Ah, the good old days. When you ate dinner with your family after playing outside all day. You didn’t get a text message to tell you it was time for dinner. If you weren’t home before the streetlights came on, you knew you’d be in trouble with your mom.
Baby boomers make up the largest generation there is (hence the name), consisting of people born between 1946 and 1964. There are some things that Generation Y and millennials just won’t understand!
1. Rotary phones
Long before cell phones were in our pockets, there was the rotary phone. You had to really know the phone number well to make that call.
2. Putting baseball cards in your bike spokes
Nothing sounded cooler than having your baseball cards hitting the spokes of your bicycle. Whenever you did this, you also swore it made you ride faster.
3. Swanson TV dinners
You can practically smell this picture.
4. Tin foil on the TV antenna
Millennials would never understand this. Most kids this day wouldn’t even know that TVs once had an antenna attached, but back in the day, this was the only way to get a really clear picture.
5. Seeing an advertisement for tobacco
An ad where a doctor tells you to smoke? You’d never see anything like this in 2018.
6. Using a payphone
So, technically, payphones do still exist. But if you asked someone to tell you who changed in a phone booth, they’d totally be at a loss.
7. The milkman
Back in the day, you didn’t go to the grocery store to buy milk. It was brought straight to your front door.
8. Jell-O dishes
Didn’t like salad? Well, your mom put it in Jell-O and you were expected to enjoy every bite!
Check out the rest of the list on the next page!
I was born in February of 1961 but oddly enough, I remember when JFK was shot. I also remember watching the Ed Sullivan Show and seeing the Beatles perform for the first time in America. I guess some things make such an impact on you that you remember them. For anyone who thinks I was too young to remember JFK’s assassination, what I remember most is the networks re-running the funeral procession for three days. I remember being really miffed because it cut into my cartoon time. I was only allowed to watch 2 hrs. of TV a day, an hour in the morning and an hour after dinner. We had one television in our house–in the living room, no remote. At night we had to watch what my dad wanted to watch. Everything was so different from the way kids are raised today. Sometimes I feel like I grew up on another planet.
I remember the first season of SNL. In fact it was called Saturday Night. Chevy Chase would start the pratfall saying Live From New York Its Saturday Night. He was mocking then President Gerald Ford by falling. Pres Ford had slipped on an airplane ramp.
Chevy would start the Weekend Update by saying “Im Chevy Chase and your not”. He would also end WU by having a segment for the hard of hearing with Garret Morris shouting the first headline.
The first episode of Saturday Night was hosted by George Carlin and the musical guests were Janis Ian and Billy Preston.
Gen X here, remember all of that