Fiddlesticks! I seem to have missed out

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GeorgiaXplant

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on being a part of any group that swept through the times. Not a beatnik nor a preppie, hippie, yuppie, goth or hipster, not even a baby boomer. No darned wonder that I often felt (and still do feel) all at sea.

My mother used to say that she was born 50 years too soon, and I was born 50 years too late. She may have been right:)

Were you one or some of the above? Granted, we're too old to have done the goth thing or to be hipsters.
 

I think I'm a baby boomer. I'm 58. Not that you win anything for that :D I never really fit into any groups in my life.
 
You get to be a baby boomer; they were born between 1946 and 1964. Guess that makes all my kids baby boomers, too. I wonder if I dare bring that up with them? LOL
 

My sister was born in 1944 -- she wasn't a baby boomer, I think those kids were called war babies. Maybe that's you, Georgia. My sister was quite old fashioned in her way of thinking, cautious, conventional and traditional and didn't like to try new things.

I was a baby boomer, being born several years later. I was the opposite, inquisitive and adventurous, a hippie in the 60s and liked to be where the action was.

But why not just be ourselves and not label ourselves in any way at all, Georgia. I doubt if you missed out, looks to me like you had plenty.
 
Only baby boomer here, I had some similarities with hippies, but was never really considered one.
 
Another Boomer here, but not by choice - I too would have preferred living long before my time.

I was a hippie at the tail-end of that movement, but never a yuppie, preppie or Lord forbid a Goth or hipster.
 
Cookie said:
My sister was born in 1944 -- she wasn't a baby boomer, I think those kids were called war babies. Maybe that's you, Georgia. My sister was quite old fashioned in her way of thinking, cautious, conventional and traditional and didn't like to try new things.
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I was born before the war so don't get to be a war baby, either. I'll admit to being old fashioned, cautious, conventional and traditional, but I'm usually game to try new things.

Phil, why am I not surprised that you'd have been a hippie?
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Phil, why am I not surprised that you'd have been a hippie?
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*shrug*

I hung out with my high school and college buddies, a small group who subscribed to the dying hippie ethos. We were the last customers at the head shop, the last to wear elephant bell bottoms and headbands and I suppose the last to not fully trust the Establishment.

Had I been born even 10 years earlier I would have fit in much better. Might have even made it to Woodstock! :playful:
 
I was a war baby and I have never been part of any "in" crowd.
I became a wife and mother rather early and had no time or money to indulge in any fads.

I don't feel deprived because it has allowed me to follow my own compass and explore my own interests at each stage of my life.
 
I feel that chart is off. I was born in '62 and my brother in '52. Two different generations there. He was a draft card burning, love bead wearing hippie. I grew up mid-70's, guitar greats from the early days and "Urban Cowboy" got me into country. So yeah a bit of country, a bit of Blackmore and I could appreciate Jim Caroll n' Lou Reed.
 
I didn't have my son until my mid-20s and had plenty of time and a bit of money to indulge in some healthy fun, fashion, frolic and free love. I don't feel deprived at all either, and I don't look down on anyone or begrudge those who did things differently. In the long run, what does it matter anyway?
 
fureverywhere said:
I feel that chart is off. I was born in '62 and my brother in '52. Two different generations there. He was a draft card burning, love bead wearing hippie. I grew up mid-70's, guitar greats from the early days and "Urban Cowboy" got me into country. So yeah a bit of country, a bit of Blackmore and I could appreciate Jim Caroll n' Lou Reed.
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I was born in 52 and my brother the end of 61. I think the range of 1946-64 for baby boomers is way off.
 
Everything I've ever read about boomers states the demographic to be 1946-1964, and they might have a good reason for this, probably the post-war period when people were having lots of babies and recovery was still taking place.
 
Cookie said:
Everything I've ever read about boomers states the demographic to be 1946-1964, and they might have a good reason for this, probably the post-war period when people were having lots of babies and recovery was still taking place.
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I know it's always stated at 46-64 but it still seems a big range to me. A 70 year old and a 52 year old seem like different generations.
 
Ameriscot said:
I know it's always stated at 46-64 but it still seems a big range to me. A 70 year old and a 52 year old seem like different generations.
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There is a big age gap, but I don't think the range has much to do with the actual people, but more to do with what was going on at the time, reconstruction and reproducing and setting up families - it was a boom - babies and housing. After 1964 people stopped having so many kids (birth control pill?) and things settled down.
 
Cookie said:
There is a big age gap, but I don't think the range has much to do with the actual people, but more to do with what was going on at the time, reconstruction and reproducing and setting up families - it was a boom - babies and housing. After 1964 people stopped having so many kids (birth control pill?) and things settled down.
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Yea, I think the pill came out around that time.

We who grew up in the US think of the 50's and 60's as prosperous. I get a very different story from hubby who was growing up in Scotland. He claims I grew up in wealth (not by American standards - dad in navy, mom a housewife) because we had a car, central heating, a tv, a phone, indoor bathroom.
 
I think your hubby is right. In my mind a car, central heating, tv, phone and indoor bathrooms, and stay at home mom signifies wealth compared to what most European countries after WWII were going through, still sifting through the rubble of bombed out buildings. That goes for the UK too, which was also bled dry by the war and (Thatcher in the 60s).

I think the big reconstruction of the 50s and 60s was mainly in the US and Canada, creating tons of jobs and money, so yes, I would say rich, just like in Father Knows Best, the big house with the white staircase and the pretty wife in her pearls and high heels. People didn't lose their homes and money from the war, just got more as things improved.
 
Cookie said:
I think your hubby is right. In my mind a car, central heating, tv, phone and indoor bathrooms, and stay at home mom signifies wealth compared to what most European countries after WWII were going through, still sifting through the rubble of bombed out buildings. That goes for the UK too, which was also bled dry by the war and (Thatcher in the 60s).

I think the big reconstruction of the 50s and 60s was mainly in the US and Canada, creating tons of jobs and money, so yes, I would say rich, just like in Father Knows Best, the big house with the white staircase and the pretty wife in her pearls and high heels. People didn't lose their homes and money from the war, just got more as things improved.
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Yes, many of us were the Father Knows Best, Leave it to Beaver family. The UK was trying to pay back its debt to the US for what they sold them during the war. It wasn't even paid off until 2006.

BTW, Thatcher was PM from 1979 to 1990 and tried to destroy Scotland and the north of England putting many, many people out of work.
 
Right, wasn't sure of Thatcher's reign, but she was hated throughout the land. The whole post-war thing is complicated, but with soldiers returning from WWII and Korean War and settling down to raise families which required housing and jobs and goods I think that's what the boom was all about.
 
Cookie said:
Right, wasn't sure of Thatcher's reign, but she was hated throughout the land. The whole post-war thing is complicated, but with soldiers returning from WWII and Korean War and settling down to raise families which required housing and jobs and goods I think that's what the boom was all about.
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Very hated!

My husband's dad fought through the entire war. Married in 1947 and began his family starting with my hubby in 1948. He was a Glasgow ship builder. Of course, Thatcher shut that down later.
 

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