Baby Boomers?

Squigman and the Sea Monsters, HR Puffinstuff, real playgrounds at the school, recess, the Beatles, the Monkees, Land of the Lost, and my mother's favorite song, What's New Pussycat......Also Speed Racer, cassette tapes, my first romance novel, Sweet Savage Love by Rosemary Rogers, which I still have (LOL)......

How about Captain Video, Space Cadets and the Cisco Kid? Sky King and for Cincinnati gals, Uncle Al.

Jumping rope was so much fun.....And going to see a movie was the only way to get into air conditioning.  Theater popcorn had BUTTER on it....

Sandy

Oh, yes, I remember Thethile the theathick theatherpent.  (I remember him with the lisp!)

My first camera was a Poloroid that took grainy color pictures.  The beginning of instant gratification.

Stylewise, I remember rolling my sensible knee-length skirts up to make them a mini-skirt. 

And how can forgot those annoyingly perfect Brady kids?  Marsha, Marsha, Marsha...

Yes Yellow Rose - we cruised Woodward Avenue in the northern suburbs of Detroit. In fact they celebrate it now with one of the biggest car get togethers called The Dream Cruise - people come from all over the US!

So, since this is the baby boomer thread, I'm not really "dating" myself but ... how about songs where you could actually hear the words?  For ex., The Battle of New Orleans, Purple People Eater?

Abbott and Costello, Shirley Temple and I use to buy a soda pop at my grandfather's store for $10.....and a penny candy cost a penny

Those were the days.

yellowrose, I had to look that up! So, anyone born between 1954-1965 is from "Generation Jones". I had never heard that before, so am glad to learn that. Well, I was born in 1950...so am still officially a "baby boomer"!

Anyone remember Winky Dink televsion program.  You wrote off for a magic screen to put over the tv screen and find the secret message at the end of the program by connecting dots or something like that.

I also loved the Loretta Young TV program. Every week she came sweeping into the living room stage is the most elegant, shiny gowns.  I thought she was the most elegant thing I had ever seen.  Still wish I looked like her!

I never heard of Generation Jones.  The timing sounds like the years that overlap the younger children of WWII vets and the older children of Korean vets.  My elementary school class was about half and half.  Since my parents were of the older generation, and we lived with stories of how lucky we were since our parents grew up during the Great Depression, my experience was definitely more baby boomer. 

I remember where I was, and what I was doing when I found out that President Kennedy had been shot. Most people my age and older do too, but people a couple of years younger not so much...

Got money for taking back soda bottles 5cent each was alot then, Living on Air Force base got alot.

I remember those vending machines with the glass bottles....you opened the door and pulled out the one you wanted...only one would release with the money (like 10 cents?). We also had a vending machine at the store that only was 5 cents for a cup of soda...where the cup would drop down and then the syrup and carbonated soda would come out separately, into the cup, and you could choose it with or without ice.

wahine- my oh my did we look fine, hot pants, spit curls and Maxi Coats--remember those?  Guess it was to keep those lovely legs warm   those certainly were the days