Things baby boomers remember

Nammu · Feb 08, 2019 at 10:58 PM

Gas shortages
Peace signs
Protest songs
Kent state
Helter selter
Tune in turn on drop out
psychedelic far out posters

Goforward · Feb 09, 2019 at 05:55 PM

Koolade
Bazooka gum
Green stamps
Towels and drinking glasses inside boxes of laundry detergent
A gift for opening a checking account.....

Travelinglady · Feb 09, 2019 at 07:42 PM

Oh, yeah, where's my free toaster for opening up an account? Today we practically have to pay the banks to keep our money!

Sears and Roebuck catalogs; pay phones; cars without seat belts, air conditioners, and power anything

Nammu · Feb 09, 2019 at 09:28 PM

Oh yeah, saving accounts just for kids....they could open one up for a buck. I remember my first savings accounts, I was about 9 and felt so grown up!

Travelinglady · Feb 11, 2019 at 11:14 AM

I had a savings account as a kid, too. Do they even let kids have ones now? I don't think so...

Anybody remember dairy trucks delivering milk to people's houses?

Nammu · Feb 11, 2019 at 02:48 PM

Remember reusable glass jugs? Brown paper bags and butcher shoes.

Skeezyks · Feb 11, 2019 at 03:24 PM

The Holiday Inn radio show with your host Dolly Holiday. (Started around 10 or 11 pm as I recall...)

saidso · 12:09 PM

I remember leather upholstery in the farmer's car - and towing milk churns which made a clanging sound. My mum was working on a farm which had working horses. Sometimes when I was a baby my dad put me on top of the horses to keep me safe and out of the way. Everything in the barn smelled of hay or grain, or manure

. On weekends we went to watch the cattle auction. As a city girl I wasn't too keen on milk drunk warm from the cow, but there was a comfortable, slow feel to everything at that time.

Later the farmer got sick and things became nasty.

PS I don't think that I was safe at all on those big plough horses. Lots of photos of me at 2-3 yrs old with my legs stuck out horizontally each side along the back of the enormous horse and an uncertain half-smile on my face. Photos of me put on top of walls at the same age.... humph.

Nammu · Feb 12, 2019 at 01:01 PM

Oh, there was that show my father liked, sort of.....hee haw

I liked laugh in, but my father thought in was too political

Monticello · Feb 12, 2019 at 07:36 PM

My dad liked Laugh-In and Batman. Those were the only TV shows he would watch. Holy Sock It To Me, Batman. The rest of us watched everything

Monticello · Feb 12, 2019 at 07:37 PM

(I am by no means insulting your dad, Nammu. Everyone likes something different)

Monticello · Feb 12, 2019 at 07:39 PM

We had all the Star Trek episodes memorized at one time. Tribbles, the Gorn, the Horta, Q....

Nammu · Feb 12, 2019 at 08:45 PM

Wasn't insulting at all. Batman was great! POW! Oh yeah, Star Trek taught me everything I needed to know.

Travelinglady · Feb 13, 2019 at 10:37 AM

no interstates and regular maps you can never get folded back right

Skeezyks · Feb 13, 2019 at 05:28 PM

Has anyone mentioned coon-skin caps?

Nammu · Feb 13, 2019 at 07:53 PM

I wanted one of those, I loved watching Daniel Boon on TV. Did have two cowboy hat tho, a red one and a black one.

Skeezyks · Feb 13, 2019 at 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Nammu

I wanted one of those, I loved watching Daniel Boon on TV. Did have two cowboy hat tho, a red one and a black one.

I actually had a coon-skin cap when I was a kid. It wasn't the real thing I don't think.

But it was a nice one as I recall, as replicas went. Unfortunately it ended up being trashed like all of my other toys. I was hard on my stuff when I was a kid.

Nammu · Feb 13, 2019 at 08:40 PM

My red cowboy hat was the cheaper department store kind and I wore it a lot rain or shine until it became a shapeless mass but the black one was an expensive one from a cowboy store in Texas I rarely wore it and mum sold it at a garage sale when I outgrew it.

Monticello · Feb 13, 2019 at 10:21 PM

My mother used to sew a lot of my clothes and when I was in 5th or 6th grade, she made me a pair of bell bottom pants out of a purple paisley print corduroy. She consulted with my older brother, who would have been 14 or 15, about the proper width of the bell at the bottom (the length of my shoe). I was tres chic at school!

Tamster · Feb 15, 2019 at 07:32 PM

i remember when gas was less than 50 cents a gallon my step dad owned a filling station lol remember calling gas stations that. And a snickers candy bar was 25 cents. Pop came in glass bottles. Your dad had an electric antenna outside the house and it would make a "chunk ca chunk" sound when he turned it to another position.
Singer songwriters like Cat Stevens and Gordon Lightfoot
Ike and Tina Turner and who could forget Ed Sullivan and the Beatles
I am a late boomer too, and i really identify with Gen Xers because my parents divorced when i was 8 and i had to step up and raise my 2 yr old brother, my mom moved us hundreds of miles away from our dad and we had to fend for ourselves when she wasn't home and that was often. I was a latch key kid. But i loved the life of being independent.
Remember the old record players that were a fold up case with a handle. and putting nickels on the arm so the record wouldn't skip. those were the days.
Tams

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Nammu Crone Member Since May 2010 Location: Some where between my inner mind and the solar system. Posts: 71,285 (SuperPoster!) 13 53.6k hugs given	Feb 08, 2019 at 10:58 PM #201 Gas shortages Peace signs Protest songs Kent state Helter selter Tune in turn on drop out psychedelic far out posters __________________ *Nammu* …Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. …... Desiderata Max Ehrmann
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Goforward Member Member Since Jan 2019 Location: CA Posts: 273 5 838 hugs given	Feb 09, 2019 at 05:55 PM #202 Koolade Bazooka gum Green stamps Towels and drinking glasses inside boxes of laundry detergent A gift for opening a checking account.....
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Travelinglady Legendary Wise Elder Member Since Sep 2010 Location: North Carolina Posts: 47,983 (SuperPoster!) 13 22.9k hugs given	Feb 09, 2019 at 07:42 PM #203 Oh, yeah, where's my free toaster for opening up an account? Today we practically have to pay the banks to keep our money! Sears and Roebuck catalogs; pay phones; cars without seat belts, air conditioners, and power anything
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Travelinglady Legendary Wise Elder Member Since Sep 2010 Location: North Carolina Posts: 47,983 (SuperPoster!) 13 22.9k hugs given	Feb 11, 2019 at 11:14 AM #205 I had a savings account as a kid, too. Do they even let kids have ones now? I don't think so... Anybody remember dairy trucks delivering milk to people's houses?
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Nammu Crone Member Since May 2010 Location: Some where between my inner mind and the solar system. Posts: 71,285 (SuperPoster!) 13 53.6k hugs given	Feb 11, 2019 at 02:48 PM #206 Remember reusable glass jugs? Brown paper bags and butcher shoes. __________________ *Nammu* …Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. …... Desiderata Max Ehrmann
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Skeezyks Disreputable Old Troll Member Since Oct 2015 Location: The Star of the North Posts: 32,762 (SuperPoster!) 8 17.4k hugs given	Feb 11, 2019 at 03:24 PM #207 The Holiday Inn radio show with your host Dolly Holiday. (Started around 10 or 11 pm as I recall...) __________________ "I may be older but I am not wise / I'm still a child's grown-up disguise / and I never can tell you what you want to know / You will find out as you go." (from: "A Nightengale's Lullaby" - Julie Last)
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Nammu Crone Member Since May 2010 Location: Some where between my inner mind and the solar system. Posts: 71,285 (SuperPoster!) 13 53.6k hugs given	Feb 12, 2019 at 01:01 PM #209 Oh, there was that show my father liked, sort of.....hee haw I liked laugh in, but my father thought in was too political __________________ *Nammu* …Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. …... Desiderata Max Ehrmann
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Monticello Member Member Since Dec 2018 Location: Colorado Posts: 125 5 27 hugs given	Feb 12, 2019 at 07:36 PM #210 My dad liked Laugh-In and Batman. Those were the only TV shows he would watch. Holy Sock It To Me, Batman. The rest of us watched everything
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Monticello Member Member Since Dec 2018 Location: Colorado Posts: 125 5 27 hugs given	Feb 12, 2019 at 07:37 PM #211 (I am by no means insulting your dad, Nammu. Everyone likes something different)
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Monticello Member Member Since Dec 2018 Location: Colorado Posts: 125 5 27 hugs given	Feb 12, 2019 at 07:39 PM #212 We had all the Star Trek episodes memorized at one time. Tribbles, the Gorn, the Horta, Q....
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Nammu Crone Member Since May 2010 Location: Some where between my inner mind and the solar system. Posts: 71,285 (SuperPoster!) 13 53.6k hugs given	Feb 12, 2019 at 08:45 PM #213 Wasn't insulting at all. Batman was great! POW! Oh yeah, Star Trek taught me everything I needed to know. __________________ *Nammu* …Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. …... Desiderata Max Ehrmann
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Travelinglady Legendary Wise Elder Member Since Sep 2010 Location: North Carolina Posts: 47,983 (SuperPoster!) 13 22.9k hugs given	Feb 13, 2019 at 10:37 AM #214 no interstates and regular maps you can never get folded back right
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Skeezyks Disreputable Old Troll Member Since Oct 2015 Location: The Star of the North Posts: 32,762 (SuperPoster!) 8 17.4k hugs given	Feb 13, 2019 at 05:28 PM #215 Has anyone mentioned coon-skin caps? __________________ "I may be older but I am not wise / I'm still a child's grown-up disguise / and I never can tell you what you want to know / You will find out as you go." (from: "A Nightengale's Lullaby" - Julie Last)
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Nammu Crone Member Since May 2010 Location: Some where between my inner mind and the solar system. Posts: 71,285 (SuperPoster!) 13 53.6k hugs given	Feb 13, 2019 at 07:53 PM #216 I wanted one of those, I loved watching Daniel Boon on TV. Did have two cowboy hat tho, a red one and a black one. __________________ *Nammu* …Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. …... Desiderata Max Ehrmann
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Monticello Member Member Since Dec 2018 Location: Colorado Posts: 125 5 27 hugs given	Feb 13, 2019 at 10:21 PM #219 My mother used to sew a lot of my clothes and when I was in 5th or 6th grade, she made me a pair of bell bottom pants out of a purple paisley print corduroy. She consulted with my older brother, who would have been 14 or 15, about the proper width of the bell at the bottom (the length of my shoe). I was tres chic at school!
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