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!
- You wereborn before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, xerox,contact lenses, frisbees and the PILL.
- You wereborn before radar, credit cards, split atoms, lazer beams, and ball-pointpens. Before pantyhose, dishwashers, clothes dryers, electric blankets,air conditioners, drip-dry clothes--and before manwalked on themoon.
- You gotmarried first--and then lived together.
- Closetswere for clothes, not for "coming out of".
- Bunnieswere small rabbits and rabbits were not Volkswagens.
- Designerjeans were scheming girls named Jean or Jeanne; and having a meaningfulrelationship meant getting along with our cousins.
- Fast foodwas what you ate during Lent; and Outer Space was the back of theNorridge Theatre.
- You werebefore house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers,and computer marriages.
- You werebefore day-care centers, group therapy and nursing homes.
- You neverheard of FM radio, tape decks, electric typewriters, artificialhearts, wordprocessors, yogurt, and guys wearing earrings.
- For us,time sharing meant togetherness--not computers or condominiums.
- A "chip"meant a piece of wood. Hardware meant hardware, and software wasn'teven a word!
- The term"making out" referred to how you did on your exam.
- Pizzas,"McDonald's" and instant coffee were unheard of. We hit the scenewhen there were 5 cent and 10 cent stores where you bought thingsfor five and ten cents.
- You couldbuy ice cream cones for a nickel or a dime. For one nickel you couldride a street car, make a phone call, buy a Pepsi, or enough stampsto mail one letter and two postcards.
- You couldbuy a new Chevy Coupe for $600. And, gas was only 11 cents a gallon.
- In our day,cigarette smoking was fashionable.
- GRASS wasmowed.
- COKE wasa cold drink.
- POT wassomething you cooked in.
- ROCK MUSICwas a grandmother's lullaby and AIDS were helpers in the Principal'soffice.
- We werecertainly not before the difference between the sexes was discovered,but we were surely before the sex change.
- We madedo with what we had.
- We werethe last generation that was so dumb as to think you needed a husbandto have a baby.
