POST BOOMERS/PRE X - finally, a thread just for us - Thread 4

[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!

[WIMom]

Thread 1
Thread 2
Thread 3

[terilyn]

Born in 58 - graduated in 76. Anybody else remember getting the red/white/blue caps & gowns. Now it would be patriotic, then we just got mad because we didn't get to wear our school colors.

Friday night fab five
The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, That Girl, The Odd Couple and Love American Style. Archie & Veronica comic books. The Gong Show. Friday night with grandpa & grandma, first came Lawrence Welk, then All Star Wrestling. The Mod Squad.
Elephant bells - remember the pants where the bell bottoms were huge?

[Dog]

We need a catchy name for our generation..

[WIMom]

We were throwing out ideas the other day. Here's two I remember:

Killer Bee's (Saturday Night Live)
Reaganites (Most came of age during his presidency or voted for him in their first Presidential election)

[dagny taggert]

Agreed. I hate being a baby baby boomer, but worse yet is an ancient x-er. I call myself a cusper. OK, not catchy, but it's the best I can do.

[Sabertooth]

To #130 on Thread 3...

"( Born 1961) I remember clearly the day I was told of the shooting of George Wallace. I was playing in a sandbox with some other kids, and my mom came and told me. My parents, usually Republicans, were supporting Wallace in '68. Since we were in Mississippi, very close to Alabama, the news hit hard. It was the first time I can remember having that nasty feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Don't mean to make light of tragedy,* but...

Wallace was shot in '72. You sure that feeling in your stomach wasn't from your mom catching you in the sandbox when you were 11?

*OK, so I lied.

[Don W]

In actual fact, the term Generation "X" was coined specifically to describe us. It's the usual suspects who misused the term to refer to those younger than we that the public thinks of as "GenX".

BTW, how many of us are Nirvana fans, I wonder?

[WIMom]

Yeah, where were you? I had to deal with all the disruptors and it's your thread! hehehehe. Actually, the 2 that trashed it, never came back. Do you remember those names from the other day to call our group?

[WIMom]

Someone on anther thread said the GenX name came because it was the 10th generation from the start of the United States. Generations being about 20 years.

[MichelleWSC]

"We need a catchy name for our generation.."

I remember once when I was a kid someone said we were the Pepsi Generation lol

[CheneyChick]

OK - did you do the powder blue eye shadow?

[WIMom]

Well, of course! And blue mascara! gag.

Remember how we curled our bang hair into tubes?

[CheneyChick]

All too well. I burned my forehead with the dang curling iron more than once.

[TnGOP]

Was it really '72? Oh, well. Busted.......

[CheneyChick]

Yeah, but did she wear braces? Remember the names? Tin grin, brace face, metal mouth. Now kids wear those clear ones. (Real confession: who wore their headgear to school?)