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Baby Boomers

If you were born between the years of 1946 through 1964, you are considered a "baby boomer". Currently, the "baby boomer" population comprises almost three-quarters of our population in the USA. That's pretty amazing...isn't it? Let's take a walk back through time and see what you remember. I don't think I'm ready for the drool bib yet!

  1. You were born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, xerox, contact lenses, frisbees and the PILL.
  2. You were born before radar, credit cards, split atoms, lazer beams, and ball-point pens. Before pantyhose, dishwashers, clothes dryers, electric blankets, air conditioners, drip-dry clothes--and before manwalked on the moon.
  3. You got married first--and then lived together.
  4. Closets were for clothes, not for "coming out of".
  5. Bunnies were small rabbits and rabbits were not Volkswagens.
  6. Designer jeans were scheming girls named Jean or Jeanne; and having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with our cousins.
  7. Fast food was what you ate during Lent; and Outer Space was the back of the Norridge Theatre.
  8. You were before house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers, and computer marriages.
  9. You were before day-care centers, group therapy and nursing homes.
  10. You never heard of FM radio, tape decks, electric typewriters, artificial hearts, wordprocessors, yogurt, and guys wearing earrings.
  11. For us, time sharing meant togetherness--not computers or condominiums.
  12. A "chip" meant a piece of wood. Hardware meant hardware, and software wasn't even a word!
  13. The term "making out" referred to how you did on your exam.
  14. Pizzas, "McDonald's" and instant coffee were unheard of. We hit the scene when there were 5 cent and 10 cent stores where you bought things for five and ten cents.
  15. You could buy ice cream cones for a nickel or a dime. For one nickel you could ride a street car, make a phone call, buy a Pepsi, or enough stamps to mail one letter and two postcards.
  16. You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600. And, gas was only 11 cents a gallon.
  17. In our day, cigarette smoking was fashionable.
  18. GRASS was mowed.
  19. COKE was a cold drink.
  20. POT was something you cooked in.
  21. ROCK MUSIC was a grandmother's lullaby and AIDS were helpers in the Principal's office.
  22. We were certainly not before the difference between the sexes was discovered, but we were surely before the sex change.
  23. We made do with what we had.
  24. We were the last generation that was so dumb as to think you needed a husband to have a baby.

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