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[WIMom]

Groovy

[WIMom]

Boss

[WIMom]

Cool

[WIMom]

I hope I got everyone.

[mdittmar]

MARSHA,MARSHA,MARSHA!!

[lockeliberty]

Tweeners Rule

[mdittmar]

Went to a music store a while back and asked the "pierced" kid at the counter if they had needles for record players.

Just stared at me with a blank look on his face.

[mdittmar]

The Top 10 Singles of 1971:

"Joy To The World" - Three Dog Night (First chart appearance: 3/27/71; Highest position: #1)

"It's Too Late" - Carole King (5/22/71; #1)

"How Do You Mend A Broken Heart" - Bee Gees (7/3/71; #1)

"Indian Reservation" - The Raiders (5/29/71; #1)

"One Bad Apple" - The Osmonds (1/23/71; #1)

"Go Away Little Girl" - Donny Osmond (8/21/71; #1)

"Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" - The Temptations (2/20/71; #1)

"Take Me Home, Country Roads" - John Denver with Fat City (6/26/71; #2)

"Maggie May" - Rod Stewart (8/28/71; #1)

"Knock Three Times" - Dawn (12/5/70; #1)

Ahh,the good ole' days.

[MHT]

I was born in 1953--and also was too young to serve in Vietnam and remember the news. Maybe the late-end of the Baby Boom should be expanded to include 1950-1955. Also, these were the first people who got to vote at 18, much like their younger siblings.

[Moridin]

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

Yep, I remember that...followed by The Partridge Family, then Nanny and the Professor. LOL

[SpottedBeaver]

Kick A##!

Oh wait, wrong generation.

[Mygirlsmom]

I was just talking to my hubby the other day about this stuff we used to have that was kind of like a cross between Play-doh and Silly Putty but it came as a powder and you added water to make it. I can't for the life of me recall the name of this stuff--does anyone else remember this?

Also, we had a REAL Thing-Maker! Nothing but an out in the open hot plate with those stupid little tweezer things to remove the metal mold. I had a butterfiles and flowers one, and my bros had the Creepy Crawlers (and later the "Incredible Edibles"). I can't tell you how many times we burned our fingers - probably every time we played with it! My kids have one and you can't even open the fool thing unless it's cooled down to a certain level. Kinda takes all the excitement out of it....

[Charles Henrickson]

Most who were born at the tail end of the baby boom-1956 to 1964. . . .

Leaves me out. I was born in '53.

We were too young to serve in Vietnam, but remember the news.

My birth date was in the draft lottery for 1972, but I had a deferment and the combat was winding down anyway.

. . . the Beatles were just a band that some might not like . . .

The Beatles--at least the 1964-65 Beatles--were definitely the Fab Four! They were terrific! And what a sensation they created! We haven't seen anything like it since.

. . . and old Trek was cheesy and not well written.

I saw a bunch of the episodes when it first came on, but was not crushed when it was cancelled.

. . . we are more conservative/libertarian as a whole than the older boomers.

A lot of us "older boomers," born in the early '50s, are pretty conservative.

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

Never saw the show. Haven't watched much series TV since the early '70s.

[SamAdams76]

The Talking View-Master.

I remember getting this under my Christmas tree every year during the early 1970s. This was high-tech stuff at the time! There were literally thousands of "reels" available during the "hey-day" of the Talking View-Master. Cheesy mini-episodes of Gilligan's Island and Disney films. Reels about the Grand Canyon and Yosemite National Park. The Monkees, The Banana Splits, and of course, The Partridge Family. After a while, the film would start popping out of the reels and then you had a one-dimensional view (each image had two photos that superimposed upon each other and gave a colorful 2-D effect).

Here is this week's selections from the 70s Jukebox from hell. I'll pick the year 1976:

"Muskrat Love" by Captain & Tennille

"Fernando" by Abba

"I Only Want To Be With You" by Bay City Rollers

"Jeans On" by David Dundas (later turned into commercial)

"You Are The Woman" by Firefall

[bootyist-monk]

[ConservaChick]

Groovie Baby! This is correct IMO.I was born at the end of the "Boomers" and had NOTHING in comon with older boomers.I always thought the boomers were crazy because of all the stuff i saw older boomers doing (burning the flag,anti-war demonstration,the flower children,the bra burners,drugs etc). I always felt like i wasn't part of that group (didn't want to be). This (Brady Boomers) is more "me". LOL ;)

[Archaeus]

I'm gonna go jump off the balcony.

[Sabertooth]

Anyone remember these guys?

[Sabertooth]

Who wants to play?

[secret garden]

Am I the only one is this age group that thought the Brady show was for dorks? We made fun of it at the time. I don't want to be associated with that dumb show. Couldn't we be the Anti-Hippies instead? There has to be a better representation with which most of us can identify. Please! If we have to use a TV reference, at least shows like the Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligan's Island and Andy Griffith were funny.