ALL YOU BABY BOOMERS - LETS REMINISCE, O.K. ??

by juni 43 Replies latest jw friends

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  prophecor

  Muffin pants. Take notice. The girls' waist lines bulge out and look like a muffin top........ we were satisfied with a lot less than our kids' generation. Our kids have far more materially than we did.

  I could never figure out this amaxing phenomenon, the youngest fly girlz who go around exposing their midriffs all apout for the entire world to behold. It's absolutely...well lets just say...I could never in a life of liberal lunacy allow my 13 year old to dress in such a fashion.

  I didn't have a whole lot Juni, but I surely loved the simple world of the 1960's and 70's. Life was such a simpler time then, even with the riots in Watts, Viet Nam at the dinner hour every night with Mike Wallace & Morley Safer, The Flintstones, the first truly adult oriented cartoon. Who would have ever thought with the moral fabric of our pristine culture of that time, that their would ever be a cartoon character who would become pregnant. Willlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
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  Quentin

  Television, those were the days. Warner Brothers Cartoons 7PM Tuesdays, The Flintstones, Dobie Gillis, I Love Bob, Ann Southern Show, Danny Thomas Show, Armstrong Circle Theater, Playhouse 90. All the Warner Brothers Westerns: Sugar Foot, Maverick, Cheyenne, Johnny Reb, on and on.

  Drugstore soda foutains, Dariy Queen, Shakeys Pizza. Drive In Movies, man I miss those the most. Oddly enough miss black and white TVs. Street rods, every car maker had one with gas as little as 19 to 24 cents a gallon, why not? Pack of smokes 50 cents. Jeez, gotta stop, there's so much.

  Wonder what our kids and grand kids will remember "bout the good ole days"?
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  FlyingHighNow

  Yeah and double feature movies!! And balcony seats.

  I recall that from 1965-1970, while my family lived in Morgan City, Louisiana, the black patrons of the SeaWall Theater and The Opera House theater, both showed movies, had to enter on the opposite side of the snackbar. They bought their snacks and went straight upstairs to the balcony. My friends and I thought that was awful. We didn't complain when they would throw popcorn and candy on us occasionally. Once a whole cup of crushed ice, remember crushed ice? came showering down on us. We never told on the kids that did it. We figured they shouldn't have to sit up there.

  Movie tickets were 25 cents for kids 12 and under and 75 cents for adults. They stayed the same the entire time I lived in MC. Prior to 1965 when our family lived in Mobile where I was born, I remember that we used to walk to the Fire Station and buy cokes from their chest coke machine for a nickel and two pennies. Any kind of pop was called a coke. My grandmother called them cocolas. KOcola.

  We had dial up phones and didn't get push button phones until we moved to a suburb of Atlanta in 1970. Our school lunches cost us 10 cents. My brothers showed me how to listen to "underground radio" on KAAY Little Rock Arkansas during the later 60's. It was an AM station and I could pick it up after midnight on my transistor radio. That is where you could hear acid rock. Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly, etc.

  I still feel my heart jump when I see a quarter lying on the sidewalk. A quarter was like magic. It was fun to turn in coke bottles for the deposit and use the money to buy more coke or candy, etc.

  I recall seeing bonafide hippies in Jackson Square in the French Quarter in New Orleans. We were on a weekend field trip. We asked for their autographs and they told us wild, tall tales.

  I do remember the British Invasion and Motown. I loved Soul Music better than anything. I loved it all. And my brothers had a garage/backyard band. They played Creedence Clearwater Revival and Beatles tunes. I remember the singer's parents got upset because they did The Ballad of John and Yoko. They were disturbed by the lyric, "Christ, you know it ain't easy. You know how hard it can be. The way things are goin', they're going to crucify me."
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  Frannie Banannie

  I remember going to the movies when I was a kid in the '50's for 10 cents and then it went up to 25 cents.....We usually saw a double feature, plus a Western serial (Lash Larue or Hopalong Cassidy or Zorro, etc.) and at least 5 or 6 cartoons for the price.

  The wonderful comedies and musicals and westerns with Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly, Hopalong Cassidy, Superman, Dick Tracy, Comics and funny papers with Alley Oop, the Katzenjammer Kids, Little Henry, Little Lotta, Archie & Jughead, Mary Jane & Sniffles.....

  The Ed Sullivan Show the first time he finally allowed Elvis "the Pelvis" to appear, but wouldn't allow the camera to view Elvis below the waist during his performance.....The debut of the first R&R movie, "Rock Around the Clock" when the music was so loud in the theatre that I came out with a migraine.......The Beatles stormed R&R and their first movie came out...maybe "Hard Day's Night" (?)

  Howdy Doody, Clarabell the Clown, Kookla, Fran & Ollie.....Thethil the Thee Therpent....the time Pinky Lee got cut off the air when he decided to play a game of baseball with the kids in the "peanut gallery" wherein the boys were to kiss the girls on the strikes and the girls were to kiss the boys on the.......

  I remember being near our Junior High school gym during my lunch time in 7th grade when we heard the news on our transistor radios about the Big Bopper and Richie Valens dying in the plane crash near Clear Lake.......so tragic......, going to the soda fountain at the drugstore acorss the street from our Junior High and High School to buy a cherry or vanilla coke....smoking on the school grounds and not getting caught.....staging one of the first "sit-ins" at my Junior High in the 9th grade in the Heights to protest the asst. principal pushing to fire a beloved math teacher because a young student had accidently drowned on a field trip they took to Lake Houston.....and getting suspended as the chief perp.

  Passing for 16 when I was 14 and going to the "teen canteen" at the park on Saturday nights to dance.....going steady and wearing someone's football jacket with a "letter" on it........the day Pres. Kennedy was killed when I was 14 and our next door neighbor came running over screaming and crying because she'd just heard the news on the TV and I was at home, faking an illness, so I wouldn't hafta go to school that day.....passing for 18 when I was 16 and going across the state line to Louisiana to the "Big Oaks", a favorite and locally well-known "roadhouse" about 45 mins. away from home where you could buy mixed drinks & beer and dance to some really popular bands.....

  Getting married......my first office job right outside Washington, D.C. in Marlow Heights, Md.......working for the Pr Geo. Co. P.D. in Maryland in the late 60's when women's lib and burning our bras was coming into its own......

  The debut of the controversial rock opera "Jesus Christ, Super Star" and "Hair"......Woodstock.........

  Going to work for the Pres. of a charter airline in D.C. and being wooed by Wayne Hilmer, the Pres. of Omni Aircraft to become a corporate spy for his company and my boss going ballistic when I told him......catching the president of the National Liquor Control Board in our conference room with a woman and another couple.....naked.....having a drunken orgy and receiving a bottle of "My Sin" from him later as a token of his chagrin......meeting F Lee Bailey in our conference room when he used our chartered Leer jets, before he bought his own......the "peace" riots in the late 60's and early 70's in D C.....trying to get to work, but the traffic being jammed for miles and finally having to get out of the vehicle and walk almost 20 blocks to Pennsylvania Ave. NE......through clouds of tear gas that hung on street corners where a crowd had been disbursed.....seeing the jail buses with their cargo and hearing the arrested singing "We Shall Overcome" and other songs......

  Moving to Dallas and, yes, it was a total fluke......becoming an exotic dancer at a strip club where we hustled fake champagne....it was on Mockingbird Lane right by Love Field......and when they shut down Love Field, really big rock bands began holding free concerts at the airport on Friday and Saturday nights and we could hear them if we left the back door open to our club......Santana, the Stones, ZZ Top......so many to name.....hip huggers when my hips didn't bulge over 'em, the platform shoes I LOVED to dance in, mini skirts and hot pants.... Gas wars when I could buy gas for 17 cents a gallon.....round beds and satin sheets......then, in 1974, everything began to change economically and things began to change in a lot of other areas, too......

  Some memories...........

  Frannie
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  FlyingHighNow

  in Maryland in the late 60's when women's lib and burning our bras was coming into its own......

  
  

  
  My Aunt was a liberated Stewardess for Delta at the time and my mom had a subscription to Ms. Magazine when it came out. I loved the song I AM Woman, still do, and the TV show Maude. I paid my own way on dates.

  Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans and S, Winters & Lambchop. I was 5 when Kennedy was shot. Until then, I didn't know that people died or that there was such a thing as a President. I recall seeing Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvery Oswald with my mother. She called out, OMG! Oswalds been shot.

  I remember watching American Bandstand on Saturdays to learn the latest dance. I also recall watching Paul Revere and the Raiders and Roy Orbison on Where The Action Is.

  For cheap entertainment, my parents took the six of us kids, in our pajamas, to the Auto Show qhich was a drive-in movie theater near Mobile, Alabama. We went to one in Prichard, too. I don't recall the name of it. I remember hearing Sherry by the Four Seasons and Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter on the way there one Friday night.
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  Frannie Banannie

  I remember watching American Bandstand on Saturdays to learn the latest dance.

  
  

  OMG, FHN!! I don't know how I left that out! I LOVED American Bandstand!!! That's where I learned to dance, too! Fabian, Bobby Darren, Little Richard, Motown music.......Did you know that one of Jack Ruby's girls taught me how to strip professionally? Her name in his book was Lisa Kellogg, but that's not the name she went by when I knew her.

  But then.....there's so many things to remember from back then.......remember the "Hit Parade"....the "$64,000 Question"....."Sing Along With Mitch".....
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  FlyingHighNow

  .......Did you know that one of Jack Ruby's girls taught me how to strip professionally?

  Wow, now don't get me wrong, but that I would love to have seen. I bet you knocked the socks off every breathing soul in the place.
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  Frannie Banannie

  I bet you knocked the socks off every breathing soul in the place.

  LOL! Maybe not, but there were a few pants that came unzipped and that scared me off the stage those nights!
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  Frannie Banannie

  Do I know how to bring a thread to a screeching halt or what?!!!?
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  prophecor

  A pollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969. The astronauts also returned to Earth the first samples from another planetary body. Apollo 11 achieved its primary mission - to perform a manned lunar landing and return the mission safely to Earth - and paved the way for the Apollo lunar landing missions to follow.