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Nancy V - 2011-06-13 14:10:23
I'm a Jones!! I grew up with Happy Days, All in the Family and Schoolhouse Rock..I grew up with Clackers, Rock em' Sock em' Robots and my monkey bar/banana seat bike! We had one telephone on the kitchen wall and one big-ass console TV in the living room and my dad drove a faux wood panelled Malibu station wagon!
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terri t - 2011-06-13 14:14:24
I do remember some of those older days but I also remember Spin & Marty and Annette on the Mouskateers, Rhoda and Mary; The Glen Campbell Show, Sonny & Cher, Laverne & Shirley, TV dinners, candy cigarettes, roller skates and the key that attached them "fairly well" to your shoes. Being able to play outside in the dark without worry, outdoor movies and a whole lot of time left in my life to enjoy.
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dichroic - 2011-06-13 14:43:37
I think I'm actually technically a Gen X - 1967. But those demographics are so ridiculously big that I have friends from college (seniors when I was a freshman) who are technically Boomers (1964). Milk was still delivered in glass bottles when I was tiny, though it was already homogenized by the - and yes, the railing baskets were there long after the milk delivery stopped. We also got delivery from Lou the fruit and vegetable guy and Charles Chips (pretzels and potato chips). My mom remembers the milk with the cream that rose, and my grandmother remembered the iceman coming around. (She also remembered when they got their first indoor plumbing, when she was 12. I know lots of people got it way later, but this was a city rowhouse, not a farm.) I remember the Sonny & CHer show, Carol Burnett, Bridget Loves Bernie, All in the Family. I barely remember Perry Como - years later the Revlon Lip Quencher commercials gave me flashbacks that I finally realized were because they used the tune of Moon River. I remember the Osmonds and the Jackson Five, in animated as well as live versions. And when Malibu Barbie (with a tan) was new, when I got the Radio Shack 1001 electronics kit for a present, and growing up on Free to Be You and Me (I am still thoroughly brainwashed by that one.)
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beanie - 2011-06-13 17:54:26
Well, it's obvious to me that I am older than you.. since I was a kid when the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan.. I actually remember watching them! Also around that time, we brought our milk in from the barn in glass jugs, and my mom would shake it up in the morning to mix the cream back into the milk. Best milk ever.
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Deb - 2011-06-13 19:14:45
We did homogenized delivery milk for quite a while. And Charles Chips too! My rollerskates had a key too. We also had sales parties DutchMaid (clothes), Tupperware (no explanation needed) and Home Interiors. Entertainment was definitely Dichroic's tv shows but also in my house Saturday mornings were cartoons right through American Bandstand and Soul Train and Sunday afternoons were Wide World of Sports until Lawrence Welk came on. And Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
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Stephanie - 2011-06-14 05:39:49
The thought of my mother waiting to give me a home-baked snack after school made me laugh out loud. I considered myself lucky if she was in an upright position when I got home from school. :-/
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Lapintornade - 2011-06-14 14:10:19
Booze was sold in fifths, pints and half pints instead of metric measures and Marlin Perkins was everyone's pretend granddad on Wild Kingdom.
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Jim - 2011-06-14 18:44:12
Demographically I guess most people here are Generation X plus some of the younger Baby Boomers. I'm a War Baby -- vintage 1943 -- squeezed in between the Silent Generation on one side and the Baby Boomers on the other. My "little" brother is in the first wave of boomers -- he'll be sixty-five at the end of August. One phone in the house and it was a wall phone and a party line and you picked it up and waited for the operator to say "Number please." We got our first television when I was in third grade -- and we could pick up three of the New York City channels clear enough to actually watch: channel 2 (CBS) channel 4 (NBC) and channel 5 (Dumont network -- which was great because it had Captain Video & His Video Rangers). (Great entry, LA, and thanks for the shout-out.)
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John in Tucson - 2011-06-15 20:15:27
Well shuck mah 51 year old corn...(Eww...that sounds dirty but it's not meant to be I promise). As one who was born in the year of our Lard-1960, I recall TV shows of course like Captain Kangaroo, Beanie & Cecil, WB cartoons, Pink Panther cartoons,Lost in Space, Count Chockula & Quisp cereals, Most parents of my friends smoked cigarettes, coming home for lunch everyday from school, The smiley face, Flower Power, Make peace, not war buttons, The Vietnam war which truly confused the Hell out of my 8 year old mind, POW bracelets, Mood rings and our first new car ever, a 1968 VW bus. I used to wear Kelso 'Earth Shoes' in the 1970's with my Levi's 'Big Bell' bottom pants and a CPO jacket. HA ! Best feathered hair a guy ever sported as well. Hmmm, no wonder I'm gay....LOL ! All in all a pretty damn good childhood indeed. No AIDS or Ronald Reagan years yet thank god or I would have given up the ghost early on. It's a different and much faster world now and the trust factor in most things is pretty dismal in my opinion, but we forge ahead hoping for a better world for those that come behind us. It's unfortunate that humans are destroying the only planet that we have. And so it goes. John in Tucson
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gbw - 2011-06-15 22:17:25
I am with john in tucson except I sat in at my high school in protest of the vietnam war and shut that school down. I may be a bit young for the hippie generation but I am a proven hippie in heart and action - wanna talk feminism and nuclear freeze?
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Holly - 2011-06-16 09:51:05
I remember when milk came from the barn, when Sarah Jessica Parker played a high school need, Valley Girl speak was big and every lid was baking Shrinky Dinks. I remember ember my dad yyellling at Nixon on tv when I was too young to understand Watergate. Heck I was only in kindergarten when Vietnam ended.
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