Babyboomer RV'ers Have Experienced it All!

Tom_Diane - no offense taken, I just think it's interesting how generations tend to do the opposite of their parents. They say the generations repeat also and there are really only:

GI
Traditional
Baby Boomer
Generation X
Gen Y is really similar to GI
Millennial is similar to Baby Boomer

A couple others that haven't been mentioned are "The Band" and "Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks". A couple awesome groups!
In 1970 I had the pleasure of owning an 8 track demo tape of The Band, it had 4 songs on it. I really wish I still had it.

What a hoot. I was a War Baby and spent part of the fifties and sixties in a Cold War strike force, you can't believe the applause that went up in the mess when we picked up a station that was playing "
Rocking Robin", along with stuff from the Everly Brothers, Elvis, and some of the other cool songs. Came home and got married and had kids, never did like our kids music, couldn't make out the words.

toedtoes wrote:

Tom_Diane wrote:
Just a couple more thoughts from those years. I do recall the paper routes and some less pleasing times like as baby up to a toddler, we had an out house that a drag to get to in the winter but it had to be done!
Not knocking the next generation but the work ethic was stonger. I used to get a gallon of lawn mower gas in the can and fill the tank, I would go door to door asking to mow a persons lawn for 50 to 75 cents. In the winter I hit up those same houses for removing snow for the same fee I for mowing! That work ethic kept me in pocket change and in a lot of cases, the people had me work odd jobs for them in the summer, raking, pulling weeds etc.
It seems like the responses to this thread goes back to the music! I thought I was the only one! I'm in poor health and it lets me reminice and go back to my youth!
This is a neat thread! The gen x'ers are going to create some great memories going back to their childhood and no doubt they will be tied to the music

The next generation (Generation X) also did work like that (at least those who had traditionalist parents). Baby boomer parents tended to put priority on education; traditionalist and GI parents tended to put priority on work. So, it isn't really an issue of work ethic, it's an issue of prioritization by the parents. And because the baby boomer parents put the focus on education, they usually supplied "play money" for the kids so they didn't need to go out and do odd jobs.

The differences between each generation aren't because of something lacking from the generation, but because of the changes in parenting that the prior generation did. No one really wants to raise their kids like they were raised - so if one generation raised kids this way, the next generation will raise them that way.

I hope I didn't offend anybody with my last reply.
There is no more hay baling for the farmers , all big round bales now. I would tell to some that were younger than me that I worked with how we did the door knocking for mowing and such. Had a couple of them tell me that they would not be caught doing things like that!
No more paper routes but I wouldn't let one of my kids or grandkids in this day and age take a route.
Everything is on a computer or mechanized and some jobs are skilled jobs that most of us boomers didn't take the opportunity to learn.
Fact of the matter is that I rely on the younger generation for setting up our video electronics computer fixing and things like that!

We had opportunity and space. Few Regulations and no interference.
The bigger the crowd the less the opportunities, the less resources available to everyone.
Did not understand how fortunate we were. Mom and Dad had it rough and I spent a lot of time in the mountains with Grandmother.
It was so quiet it hurt you ears. The only sound was the school bell at morning noon and evening. It was several miles away but it was about the only sound. No airplanes flew over, and a car on the dirt road was rare as hen's teeth.
No money but neither did anyone else. Grand Ma and Mom worked hard, the routine would absolutely frighten a young person today, to death, and they would refuse to do it.
Walked to store a mile or so away with a rifle on my arm at age 6 or so to buy .22 shorts with a quarter and four cents,it seems. Longs or Long Rifles when they came along. No sales tax.
i remember the first sales tax. Went to the corner store in town. all of a sudden if you spent more than a dime you had to pay eleven cents. So I bought a dimes worth and no more. It was supposed to be temporary. i was maybe 6 or o even then but more aware of money, when it concerned what I could raise or get from Mom or Dad.
You bought cars by weight, or the standard seemed to be. You had a lot of money your car was bigger and heavier.
Drove a Model T, sorta, as a kid.
Walked to town by myself on the mountain. Walked to school a mile away second day, at age 6 by myself. Talked to the Policeman who manipulated the stop light on the main road I had to cross. Was always fascinated by his revolver.
I still remember him.
Went to school the same time Dad walked to work. got home about the same time.
In high school worked after school and bought my own cars.
Kids won't make that relative kind of money today.
Anyone anted a job there was at least two waiting somewhere.
Army was a rite of passage to manhood.
Even in the seventies, jobs were everywhere. Your wife didn't work, in our world.
There was no such thing as unwed mothers or teen pregencies, in that world either.
People that just graduated Eighth grade, had more knowledge and better able to function than high school and even college kids today.
Matter, of fact most, money, I've known didn't finish high school.,
They didn't need to or want to learn how to manipulate. They learned, to think to learn, and to earn.
Everyone said yes Mam and no Mam. No one feared walking to town or school
we left our doors unlocked on the mountain and in town.
Everyone went to Church and knew right from wrong. you didn't go to Church you were shunned or didn't do business with you.
There is wisdom there for today. They would never elect someone, that didn't, at least, appear, to everyone as moral and devoted to his Country and Fellow Citizens. People didn't go on words, of politicians but the actions they heard.
Sure they got fooled, sometimes but not anywhere like it is today.
People know they are lying, but vote, based on the best show, it seems.
In school we carried pocket knives, even the girls.
We made quill pens one year from turkey feathers using our pocket knives, carefully instructed by our Teacher, Mrs Parish, in the Fourth Grade.
We wore dress shirts and polished shoes to school every day come rain or shine.
To go to School was the same as going to Church or any one's house or town, or Doctor.
You were brought up to put your best face forward, every time and to live by the standard.
I could go on and on as all the older Folks and hopefully all the younger ones here.
Even Dad, before I was though of, as a Sharecropper was dressed, as fine as they could afford and went everywhere with best face forward. Even as a poor Sharecropper and I mean poor, he was Deacon in Church.
I don't know how we can put American back in order but we owe it to our children and our Republic to try.
I'll quite now, as I've diverged and just noisy.

Tom_Diane wrote:
Just a couple more thoughts from those years. I do recall the paper routes and some less pleasing times like as baby up to a toddler, we had an out house that a drag to get to in the winter but it had to be done!
Not knocking the next generation but the work ethic was stonger. I used to get a gallon of lawn mower gas in the can and fill the tank, I would go door to door asking to mow a persons lawn for 50 to 75 cents. In the winter I hit up those same houses for removing snow for the same fee I for mowing! That work ethic kept me in pocket change and in a lot of cases, the people had me work odd jobs for them in the summer, raking, pulling weeds etc.
It seems like the responses to this thread goes back to the music! I thought I was the only one! I'm in poor health and it lets me reminice and go back to my youth!
This is a neat thread! The gen x'ers are going to create some great memories going back to their childhood and no doubt they will be tied to the music

The next generation (Generation X) also did work like that (at least those who had traditionalist parents). Baby boomer parents tended to put priority on education; traditionalist and GI parents tended to put priority on work. So, it isn't really an issue of work ethic, it's an issue of prioritization by the parents. And because the baby boomer parents put the focus on education, they usually supplied "play money" for the kids so they didn't need to go out and do odd jobs.

The differences between each generation aren't because of something lacking from the generation, but because of the changes in parenting that the prior generation did. No one really wants to raise their kids like they were raised - so if one generation raised kids this way, the next generation will raise them that way.

Just a couple more thoughts from those years. I do recall the paper routes and some less pleasing times like as baby up to a toddler, we had an out house that a drag to get to in the winter but it had to be done!
Not knocking the next generation but the work ethic was stonger. I used to get a gallon of lawn mower gas in the can and fill the tank, I would go door to door asking to mow a persons lawn for 50 to 75 cents. In the winter I hit up those same houses for removing snow for the same fee I for mowing! That work ethic kept me in pocket change and in a lot of cases, the people had me work odd jobs for them in the summer, raking, pulling weeds etc.
It seems like the responses to this thread goes back to the music! I thought I was the only one! I'm in poor health and it lets me reminice and go back to my youth!
This is a neat thread! The gen x'ers are going to create some great memories going back to their childhood and no doubt they will be tied to the music

rhagfo wrote:

JesLookin wrote:
Along this same subject: 57 years ago yesterday was the Day the Music Died. "Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and "the Big Bopper" died in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959"

I had the opportunity a few years back to drive up to Clear Lake, and see the Surf Ballroom, where they last preformed before that faithful flight.



Glad to be born in the 50's, I agree the best music, for about three decades!!
50's Fleetwoods Come Softly Darling

Born to be Wild Stepphenwolf 60's

Then there is this Classic!

In a Dadda Da Vida Iron Butterfly

70's Eagles "Witichy Woman"

While I was a teenager in the 60's and 70's and of course really enjoy that music, I find the doo-wop and harmonies of the 1950's to be the most ROMANTIC music!

Almost forgot, Amos & Andy, Brother Dave Garner, Fibber McGee & Molly, Lone Ranger, Sky King, The Shadow and on it goes.

Jim

Cummins12V98 wrote:

NC Hauler wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:

NC Hauler wrote:
I like Joan Jett's , "I love Rock N Roll", but not a big fan of very much of the music since the 90's, but there will be the occasional one that I do like.. Even .At 65, I STILL play my music loud:B

Same here!

The station that has become our favorite is Serius channel 350 "Red White and Booze" it plays a lot of Country and Classic Rock.

Yep along with 60's, 50's, 70's, 32 down thru 17...channel 49 for some Soul Music...really like the Sirius XM radio...AND you got Country, new and old..

Me Again and his "BETTER" half like the "LOVE" station on Sirius. Personally would fall asleep if I listened to that while driving. :B

wouldn't be good...to doze off while driving and listening to the "Love" station:B..(channel 17 if not mistaken:))