All you old babyboomers out there: a question:

[hedgehog]

Did anyone ever actually use the word "groovy"?

Bonus questions: Did anyone ever actually wear love beads and/or a fringed leather vest?

I'm a young baby boomer and I never heard the one or saw the other. I was watching "For Love of Ivy" tonight with my Gen-Y daughter and we were dying laughing at the Beau Bridges character. Were there actually people like this or was this a figment of the entertainment industry?

[Kat45]

1. Lots of people wore love beads.

Most of us made them themselves. I remember the brown fringed leather jackets; not sure about the vests.

[Radio_Lady]

102. We're not in the Baby Boomer generation, born in 1934 and 1939.

I always forget the name of the generation we're in -- Boomers started in 1946 and ended in 1964. All of my stepchildren are boomers, as well as my son-in-law.

Nevertheless, we embraced the styles and some of the language. I gotta find the picture of my husband in an apricot colored leisure suit with GREAT BIG CRAB on a necklace. He was born in the sign of Cancer (Moon Children).

Also, my avatar is hubby with his HAIRPIECE (He got rid of that in the 1980s and now shaves his 1/4 cup of hair -- so much easier. No shampoo, no conditioner, no combs.)

I'm sure we said "groovy" because I sang the song "Feeling Groovy" -- I still say groovy once in a while.

Slow down
You move too fast
Got to make the morning last
Skipping down the cobblestones
Looking for fun and feeling groovy...

La-la-la.

What year was that?

[NewWaveChick1981]

2. I remember saying, "Groovy!" a few times.

It was in the early 70s, when I was somewhere between 7 and 10 years old. :) Mom heard the Brady Bunch kids say it, so it was OK for us to say it. :rofl: I never had love beads, but I had a kid-sized purple fringe vest that my sister and I both wore. My parents were not opposed to peace symbols, but my husband's were. :P

[jbane]

3. Groovy,no fringe vests....

yes. Some people wore love beads,mostly girls. If I ever heard someone say "groovy" I would laughed in his face.

[Ptah]

4. Groovin', on a Sunday afternoon

Feelin', couldn't get away too soon
I can't imagine anything that's better
The world is ours whenever we're together
There ain't a place I'd like to be instead of -

Groovin', down a crowded avenue
Woh-oh-oh, doin', anything I like to do
There's always lots of things that we could see-ee
We can be anywhere we like to be-ee
With all those happy people we could meet

Just groovin', on a Sunday afternoon
Oh-oh feelin', couldn't get away too soon

[WCGreen]

5. I say groovy all the time.....

So did Greg Brady...

As in,

"Hey Jan, could I bang your girlfreind, that would sure be groovy....

Chicks dig my fringe vest....."

[Neshanic]

6. I wore a Nehru jacket once. No leather though.

[mzteris]

7. of course we said

GROOVY - and I consider myself a young babyboomer.

Lovebeads? Definitely. AND Granny glasses!!

I never got the fringe leather jacket/vest - but only 'cause my mom wouldn't buy one for me. But I knew others who did.

Tie dye.

Sandals. (Remember Earth shoes?)

Hip huggers and/or bellbottoms.

Halter tops.

Head bands (the kind that went AROUND the head.)

[Metta]

14. *Great* signature line.

Simple, pointed, straight to the point. :thumbsup: :hi:

[hedgehog]

18. I don't know if it counts if your mom was stil buying your clothes

I loved Earth shoes myself but didn't realize they were hippy wear.

Halter tops? I don't remeber those but then I went to a Catholic girls' High school where although we didn't wear uniforms we did have to wear skirts. Cullotes were the big no-no for us.

[Arkansas Granny]

31. I loved Earth Shoes. I have found a brand recently called Earth

Shoes and although they are pretty comfortable, they don't have the negative heel. I wonder if you can still find those.

[Critters2]

39. Yep, they still make 'em

go to http://www.earth.us Negative heel and everything.

[LynzM]

96. Bet those give you hell of a calf workout, no?

Yikes! Cool, though.

[calico1]

8. I am a fairly young boomer, born in '58.

I clearly remember love beads, fringed leather vests and other things like that. Oh, the leather bands people would tie around the forehead. I didn't wear any of those things but I remember seeing a lot of people who did.

[evlbstrd]

9. Yes,

and yes and yes.

[Xipe Totec]

10. We laughed at people who said groovy

they were poseurs, though the term was not invented yet.

[hedgehog]

11. Let me clarify - did anyone over the age of 14 ever say groovy?

I mean, did an honest to goodness, pot smoking hippy ever say groovy?

[GalleryGod]

93. Not often.

However...I constantly used BOTH:
"I CAN DIG IT "

and

"I CAN DIG WHERE YOU'RE COMIN' FROM "

[Metta]

12. In our crowd, groovy was a manufactured word, inauthentic.

Although, we said solid, which was a jazz/beat term and far out. I wore beads and never called them love beads, another artificial term, afaIwc. Likewise, fringed vests were over the top and likewise inauthentic to us. There were those who embraced each part of the '60s whether it came from the establishment/someone just wanting to cash in or from the counter-culture. I suggest watching Woodstock or Don't Look Back for a somewhat more accurate view of (part of) the times. :hi:

[datasuspect]

50. "i was rapping to the fuzz. they closed the new york thruway man!!!!

the new york thruway is closed!!!!!"

arlo guthrie, woodstock movie.


that scene makes me cringe.

[Metta]

62. I remember Steven Still addressing the crowd as "man"

which I thought was out of focus. I wonder how I'll feel next time I see it, whenever that is.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. We used "groovy" only in an ironic way. We did say stuff like "far out"

and "right on," though. I didn't have a fringed leather vest, but I had bell-bottom jeans and occasionally wore beads. But I don't really remember that much;they say that if you claim to remember the '60s you weren't really there. :)

[hedgehog]

16. You're kidding?!? You actually said " Far out"?!??!

(snicker, snicker)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. Sure.

But the only time you could say it was after you had partaken of the wacky tobaccy and had spent awhile watching one of those revolving beer lamps. Then it was OK; you just didn't say "far out" in the course of ordinary conversation.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. I recall saying "far out" if something freaky happened

as when I found out that one of the most countercultural guys at my school was the son of a highly regarded academic.

[Blue_In_AK]

24. I STILL say far out...

It's a habit I can't break.

[Arkansas Granny]

32. And I use the John Denver inflection when I say it.

[Carla in Ca]

37. Hi, Blue!

Long time no see. I still say far out, too. If you were part of it, it never leaves you. And we haven't finished what we started. I still use the lingo, play the music and protest a 'war' every Wednesday.

And remember, if you ever make down here, lunch is on me!

[Blue_In_AK]

42. I will remember...

We do get down that way now and then. I'll PM you next time we're planning a trip.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

68. You actually say "snicker, snicker"?

Far out.

[China_cat]

71. More like

far FUCKING out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And groovy was left to Simon and Garfunkle.

[Katina]

15. only when I sang along to 59th st Bridge song

by Simon & Garfunkel

[Lydia Leftcoast]

19. Born 1950, never said "groovy" except in jest

I don't think it reached the Midwest until it was already passé on the Coasts.

If we used it at all, we used it in an ironic sense to indicate something that adults thought that teenagers would like, only we really didn't.

For example, when the junior department of a local clothing store had a Hootenany Clearance Sale (Hootenany being a weekly teen-oriented variety show that featured popular singers and bands), we looked at each other and said, "Isn't that just groovy?"

As far as fashions were concerned, a lot of the "hippie" fashions lasted into the 1970s, and some of the items mentioned above, such as Earth Shoes, were really from the '70s, not the '60s. And the early 1960s weren't at all hippyish.

I recall wearing bell bottoms and hip huggers, poor boy sweaters, white knee-his with heeled loafers, colored yarn in the hair, ironed hair, dark eye make-up with pale lipstick, paisley neck scarves, crocheted vests, box-pleated skirts, velveteen jumpers with no waists and big armholes, the "Tom Jones" hairstyle (parted in the middle, pulled to cover the ears, and tied with a bow in back), textured stockings, black velvet minidresses with lace trim and cameo broaches, denim overalls, suits with miniskirts and boxy jackets, short-sleeved T-shirts worn over long-sleeved shirts or blouses. Oh, and how can I have forgotten the shift, a dress, usually mini, with no waist, just a couple of strategically placed darts so that it wasn't totally straight up and down. The shift reigned supreme from about 1962 to 1970.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. LOL! Didn't "Hootenanny" totally suck?

A perfect example of the ironic use of "groovy."

[GalleryGod]

95. The Show? Not really.

It was quite good, however, it was all FOLK singers.

With each anecdote , I'm forever glad I grew up in the East !

[Serial Mom]

55. OMG - you mentioned a lot of things I tended to want to forget!

Same age as you and you were right about it all!

The early 60's were still Elvis harido's and girls looking like they were 30 years old when they were 16 - my sister was 3 years older and was very different in both appearance and attitude - she fininhed HS in 65.

[spindrifter]

21. Yes, yes and yes.

I had a fringed leather (suede) vest and love beads. I had a friend that said groovy so much it must have been a verbal tic.
We were lunatics, okay?

[Blue_In_AK]

23. I said groovy and I had beads...

...but I did not have a fringed leather vest. I should add that I am indeed an "old" baby boomer, born in 1946, the first year which qualifies.

[Arkansas Granny]

33. 1946 here also. The oldest boomers.

[graywarrior]

25. I used to say groovy, baby as a joke, giving the peace sign

and wearing my fur "Sonny Bono" vest.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

26. Yes, it was frequently used by people

my age

[InkAddict]

27. Ve...ry in-ter-esting...

from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Also, I had a hard time with Lily Tomlin being President Bartlett's secretary on West Wing...every time she showed up, all I could think of was her character speaking into the old telephone, "Is this the person to whom I am speaking?" The brown suede fringed leather jacket still gets hauled out of closet for nostalgic events that call for a blast from the past and sometimes the word "groovy" just pops out of my mouth. I'm prvileged to say I had Beatlemania bad and watched Ed Sullivan faithfully but never attended a real protest or rock concert until I was far past the Never Trust Anyone Over 30Something age.

[Courtesy Flush]

48. Lily Tomlin is under-rated

We saw her in Flirting with Disaster this week. She played an aging hippie. She really deserves more acting roles. She's got a very real quality, and she's still funny.

[Redstone]

28. Not me, cool.

Redstone

[smitty]

29. No and no. I avoided people who said "groovy" but I did have

a girlfriend who wore love beads.

[Arkansas Granny]

30. OK. I've worn love beads and used the word groovy on a few

occasions, but I never owned a fringed leather vest. I did wear big bell bottom jeans, halter tops, long straight hair that was below my waist and platform shoes so tall that I'd probably fall off of them if I tried it today.

[Critters2]

34. We wore love beads and (fake) leather vests in Davenport, IA

OF course, I was in grade school, but we did. I never heard anyone say "Groovy" except the Monkees and the Brady Bunch, though.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

35. Born 1950 Lived in the Height Ashburry dist in the 70's

Said "groovy" sometimes, used the expression "I'm Hip frequently, Still say right on. Accused Richard Nixon of using the terms "Right arm" and I'm hemp. Wore "Love beads". We made em ourselves and distributed freely to each other and sold em to the tourists in Yosemite. No fringed vests but I did have a fringed guitar strap. Any other questions? Oh yeah, for what it's worth, at 55, my views have not changed much. A little less naive perhaps but just as angry at our corrupt government. Maybe even more so cause I realize that this war is all about enriching the "haves", not about the rest of the bullshit they try to stuff down our throats. Was not as aware during Vietnam, just knew it was bullshit but didn't fully grasp the motives of those who caused it.

Edited to try to correct the spelling of Ashburry but, frankly, I can't remember how to spell it anyway cause its been too long and hell, I never found the stage at Altamont either, so what the fuck?

Edited again to use the correct version of too.

[Critters2]

41. "I'm hemp" Hehehe nt

[Blue_In_AK]

43. You were there right after I was.

I lived in that apartment building on the northeast corner of Haight and Broderick in 1969.

[China_cat]

73. Do you remember the Blue Unicorn

on Ashbury?

[Blue_In_AK]

74. I don't remember place names from those times

as much as I do things that were happening (or seemed to be happening). :hippie: I was really broke and very stoned back then, so if it was the sort of place where one had to spend money, I probably wasn't there.

[China_cat]

76. It was a little coffee house

type place where you could go and sit and play chess or read and nobody hassled you to buy anything. Or, if you were of a bent, they had an open mike and anybody could get up and play or sing or whatever. Very loose, very homelike.

[GalleryGod]

94. Of course you mean HAIGHT-Ashbury...

The Chicago Seven

[Silver Swan]

36. Yes, with qualifications

I am another 1946 vintage baby boomer.

I don't think I ever said "groovy" except in jest or when it was a word in a song.

I did have a fringed vest--it was long. I would wear it with a short dress, and the bottom of the fringe came to the hem of the dress.

I had some beads made from apple seeds, but no love beads. The best love beads I ever saw were made out of little kids big wooden beads!

Most of the "hippies" I knew were just putting on an act.

[Mz Pip]

38. Yes, yes and yes

and bell bottoms, paisley shirts, love beads, patchouli oil.

I have a picture of me at the '68 Democratic convention. I should scan it and post it. Yes we did exist. We still do. The fashion has changed though.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Dervill Crow]

40. Yes, yes, and yes.

And once in awhile when particularly delighted I still say, "Right on!"

Then I look around to see if anyone heard me. :hippie:

[Digit]

44. Groovy sometimes, not often

Laugh In had made it too much of a cliche.
I did not have a fringed leather vest, but I did wear a fringed knitted poncho and platform shoes.

I am thinking of offering some of these clothes on Ebay. My bell bottom jeans are classic and unfortunately way too small for me now....(size 5 at the most).

[SoCalDem]

45. fringe vests..holey mocassins, frayed, holey jeans

not into the beads thing...never said groovy.. we mostly said "bitchin'..cool..far-out

[NMMNG]

46. I had a black suede fringed jacket

Of course that was in the 80's and I was born on the early edge of Gen-X.

My roomie, however, has a hand-me-down brown fringed leather jacket from one of her older brothers (he's in his 50's). I have no idea if he ever said "groovy" though.

[av8rdave]

47. I never used groovy back then, but I do occasionally now

it just seems to fit into aviation language nicely.

[Lowell]

49. I used to hear it a lot

but then I was drafted into the green machine in the 60s, cut my hair, took away my bell bottoms and put me in army fatigues. But even in nam we had guys wearing hemp seed beads, granny glasses and talking funny. By time I got back to the states in the 70s that nonsense was pretty much over with. In the army it was only the heads who carried on like that.

[seemunkee]

51. Fringed vest wearer, probably used groovy a few times too

The vest I bought in Tijuana on a trip I took with my grandparents, I remember my aunt haggled it down to $5.00. I still have it.
I also had a buckskin fringed jacket for the winter that was originally my mothers from when she was a teenager.

[Joe Fields]

52. What do you mean? I still say it!

[Serial Mom]

53. My husband had a fringed suede jacket - still does

but only my 15 yo grandson fits into it, not my husband

[livetohike]

54. Don't recall saying "Groovy" much but I did say "Far out !" and

yes, I had a long, fringed, leather vest and love beads. I still have the love beads. I still have several pairs of bell bottoms and old tops and long skirts. It's my hippie museum :-).

I was born in 1952, btw.

[July]

56. TV representations of the Sixties and early Seventies --

generally hilarious in their cliches. Nevertheless, I've always found That 70's Show to be a true blast from the past, especially in the clothing (and I recognize some of the furniture, too).

"Groovy" wasn't really common among my friends and classmates (I'm a 1954 boomer), but we did say "far out" occasionally, as well as "right on," and a whole lot of "cool, man." There were a few probably local expressions, like "boutiquer," which meant someone NOT into the natural look -- this was after the mod years of the sixties, of course (THAT was a fun time to be a teenaged girl, I have to say).

Once in a while I have to dust off some expression from the sixties or seventies because it's just right for the occasion. "You're harshing my mellow" comes to mind.

[leftyladyfrommo]

57. I had a really beautiful fringed jacket.

I knew lots of people who said "groovy." But more used "righteous."

And I don't think I knew anybody with "lovebeads."

[JitterbugPerfume]

58. yes, yes, and

yes


I OWN a pair of earth shoes !

[ChickMagic]

59. Yup

Groovy, love beads, fringe, headband, peace sign painted on face, jeans with ecology flags and an American flag on the ass. Does anyone remember "gear" as an adjective?

[tigereye]

60. and Dazed and Confused didn't seem that accurate either

there were Stoners, but they didn't act, or dress, like that.

[ccjlld]

106. I thought Dazed and Confused hit the 70's perfectly

I remember watching that movie and thinking that was my life as a teenager. The driving around, the keg parties, the arcade/pool hall. We did all that stuff, but I grew up in a small Kansas town.

By the way, does anyone remember these from the 70's?

[pitohui]

109. re the shoes -- do i remember them? i still have them! EOM

.

[Whoa_Nelly]

61. Made beaded flower necklaces, wore beaded headbands

Cut jeans apart at the bottom outside side seams and inserted GROOVY fabric to make HUGH!!!1! bell bottoms, wore leather braided and macrame belts, a wide hand made leather watch band with metal rings, leather vest with fringe, high top leather moccasins with fringe....and am sure there's more :rofl:

Yes...said all the following:
Groovy!
Right On!
Far out!
Bummer!
Bum Trip!
Book it!
(meant "GO!", as in leaving a place quickly, or when driving the car to cross a road and get across traffic or speed through a changing light.)

[OffWithTheirHeads]

63. God loves old Hippies. Buddha does too!

So does Allah, Krishna, Shive, Jesus, etc. All paths lead to God (head).

[madrchsod]

67. you were a hippy weren`t you.....

most of the chicks out here wore the same thing in fact i married one.our daughter thinks we were odd but the again she wants me to pick out some good stones albums for her....

[Whoa_Nelly]

75. am still a hippie chick

and loving it :D

[Lydia Leftcoast]

72. And the first jeans skirts were made by ingenious young women who

would take a pair of old jeans, cut off the legs just above the knee, open the inseams and crotch seams, and insert panels of fabric to create a skirt.

Those of us with fewer sewing skills would take ribbon or braid and sew it to the bottom hems of our jeans to make them longer. Ribbons with peace signs were especially popular.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

64. I used groovy in a joking way...

I had a couple of long necklaces; but nobody would have dared to call them love beads. I loved fringed leather vests; but my parents wouldn't allow me to wear one. I was taught that hippies were people who were so messed up on drugs that they often passed out and drowned in their own vomit.

I was a fairly late boomer (1958); and, obviously, my parents were over 30 when the hippie thing became the rage.

[madrchsod]

65. sometimes i used groovy

i used "far out man" a lot cause i was...love beads and fringe jackets? no way man,strictly blue denim shirts and blue jeans. yes some of my friends dressed in fringe and love beads

[swag]

66. In Madison, Wisconson, 1967-69 they did.

Maybe earlier and later also, but the period referenced is the one I witnessed.

[astral]

69. How about embroidering flowers all over your jeans?

and butterflies? And wearing them to school. Holes in the knees, of course, but in those days you didn't buy your jeans pre-worn-out, you just wore them til they really WERE worn out --- oh and how could I forget, SEWING PATCHES in the butts of your worn out jeans so you could still wear 'em. Back then it was even cool to sew patches on the knees instead of letting the knees hang out.

And, of course, the pants had to drag the ground and fray at the heels, or else they were called "high tides." Capris still look dorky as hell to me. . . .

Dark blue jeans that weren't worn out yet were okay, so long as they were flared at the bottom at least SOMEWHAT, and as long as you wore your waffle-stompers with them.

In those days girls couldn't wear tank tops to school, in fact, nobody had even thought of it yet.

And if you were in a group, there would be a joint being passed around, and if you didn't want it because pot made you paranoid, you were very uncool for not partaking.

Okay, I wasn't a teen in the 60's yet, but I sure wished I was!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

70. Who you calling "old", little girl?

Say rather "experienced". :evilgrin:

And yes, I had a fringed leather vest. It was, like, groovy. :rofl:

[RebelOne]

78. I'm sure that this OP thinks that anyone over 40 is "old."

[hedgehog]

89. By that definition, the OP is ancient!

I'm 52, but I was about 4-6 years behind the curve of what the classic babyboomers lived through. Kids my age got all the backwash like tighter rules in high school because of what was going on with the kids who'd been through a few years before.


I'm not exactly old, probably middle or middle late middle age when I think about it honstely. I am fascinated by people older than me who are absolutely determined to remain in early middle age forever.

[RebelOne]

100. Well, I guess you can classify me as "old" even

though I don't feel like it. I am 67 and remember the term "groovy," fringed leather jackets, bell-bottomed pants, which I had plenty of. But being this age is batter than the alternative of being dead.

[hedgehog]

103. Sometimes I stunned to realize that I'm almost as old as my

grandparents were when I was little. Looking at old photographs though, it's clear that I'm a lot healthier and younger than they were at this age. Both my grandfathers nearly starved as children (no exaggeration!) and both were doing hard physical labor before they were 15 years old. By age 55, they were old men.

[marzipanni]

77. Not exactly, but here's a shop I found

http://www.mayahatcha.com/about_us.htm
when I googled to find an image of buffalo sandals (made in India (of water buffalo-are they not sacred?)) I had some around 1967.
I had some Kurta shirts as in the photos of this shop. I think they are back in style? I still have some old skirts of cotton material printed in India....and striped madras bedspreads. In the late sixties import stores with inexpensive stuff were popular, at least aound Boston and San Francisco.

[rustydog]

79. Cool, man. what a groovy question!

I believe I may have used the g word a few times in my life. Most definitely in the 70's man.

[Submariner]

80. Harvard Square expresso shop Beatniks said groovy

I first heard groovy used by the beatniks hanging out in Harvard Square in the early 60s, just before the word hippie was used instead of beatnik. It was the era of coffee shop poetry and bongos'.

[graywarrior]

82. I used to hang out at a coffee shop in Harvard Square.

Can't remember the name of it...leather booths is all I can remember, as I was also s-t-o-n-e-d most of the time.

[LUHiWY]

99. Its what...

...you remember that counts?

[SnohoDem]

81. I never said groovy

but I did wear love beads and a leather vest. I threaded beads and made watchbands, vests and other leather items.

:hippie:

[bikebloke]

83. Still use "groovy" facetiously

As in "cool and groovy".

[bif]

84. I still say "Bogue"

I'm single-handedly trying to bring it back.

[JitterbugPerfume]

85. it was a different time,

a different era

what seems dorky now , was cool then


You will see in a few years!!

[book lady]

86. I remember my husbands bell bottoms, his long dark hair and

his full mustache. He was groovy, man.

His hair is grey now as is his mustache but he is still groovy, man.

[Crewleader]

87. Singing "Feeling Groovy"

I think it was by the Turtles'. Yes this baby boomer wore bleached jean bell bottoms, high platform sandals,and wore my brother's army jacket in protest when he was one of the lucky ones to come home from Vietnam.

[Le Taz Hot]

88. To answer your question,

"groovy" was some idiotic media term. Anyone using it IRL was thought of as pathetically un-cool. Love beads? Yep. Fringed leather vest? Yep. In fact, I've never lost the "Bo-ho" look. I've been wearing burkies and Moroccan clothes for years (they're wonderfully comfortable). Since the Bo-ho look is now in again, I'm in style (only took 40 year for everyone to come around to my way of thinking). :hippie:

[Catchawave]

90. I preferred the "collegiate" look:

weejuns, circle pins on round collars, saddle oxfords, Villager brand clothing, kilted skirts w/big pins to keep them closed, jumpers, pleated skirts, oxford cloth blouses, and lots of Shetland Sweaters :)

[GalleryGod]

92. All you need to do is tell me your perfume choice & it's a perfect

=FLASH-Back !


Slick,1969.

[Catchawave]

97. White Shoulders, of course :)

[Digit]

111. When I read your post, I had to see where you were from!

I lived in Va, too, specifically No Va.
I still have my circle pin, and in addition, I have my mood ring, and my wooden ring.
Ladybug/Villager clothing, and Pappagallo shoes or Bass Weejuns.

[Catchawave]

113. Springfield !

I loved growing up in NOVA :hi:

[Digit]

114. Alexandria!

Was this a regional thing or what?

[GalleryGod]

91. Yes. Yes. and Yes.

August 19th, 1969. I'm on the left. Checkout my bud, Larry's Mocs ?!?

[hedgehog]

98. What kind of sneakers are those?

I don't remember striped sneakers back then, but I was never into clothes very much. Were they American made?

[GalleryGod]

108. Nice catch.

Early-Addidas brought back from Germany by a friend who was stationed there!

[nini]

101. Groovy was a 'bitchen' and 'boss' word

:P

actually, I don't remember using it. But others did.

[hedgehog]

104. That's a pretty baby.

She reminds me of my nieces at that age.

[nini]

105. Thanks... that's my grandson

:-) Mom doesn't want to cut his hair yet.

He's a sweetie.. That's him in my avatar too. He's growing up pretty fast!

[hedgehog]

107. I hated getting my sons' first hair cut when they were little.

They had such pretty curls. They were blondes, so they spent most of their first year looking bald!

[femmocrat]

110. There is no such thing as an "old" baby-boomer.

I take offense at that adjective!

[hedgehog]

115. First half and second half baby-boomers?

Technically, I am a babyboomer, but I was always too young for all the quintessential baby boomer cultural events. Everything was always over or on the way out by the time I became aware it existed. I don't remember coonskin caps, Elvis, Eisenhower, the Beatles on Ed Sullivan etc. I only remember Woodstock because the Thruway closed, and I lived in Buffalo! The boys of my year escaped the Draft because Nixon pulled the US out of Viet Nam just in time. On the other hand, I always had to watch my money because of the stagflation of the Jimmy Carter administration followed by the policies of the Reagan administration. There was no question of tuning in, turning on and dropping out for me; who could afford to do that!

[KT2000]

112. Far out was my preference

and I did not wear a finged vest but did make some for others.

[RetroLounge]

116. Born in 1961

Never said Groovy or heard anyone say it unless you were being sarcastic.

and love beads would have gotten your ass kicked in my hood.

RL