Boomer check-in

[DoggyDaddy]

Heck I knew the Adam Smasher.
Yup, we be boomers.

"Who can sing like fat boy do? The mighty Adam Smasher!" I remember him coming to our high school to perform once.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

If you remember Cher being married to her first husband, you might be a boomer.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

If you ever tried to unscramble the cable tv premium channels with aluminum foil, you might be a boomer.

 

[Backpacker]

If you remember playing with the Knockers / Clackers two balls on a string toy.

 

[Snapdragon]

If you remember playing with the Knockers / Clackers two balls on a string toy.

Yep. Klick-Klacks. I also remember hula hoops and footsie. I sucked at yoyos... could never get them to work.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

If you remember playing with the Knockers / Clackers two balls on a string toy.

Yep, I had a set with the glass balls before they went to plastic. I remember a lot of kids breaking their forearms too!

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Yep. Klick-Klacks. I also remember hula hoops and footsie. I sucked at yoyos... could never get them to work.

I had a Chinese yo-yo. It was two sticks with a string attached to the ends, and then the "yo-yo" was a wood and plastic contraption that looked like a small dumbell that you got spinning by lifting up on one of the sticks, taking up slack with the other stick. The plastic "wheels" had cuts in them that would start whistling when you'd get it going fast enough. Then you could do tricks like throw it up in the air and catch it on the string while keeping it going.

 

[target64]

You might be a boomer , if you were the tv remote.
Your tv had uhf and vhf dial.

 

[Backpacker]

You might be a boomer , if you were the tv remote.
Your tv had uhf and vhf dial.

That was me! Dad called out the orders and turned the knobs.

 

[lrdudley]

Wife and I are both 49'ers. Doing fine. Marked one item off her list Friday. Since I still work at an "essential business", it will be back to work on Monday.
You might be a "Boomer" if you were in the first draft lottery?
I was, and I won. 256

 

[femurphy77]

Skateboards! Don't forget skateboards! The first round.

 

[sgtmack]

Couldn't get Dad to spring for a Schwinn "Crate" bike, so I had a Sears "Screamer" (yellow). Gear shift on the crossbar, 20" slick in the back, 16" in the front, ape hanger handlebars and a sissy bar on the back.

Mine was purple. I loved that bike.

 

[Alpo]

You might be a boomer if this magazine was the hottest thing a kid could find in the magazine rack at the Ben Franklin.

 

[Expat]

Who else had the creepy crawlers. You squirted some kind of juice into the molds. Run by electricity. Made edible bugs. They died out pretty quick. I wonder if they were burning houses down, burning children or poisoning them....

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Who else had the creepy crawlers. You squirted some kind of juice into the molds. Run by electricity. Made edible bugs. They died out pretty quick. I wonder if they were burning houses down, burning children or poisoning them....

I had creepy crawlers, but they actually came out with the mold that fit on the Vacu-form machine. You'd clamp in a sheet of thin plastic in a frame, it would heat the plastic, then you'd stick a "mold" under the plastic and pump out the air so that the plastic would form itself to the mold. You could make little HO race car bodies with it. The creepy crawler plates would fit in the square frame of that machine and it would cook the plastic "goop" into worms, bugs, etc.. Mine weren't the edible kind though. They were just some kind of rubbery soft plastic.

 

[SouthernStar25]

 

[SAILORGOLF46]

Born in 46, probably have seen and lived through every thing you all have mentioned but can't remember it.

 

[Trigger Time]

Today is Vietnam Veterans Day.
I just wanted to let you "boomers" who are Vietnam vets know THANK YOU for your loyal service to our country. Vietnam vets have a special place in my heart and are an inspiration to me. And my family members who served in Vietnam had a huge impact on me joining the Army. You paved the way for modern members of the military and hopefully because of your sacrifices both abroad and at home other veterans will never again be treated that way.
I Salute you all!

 

[COOPADUP]

 

[chef larry]

If you remember playing with the Knockers / Clackers two balls on a string toy.

You must be playing with your ding A Ling -Chuck Berry