Things baby boomers remember

Yes, children were to be seen & not heard!

I grew up in an elderly extended family. The next youngest person to me was my mother. All of the relatives I grew up with (except my mother & father) had been born in the late 19th century. And so I spent a not insignificant amount of time, during my growing up years, going to funerals as each one of them died off. I can still recall standing at the gravesides. There's a song by Judy Collins I'm fond of titled "Secret Gardens" that always takes me back to those times. Here's a link to a YouTube video of it:

My Barbie doll had red hair and bangs and stood on her tippy-toes. She had a friend named Midge and a little sister named Skipper. My friend had the Ken doll. I remember that his arms disarticulated so you could get him into his tight, broadcloth button down shirt. My grandmother's friend like to make doll hats so I had a whole collection of very unusual hats for Barbie.

I'm not a baby boomer, but I still see some gas station bathrooms like this. Sometimes you have to ask them for the key.

Yes, some of the older gas station still have that set up. I avoid those!

I remember lassie and the Mickey Mouse club being on after school. Dark shadows was on too but I didn't watch that.

gum in gum machines used to cost only a penny

Remember when finding a penny was a lucky thing? Now nobody bothers to pick it up.

The oral polio vaccine

Remember the big gun like air jet vaccine injection? That was scary, much worse than a needle.

I remember in … oh-h-h... 4th or 5th grade I think it probably was... a girl in our class, whom I sat not that far away from, pee'd her pants in class. I can still remember the puddle it created on the floor under her chair.

I recall that in 8th grade (I think it may have been) I puked in math class...

Anybody remember the lined paper and big, thick crayons we used in first grade?

Penny candy. And when I was little I used to think “Necco Wafers” were called “nickel wafers” because they cost a nickel. As did candy bars. Small Tootsie Rolls were longer.

I remember the big crayons. And penmanship lessons. Dunno whether they still do that.

The Smallpox Vaccine. Touch the scar...I can.

Housing build post WWII for veterans....well, WHITE MALE veterans that is...
The passing of Medicare, Medicaid
Having to wear a skirt to school.
The first integrated WWII suburb (Park Forest, Ill. I believe)
When Mr. Softee first came around...

Child of the 70's when platform shoes first came around. Didn't like them then, don't like them now. Just ugly to me.

How about the white "go-go" boots?

I don't understand it now, but I Really loved them in their moment.
I recall a pair of earrings I had, large paper mache balls painted an awful abstract of yellow, orange, green, outlined in black...my fringed suede jacket, my happy bare feet on the road to a three day festival...
Stringing dried beans after soaking them in warm, colored waters...

That reminds me so much of the first car I remember, a black and white '55 Delray.

I miss going barefoot outdoors ...

Long hair and head bands or deerskin braid ties.

the Merry Pranksters, Diggers, Hog Farm...

Warm wine in wine skin bags at a festival

love beads...

brass, indian peace bells with the beads
and Ipana toothpaste...Buster Brown and his...