either.

[Huck]

Buffet has written a few good tunes. I like "Son of a Son of a Sailor", "The Wino and I Know", and "Cuban Crime of Passion." "Pirate Looks at Forty" ain't too bad either.

[WIMom]

How many of you went to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show when it first started? We went every Friday night at midnight for the 99 cents show. We brought flashlights, rice, toast and did the time warp in the aisles. I didn't dress up tho.

[USMA83]

Qwisp (cereal)

[Josephine]

yes, with Roger Moore

[habs4ever]

A pure '70's moment is trying to remember a Pink Floyd show..was I there, or was it someone else? Maybe the size of Montreal's Oympic Stadium had something to do with it.

[Sideshow Bob]

I was born in '65 and don't consider myself either a Boomer or a Xer.

I vividly remember the Sunoco NFL sticker book from 1972 or '73 mentioned in the previous thread. I made my dad stop for gas at every single Sunoco station we could find driving down from Milwaukee to Orlando that winter. I eventually had the full set.

I remember when Punk & New Wave were in their infancy. I recall sitting in the backseat of Rick Geil's car on a warm summer morning in between Sunday School & Church the very first time I heard Gary Numan's "Cars" on the radio. Punk music scared me at first, but I was immediately intrigued by the unique synth sound of new wave.

And contrary to what was posted earlier, I looked back fondly on the music of the Beatles. I was blissfully ignorant of any of the social controversey surrounding them. To this day, my favorite music remains the Beatles and Beatlesque bands (Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Crowded House/Neil Finn, Jellyfish, Michael Penn, the Rembrandts, etc.).

Beyond music, I remember leaving school early to go to a dentist's appointment, getting in my mom's car and hearing the news that Ronald Reagan had been shot. It marked the only time I can ever remember listening to news radio rather than elevator music while sitting in a dentist's chair.

[mafree]

Don't forget Quake. They were OK but Cap'n Crunch was (is) better.

[riley1992]

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

[oyez]

That kind of comedy would never make on todays PC screen. Frank Fontane was a sweet guy with his Crazy Guggenheim, but the censors wouldn't let him on, today. Forget Dean Martin's way laid back nearly drunk facade. Red Skelton, no way Jose' Jemanez. The only thing tha flies to day is stupid southerners, adult sexual situations and gross out humor. Somebody is being cheated.

[Sabertooth]

San Jose boy here, born in the upside down year... 1961.

I posted some of this on the earlier thread, but was having so much fun, I reorganized it and added a bunch of stuff.

1 cent Bazooka Joe, 5 cent baseball cards,10 cent ice cream off the truck,12 cent Marvel Comics, 19 cent kites, 29 cent Little Golden Books, 49 cent vinyl singles, and Rawlings baseballs for a buck.

Being too young for the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, but old enough to watch the cartoon on Saturday Morning.

"PF Flyers... they make you run faster and jump higher."

Captain Satellite on channel 2, and Hocus Pocus on channel 11.

Walking to school unsupervised when you were 5.

Trick or Treating unsupervised when you were 6.

Having to freeze like a statue at Simonds Elementary when recess was over. Coudn't move untile the yard duty teacher blew her whistle. This was to prevent us from getting hurt "running back to class." Really.

6 1/2 oz. Cokes in glass bottles.

Space Ghost, back when he was King of the Universe... We used to make Space Ghost "power bands" out of punched out McDonald's cups. (Remember 18 cent French Fries?)

Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, Creepy Crawlers, GI Joe, 007 Toy guns, Hot Wheels, Duncan Yo-Yos, and Nerf Balls.

Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper, and Snorky.

Ginger in her evening gown, Mary Ann in her short shorts, Jeannie in her bottle, Catwoman in her catsuit, and... Yvonne Craig as Batgirl!

Agent 99... LOVE Barbara Feldon's voice.

Love American Style.

Laugh-In.

Star Trek, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel, Wild Wild West, Man from U.N.C.L.E., GIRL from U.N.C.L.E.!

Dark Shadows... Oooooo.

Kick the Can, all summer long.

Smeer the Queer, all winter long.

Mad Magazine.

Wacky Packs.

Five birthdays a year at Farrell's. (Free ice cream!)

Double Session at Bret Harte Jr. High.

Skipping out of class and not freezing... The Day it Snowed.

A triple feature with "Tidal Wave" (Japanese disaster flick with Lorne Greene spliced in), "Bug (giant, fire starting, telepathic cockroaches from the center of the Earth), And "Devil's Rain" (Ernest Borginine, William Shatner, and Doug McClure in a molten Satanic thriller... with Anton LaVey as technical advisor). We could run in and out between flicks to the last standing Golden Arches in San Jose... And it's still there, at Curtner and Almaden.

Remember the McDonald's 20th Anniversary celebration in 1975, when hamburgers were 15 cents for the weekend? I must have eaten 20.

Jack in the Box, when they blew up the Clown.

Dine and Dash at the local Sambo's (and you thought the NAACP put them out of biz?)

Creature Feature, with Bob Wilkins.

[WIMom]

But Cap'n Crunch is much better with crunch berries J