Things baby boomers remember

IowaFarmGal · Sep 03, 2018 at 10:23 PM

JFK shooting and funeral on the TV

IowaFarmGal · 10:46 PM

Dad's 57 Chevy

Things baby boomers remember

IowaFarmGal · Sep 03, 2018 at 10:28 PM

My brothers all being drafted or enlisting because they were going to be drafted.

IowaFarmGal · Sep 03, 2018 at 10:49 PM

bomb shelters especially the big one under the Mother House.

IowaFarmGal · Sep 03, 2018 at 10:52 PM

Sunday drives and the drive in burger place

IowaFarmGal · Sep 06, 2018 at 08:17 PM

Cuban missle crisis, drills in school, Civil Defense Drills

yakmom · Sep 21, 2018 at 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by key tones

Remember the feeling of pulling a glass bottle of Coke out of a vending machine? The machine would have a bottle opener built in.

My husband has one of those machines in his workshop. The door doesn't close, but otherwise everything works. We keep bottled water in it.

yakmom · Sep 21, 2018 at 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Gus1234U

Ours was red and we listened to the wooden, dial tuned radio while eating breakfast waiting for the school bus. Didn't know those times were as great as they were.

IowaFarmGal · Sep 22, 2018 at 12:29 PM

The oral polio vaccine

Monticello · Feb 02, 2019 at 11:23 PM

We had a 1968 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser station wagon with 3 seats, a sun roof and a humongous engine. My brothers got to drive it, but my parents sold it and got a compact car the week after I got my driving permit. This was in the middle of one of the gas shortages. Remember when we all were very worried that gas might go up over $1 per gallon?

Monticello · Feb 02, 2019 at 11:31 PM

I am a "late" boomer, born in 59, but my two older brothers commanded the TV watching schedule so I grew up watching The Fugitive, the Man From U.N.C.L.E, Rat Patrol and so on. I do remember Emma Peel, always so suave. I never got to watch the Brady Bunch until it was in syndication (no big loss).

Nammu · Feb 02, 2019 at 11:52 PM

Actually being outside from sun up to dinner time in the summer with no scheduled play dates having the whole neighborhood to play in and feeling safe. Sure there was Bert the turtle, bomb shelters and naked screaming kids on the news but that stuff all happened in other countries

Travelinglady · Feb 02, 2019 at 11:57 PM

I remember Loony Tunes cartoons and that cartoons only came on on Saturday morning. And the stations went off at midnight by playing the Star Spangled Banner and then a test screen came on until they returned to the air the next Morning. And news such as Walter Cronkite only came on in the evening.

Do you all remember Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom" and the "Wonderful World of Disney"? (I think I have that name right. It was something like that.) Those were good shows.

Monticello · Feb 03, 2019 at 05:35 PM

Oh yes. Marlon Perkins used to always say things like "while Jim wrestles with that alligator, lets talk about life insurance". We watched the Wonderful World of Disney every Sunday night. Our TV used to have a high pitched buzz and sometimes the color would go off and you would have to bang the side of it to make it come back on.

Nammu · Feb 03, 2019 at 05:51 PM

......and remember the cheesy after school specials?

Goforward · Feb 05, 2019 at 03:28 PM

Getting bottles of Coke and drinking it next to the Coca Cola machine so that you could return it there.

Monticello · Feb 07, 2019 at 10:19 PM

Getting badges in Brownie Scouts for cooking and sewing.

Travelinglady · Feb 07, 2019 at 10:45 PM

Yeah, I guess those wouldn't be given today, come to think of it!

How about S&H green stamps, gotten from grocery stores? They were licked and put in a booklet, which could be redeemed for merchandise at the S&H green stamp store.

Some of you might be too young for this--but dishes with a wheat image on them contained in laundry detergent boxes (Duz?)

And bazooka bubble gum with little comic strips in them

And salespeople in department stores that followed you around and even helped you get clothes in the dressing room, since they made a commission on sales (I think that's right.)

Nammu · Feb 08, 2019 at 12:12 AM

Cracker Jacks with real prizes.

Monticello · Feb 08, 2019 at 09:52 PM

Saddle shoes. My had metal toes so they wouldn't collapse when your mom bought them too big at the beginning of the school year so you could grow into them.

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Monticello Member Member Since Dec 2018 Location: Colorado Posts: 125 5 27 hugs given	Feb 02, 2019 at 11:23 PM #190 We had a 1968 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser station wagon with 3 seats, a sun roof and a humongous engine. My brothers got to drive it, but my parents sold it and got a compact car the week after I got my driving permit. This was in the middle of one of the gas shortages. Remember when we all were very worried that gas might go up over $1 per gallon?
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Monticello Member Member Since Dec 2018 Location: Colorado Posts: 125 5 27 hugs given	Feb 02, 2019 at 11:31 PM #191 I am a "late" boomer, born in 59, but my two older brothers commanded the TV watching schedule so I grew up watching The Fugitive, the Man From U.N.C.L.E, Rat Patrol and so on. I do remember Emma Peel, always so suave. I never got to watch the Brady Bunch until it was in syndication (no big loss).
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Monticello Member Member Since Dec 2018 Location: Colorado Posts: 125 5 27 hugs given	Feb 03, 2019 at 05:35 PM #194 Oh yes. Marlon Perkins used to always say things like "while Jim wrestles with that alligator, lets talk about life insurance". We watched the Wonderful World of Disney every Sunday night. Our TV used to have a high pitched buzz and sometimes the color would go off and you would have to bang the side of it to make it come back on.
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Nammu Crone Member Since May 2010 Location: Some where between my inner mind and the solar system. Posts: 71,410 (SuperPoster!) 13 53.7k hugs given	Feb 03, 2019 at 05:51 PM #195 ......and remember the cheesy after school specials? __________________ *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 08, 2019 at 09:52 PM #200 Saddle shoes. My had metal toes so they wouldn't collapse when your mom bought them too big at the beginning of the school year so you could grow into them.
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