POST BOOMERS/PRE X - finally, a thread just for us - Thread 6

[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]

Well, you do fit the defination, always late! LOL! Lot's of great stuff on these threads.

[The Right Stuff]

I am bound and determined not to get left at the end of another thread, LOL

Here's mine. I went to an Aerosmith concert at the Forum, in LA. Very cool, but not to be compared to the Beach Boys at Anaheim Stadium.

BTW, I am still annoyed that no one else has mentioned James Bond. My high school boyfriend and I went to at least 3 Bond movies together and I thought Roger Moore was the best thing going until I saw Sean Connery a few years later!

[The Right Stuff]

I'd kind of like to relate to the Hogan's Heroes idea - Korean Krusaders? Hee, hee.

[Sabertooth]

I'm trying to upload a pic from my hard drive. CheneyChick was kind enough to send be to HTML bootcamp (Thank you Ma'am, may I have another?), but so far it looks like it's Windows specific, and I have a Mac.

[Sabertooth]

Well, for me, "Brady Boomer" kinda rolled off the tongue.

And it kinda fit, because it sounds kinda like "Baby Boomer," which we kinda are, but is different, which we really are.

Clintonian Boomers never watched the Bradys, and never saw Bobby try to stretch himself on the swing-set, or put too much detergent in the laundry... Or Jan get glasses... Or hear Peter's voice change... "Poke chopsh, and appleshaush..." Or commiserate with Marcia when she bumped her nose and it got all swollen...

We did. We were there.

The Clintons & Co. were too busy apologizing for communists and inventing genital herpes.

Like the Bradys, we all had different parents, but we've been thrown together by the whims of history and demographics into a generation in-between... A hybrid of Boomer and Gen-X, just as the Bradys were a hybrid of.... ummmmm... Blondes and Brunettes!

So I ask you, if we aren't gonna be Brady Boomers, what will it be? This is something we need to do ourselves, because we can't leave it in the hands of the Boomers and the Xers... They have a vested interest in ignoring us, stifling us, and keeping us down.

As Peter Brady sang, voice a crackling, "It's time for a change."

Let's roll.

[WIMom]

She was hit in the face with a football! I like Brady Boomers. I just have to do this:

[WIMom]

[Sabertooth]

Thanks, WIMom... If this Thread wheezes its way to #7, it's your call on what to name us.

ps. That would be Snaggletooth, my nephew. What a poser.

[CheneyChick]

I kind of like the term "Tweeners".....

[CheneyChick]

I have a Mac, too, dear. FReepmail me if there are any specifics where I can be of assistance..... CC :)

[mafree]

I remember the crocheted vests!

I had several and I especially fondly remember a purple one I had.

Speaking of vests, does anyone else remember when the "leather look" clothes came out? I had one jumper that was light blue "leather look" on top and the skirt part was plaid.

[mafree]

BTW, I am still annoyed that no one else has mentioned James Bond.

Hmm, I'm surprised at that. I sure remember my parents not allowing us to see the first couple of his movies (as well as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf") but they let us go later. Given what kids can see today in movies I feel old and my folks seem like a couple of bluenoses.

[WIMom]

The leather look! I always wanted something in the "leather look". *sigh* I feel sooooooo deprived.

[WIMom]

Well now we have tweeners and Brady Boomers. How about "tween the brady boomers"?

[WIMom]

But what about our kids? They don't really fit the Gen-X'ers either.

[CheneyChick]

But what about our kids?

EEEEEK! I forgot to have kids!

[TexanMom]

Well I had straight hair, and sometime on 1972 or so I decided I wanted frizzy (not simply curly ... FRIZZZZYYY hair) I would get home was my mid back hair, roll it in what seemed like 100's of rags, sit under one of those hair dryers with the the rain cap thingy, sleep in the rag rollers, then brush it out like a mad woman in the morning. Of course this was topped with one of those crocheted hats..

Needless to say it was only a month or so of abusing my hair to the point where I cut it off into a bob... (I was going into high school anyway and felt I needed a more "mature" look.. laugh)

My room was red/white/blue... with a SHAG bedspread.. eekk. I brought home a plastic inflatable pillow with a peace symbol on it and my parents made me throw it away.. I was trained as a conservative from early on..

[TexanMom]

ahh yes scooter skirts... I remember my mom getting a pattern and making me some.. actually they are back.. you are talking about the little short deal with the flaps back and front right?

Do you remember the very short dresses that sort of flipped up on the bottom? They had the seams down the front and a lot of little panels around the bottom of the skirt. I thought we had a name for them too, but can't seem to remember it.