Posted on 10/02/2001 9:09:10 PM PDT by 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!
Thanks to one_particular_harbour for the fantastic idea!
I could go on and on all night going down memory lane - but I am going to have to get off here soon - and go to bed.
I will definitely bookmark this!!
Here's one for winter time freepers.....those ugly black winter boots with the buckles on them, wearing breadbags under your mittens and on your feet for extra wetness protection in the snow. Later on, getting your first pair of moon boots. Riding in saucers down the hills. The real long stocking caps...
When we were in grade school, every winter we'd get notes sent home alerting parents to the latest outbreak of communicable disease - chicken pox, measles, mumps - complete with symptoms and incubation period. Now kids are immunized.
Watching my kids growing up and remembering my own childhood has been really interesting. I've come to understand how much more freedom we had as kids than do most kids today. We had a lot of freedom of movement and rode our bikes everywhere. We could disappear for hours and nobody freaked out. We walked to school and home again for lunch. We played without a lot of supervision, and made up all sorts of games. Most of us lived to adulthood without blowing ourselves up or getting picked up by miscreants. It was a good time to be a kid, despite those somewhat weird older brothers and sisters.
G'night all!
This has been a wonderful trip down memory lane. Thanks for the memories!!!
The Edge of Night was even better in the late 60s and early 70s, before they let the baby-spawning Dr. Miles Whathisname onto the stage. The one that married Nicole Drake after Adam died.
Just cops, lawyers, mobsters, and their assorted wives and girlfriends in Monticello, with mayhem and murder and courtroom drama that would have had that girly-man Raymond Burr hiding under Della Street's skirt.
I liked Midge - how about her boyfriend - Alan?
This really did make me laugh out loud because I remember my sister playing with the neighbor girls and having to fight over who had to be Midge.
Which reminds me - with all the brouhaha over smallpox vaccines and biowarfare - weren't we immunized against smallpox? Isn't that the reason we have scars on our forearms? I wondered about that when I took my kids in for vaccines (hang on - "vaccines" means "vaccinia/smallpox" so let's say "immunized"), and their shots didn't give them the trademark scar like mine.
Yeah, I know my old smallpox vaccine probably won't do me any good now - but back then everyone got it, right? So why are they now saying it's not safe? I'm digressing, I know...but it is on topic, sort of. We all have that scar, right?
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