Boomers Loved the Ford Mustang
On April 17, 1964 the Ford Motor Company introduced the Mustang at the New York World’s Fair. To say it was an instant hit would be an understatement. First conceived as a two-seater sports car in...
View ArticleBoomers Witnessed the 1964 New York World’s Fair
As the last batch of Baby Boomers were being born fifty years ago, New York City introduced growing boomers to a fantastical future at the 1964 World’s Fair. Imaginative architecture, technological...
View ArticleBoomers Knew All About Grass
When Baby Boomers were in their pre-teen years, their parents were very happy to get them involved with lawn maintenance. Many parents of boomers came from urban dwellings with limited yard space, so...
View Article‘Cause People Said We Monkeyed Around
The post-war era that spawned the Baby Boom was significant in many ways, one of which was that for the first time children in different parts of the country were having similar experiences in school,...
View ArticleBoomers Watched the Evolution of the Selfie
It seems that everyone between the ages of 12 and 35 is obsessed with “selfies” these days — those ubiquitous, quick snapshots of one’s own bad self. Miriam-Webster added the word to its dictionary...
View ArticleBoomers Watched the Evolution of Christmas Lights
The Boomer Era was host to any number of innovations that helped to create the technological landscape we inhabit today. In our parents’ rush to the future after the War, there was an effort to pick...
View ArticleMister Boomers’ Picks from 2014 Posts
It’s the holiday season, and it has become tradition here at misterboomer.com to take some time off. So, in lieu of a fresh post, check out these encore presentations of Mister Boomer’s Top 11...
View ArticleBoomer Boys Brought On the Noise
Have you noticed how quiet cars run these days? It’s hard to know a hybrid engine is even running when you are standing next to one, and even the standard internal combustion engines are so quiet...
View ArticleBoomers Listened to Stereo Radio
Mister Boomer has written about many things that were invented, introduced, or popularized during the boomer years, and now here is another: FM stereo radio. Radio stations had been technologically...
View ArticleBoomers Grew Up With Two-Tone Cars
Henry Ford’s Model T wasn’t the first car in America, but is considered the first affordable mass produced car. In his 1909 autobiography, Ford said he told his team that “Any customer can have a car...
View ArticleBoomers Ask, “Where’s My Flying Car?”
There is perhaps no other imagined technology more dear to the hearts of boomers than the flying car. Throughout our generation’s early years, the promise of taking a car from the road and into the...
View ArticleBoomers’ Labor Love Lost
The American workforce has changed dramatically since the Baby Boomer generation came of age. In our day the country was predominantly based on a manufacturing economy. The advent of technology,...
View ArticleBoomers Watched Things Come and Go
In 1965 Barry McGuire sang Eve of Destruction, which in the Cold War era, put voice to the feeling that should we engage in a nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union, it would amount to virtual...
View ArticleThe Christmas Lights Doorway Electrocution Incident
One year after Mister Boomer’s father had switched the Christmas tree bulbs from the large, teardrop-shaped glass bulbs to white mini-lights, he found them so satisfactory that he bought more, this...
View ArticleBoomers Are Still Ironing Out the Details
In a recent discussion among millennials and boomers that Mister Boomer was privy to, the subject of ironing came up. Mister B was surprised to hear that virtually all of those present said they had...
View ArticleBoomers Benefited from Space Products
Fifty five years ago this past week, Russian army major Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. Alan Shepherd, the first American in space, followed a month later. Thus began the Space Race....
View ArticleBoomers Called Them “Four Eyes”
If you grew up during the Boomer Era, chances are you heard kids who wore eyeglasses referred to as “four eyes.” It was a derogatory term that made fun of the lenses kids had to wear, especially thick...
View ArticleSome Boomers Took Typing Classes
In our modern age using a keyboard is necessary for almost all complex interactions with computers and other electronic devices. Yet as boomers, we did not have the advantage of knowing this...
View ArticleBoomers Banked the Old-Fashioned Way
A major financial institution announced this week that it was rolling out a new smartphone app that could control all functions of their ATMs. For several years now banks have accepted check deposits...
View ArticleBoomers Watch As Things Disappear
When contemplating the rate at which things we once thought commonplace are disappearing, Mister Boomer was reminded of the lyrics to a song by Badfinger (1970): If you want it, here it is, come and...
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