10 Things Only BABY BOOMERS Remember
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Step back into the years of 1946 to 1964, with 10 things only baby boomers remember. From the life-changing polio vaccine to the cultural icons of poodle skirts and Howdy Doody, this video takes you on a vivid journey through the defining moments of the mid-20th century. Join us in exploring the memories and milestones that shaped a generation, and see how these historical events still resonate today.
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What's your favorite memory from the baby boomer era?
Mortgaging their childrens’ futures, so that they could have a few modern conveniences. Totally worth destroying the planet!
Vibrant downtowns. 😢
Being able to walk everywhere we wanted to, and not be afraid. Just enjoying being a kid.
My dad . I miss him very much . 😞 he is the one that taught me to be independent and he made sure I had a slinky. ❤️❤️
My wife and I still go to a drive-in theater about once a month in Blue Ridge, Georgia. Love it!
Lock your doors
I was born in 1958. Howdy Doody and poodle skirts were before my time. The folks who wore poodle skirts were either born at the beginning of the boom or before the boom.
Duck and Cover drills were more a part of the earlier part of the boom than the later part. My BF, who's five years older than I am, remembers them. We didn't have them by the time I got to school. Instead, they had "ads" for fallout shelters.
I do miss soda fountains. They also served regular food, and even when there was pre-made soda, they were a great place to get a bite while shopping.
Whenever there was a space launch, all the classrooms would have TVs wheeled in and we'd all sit there and watch.
@figmo397. ‘58 here, too.
Also, class of ‘76, right. ❤
I grew up in New England, and my experience is the same as yours.
How I loved the space launches!
It was evenings, so not shown in school, but The Undersea World with Jacques Cousteau and Mutual of Omaha’s Wild
Kingdom were also huge favourite of my big family.
Aye, Calypso!
Such beautiful memories.
I was born in 1946 and it was a great time to grow up. I had a drugstore with a soda fountain and we went to drive-ins all the time. Everything was just like this and it was a great childhood!
My first record was not a 45 rpm but a 78 rpm, Davy Crockett with Fess Parker....
I remember that the record player at home has a dial so one could choose 78, 45, or 33 rpm. I do remember the stacks of 45s at parties as a teenager. I went to the High School of Music & Art. In our Music History classes, the teacher would do "drop the needle" tests. We had to identify the genre, time period, and if possible, the composer of the musical example we heard. Later I was the teacher giving such tests, but after a while my students didn't understand the term "drop the needle." They had never seen a record player.
King of the wild frontier.... Patched up the crack in the Liberty Bell.
Davy! Davy Crockett Crocket Crocket Crocket . . .
I watched Ed Sullivan every Sunday after The Wonderful World of Disney. Now they have reruns of Sullivan.I was 5 when I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
The timing is off for Baby Boomers. Poodle skirts, etc., were a little before our time. We were born in the late 1940s and early 1950s. We were too young for 1950 teen trends.
Yeah. Those guys and gals are from what they call the "Silent Generation", not Boomers. The oldest Boomer would have been between 5 and 15 years old in the span of the 1950's.
Boomers started in '46. Took them 9 months to be born.
Boomer here. This was a fun blast from the past - thank you for sharing! I have a Slinky in a little toybox at my house for the grandkids, and my 2½ year old granddaughter simply loves it! About duck and cover - my school also did duck-and-cover drills for potential tornadoes, which we were fortunately never hit with.
Serious question; did people actually think "duck and cover" would help from an atomic blast?? Tornadoes and earthquakes obviously
@@JusNoBS420 I don't remember anything being said about duck and cover being a way to protect us from an atomic blast. I agree that duck and cover would be totally worthless in an atomic blast, but I suspect that it just reduced the feeling of helplessness if such a devastating situation were to arise. What I do remember as a child is "public service announcements" on TV encouraging American citizens to create underground bunkers as a way to survive an atomic blast - like today's survivalists do.
Drive-in theaters had the speakers hanging on a pole you would park next to it and you would hang it on your door. and that's how it was done until the 1980's that is when the drive in theaters switched to broad casting a signal that your car radio could be used instead of the old speakers that used to be hanging on Pole's and that a good many of them were broken and didn't work. But that was the drive in experience back in the day.
Two of the Drive-Ins we visited every weak, had the mountable speaker boxes until the end of the 80's.
Another one, used the accessible frequency. We thought it was cool, but it was on the other side of town, so we didn't go to that one often. When indoor theaters became more common, here in Phoenix, we just started using those instead. Maryvaile Cinimas comes to mind. ❤
I used to love walking around during a movie and hearing the audio from hundreds of speakers.
I was a protectionist and actually fixed the speakers when some dummy pulled away with the speaker still attached to their car.
I remember drive-in movie theaters. The audio box clipped onto the car's window. My parents would dress me in my pajamas before we'd go to the movie assuming that I would fall asleep on the way home. That way they could just put me in bed without having to change my clothes first.
I wasn’t born until ‘59 but at grade school we had polio shots at school but it wasn’t the ordinary injection. It was a gun like injector with several needles at the same time. Howdy Doody wasn’t in my area.
Are you sure that wasn't a tuberculosis test needles? as we had in the UK
@@rosemarygriffin2184 nope. We only got polio shots. What surprised me is we had to have it at school not at the doctor’s. This was the U.S. I was in second grade so that was 1967.
We went somewhere outside (probably a hospital). There were maybe 7 lines with dozens of kids each. They used the normal hypodermic needles, and I put up quite a fuss. As the nurse approached my mom turned my head and covered my eyes. The nurse was good and I really didn't feel much. My tears stopped immediately as I thought, "Oh, is that all there is?" and that was a permanent end to my needlephobia.
I remember those polio shots. The needles must have been as thick as embroidery needles. They hurt a lot!
@@paulawashington3175 they were thin when my grade school used them and it didn’t hurt at all. Guess you had thicker needles.
There was Howdy Doody, Pinky Lee, Eddie Fisher, John Cameron Swayze, Mickey Mouse Club, Walter Cronkite, wLS Chicago, WABC New York, Eisenhower and Nixon, Ed Sullivan, The Tonight Show with Steve Allen , Today Show with Dave Garroway, Captain Kangaroo, Huntley and Brinkley, etc etc.
Captain Kangaroo !
The slinky was also popular in the 80s, so Gen X enjoyed them as much as boomers.
I hate it when people say nucular instead of nuclear.
Me too!
Lil' Bush said.
Like when people say libarry instead of library lol
Then you'd all just hate the Australians. I can't even mimic how they say aluminium.
These students are way too old to be baby boomers
Yep. The oldest Boomer would have been between 5 and 15 years old during the 1950's. Boomers were teens during the 1960's, early 70's. More like American Bandstand people, not Sock Hops.
I learned the original 'duck and cover' drill in grade school. By the time I entered the Air Force SAC (Strategic Air Command, nuclear weapons are our specialty) We modified the procedure. If the klaxon sounds, immediately duck under you desk. Cover your head while bending over with your head between your knees. Kiss your a$$ goodby!
Once again, you are on the mark. Mom told me that she had a Poodle Skirt. I sat there Starry Eyed trying to imagine "Mom" in a Poodle Skirt. I doubt that she went to "sock-hops" she was Mexican in Texas in her time, and wasn't very appreciated. I also remember Drive-ins as a kid. There was one in Big Spring, Texas called "The Jet." I'm ashamed to divulge this information, however, we would sneak in by hiding in the trunk of the car, with the cooler, filled with beer and ice sitting on the backseat of my cousin's "huge" Chevy four door Impala when I was about 12 years old. Yes, what a time. When you could go into a store and buy cigarettes at any age. There is a Drive-in theater in Lubbock, Texas where I live now, and we all try to keep it in business to prevent it from sliding out of existence. Not like the ones from the past where the grainy sounding speaker would hang on the driver's side window. Now, you set your radio, or in-car computer on a radio station to listen to the show.
Great new channel! I just out about you today have already watched all 3 videos. Keep up the great work.
Duck and cover. I remember those drills. But, as I grew older, I realized something. Those drills were only to consolidate we students bodies to make it easier to collect and identify the bodies in the cleanup afterwards.
Makes sense. Didn't want us flying all over the place
Howdy Doody and Clarabell. Tinker Toys. Erector Set. Lincoln Logs. Engineer Bill...''Red Light, Green Light''. Where did the time go?
I remember all but the sock hops and poodle skirts. My older cousins were around to enjoy those.
I remember my grandmas retirement party was 50s theme. I was maybe 10-11 and for a while I was obsessed with that esthetic. I had a poodle skirt and saddle shoes and I remember having my hair curled for the party
I’m a baby boomer, but don’t remember any of these, except drive in theaters and the slinky. I never went to school with anyone wearing a poodle skirt, or to a sock hop, never watched howdy doody, and there was no such thing as a soda fountain in my town, or county for that matter. I think this is assuming all baby boomers were born in 1945. I was born 11 years later, and all this was mostly gone by then.
Some Drive Ins had speakers on the poles that you took off and hung on one of your car's windows.
I remember, just barely, the news that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. I was in my second grade classroom, about midday on the west coast, and I did not have a clear idea of what was going on. The school put it on the intercom, and eventually sent us home. I was mad as hell that cartoons were cancelled! So there's your boomer report, 60 years later.
I was in the sixth grade when someone from the principal's office came to tell our teacher that the President had been shot. I didn't find out until I got home that he had been killed.
Our teacher wheeled the tv in to the front of the room w the news report on and then we got to go home.
I remember my mom saying he better cut that out or he's gonna get himself killed.
Someone else posted a correction to the speakers and tuning in to hear drive-in movie audio in the 50s and 60s so I won't harp on that lol, but I LOVE drive-in movies and was really hoping that when they started making a comeback during the covid years, they'd be here to stay for a while. Sadly it seems they're on the decline again already.
Please make more videos! I love them and you're so fascinating!❤
At the drive-in you hung the provided speaker on the edge of your window glass. Then you could roll the window up and still listen.. You did NOT tune to an FM frequency. No such tech existed at the time. I wish they would've remembered to mention the good old smallpox vaccination too.
Finally, someone got it right! Radio on poles, nonsense. I was a protectionist and actually fixed the speakers when some dummy pulled away with the speaker still attached to their car.
During the pandemic many churches had services in their parking lots and broadcast the church service over car radios. This was during the past 3 years.
We packed the dumb asses into the trunk and paid the Drive In their 50 cents entry fee in the 1960's. We had Middle Easterners running our Drive In. At the best part of the movie, they always killed the movie sound track and in a heavy accent announced... ''De snagg barrrr vill be clowseenk een fifteen minyute. De snaggg barrrr vill be closeenk een fifteen minyute.. Horns blared, headlights flashed and somebody always yelled ''SHUT UP, ASSHOLE!'' We kids never saw the end of any movie because my dad would start the car and leave to avoid traffic going out the gate. Movies...Bridge on the River Kwai, The Guns of Navarone, and The Vikings.
@@RobbinChewings Why do I get the feeling that was a pretty common task that you and whoever else was qualified had to do? 🤣
@NordicDan As I recall, I was paid 2 hours extra per week just for "field maintenance". So yes, it was a regular on-going task.
Just a historical note, the boomer birth era began in 1946, with the return of vets from WW II, and ended with about 1964, due to the falling off of the birth rate because of the introduction of the birth control pill. So some of the things I'm seeing here have nothing to do with boomers at all -- they have to do with depression kids and war babies growing up, like my parents. The Beatles and such like were not Boomers, they just collected our money. Boomers hit adolescence in the 60s and 70s. I think this is something that later generations are confused about.
Good point! Also, people don't realize that many political activists came out of that era and were not "boomers."
I'm GenX, but I remember quite a few on this list.
My great uncle had a drug store with a small soda fountain. When I started playing football in school, our coach told us that carbonated drinks were bad for us so when I went to the drug store, I would make my own soda (usually a coke) but instead of adding carbonated water, I would use plain water. Basically, it was a "flat" coke. I developed a taste for them and, to this day, nothing quenches my thirst better than a cold, flat, Pepsi. I will buy a Pepsi and shake it up in another bottle until it stops fizzing. BTW, I was born in 49 and the 50's and 60's were the best times for be a kid or teenager. My memory of those decades were marred by only two things. My dad died in 57, and the Vietnam War in the 60's/70's.
am not American, but like this, keep it going
We only had the 33 and a halfs. The big records. But I did get my first 45 of Dark Shadow’s Quentin’s Theme. It hangs in my basement. Mom used to read novels in different languages for the Blind that were 45’s, green and flexible.
No such thing--you're thinking of 33-1/3 rpm. You could get 7" records at 33-1/3, and 12" records at 45 rpm, too. The speed was not tied to the size...it's just that the combination of making the record larger and slowing the rotation at the same time allowed for more material per disk.
@@TheEudaemonicPlague You’re right. LOL! It’s been a long time. But what mom did with those 45’s were the first time I’d ever seen flexible records. They’re decades long gone from the early 60’s.
5:17 Many people think that nuclear weapons take a scoop out of reality and that's that. But many lessons were learned from Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
For example, atomic weaponry doesn't work like conventional bombs, and sometimes literally being shaded by a building (assuming you were far enough from ground zero) meant a person might survive while someone a short distance (who wasn't shaded) would not. One of the most devastating films I've ever watched, _Barefoot Gen_ (1983), chronicles the disturbing reality of what it was like...
But insofar as duck-and-cover itself is specifically concerned, that would probably be an extremely helpful procedure - especially for individuals at a sufficient distance from the blast - because as was observed during the Halifax explosion (1917) and more recently during the Chelyabinsk meteor event (2013), people flocking to windows to investigate a bright flash could put them in danger of flying glass debris when the shockwave arrives.
**gets off soapbox**
Cool video, by the way! ✌
The air raid siren test would go off every Friday at 10am, when we were at recess. Being kids, we made a game out of it.
Sadly the duck and cover drills are back, not for fear of a Soviet attack, but fear of an American attack.
We learned duck and cover in the 60's & 70's, but in SoCal it was for earthquakes. As far as I know, they still do it - it would be stupid not to.
Thank you for posting 👍👍
Very few baby boomers would have been in high school in the 50’s.
Most of these are early baby boomers. I was born in 1961 and by the time I was old enough to experience most of this, these weee already gone. A few of them were still popular into the 70's as I entered my teen years in the early to mod 70's
I'm not a baby boomer and I was at a drive in theatre and a roadhouse as a kid. Some of these things took longer to die out in other countries.
After the soda fountains faded away, the jerks moved on to pervade society in general. I know some total jerks...
I guess I am lucky to still have a drive in at my town 🤷🏻♀️
A stable economy? Low taxes? Not being afraid of crime? Job opportunities? Not needing to go into debt for uselss college degrees? A high quality of living based on effort put in? Affordable living? Union jobs being common? (Tbf thays a mixed blessing) Not needing to compete for minimum wage jobs because of the destroyed economy?
Don't forget "safe and effective" ACTUALLY being true lol
Great!
Younger Baby Boomers aren't going to remember some of this. We were babies and little children!
I had a Slinky that got tangled.
Slinkies provided minutes of entertainment.
@@richardvinsen2385 limited minutes for me as I couldn’t untangle mine. I took better care of my Etch A Sketch.
The metal ones were pretty delicate. I had one of the original metal slinkies in the 70s but then my little sister had a plastic one that never tangled or bent, and stayed good forever
@@OriginalDonutposse Wow! Never knew they came in plastic! Interesting! Thanks for the fun fact!
So much in this depicts how the programming of the minds was done…. The trauma/fear based mind manipulation.. So sad!
My older brother was born in 1960 and developed polio when he was 3.
Steveflatbush, pres Bush light was notorious for it
The drills went on till my elementary years in the early 80s , we had to hide under our desk , well my dad was a geologist and I knew about nuclear bombs and I wouldn’t get under my desk and the teacher asked why and I said what good is it going to do ? Anyways, we never did that drill again . My dad was a baby boomer , love you dad ❤️
Slinky: No matter how hard I tried I could never get that sucker to go down no more than one maybe two steps at a time.🤨
Who the hell is a boomers? Born between 1945 and 1964? Most of us weren’t dancing in the 50s!
I have no idea what a poodle skirt is. I can just barely remember mini skirts. Pant suits and jeans have been a fact of life for as long as I can recall being interested in the contents. And yet I fall almost in the very middle of the boom, slightly late.
Although I watch some rerun episodes of the Dick Van Dyke show where Mary Tyler Moore is dancing in Capri pants with intense interest.
Wow
The photos are great!!
But the narrative is really, really, really bad!!! It’s a robot voice, of course. Droning away. . . Like we were alive back then! We laughed we cried, we got bored, we went to the movies. At the movies there were always news reels And real cartoons from Warner Bros. usually - like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck. . . Kids could afford to go to the movies AND have popcorn and a soda. Families went together. Guys could afford to take their dates and snacks - and not be broke. We played at each other’s houses. No specific dates, we just visited and played! Even in New York in all kinds of neighborhoods , kids played in the playgrounds by their buildings. There were always moms or grandmas to watch from the windows. We were safer back then. We lived in America even with all its problems. Now we live in amurica. It’s soo different. Some things are definitely way better, but we’re not safe, and we have nut cases in Congress, no matter what party.
Let’s make it better you guys! Have a great day :) 🌷🌱
Duck and cover was not there to help you survive at all it was there alongside assigned seating so that in the event it happened the survivors could go in and know who you were by the seat you were found at.
I thought it was so we could kiss our butts goodbye 😊
Now I just want to play Fallout all the time for some reason
I miss the drive in theaters. Though I didn't care about the mosquitoes.
Oh, you didn't just say "nucular" did you...
It's seriously ignorant to claim that someone born in the mid-forties is the same generation as someone born in the late fifties or especially people born in the sixties. You want to talk about remembering those years...those of us born in the late fifties and the sixties generally have no real similarity. Much of this stuff will be memories for people born in the thirties and forties, but had stopped being common by the beginning of the sixties. My older brother-in-law is from the generation that would remember this stuff--he was born more than ten years before I was. He's what people think of when they say "boomer". When I was a kid, and read about the baby boom, no one was including people born in the sixties at all. I've run across people who have started claiming people born before WW II started are boomers, too. The whole BS thing of naming "generations" is seriously unhelpful. For one thing, you lump some together that don't go together, and at the same time, divide them arbitrarily. What do I mean? To whoever wrote this script, someone born Dec 31, 1945 is a different generation than someone born Jan 1, 1946. Complete and utter nonsense. It's only gotten worse from that point. Just a bunch of meaningless distinctions.
A good friend of mine collects wired speakers from drive-ins. One would hang them inside the car on the window. The window would be rolled down just enough to have the speaker hooks over the top of the window. Later, the theater would have a low power AM transmitter allowing the viewers to hear the sound over their radios. The poles for the wired speakers were not antennae.
Time to play Fallout again.
What about the Mickey mouse club?
I learned to spell “”encyclopedia “by watching Mickey Mouse . I’ll bet a lot of other boomers learned that way too.
Is this the era certain people think about when they say Make America Great Again or MAGA??
Moon walk 1969
im y2k and had a slinky
You forgot Mitch Miller's sing along. My mother forced us to all watch it together and I hated that show.
I love the last item -- the Space Race! The USA had lost, but somehow it showed "American supremacy"...