Born in 1960?

1960 also

Don't get what it is you want to know though?

I was born in 61 so I guess I can't add anything here. Damn, damn, can.

Well, were you conceived in 1960, R2?

Damn autocorrent

Damn autocorrent

Hello. I like our generation. We’re not quite boomers, but we’re better than the next bunch. We’re not obnoxious. Real 70s kids.

Then again, we did come of age in a heady, dangerous time. I miss many of my friends.

Born in December 1960 so I squeaked into your list.

Not at all happy about turning 60 next year.

Those who are born in 1960 will be 60 this year

Don't remind me, R9.

I remember the 60s, vaguely, and the idea of being 60 years old in 2020 would have been beyond my comprehension back then.

You're right R9, I wasn't thinking about it being January.

November 1960 here. One of my earliest memories is the JFK assassination. I have vivid memories of the late 60's and the whole of the 70's. It all flew by in a flash.

[quote] Just curious about how many of your old homos on here were born in 1960

I have no stable of old homos. All of mine are young stock.

1960, too. I remember a lot about the ‘60s; one of my first vivid memories was seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. I found being a teenager in the ‘70s kind of boring, until punk rock came along. I realize now that we had an incredible amount of freedom and parents who just weren’t paying much attention.

Let me ask you guys something:

Were there really gloryholes in a ton of places like I envision? Easy places to hook up?

Gloryholes were everywhere! Even at Sear Roebuck!

Born in 1958. I'll just hobble away quietly.

My earliest memories of 1960s TV include: the Beatles on Ed Sullivan… A Dinah Shore commercial where she sings “see the USA in a Chevrolet”… And Gilligan’s Island, in color!

I also remember the Kennedy assassination because adults were crying and that was weird.

[quote] That crackling sound is just my knees and lower back

Well try to quiet them. Young folks are trying to have a conversation here.

I was born in 1960. My mother was 27, and she saw only two more US Presidents than I did.

Were you born during the Eisenhower or Kennedy administration? Eisenhower here, which is weird to think about.

Hold on, I guess we were all born during the Eisenhower administration.

R18, my earliest TV memory was "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" on a B&W TV. We didn't get a color set for years. That show gave me my first TV crush, David Hedison. Hedison was 92 when he died last year.

I think I remember JFK's assassination - but it may be I just remembering people talking about it later on. One of my earliest memories is when my twin brothers we born and I was 3 1/2. Like one of the other posters, I lost a number of close friends to AIDS - my best friend in jr. high/high school and my best friend in college (though no one would admit he died from AIDS....)

I was watching an old Partridge family episode recently, and Danny Bonaduce looked exactly the way kids our age looked back then. I think I even had the same pair of striped pants he was wearing. He was born in ‘59, though.

My parents were fairly cheap in some ways so we didn't get a color TV until I was in high school.

There were no helicopter parents back then, kids just did whatever they want as long as they were out of their parents' hair.

My brother was born on March 3rd, he died in 1991 of AIDS. He was very charismatic and outgoing. He lived and worked in Las Vegas managing restaurants in casinos like the main restaurant in Cesar’s Palace. His office was near the main stage and Joan Rivers would always stop in to say “Hi” and chat going back and forth from the big room to her dressing room.

He was always fascinated with Marilyn Monroe and used to say “live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse.” Despite the disease, he actually did do just that. When he was little he told my grandma, who was born in 1903, how exciting it would be when the calendar year reached 2000. She explained that she would probably not be alive when that happened and he cried. She lived until 2005. He was buried on land that had been in my grandmother’s family until they lost it during the Depression and a cemetery was built there.

R27 - thank you for sharing. What a beautiful, touching story. I'm sorry for your loss. How wonderful, though, that your brother had a sibling (brother? sister?) who could so eloquently describe him and so lovingly remember him. These are the kinds of moments that make DL a very special place...

People in our generation - late boomers? We don’t really have a name - are generally very nice.

[quote] I realize now that we had an incredible amount of freedom and parents who just weren’t paying much attention.

Interesting observation. And looking back, true.

I'm 30 years younger than you.

I love the elders on here. I have learned so much about gay culture, art, idea. I was born about 20 years laters so I am no spring chicken. But I love learning about what my gay elders had to go through.

Thank you. And I really mean it.

I was supposed to be born in mid January 1960 but then my mum went into hospital with complications Christmas week and I was born via C section on 22nd December 1959. If she’d only hung on for another nine days I would have been born in the Sixties, damn it! So I’m joining in here anyway.

I remember JFK’s funeral, the Manson family massacres (my parents tried to hide the newspaper from me but at nine years old I was fascinated!).

And I remember watching the first lunar landing (a few weeks before Manson) - it was lunchtime here in Australia and I can still see the scary nuns marching around trying to impose order with rulers across the knuckles.

Jump ahead to the early nineties and I was averaging one funeral a week as my friends all died. I turned sixty last month and I have one gay male contemporary friend - we both made it through, nobody else did.

I remember how the Boomer genertion was so looked down upon back then. They were raised on Dr. Spock's 'Baby & Child Care' and the old people thought that was the worst. Dr. Spock said said that parents shouldn't beat their kids with belts, and well, that destroyed the whole generation. The Boomers were all spoiled druggies, going to peace marches and having sex in the streets. Somehow the Boomers have forgotten all that.

The Boomers are our badly behaved older siblings.

Curious-- do you all identify more with Boomers, with Gen X or with neither?

What people have told me is that it often depends on birth order, e.g., that if you are the youngest and your siblings and cousins are all Boomers then they identify with Boomers, if you're the oldest then with Gen X, etc.

Fascinating thread though.

PS: In a similar vein--those of you who remember JFK assassination--are your 100% certain you remember it (you would have been under age 4) or do you think, like OP, that you've just heard about it so many times it may just feel like you remember it?

I was born October 1960. As others have said I was told to leave the house and not come back until dinner. We had 7 people living in a small ranch house.

The only good part of that is I'd go out and explore nature. Down to the stream, the woods etc.

I'd shovel snow from driveways and rake leaves in the fall to make money. Pretty much on my own.

I'll be 60 next month.

No, I do not recall the JFK assassination. Barely recall the landing on the moon, but I think I had a crush on astronaut Neil Armstrong.

I never had any gay friends pre AIDS, until after college in 1882. Had lots of bathroom sex, understall and thru gloryholes holes on college campuses, rest areas and department stores from 1977 or so thru the AIDS crisis, and beyond. Still frequent rest areas but the few left near Boston are 40-55 miles away.

Never got HIV but was worried at times in the late 80 if my lymph nodes were swelling, as a possible sign of AIDS. But didn't do drugs, never had much receptive anal sex...so maybe engaging in mostly oral saved me from AIDS.

Spent lots of college downtime in Boston taking the subway in search off cock at other campus bathrooms, sometimes finding a gloryhole, but they'd oftentimes get patched up soon enough..

Never knew anyone personally who died of AIDS, though knew of a former housemate's friend who did. He was ten years my senior; saw him years later after not seeing him in years socially at a few potlucks, in a cruising park in Cambridge not far from Harvard.

Know of an acquaintance my age who'd I'd see at times cruise the Fens in Boston, and see him at the porn theatre and years later at a Providence bathhouse. He never got AIDS to my knowledge.

R36 I think Dazed and Confused captured the spirit of the caught-between-Boomers-and-Gen-Xers generation. As a teenager I felt like I had just missed something really exciting and cool, and those born1960-64 wandered through the culture without a coherent identity.

As for the JFK assassination, I only remember the news being on all the time and being happy when my regular shows came back (it was all about ME).

born in '69 and you all are OLD fucks

If being born in 1960 makes you an old homo, I must be an ancient homo. I was 7 years old in 1960.

I wasn't born in 1960, but four years later. And thanks to a little genetic fuck up I'll likely be dead in 3 to 5 years.

R39 nails it.

I was conceived in 1960, but born in 61. So I can identify with a lot of y'all.

Dr. Spock's book was well used by our parents. We were vaccinated to the hilt, and our parents used cloth diapers that were likely washed repeatedly in the family washer until they fell apart. In my family, babies were breast-fed for a week or two until they could be switched to formula served from glass bottles that had to be boiled to sterilized.

We grew up on b/w TVs and only three channels. Kids were encouraged to go outside and play until they were called in for dinner. Parents were not our best friends - and we knew what a belt or paddle felt like. The only television aimed at young people was Romper Room or Bozo (or the local TV equivalents).

I learned about sex from Dr. Rubin's book "Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex*" published in 1969; my public library had a copy and I would read it in the stacks. We also coveted discarded Playboy and Penthouse magazines from our Dads or older brothers (or our buddies brothers).

[quote] Barely recall the landing on the moon

That seems a bit odd, given you were 9 years old and it was a huge event, especially for kids that age. You must have been preoccupied with something else.

[quote] I'm 30 years younger than you.

And I’ll bet you did the math on your phone to figure that out.

Your cohort is labeled Generation Jones (1957-1965]. Late Boomers that had huge expectations but daunting reality with gas shortages, closing of US factories, leaving three Jone-sing to keep up with the )ones. Most are pessimistic and distrust government, duh.

[quote] leaving three Jone-sing to keep up with the )ones.

Remember what your Momma told you—No Datalounge until the mimosas wear off.

Doesn't "generation" mean the length of time it takes for you to reasonably grow up and start generating children of your own? When the inventors of the word "millennial" invented the word "millennial," they defined each named generation as a period of 18 years. When I (boomer) was growing up, I thought it was ~25 years (if I thought of it at all). Now it's 9 years, according to r47.

Some generating a 9-year-old is capable of.

[quote] When I (boomer) was growing up, I thought it was ~25 years

I always thought it was 20 years.

My parents were expecting their 6th child in 1960. Just a few months before the due date, they found out they were getting twins and my mother became hysterical. I was the youngest.

We definitely identify as boomers. All our siblings were boomers, and most importantly, our parents were depression-era and fought in WWII. Yes, Mom worked in a war plant, so that counts, too. The term “boomers” actually has significance as a cultural phenomenon. They had to build extra schools. Local, small amusement parks thrived. There was a lot of societal focus on children’s entertainment. It was important from a marketing perspective. The generations that followed have been named, but don’t have the significance that the boomers had, and still have, as we are affecting things that have to do with retirement and end-of-life care now.

We are an extremely fortunate generation. With the exception of the Vietnam War, we have mostly had a peaceful life, with only volunteers going to war. We did have the Cold War. I worked in a Submarine shipyard. When the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR disintegrated, mostly peacefully, it filled me with awe. And China has come around to no longer declaring class war against the West. It’s a good lesson for how the US might treat Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Strategic Patience worked for the US, whereas intervention in Iraq has failed.

Most of the worst diseases of our parents generation were eliminated, with the exception of AIDS, of course. Well, my siblings and I did have measles, mumps, and chicken pox, and my twin did lose the hearing in one ear from mumps; but TB, Polio, and syphilis were now curable. We heard stories of the 1918 flu, but we had no similar pandemic. I had one grandfather die of syphilis, and one had encephalitis lethargica, but we had no such thing. Now that those bacteria are developing antibiotic resistance, I expect the next generation will not be as fortunate. And we are overdue for a viral pandemic like this corona virus.

I grew up knowing the biggest entertainment stars and biggest events of my parents era. Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Hitchcock, the Barrymores, the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, etc. We new the difference between Vaudeville and Burlesque. It bugs me a little when younger people today don’t know what Dunkirk was, or don’t know Churchill’s most famous speeches, and so forth.

I feel really lucky and blessed. Most of human history is filled with warfare and pestilence, and we haven’t really had our share of it.

Born in 1960. When my mother read about Jackie's marriage to Onassis she said "She's nothing but a prostitute!"

LOL because mother couldn't keep her legs closed to men. But there you have it.

R33 (GregRugbyGuy) - I was also in Australia for the moon landing. My family was living there (first in Melbourne and then down on the south Coast of Victoria) and I remember vividly sitting in a somewhat darkened room at school (they had turned the lights off) watching a grainy B&W TV and listening to the voice-over.

All this impeachment crap over the past month brought back memories of the Nixon impeachment. I was SO tired of it being on TV ALL THE TIME. I'm sure my parents were fascinated - but JEEZ...enough already.

Born in 1966. I bless the wonder of life and the newness of living.

I do not remember the Kennedy assassination at all, and am really confused as to how the rest of you do so clearly. Then again I have a cousin who has a memory of seeing our great-grandmother who died when that cousin was roughly 3 years old. I do recall the moon landing because we watched it as part of a special school assembly.

I don't specifically recalled Johnson as president either, Nixon's the first one I can definitely remember being in office. The Watergate hearings did go on for a long time, but were memorable because they dominated the networks in the Pre-cable era as mentioned.

We didn't get our first conveniently located fast food joint until, I think, the late sixties if not early 70s, a Burger King.

I do not remember the Kennedy assassination at all, and am really confused as to how the rest of you do so clearly. Then again I have a cousin who has a memory of seeing our great-grandmother who died when that cousin was roughly 3 years old. I do recall the moon landing because we watched it as part of a special school assembly.

I don't specifically recalled Johnson as president either, Nixon's the first one I can definitely remember being in office. The Watergate hearings did go on for a long time, but were memorable because they dominated the networks in the Pre-cable era as mentioned.

We didn't get our first conveniently located fast food joint until, I think, the late sixties if not early 70s, a Burger King.

[quote] All this impeachment crap over the past month brought back memories of the Nixon impeachment. I was SO tired of it being on TV ALL THE TIME. I'm sure my parents were fascinated - but JEEZ...enough already.

Except Nixon wasn’t impeached.

[quote] I do not remember the Kennedy assassination at all, and am really confused as to how the rest of you do so clearly.

I think some are confusing their memories with Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968.

Actually R58 I do remember the Kennedy assassination in particular the funeral as we watched it on our little black and white tv. And my memory of that is in black and white. If I was just recalling people talking about it or it being replayed again and again over the years my memories would be in colour.

I can remember the colour of the kitchen curtains of a house that we moved out of the same year.

Some people can recall lots from their early childhood. The fact that you can’t, means nothing.

R57 - you're right. I should have said the impeachment hearings (or whatever you call the inquiry before the actual impeachment.)

R58 - I'm pretty sure I'm not confusing the JFK and RFK assasinations (I acutally don't remember the RFK assassination at all) - as my brothers were not born when JFK was assassinated and I remember just being with my mom watching the funeral, etc. on our B&W TV (like some of the other Eldergays on here...)

Born August 19, 1960. Was bummed for years the only famous person I shared my birthday with was Jill St. John but then Bill Clinton came along, thank god.

I was three and a half and remember adults crying for JFK. That makes an impression. For RFK I was eight, and that was a very clear memory, my birthday. MLK was pretty clear as well, I seem to recall them breaking into an episode of “Ironside” on TV to announce he had been shot, and my mother going “uh oh.”

I think I sort of remember the JFK assassination. We were at the pediatrician’s office and when we came out from the examination, people in the waiting room were crying. Not sure if this is a real memory.

My very first memory was absolutely the JFK assasination. I was 3 and in the car with my mother who was taking my brother to his eye doctor appointment. We were on the LI Expressway, she let out a scream and pulled the car out to a service station. All I basically remember is the scream.

My other earliest memory was of my older sisters sobbing hysterically over Dr. Kildare’s fiancee dying in the “Tiger, Tiger” episode of Dr. Kildare.

R64 It will all begin with tears.

Thanks to all you Eldergays who have posted here! I am really enjoying your posts. To paraphrase Tiny Tim, "More please."

My Mom put us all in the car and dragged us to Church to pray for JFK. I don’t remember that.

Jacki was widely condemned for marrying Ari Onassis. He was such an old pig. Plus, she was photographed sunbathing topless on his yacht, which was scandalous.

We took our first trip to California in July, 1969, and I remember watching the moon landings when we were there. The Manson murders happened about a week after we got back and my mom flipped the fuck out over it and said we were never going back. We did, several times actually.

Born in 1960. I don't remember this, but my mother recalled that all us kids in the neighborhood playing "Kennedy's Funeral" by carrying a shoebox up and down the street.

Loved Captain Kangaroo ad Richard Scarry's "Word Book".

How did you all survive AIDS? I would think that’s the biggest, most defining element of your history if you’re born in 1960.

Some more memories and more about me... Loved Captain Kangaroo, Topo Gigo on Ed Sullivan, Wacky Races cartoon, loved staying up and watching Johnny Carson - thought it was cool how he smoked Met my partner in 1983 - still together - two kids - still working - and going to for a LONG time

R70: I think I survived because I met partner in 1983 and was monogamous for a LONG time ( I did fool around a bit many, many years later - which I'm a little ashamed of...) but I am pretty certain I would be dead were it not for him (I was a whore darlin')

[R33] made me think of Timothy Conigrave and his husband, John Caleo. They were Australians who were born in '59 and '60, respectively, and both died in the early 90s.

January 1960 here. R71, I was always a night-owl, and I also grew up watching Johnny Carson. I remember first the first Tonight Show appearances of Jay Leno, Bill Maher, David Letterman, Roseanne Barr, Freddie Prinze, and many others. I still remember the bullfighter intro music Doc and the band played for Don Rickles :)

Our Los Angeles postwar house was located on a dead-end street, surrounded by canyon/park land. There was a small horse boarding ranch on one end of the canyon. We neighborhood kids used to visit the pastured horses and feed them carrots. We often wrecked our Schwinn Stingrays, dirt-jumping the canyon hills - helmets? - we don't need no stinkin' helmets! This canyon was also a popular hangout for drug users, and we occasionally had some scary encounters with them. However, our parents knew we would keep each other safe, and we didn't have to come home until the street lights came on. By the late 1980's, the sweet horses were gone, and the land was swallowed up by McMansion tracts.

I don't remember JFK. My first memory of a president is Richard Nixon. I do remember hearing about the Apollo program, but didn't see any of it until the neighbors invited us over to watch the splash down on their tiny B&W TV. I'm assuming our TV was on the fritz at the time.

[quote] R70: How did you all survive AIDS? I would think that’s the biggest, most defining element of your history if you’re born in 1960.

I was certain in 1983 that I’d be dead in a few years. Instead, I never even got HIV. I had Hepatitis in 1983, so I was an early-adopter of safer sex behavior. It might have saved my life, I guess. It used to be, that half of all Gay men get Hepatitis B. I don’t know if that changed, but with Prep and people barebacking, I think it’s possible. With Hep B, you can become chronically sick; chronically contagious; and/or die quickly or die prematurely many years later from liver disease. I was lucky in that I completely recovered and am not contagious.

It's weird how social norms change in the span of a few decades. You can see how much has changed.

Born 1959 - survived AIDs in a monogamous relationship. Came out in college and cops were always raiding the local bar. A cop randomly punched my best friend and fractured his sternum, his crime was standing against a wall at the club. It was risky to be out at work, dependent on how gay you registered. The 80s brought some freedom and things kept getting better. Now I’m married to the same guy. Life has always been good for me, but I wonder if it wasn’t because I was a good looking, tall white male who was supposed to have it all. To which I can say I was clueless about and never questioned it.

[quote] Born August 19, 1960. Was bummed for years the only famous person I shared my birthday with was Jill St. John but then Bill Clinton came along, thank god.

This guy also shares your birthday, R61.

One of my my first memories is my mum sobbing when JFK was murdered. She was ironing and when her tears fell on the board they steamed. I thought my dad had died and started to cry too. When RFK was shot my mum came and woke me up and we watched on TV into the early morning, First time I ever got to stay up past midnite.

I think most of us start remembering things around the age of three. We traveled to Europe in October 1963 and I have vivid flashes of memory from that.

"your old homos"

The problem I have with old age is that it last so long! Not that I want it cut short, but I wouldn’t mind if youth lasted a decade longer and old age a decade less.

The problem with aging is that so many of your cultural references become irrelevant. It becomes challenging to stay au courant. I watch SNL and have no bloody idea who the host is.

R84 Well it wasn’t Mr. Richard Feder of Fort Lee, NJ.

I’m with you, r84. Though as far as being au courant, my doctor said that would clear up with antibiotics.

A lot of the time even here on DL I’ll think, “WHO?!”

[quote] The problem with aging is that so many of your cultural references become irrelevant.

And jokes, too. We eldergays will probably get this joke, but you young ‘uns won’t:

Sometimes at work I have to sign for a UPS package. When I sign, I say, “Sherman T. Potter” (anyone get it?) and usually get a blank stare. One time the UPS guy actually said, “Thanks, Mr. Potter.” I was crushed. LOL.

In our defense, back in the day there weren’t a million billion jillion TV shows, movies, recording artists and content platforms going all at once. Who the hell can keep current?

^^Great point.

60 is the new 40.

To R88's point, it's not because you're old-- like most of my friend group, the only time I ever watch network TV (versus Netflix/Amazon/HBO, etc.) is for sports. So I look at threads like "Commercials You Are Hating" and have no idea what's going on, nor do I know anything about all those reality shows many DLers are fans of.

^^but there are plenty of people my age who do watch network TV and reality TV

I recall in the mid 70s when People magazine debuted.

I thought that was so cool a magazine!

I've never had a subscription but still plan to finally subscribe. Not the same experience to click on their website.

^^ My Hello subscription is my lifeline to the 21 st century.

C.mon, fellas, help me get to 100 posts!

r69 here. II grew up with 1960s children's magazines: very briefly Jack and Jill and Humpty Dumpty magazine, Golden Magazine, and best of all Highlights for children, which came to me in hardbound copies. I remember a "Timbertoes" strip where Tommy went swimming and the fish ate his feet. A panel of Tommy on the grass bawling with no feet terrified me. (His dad carved him new ones). And i loved Goofus & Gallant - but always thought while Goofus was a slob and a jerk, Gallant came off more like a smug priss.

My favorite kids TV show besides Captain Kangaroo was Sandy Becker (Metromedia, Channel 5) whose Bert Kaempfert theme songs were hypnotic : "That Happy Feeling" , "Danke Shoen" and "Afrikaan Beat". Most of the Becker shows are lost (including one comforting children after the Kennedy assassination) and the very funny and campy "Sandy Becker blooper reel" clip seems to have been removed from YouTube. So here's "That Happy Feeling".

I just missed "The Brady Bunch". I was too old for it by the time it made its debut.

Speaking of kid's shows, Cleveland kids will remember this one.

R70, I think I survived AIDS because I was 95% faithful to my bf from 1979-1992 and I also have a strong immune system.

[quote]Well, were you conceived in 1960, [R2]?

Actually, I was in the oven in most of 1960, having been born in Jan 1961.

I remember everything from warm Friday nights living near a river and ballpark in the early 60's where kids and toddlers were free to roam bewtixt the two, to watching hippies on the news looking so disheveled.

The early 60s were really a naive time in this country and felt it standing up in the car between the bucket seats as a curious 6 year old being driven to school. Driving, drinking then tossing the empties out of the window? Hey, didn't all dads do that? Mine did.

For appreciative of lovely sounds and expressive face sat riveted through this. We couldn't explain why.

THANK YOU, you old homos! WE made it to 100 posts! I knew you could do it if you unclutched your pearls, dropped down your caftan, hid your hole and focused..

Your dad was drinking beer while driving you to school in the morning?

No, r99, my father had the good taste to put his Scotch on the rocks in a lowball glass when he drove us around. Did your father really drink straight from the bottle?

No, fancy-schmancy r103, only working-class beer for my dad. Hamm, Schlitz, then later, Michelob Lite.

[quote] R69 here. II grew up with 1960s children's magazines: very briefly Jack and Jill, Golden Magazine,

Funny, I have those same subscriptions today. Mine I’d hardly call children’s magazines, though.

I loved sneak-reading the sensational books and magazines my mother would leave around: movie magazines, True Detective, Helter Skelter, The Godfather. Oh, and also classy stuff like Life, Look, and Better Homes and Gardens.

b. 1960. Moon landing. No wars.

Born Dec. 24 1959. So, I have one week on 1960. Yep, I remember all the 1960s milestones and was a true 70s teen. I never identified with the the whole "boomer" thing. We're part of the Jones Generation.

r69 again: My mother got Good Housekeepings and Women's Day. And she had the Good Housekeeping Book of Cake Decorating which I poured over endlessly.

My parents LP collection was very simple: Lots of Sinatra (my mom was a bobbysoxer from Brooklyn who went to see him at the Paramount) and a very few Broadway Original cast albums: South Pacific , The King and I (which I badly scratched up) and Judy at Carnegie Hall. (Alas, they did NOT see her, only had the album) My mother did teach me my first song, "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Gypsy Melody"

I had the WIZARD OF OZ soundtrack LP (the cover of which was an illustration of Judy as Dorothy wearing black flats) and Disney's "Story of SLEEPING BEAUTY told and sing by Mary Martin" (my mother was a big Mary Martin fan).

My mother subscribe to Redbook. Our musical albums were Brigadoon and Gigi; First Family, Tom Lehrer and Allan Sherman got a lot more play though.

Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, soon to be followed by Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, Godspell and Tommy.

My childhood primer.

LOL at playing "Kennedy's Funeral" with a shoebox.

I remember making the neighborhood kids play "Bonnie and Clyde." I was too young to see the movie, but the publicity was all over the place. Pew, pew! I did get a talking-to for it from my mother, though.

I managed to get copies of After Dark just as I was starting to ejaculate at age 13 in 1973. I think the first pics I focused on were ones with a shirtless Perry King.

[quote] b. 1960. Moon landing. No wars.

"No wars"? Did you close your eyes whenever the news came on?

I've seen America go from him...

to this...

R117, you made me sad.

More than sad.. tragic.

Well question: for those of you that bottomed a lot, do you have any issues now? Leaky colon?

My dad was born same year as you, Opie.

Hello, pops!