Mad magazine, Thrifty ice cream for $0.05 a scoop,BMG and Columbia house CD subscriptions, watching American Bandstand, knowing every word to Rappers Delight, Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley, Dirty Dancing and Top Gun in the movie theaters at least 10x, the arcade at the mall playing asteroids and pac man then getting an orange Julius, BIG HAIR, aqua net extra super hold hairspray, and SO MANY MORE THINGS THAT MADE OUR GENERATION THE BEST!!
Ohhhh the cosmetics and shampoo brands! Lemon Up. Gee your hair smells terrific. Herbal essence avocado. And don’t forget: Bonnie Bell Lip smackers…the big ones. Dr. Pepper flavor had a red tone. Loves Baby Soft spray. Sun-in. Sea Breeze and Noxema cleanser. Roll-on lip gloss. Probably strawberry or bubble gum flavor. And the ultimate look: Jordache jeans. Ohhhhhh so glad there’s no photographic evidence!
Instantly puts down the phone , flips through to the knack album and drops the needle . All I need now is a pair of Dolphin shorts, a sex wax tee and a pair of Vans. Thanks for the Saturday morning living room dance . It’s nice to be silly sometimes
All of this applies to late Boomers as well!!! Born in 1963 and I remember first gear “My Sharona” sophomore year in high school. My best friend in High school was the niece of Jack Lord (Steve McGarret of Hawaii Five-O). There was a bar we used to sneak in to and the band would always play the Five-0 theme song when they saw her. 🌊🌺🌊
Mary, what a worthy tribute to adolescence: Having the house band launch into the Five-0 theme as you illegally enter a bar, because your uncle is Jack Lord. Thanks for sharing.
(Also, I should have included a bullet point, "You know who Jack Lord and Karl Malden are.")
I figured my HF0 reference would likely date me. But honestly, I don't remember ever watching it. I was a little too young. I do remember seeing that wave barrel, however, and thinking it looked demonic.
Ah, yes. The Twilight Zone was like that for me. A little before my time, so I was too young to appreciate it. Too creepy for me. Maybe even still. Haha!
I was watching the 50th anniversary SNL show a few weeks ago, and I thought Gen X is the perfect age to enjoy the whole span of it. We were kids for the classic, original stuff, in our 20s and 30s for all of the iconic bits, and old enough now to shake our heads at the current iteration. Ha! My age is showing.
Jiffy Pop on the Stove
Green Army Men torture
Oui magazine
most prized possession - First Walkman
How to find songs on an 8 track
Bo Derek - "10"
School Cheese
Banana Seats and Kick-back gears
Cards in the spokes
You know what a clothespin is and how to use it
TAB cola
Hey! Sabrina was the hottest of Charlie’s Angels. If that makes me weird I don’t want to be normal
That's about as good an answer as I can think of. You do you, Steven, always!
You can only recite the preamble to the Constitution, or the 3 times tables, by singing them a la Schoolhouse Rock.
Ann, good call on Schoolhouse Rock. It's hard to say your Gen X if you don't know the opening line of “I’m just a bill.”
Got to stay up and watch Johnny Carson when we were on vacation
Also a treat to stay up and watch Sonny and Cher
Everyone watched "Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday night
The fact that everyone was watching the same TV show and discussed it the next day at school or work
Mad magazine, Thrifty ice cream for $0.05 a scoop,BMG and Columbia house CD subscriptions, watching American Bandstand, knowing every word to Rappers Delight, Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley, Dirty Dancing and Top Gun in the movie theaters at least 10x, the arcade at the mall playing asteroids and pac man then getting an orange Julius, BIG HAIR, aqua net extra super hold hairspray, and SO MANY MORE THINGS THAT MADE OUR GENERATION THE BEST!!
"Some small part of you still feels a little bad walking down the sidewalk staring at your phone." Oh yeah!
I knew it wasn't just me…
You tried milk and Pepsi and thought “not bad”
You thought Amos Moses was a caveman
You had Wildfire on a 45 and it had nothing to do with acres burned or percent contained.
Clint, I'm going to admit something to you but don't tell anyone else: when I was 11, I bought the 45 of "How deep is your love?"
Wish I still had it.
some of us never got over Wildfire.
https://archive.org/details/jackkevin2016-05-01.sbd.tm16.flac24/2016-05-01_Anderson_TM16_Set104.flac
i remember that.
Like the My Sharona one. My brother had that album, and there was that rumor they were actually the Beatles.
4 wheel Roller skates that clamped onto your shoes
Peter Wheat bread
Bubble gum wrappers with a cartoon printed on the inside
Bench seats in a car so you could snuggle up to your boyfriend
Ohhhh the cosmetics and shampoo brands! Lemon Up. Gee your hair smells terrific. Herbal essence avocado. And don’t forget: Bonnie Bell Lip smackers…the big ones. Dr. Pepper flavor had a red tone. Loves Baby Soft spray. Sun-in. Sea Breeze and Noxema cleanser. Roll-on lip gloss. Probably strawberry or bubble gum flavor. And the ultimate look: Jordache jeans. Ohhhhhh so glad there’s no photographic evidence!
I'm seeing lip smackers a couple times now, and though I probably wasn't the target consumer, it clearly needs to be on this list.
Your dad told you to get up and turn the TV channel
...and get him a beer (from my memory)
Instantly puts down the phone , flips through to the knack album and drops the needle . All I need now is a pair of Dolphin shorts, a sex wax tee and a pair of Vans. Thanks for the Saturday morning living room dance . It’s nice to be silly sometimes
Love it, Suzy. You got the beat!
All of this applies to late Boomers as well!!! Born in 1963 and I remember first gear “My Sharona” sophomore year in high school. My best friend in High school was the niece of Jack Lord (Steve McGarret of Hawaii Five-O). There was a bar we used to sneak in to and the band would always play the Five-0 theme song when they saw her. 🌊🌺🌊
Mary, what a worthy tribute to adolescence: Having the house band launch into the Five-0 theme as you illegally enter a bar, because your uncle is Jack Lord. Thanks for sharing.
(Also, I should have included a bullet point, "You know who Jack Lord and Karl Malden are.")
When TV shows had theme songs. “Love Boat” and “Greatest American Hero” FTW.
Good call, em. Hawai'i Five-0 is hard to beat, imo. https://youtu.be/ASvQ-bNURn4?si=8rpoH6yJObiBq1v4
You sound like an elder Gen X like me.
I figured my HF0 reference would likely date me. But honestly, I don't remember ever watching it. I was a little too young. I do remember seeing that wave barrel, however, and thinking it looked demonic.
Ah, yes. The Twilight Zone was like that for me. A little before my time, so I was too young to appreciate it. Too creepy for me. Maybe even still. Haha!
I was watching the 50th anniversary SNL show a few weeks ago, and I thought Gen X is the perfect age to enjoy the whole span of it. We were kids for the classic, original stuff, in our 20s and 30s for all of the iconic bits, and old enough now to shake our heads at the current iteration. Ha! My age is showing.
>>You would have killed to own a Trans-Am with an eagle on the hood.
let's not forget the introduction of the "whale tail" on things like a Porsche Turbo Carerra.
>>8675309:
let's also not forget: Echo Valley 26809....
The Laurence Welk show and the spam reminds you of your grandmas house.
You had to go back and watch Dukes of Hazard to see just how bad it really was but still secretly have a crush on everyone in it, even Enos Strate.
You name your 50+ year old thighs Thunder Cats
You saw Richard Max live in Brookings South Dakota
Your bike handle bars had tassels.
You may or may not have gotten stuck in a broom closet wrapped in a phone cord.
Riding to town in the back of a pickup was just how you got to school.
Numerous cross-country family vacations involved everyone sleeping in the car because a hotel was too expensive.
Using Kool Aid packets to die your hair.