The Brady Boomers - The 'Tween Generation - 5

[WIMom]

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Most who were born at the tail end of the baby boom

- 1956 to 1964 or the beginning of GenX - 1965 to 1970 -

feel we are not part of those generations.

Therefore, it has been decided, we will be forever know as

THE BRADY BOOMERS

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Post your memories of tunes, movies, shows, fashions, school stuff, or anything from OUR generations! And remember, have fun!

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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 while we were playing with Barbies or G.I. Joes.

4. Our clothes and music tended to be lighthearted, and we are more conservative/libertarian as a whole than the older boomers.

5. And of course, we faithfully watched The Brady Bunch every Friday night.

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Here's a story,
Of a lovely lady,
Who was bringing up three very lovely girls.
All of them had hair of gold,
Like their mother,
The youngest one in curls.

Here's a story,
Of a man named Brady,
Who was busy with three boys of his own.
They were four men,
Living all together, but they were all alone-.

Till the one day when the lady met this fellow,
and they knew they were much more than a hunch.
That this group,
Must somehow form a family.
That's the way we became the Brady Bunch,
The Brady Bunch-.
That's the way we became the Brady Bunch.

[vikingchick]

Let's play name that band!

Opened my eyes to a new kind of way
All the good times that you saved
Are you feeling,
You feeling that way too
Or am I just,
Am I just a fool

When the summer's gone
She'll be there standing by the light
Once she's been to where she's gone to
She should know wrong from right

A new road's waiting, you touched my life
Soft and warm on a summer's night
You're the only one, the only one I love
The lovely one, I'm thinking of.

[Sabertooth]

That's Journey, "Feelin' that Way," side one, song two, on "Infinity," 1978.

My favorite song on that album.

Gets a lot of spin time in my Mustang!

[Aurorales]

Does anyone else out there remember drenching yourself in Loves Baby Soft perfume before putting on your "I'm Baby Soft" t-shirt? (I usually did this before going to the skating rink.)

[Mikerow]

Remember during the Banana Splits, they had a show called "Danger Island". With the guy named "Chongo?", he couldn't speak so all he did was wail and scream. The natives had white paint on their bodies. Now that was entertainment!

[Mikerow]

We had The Creek in San Bruno. It was part of the "Indian Burial Grounds". I dont think any remains were ever found there. Acres of unimproved land, it was GREAT! Dirt clod fights, rope swings, where I sustained a concussion.

It was part of the city park, they had a section of it that was big BBQ section, where the 'hippies' would hold mini concerts, love ins, we used to spy on them. If my parents had found out the things we saw there!

[Sabertooth]

Remember during the Banana Splits, they had a show called "Danger Island". With the guy named "Chongo?"

Sure do! Check out

Saturday Morning Golden Age.

[CheneyChick]

Does anyone else out there remember drenching yourself in Loves Baby Soft perfume before putting on your "I'm Baby Soft" t-shirt? (I usually did this before going to the skating rink.)

Whoa. Did that lead to your selection for a screen name? Inquiring minds want to know....

I don't think my dad would have let me out of the house like that....

[Sabertooth]

"Does anyone else out there remember drenching yourself in Loves Baby Soft perfume before putting on your "I'm Baby Soft" t-shirt?"

Gee, this is stirring some memories... Hmmmm...

You knoooowwwww........

Pictures would help.

[NYCVirago]

I thought I would bump this thread to share an amazing discovery:

My digital cable now has a new channel -- VH1 Classics! They actually play videos, not just "Behind the Music" episodes and game shows. So far tonight, I've seen Van Halen, the Doors, the English Beat, and even the amazing Kajagoogoo!

[WIMom]

LOL! We had The Creek too, LOL!. The Field was where it was happening, though.

[WIMom]

Way cool, Indian burial grounds. I feel gyped. Our tree fort was hit by lightening in The Field once. We were bummed for a while, then, we rebuilt it from more boards we found.

[Sabertooth]

So let me get this straight...

I post an awesome true-life DiMaggio story
to your flag the other night, and this is what I'm subjected to...?

"...even the amazing Kajagoogoo!"

I'm perilously close to the abuse button, Virago.

[WIMom]

THIS WEEK'S EPISODE IS... ... ...

[SarahW]

We fall in between. Old enough to remember when mom stayed home, made us soup and sandwiches and spagettios while we drove our tricyles around the basement playroom, and waxed the floor and made Pot Roast and cookies from scratch.

Old enough to remember when Dad, king of the world, brought us home Clarks chewing gum from his executive job at Phillip Morris -

Old enought to remember when the girls had to wear skirts to school and shorts underneath on the day the visiting PE guy came. Old enough to remember the plentiful "free" paper and crayons the teacher passed out for the art class visiting instructor.

Old enough to have noticed when the paper and crayons didn't flow so freely. Fashion went into decline. For girls, Our skirts and ski pants went from 67' Eloise to clean-lined 1970 mod then exploded into flowered bell bottoms, midi and maxi skirts and then peaked in 1977 with hip hugging pointed polyester knit everything.

Dad had either made it big time, or Mom had to get a job to help pay for the Chevy Duster and ground beef and everything else that seemed to just keep getting more and more expensive. Dad, in my case, slipped out of the picture along with halcyon days of old. Other kids saw their Dad slide out of supreme king role. Mom, hear her roar!

[SarahW]

HA! Mom waxed the floor, not the kids in the playroom. :)

[MikeO]

Machine head..

One of the greatest albums of all time. I still listen to it regularly on CD!

[NYCVirago]

Yikes! I flagged you on the Yankees thread because I remembered that you were a baseball fan (albeit a fan of the Giants.) Then I totally missed your story. Would it make you feel any better if I told you that I saw the Bangles doing "Walk Like an Eqyptian" on VH1 Classics?

[Sabertooth]

"Would it make you feel any better if I told you that I saw the Bangles doing "Walk Like an Eqyptian" on VH1 Classics?"

It's a start, but you'll also need to post a pic of Susanna Hoffs looking at the camera from out of the corners of her smoldering eyes.