Senior Squids Reflect on being a Baby Boomer
A Baby Boomer Lensography of Sorts
The Baby Boomer Generation has lived through some pretty incredible history in our lifetime. We listened as man orbited the earth for the first time, we saw a President assassinated, we marched for civil rights, and protested the Viet Nam war.We have witnessed advancements in technology from the space program, telephones, televisions, and computers.
As children we heard the beginnings of Rock n Roll music in the 1950s and made the bands of the 1960s reach stardom. In the 1970s we danced our hearts out to the disco beat.
We drove the muscle cars and chopped motorcycles.
We were flower children, hippies, freaks, and geeks. We were soldiers, draft dodgers, and conscientious objectors. We were Woodstock!
And now we are at a time in our lives where we should be Storytellers. We should pass on to the next generations the history of our lives.
Things we heard as kids: Be sure to fill the ice trays, we've got company coming.
Baby Boomers Memories of Youth
Reflections on our childhoods and as we grew how we became aware of the history before us. The Baby Boomers began to look at the world differently. They became more politically active and for the most part still are. Our generation worked at getting things changed.-
Memories of Louisiana Baby Boomers
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New Orleans has always been a magical city, but was more so in the 1950's and '60's. During that time people sat on their front porches and watched all the children of the neighborhood. Children could play in Audubon and City Park without fear and co...
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My part in the baby boom
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This is my personal view of what's it's been like to be a baby boom kid, and adult with hopefully a few more years to go. This lens is about many aspects of life during the years following the Second World War right up to now. The good things and the...
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A Baby Boomer Defines Life After World War II
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I was born in 1952 in Oakland California. My father had been in the Army during World War II. My mother was very young. I was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area towns of El Cerrito and Richmond. The following free-form narrative explains my feelin...
Things we heard as kids: You've torn the knees out of that pair of pants so many times that there is nothing left to put a patch on.
We Bought the World a Coke
Things we heard as kids: Quit slamming that screen door when you go out!
Baby Boomers and Music
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A Baby Boomer's Life Through Music
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I am definitely a baby boomer, born right in the middle of the boom - 1956! Music has always been a huge part of my life and, like most people, certain songs remind me of specific times and places. The 50's brought the birth of rock and roll - a...
Things we heard as kids: Don't forget to wind the clock before you go to bed!
Baby Boomers Encounter Orbs
Well, not all of us...but this Senior Squid has certainly been visited.-
Orb Pictures by Susie Lehto - ND
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VIDEO: Captured Alien Baby ... I started capturing orbs on camera in the summer of 2004. They show up on camera at certain locations on a regular basis. The orb pictures here are ones that I took on June 14th of 2009 ... hoping for this paranormal ph...
Things we heard as kids: Don't go outside with your school clothes on!
Baby Boomers in the Work Force
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One Baby Boomer's Life in the Work Force
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How is a baby boomer defined? First, they lived and grew up in the United States, with influencing trends from westernized nations of the world. Second, time frame in essential. 1946-1964 is the baby boom with 4 million births in the U.S. each year....
Baby Boomers Witness Change in Technology
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Babyboomers And Technology
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The world is nothing like it was when I was a little girl. The most technological we got was a two-party phone line and maybe a (manual) typewriter or a fancy (for its time) brand new car. I never dreamed of what's going on today with computers! It i...
Baby Boomers Lived Through the Cold War
Although we like to remember our childhood as an innocent time, we baby boomers also lived in a state of fear during our childhood. We were taught to know where the nearest fall-out shelter was. Maybe our Dad's built one in our own yard. We were drilled at school about getting under our desks or to travel in single file down to the school basement to be protected.My friend Alex, aka Drifter0658, wrote this incredible lens which describes very well what the Cold War fears did to the children at the time.
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Fallout Shelters
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Handsome fallout shelters popped up like imagined mushroom clouds during the diplomatic standoff known as the Cold War. The face to face confrontation between the United States and the U.S.S.R held the world in a vice for half a century with the thre...
A Generation That Has A Sense of Humor
Senior Squid, Sylvia aka boutiqueshops shows the world what a great sense of humor that Baby Boomers can have. We can look back at what would be deemed as child abuse now or at best neglect and we can laugh about it. Sylvia shows the lighter side of what life was like growing up as a "Boomer".-
Boomer Humor - Midlife Strife & Raging Aging
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Do you remember when penny candy cost...a penny? When Dad complained to high heaven about gas costing 35 cents? As I get a *cough* little bit older, I'm starting to find nostalgia is a wonderful friend. It makes us laugh, cry and remember our childh...
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Guest Book for Baby Boomers
or any other Generation
Feel free to leave a comment on your life as a Baby Boomer or just give us the "Peace Sign".
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- boutiqueshops boutiqueshops Sep 12, 2009 @ 4:08 pm
- Super Baby Boomers tribute lens for our Senior Squid lensography, Bev! I always love seeing your work!
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- drifter0658 drifter0658 Aug 20, 2009 @ 10:59 pm
- I guess in all the hustle and bustle of another challenge ang a growing pile of projects I missed this lens. Awesome as always Bev.
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- FunGifts4All FunGifts4All Jul 18, 2009 @ 5:36 pm
- Awesome job. I remember... We had a party line.
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- oliviabrooks123 oliviabrooks123 Jul 18, 2009 @ 5:12 am
- Wonderful lens! Love the picture of the phone
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- EagleScoutMom EagleScoutMom Jul 17, 2009 @ 1:21 am
- I loved the sound of dialing that phone ! I'm 49 so not quite a SENIOR Squid yet ! But have all the same memories of yesteryear and what a great world it used to be. I'm lensrolling your boomer lens with mine about the classic beach cruiser bike that we boomers are helping to make a comeback. http://www.squidoo.com/cruiserbeachbikes
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