You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you.
Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language.
A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid.
You remember the Flinstones in Primetime.
You grew up with neighbors you actually knew by first and last name.
You had a rotary dial telephone.
You weren't considered fashionable if you didn't own a pair of black & white saddle shoes or a pair of stride rites.
Good TV reception came with a pair of pliers and a coat hanger.
There was such a thing as penny candy--and you could always stock up.
You remember the oil crisis in 1973--which resulted in the price of oil per barrel to rise from $3.00 to $12.00 (The price of gas was $0.24 in 1957--the year I was born).
If you're still making the hand gestures every time you hear the Y.M.C.A. Song.
You know you're a baby boomer if garters were how you held up your hose. (Thanks to @LeslieLSC from Twitter)
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Now I remember reading comic books in the back of a friend's family station wagon by the headlights of bumper to bumper traffic after watching a Christmas light show in a neighboring town.
I forgot about the first one. Ha! I love these bits of nostalgia.
I'm an older boomer, so I remember very stiff and very full crinolines under my dress.
Thanks for the memories.
Interesting post. I am an older boomer (1947) and my daughter is at the other end (1965). Although we're both boomers, we have very different memories. I remember the crinolines, Pam, although we called them petticoats. My daughter wouldn't remember those. My daughter grew up on the Brady Bunch and Schoolhouse Rock. I grew up on the Mickey Mouse Club and the Rifleman.
You bring back great memories! Love it. . . especially the "back of the station wagon". Those were fun days :)
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