35 Ways You Know You Were Born in the 60’s

Published on Thursday, April 23, 2009 by Katherine

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I am enjoying participating in Problogger.Net’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge.  Today’s “assignment” (it’s like I’m in school again!) is to write a “list post.” 

Since I’ve been ruminating about the fact that I am getting crazy old at 43, I thought I would look back at my childhood and remember days gone by. 

 

You know you were born in the 60’s when:

• When you were a kid, your station wagon’s rear seat faced backwards.
• When you hear Sting singing, “I want my MTV,” you flash back to the beginning of, you guessed it, MTV!
• You remember the song, “Convoy.”
• You or your friend had a tape player that held two cassettes, so you could copy one tape to another.
• You had big hair at one point in your life.
• You remember, “The Spirit of 76!”
• Everyone had cap guns.
• You had clackers before they were pulled off the market due to eye injuries.
• Stores sold candy cigarettes that you could blow into and “smoke” would come out.
• You were of legal drinking age when you turned 18.
• School locker rooms had showers.
• After breakfast you went outside and didn’t come back until dinner, except perhaps for a lunch break.
• The first handheld game was football.
• You remember the first Rubix cube.
• You knew a “brain” who could do the Rubix cube in a few seconds flat.
• Instead of using body boards, you rode waves on blue and red canvas rafts.
• Your parents would watch the news at 6:00 and it was borrriiinnngggg!
• Your first record player had two speeds.
• You wore nice clothing when going on an airplane.
• Two words.  Clogs and Candies.
• You owned a Jellybean Jacket. Mine was blue!
• You had a bubble umbrella.
• When you were young, you had a banana seat on your bike.
• You knew someone who had a Flexy.
• McDonald’s was “over one million sold.”
• You collected bottles for money.
• You chewed “Smooth and Juicy” bubble gum.
• You remember Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlor.
• There was no such thing as pizza delivery.
• You got up to change the channel.
• Coffee was percolated.
• There were no microwaves.
• You had a pet rock.
• You had slime with worms.
• Bazooka Bubble Gum cartoons would sometimes have the note, “Help, I’m trapped in a bubble gum factory!” on them.