POST BOOMERS/PRE X - finally, a thread just for us - Thread 5

[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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Thanks to one_particular_harbour for the fantastic idea!

[WIMom]

Thread 1
Thread 2
Thread 3
Thread 4

YOU WERE THERE!

[MichelleWSC]

Susie Chapstick

Pepsi: "I'd like to teach the world to sing"

[WIMom]

Remember Annie Greensprings, or Boones Farm?

[Carolina]

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I know someone mentioned this before, but our legal drinking age was 18, and I turned 18 before Christmas of my senior year so we went clubbing on the weekends..... drank until we couldn't see straight and then a trusted friend always showed up to take us home..... I remember watching "As The World Turns" with my Mom ( and Lisa and Bob are STILL on there I believe) - and "The Young and The Restless" also has some originals on today - Victor Newman and Nikki! Man, she has "held up well".....

[terilyn]

[Sabertooth]

"Pepsi: "I'd like to teach the world to sing"

Wasn't it "I'd like to buy the world a Coke?"

I think the Pepsi song went "You've got a lot to live, and Pepsi's got a lot to give."

[WIMom]

YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE THIS....DECEMBER 28!

[WIMom]

Mystery Date! I loved that game!

[Sabertooth]

Suzanne Pleshette... grrr--OOOWWWLLLL!

What was up with her marrying Bob?

[retrokitten]

These threads are hoot! I am a bit young for this thread but I can't stop cracking up at everything. Especially the tube bangs!!

[DouglasKC]

The Bozo show...my claim to fame is my mom ran our local Cub Scout pack and we got to go to a taping of Bozo in Grand Rapids (Dick Richards played him here). We all little tickets with a number on them and they were going to draw a number and whoevers number came up got to play the Treasure Chest game. I couldn't believe it...my number came up!

My task was to bounce three ping-pong balls into a hula-hoop that was lying on the ground. Three balls, three chances, get 'em all and I would win a crap load of prizes.

First one, in! Second one in! Third one.....IN!!! Yes!!! I won (among other things) an Easy Bake oven, a Hot Wheels race car track set, one of those giant cloth and wire tunnels, a giant Slow Poke sucker, a giant tootsie roll filled up with small tootsie rolls, a globe and a crapload of other things I don't remember.

[GWfan]

How about Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman? My mom used to get so mad if I watched that show! And what about Dark Shadows? Mom could always tell if we watched it because we had nightmares. LOL

[uglybiker]

Doctor Pepper

So mis-understood...

[WFTR]

I was born in 1963, and as a child felt fear that I was living in a country on the decline. I remmembered long lines for gasoline and hostages in Iran. I don't remember much of Vietnam, but I remember that we lost. The real boomers remember how they felt when President Kennedy was killed, and some seem to think that the trauma of that event is their excuse for everything that they do later in life. What I remember is the soaring hope that came with the election of Ronald Reagan. He made mistakes, but he was a great president. I didn't follow politics very much during his term, but he gave me a hope in a better tomorrow. That hope strengthened me through long nights of engineering studies that defined my life from 1981 to 1989.

WFTR
Bill

[MichelleWSC]

"The Young and The Restless"

I remember the very first episode of YNR. lol

[WIMom]

You really missed out on life...LOL!