Everyone goes there. GenZ, GenY, GenX, Baby Boomers. They take their kids and grandkids. Even dogs get a bite. Don’t dismiss this as an “only in California” political story. We know that the latest trends and fads start here and travel east as fast as a speeding bullet train. You’re with a hungry munchkin. SheRead the Rest…
I’m the baby boomer “comeback kid,” although I’m hardly a kid anymore. Believe or not, the most collected male doll in pop culture will be 50 in a couple of days. I was born a teenager due to the miracle of modern plastics. I never had to search for my dream girl: Barbie Millicent RobertsRead the Rest…
1970s baby boomers sparked a revolution that turned their grandparents unwanted artifacts into sought-after antiques. Some pieces never made it. They were surgically transformed. Remember the Honeymooner’s stage set? Alice Kramden was humiliated by the old buffet and dining table her cheap husband Ralph bought from a second-hand store. How could anyone know that 20Read the Rest…
♫ Fer sure, fer sure She’s a Valley Girl In a clothing store Like, OH MY GOD! (Valley Girl) Like – TOTALLY (Valley Girl) Encino is like SO BITCHEN (Valley Girl) There’s like the Galleria (Valley Girl) And like all these like really great shoe stores I love going into like clothing stores and stuffRead the Rest…
Baby Boomers were just coming-of-age when Beatniks were in their high bongo days. The earliest boomers might have dabbled in those rebellious waters or had an older sibling who did. How much do you know about the Beatniks? ►Match the quote to the writer: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…Read the Rest…
“Wanna go to the Grotto, daddy-o?” “I can dig it, man. Let’s make like an amoeba and split.” Early baby boomers were exposed to those wild, crazy beatniks. You descended a long, rickety flight of dimly-lit stairs, arriving at the basement of an abandoned warehouse. A few bare bulbs hung from the ceiling. Candles satRead the Rest…
BABY BOOMER REVERIE: 1980 Stefan grew up hungry in Hungary. Frugality his master, hard work his creed, he immigrated to the Promised Land after the unsuccessful 1956 uprising against Russia. He became a junk dealer in the right place at the right boomer time. What was recently regarded as worthless stuff and used merchandise wasRead the Rest…
Mix New Age frenzy, boomer consumers, and an appetite for fads—you have a glowing new product: the mood ring. Slip it on and the “magic crystals” change color depending on your emotional state. How cool is that! Baby boomers were wearing and swearing by them in the 1970s. Unlike another hot fad of the era,Read the Rest…
Raquel Welch in a cave woman bikini ♫ She was afraid to come out of the locker She was as nervous as she could be She was afraid to come out the locker She was afraid that somebody would see. One, two, three, four, tell the people what she wore. It was an itsy bitsyRead the Rest…
It was an unlikely #1 toy—a set of plastic poke-on face accessories for the modest potato. You can’t get lower tech than that. It was part doll, part erector set, all silly, and appealed to everyone. Toys were typically gender specific. Girls played with dolls, boys with trucks. Baby boomers carried on this tradition. You’dRead the Rest…
