30 Things Only Baby Boomers Will Remember
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Published 2024-02-02
If you're a Baby Boomer, get ready for a trip down memory lane, and if you're not, stick around because you're in for a fascinating journey back in time!
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All Comments (21)
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How about the Service Station where they actually pumped your gas checked your oil and cleaned your windshield.
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The phone books also served as a book for kids to sit on so they could reach the table.
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Does anyone remember saying the Pledge of Allegiance and the Lord's Prayer before class started in the morning? I'm 75.
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Also ice cube trays with handles that pulled up to break the ice into cubes.
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I remember when they played the national anthem at midnight before the TV would sign-off.
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I remember when babysitting and watching tv at 10 pm the station would have a public service announcement… “It’s 10 o’clock, do you know where your kids are at?”
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Kids could play on the swings and no one bothered them.
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Does anyone remember the paddle? It was an instrument the teachers used to keep us in line. They kept one in their desk drawer or hung one up on the wall for all of us to see. The paddle helped us to keep quiet in school and encouraged us to complete all of our homework before returning to school the next day. And it helped us to have respect for the teachers too.
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As a baby boomer, I've lived my life in the best times this country had to offer. Those days are gone never to return.
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Saturday morning cartoons, Church on Sunday, afterwards news paper with pages & pages of coloured funny pages.
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This and other YouTube nostalgia videos all seem to have one underlying theme: the old days were special. I'm dang near 70 so most all the things in this video I remember fondly. Cartoons that were mostly on Saturday mornings, no 24 hour TV, spending hours creating a mix tape, going to the library to access the encyclopedia, dime stores. Compared to today's instant access and 24 hour availability makes me realize that if you have a good thing all the time, it's no longer special.
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I remember when could dial a certain number and get the correct time, also party lines.
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Have a working rotary phone on my desk. Absolutely baffles the children.
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You forgot the flash cubes you needed to take pictures!
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I wouldn't say it was a good old days but man it was way better than today
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It used to be sooooo exciting receiving letters and postcards!!! I miss them.
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Love this! Thank you for creating it. Two very minor things that I’d correct: 1. Poor TV reception did not produce pixelation prior to digital TV. You got snow, ghosts, horizontal rolling,, wavy lines etc., but not pixelation. 2. Cartoons where I grew up were on SATURDAY mornings Not on Sundays.
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For boomers and senior citizens, the current market and economy are unnecessarily harder. I'm used to simply purchasing and holding assets, which doesn't seem applicable to the current volatile market, and inflation is catching up with my portfolio. My biggest concern is whether I'll survive after retirement.
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I remember mom dressing all us kids in our pajamas before we left for the drive in movie ride. Such a treat!
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I got a couple to add. Using a map to find your way somewhere. A sliding credit card machine. Recording and watching 8mm home movies. Car radio with the mechanical preset buttons; you pulled out and pushed them back in to set the station. Most people only had single speed bikes. Black and white tv's and they only had 13 channels. You were luck if you could pick up 4 stations. Wringer washing machines and hanging the laundry out to dry. Oil can and spout. And finally, the smell of leaded gasoline.
