I guess 1958 makes me a late boomer, so I voted yes. I was still a kid when the 60's revolution was happening, but I was pretty well informed and aware of it, maybe more than my folks were :) They were trying to house, feed and clothe me and 3 younger brothers and didn't have a lot of time for anything else.
I feel fortunate to have been born when I was. Almost everyone in my immediate family came of military age "between wars," so that terrible suffering did not touch us directly. My mom had an uncle not much older than her who was on Iwo Jima, but it was not something he talked about. The only problem with being a boomer is that there are just too many of us! |
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Boomer all the way. :guitar:
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Born in ‘51. My Dad had to see Bob Feller pitch against the Senators. Mom agreed to go even tho she was more than plenty pregnant. They got seats in the upper deck at Griffith Stadium. They went straight to the hospital after the game. I was born a few hours later. Was going to Nats games a few years later with The Knothole Club. Remember seeing The Beatles and The Stones on Ed Sullivan. My uncle took me and my cousins to see the Beatles play at DC Stadium.
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The year 1957 was a great one for many things: Chevrolets, Gibson Les Paul guitars (2 humbucker config), electric watches, Frisbees, the Cavern Club (Liverpool), and ME (I was born that year). I spent my childhood playing in the woods outside Knoxville, Tennessee, and hiking and camping in the Great Smoky Mountains and along the East Tennessee rivers and lakes.
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Handy little guide here if you're unsure ...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...meline.svg.png Chronologically I'm definitely a boomer, but my life experience seems to have more in common with that of a Gen X'er. I'd agree with raysach's comments above: early and "late era" boomers had two different experiences. A lot of the stuff associated with boomers we late era ones experienced either at a very young age, or second hand thru our older siblings. For example, we knew about Haight-Ashbury and Woodstock, but couldn't go to either. Hey, we were only ten! LoL ! --- |
I am a millenial.
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My country hasn't been at war since 1945, and my parents were about 9 years old at that time.
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Yea, I'm one too.
Black and White TV. Metal Skates (w/key). Slip and Slide. Tube radios. Bicycle paper route. Saw A Hard Days Night in the theatre, Oscar Meyer and the weenie mobile, etc. |
Born in 1947, the beginning of the boomers. My grandfather fought in the trenches in France in WW I, my dad landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, fought in the Battle Of The Bulge and spent 5 months as a POW in a German prison camp. Weighed 78 pounds when the Russians finally liberated the prison camp. I was in Viet Nam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade and one of my sons was in the Army in Desert Storm. Somehow we had no one the right age for Korea. BTW, my mother is still alive and well at 97 years old.
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Nope - Jones generation.
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There’s the same discrepancy with millennials and X’s that were born between 1978 and 1984. That’s the transition from X to Y, and many of them doesn’t exactly identify with either or generations, so they call themselves “xennials”. The 80’s is a huge decade for gen X, but that group was too young to remember much of the 80’s. |
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Yep a 55 model and spent a lot of time drinking from all my neighbors garden hoses during the summers. Staying out until after dark playing kick the can with a neighborhood full of kids. At 12 years old started making spending money bucking bales and other chores for the local ranchers. Rode my Schwin 2 speed out to the fields on the highway and my parents didn’t worry (or at least let on if they did).
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I'm enjoying the recollections, here are some of mine.
Building tree forts and log forts in the woods and then having outside sleep overs (co-ed) of 10 or 15 kids. Putting M80's (a type of firecracker, fairly dangerous, not a Baggs pick up!) into copperhead dens--made quite a mess. Breaking into the golf cart barn and riding all over the course at night, getting them all back in one piece, except for that one time when I didn't see the brook..... Starting fires and trying to put them out before they got out of hand (only happened once!). This stuff was all before high school.....I was considered a "goody two shoes" by the tough kids in the neighborhood, some of this stuff I was more of an observer, but I was there! :D |
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