Do you remember 1971 and 1972? (1960s, crimes, German, countries)

[gentlearts]

I remember having an outfit of hotpants and a jacket which I really liked. I had just had a baby and flew home to visit my parents wearing this outfit. The hotpants made me feel as though my bod was still OK after having the baby.
We had a 1968 Pontiac Catalina, which I believe was the first car we had which came equipt with seatbelts.

[HighPlainsDrifter73]

Originally Posted by 1coolcustomer

I don't remember much about it,I was in kindergarten-1st grade then. I remember in school when it was a goof off day the teacher would play records, usually a Disney story, there were no TV's in the classroom. Sometimes they would show a movie on the old style projectors and the whole class would laugh when it was played in reverse.

TV sucked back then, didn't watch it much, 3-5 channels. I remember watching Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, that was about the best show going.

I remember bell bottoms, they would get caught up in the bicycle chain all the time. You didn't see kids wearing all the designer clothes back then, everyone pretty much wore the same goofy looking stuff. I remember going to the grocery store and there would be this gigantic basket shoe container and mom would buy 2 pairs of sneakers for $5. And S&H green stamps, they'd give you these stamps and booklet to put them in and how much you spent at the grocery determined how many stamps you got. Then you took them to the S&h store and turned in your booklets for merchandise.

I vividly remember S&H greenstamps. I still have several books filled out that never got cashed in for merchandise. It must have been around 1969 when I pasted the stamps in the books for my parents. I also remember Plaid stamps and Top Value stamps.

[JustJoy]

Originally Posted by tyvin

Your post is a textbook example of projection.

Roger that.

[danielj72]

Originally Posted by tyvin

Your post is a textbook example of projection.

Id like to know how you came to this conclusion, and where did you get your psychology degree? I know many people would agree with me that the baby boomers damaged our nation by their bad behaivor in the late 60s and early 70s. Im guessing your a boomer who might have taken part in this activity, and you just dont like a young whipper snapper like me saying bad things about what happened back then.

[NCN]

In January of 1972, the Charlotte Observer did a series on the birth defects and the March of Dimes. Each and every defect they covered could have been caused by the RH factor and guess what, I was expecting too. And yes, the RH factor was a factor in my pregnancy. It was one of the most horrible months of my life. Every week I would pick up the paper again and see what could be wrong with my baby. He and his wife now have two children of their own.

In 1971, our daughter marched in the Charlotte Carousel Parade in the Kays Gary Fancy Pants Platoon. I wanted to make her a peace soldier outfit using the material from my husbands Air Force uniforms and white cloth doves, but she wanted to be a princess. So I made her a long dress of yellow velvet with long puffed sleeves and we bought her a long fake fur coat to wear if she got cold and I bought her long insulated underwear and she walked the entire route and of course with me being in a family way, my husband had to walk along the side of the street to make sure our five year old was safe. She was still going strong at the end of the route when I drove to pick them up and he was exhausted. He got to carry the coat the entire way. She was not going to put anything on top of that princess dress. We had used a Burger King crown as a model to make her a crown with sparkles all over it. She was one little happy girl because she had been a princess in a parade. She has a princess of her own now too.

After our son was born, I remember sewing matching hot pink bell bottom outfits for myself and our daughter.

[JustJoy]

Originally Posted by danielj72

Id like to know how you came to this conclusion, and where did you get your psychology degree? I know many people would agree with me that the baby boomers damaged our nation by their bad behaivor in the late 60s and early 70s. Im guessing your a boomer who might have taken part in this activity, and you just dont like a young whipper snapper like me saying bad things about what happened back then.

Actually wasn't born until '58 and graduated HS in '76 so at the tail end of the 'boomer' generation. So yeah, while not a young whipper snapper as you say I would suggest you study history - you know, a library where you can read those little things called books or even on the internet since your generation grew up with the net. They were burning bras in support of and to bring attention to equal rights for women, protesting for equal rights for blacks and a lot of people did not support the war in Vietnam and protested - it's called a democracy and freedom of speach, as well as 'rebellion' against what they were being told was acceptable behavior. Gee, that doesn't happen in your generation at all

Why don't you just try reading a history book because one doesn't need a psychology degree to know the 'history' behind certain events. At least in our generation we didn't have Big Brother monitoring our every movement, no cell phones with GPS devices where they can pinpoint our location, the government wasn't spending more money on metal detectors and security guards than paying teachers and buying supplies (while cutting programs like sports and the arts), kids weren't killing fellow classmates and teachers. Plus we actually TALKED to our friends, didn't just text them all the time.

So some kids went behind the school and smoked dope; big deal - at least we weren't murdering people. Stoners tend to be mellow, not raging lunatics. Kids weren't parking their butts in front of the TV or computer all the time - we actually went out and had fun, plus had to do chores. Rode our bikes, skateboards were real skateboards and not electric, read books (SHOCK HORROR) 'cause we were lucky if we had 3 or 4 channels on TV.

Try actually taking the time to study history and the cause behind some of the events instead of just casting blame on past generations. Hell, I could blame my mother's generation for expecting me to go to college just to find a husband, pump out babies faster than the octomom and that my 'only' purpose in life was to cater to my husband and be a Stepford wife. We make our own paths and create our own destiny. Even my 24 year old son has told me more than once that even he misses the 70's and he wasn't even born until 1986 (Oh and he was an IB kid with a high IQ so please dont say he must be some kind of idiot)

So pick up a book and enlighten yourself - like I used to tell my son when he was young "books are your friends'.

[danielj72]

Originally Posted by c21boquetebocasgold

Actually wasn't born until '58 and graduated HS in '76 so at the tail end of the 'boomer' generation. So yeah, while not a young whipper snapper as you say I would suggest you study history - you know, a library where you can read those little things called books or even on the internet since your generation grew up with the net. They were burning bras in support of and to bring attention to equal rights for women, protesting for equal rights for blacks and a lot of people did not support the war in Vietnam and protested - it's called a democracy and freedom of speach, as well as 'rebellion' against what they were being told was acceptable behavior. Gee, that doesn't happen in your generation at all

Why don't you just try reading a history book because one doesn't need a psychology degree to know the 'history' behind certain events. At least in our generation we didn't have Big Brother monitoring our every movement, no cell phones with GPS devices where they can pinpoint our location, the government wasn't spending more money on metal detectors and security guards than paying teachers and buying supplies (while cutting programs like sports and the arts), kids weren't killing fellow classmates and teachers. Plus we actually TALKED to our friends, didn't just text them all the time.

So some kids went behind the school and smoked dope; big deal - at least we weren't murdering people. Stoners tend to be mellow, not raging lunatics. Kids weren't parking their butts in front of the TV or computer all the time - we actually went out and had fun, plus had to do chores. Rode our bikes, skateboards were real skateboards and not electric, read books (SHOCK HORROR) 'cause we were lucky if we had 3 or 4 channels on TV.

Try actually taking the time to study history and the cause behind some of the events instead of just casting blame on past generations. Hell, I could blame my mother's generation for expecting me to go to college just to find a husband, pump out babies faster than the octomom and that my 'only' purpose in life was to cater to my husband and be a Stepford wife. We make our own paths and create our own destiny. Even my 24 year old son has told me more than once that even he misses the 70's and he wasn't even born until 1986 (Oh and he was an IB kid with a high IQ so please dont say he must be some kind of idiot)

So pick up a book and enlighten yourself - like I used to tell my son when he was young "books are your friends'.

So I need to "enlighten myself" because I find the activities of the spoiled baby boomer generation objectionable. I see your politics through your post, with your references to womens lib, the war in vietnam and the civil rights movement. You are a liberal, and like all liberals you demean those who disagree with you, call them uneducated and in need of enlightenment as you say. From my point of view, (and most of us who voted for the American in 08) the 60s and 70s represent a time in our recent history where our social values went astray. Many members of the boomer generation introduced drugs on a large scale, engaged in all kinds of sexual immorality, disrespected our nation and its foriegn causes. After the 60s and 70s, divorce rates soared, drug use rose dramatically, STDs like aids spread like a wildfire and church membership has dropped. Todays children do not have the solid family life, and church background that would give them a moral compass to navigate through modern life. Instead the modern familiy is more likely to consist of divorce, drugs and alcohol and general disfunction. This all can be traced back to the events of 35-40 years ago. I was born in 1972 and im in the middle of gen x, and have lived with the wreckage caused by the moral meltdown in the late 60s and early 70s all of my life. You say I need to read more books, learn my history so one day when I grow up and reach enlightenment, Ill think just like you. Keep dreaming, I know my history, I read plenty of books and Im fully aware of how these events have caused our current problems. What should disturb you the most about me is that I vote, and people like me are organizing all over america to stop the values of the 60s from going any further. We are winning against gay marriage, mobilizing against abortion, and remember we completly beat the ERA 30 years ago

[j_k_k]

New variation of Godwin's Law: whoever starts throwing around political labels like 'liberal' or 'conservative' at someone like pejoratives concedes defeat in the argument.

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by marmac

Strange you were digging ditches in the hot sun for --" a buck an hour"--. Minimum wage was $1.25 as far back as the early 60's

Strange you could buy a case of Bud for ---" under 2 bucks "---in the 70's. (We were paying $3.60 in the early 60's )

What's strange about it? It was a summer job from a local rancher, and I needed money. That's what he said he'd pay me, and I took it. Beggars can't be choosers.

As far as the Bud goes, I was paying as little as $1.19 a sixer for cans on sale in the mid-eighties. That's $4.76 a case. In the mid-80s.

[Ceece]

I was in Jr High, one of my least favorite times in life. It's when I first became aware of the uglyness in life and the innocence of my childhood evaporated. I mostly remember things from the neighborhood, the so-called "all american families" who were troubled on the inside and acting normal on the outside. It's the first time I knew that mom's and dad's could be alcoholics, abusers, or just hate the lives they were living and the roles they were playing. The kids, many of my friends, suffered for it. I didn't know what was going on in the world and didn't really care but I watched Night Gallery and The Waltons, I listened to my transister radio late at night in my room, I bought .10 cokes from Taco Bell ("no ice!") on my way home from school, I read books and drew pictures and was pretty much a loner.

In 1973 I started high school and things got much more fun and interesting.