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.....