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Daily Photo: Thanksgiving Play

Do you remember when schools use to have Thanksgiving plays? We had them in Kermit, Texas, where I lived in the 4th and 5th grades. This picture is from the Kermit Memories Facebook page. Isn’t it...

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Gen-X Memoirs: Growing Up on Vending Machine Fare

The following story is a guest post by Nicole, a late-wave Gen-Xer born in the latter half of the 1970s. Beyond sharing her very Gen-X name, she wishes to remain anonymous. To be sure, she has become a...

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School Thanksgiving 1976, Sea of 3rd Grade Pilgrims and Indians

“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” –Elliott Erwitt, The Joy of Photographing People November 23, 1976 was a Tuesday. Thanksgiving was just two...

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Girl In 1980s Calvin Klein Jeans With A Big Comb in Her Back Pocket

A big comb sticking out of your back pocket is one of the great cultural icons of Generation X. Transport yourself back to the early 1980s and the local roller rink, and you’d surely witness a sea of...

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The Girl in the Preppy, Monogrammed Sweater

Monogrammed Sweater, Preppy Glory One of my favorite outfits in high school was a light pink wool crewneck sweater and a pair of rose-colored corduroys. The sweater was monogrammed with my initials,...

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Rhymes and Reasons: Gen-Xers in the of Winter 1974

For several weeks I’ve been trying to come up with the perfect story, song or poem to go along with these wonderful black and white photos of young Gen-Xers. They were taken at an elementary school...

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Educational Filmstrips of Lore

I remember with fondness the educational filmstrips of my school years. The Red Balloon and Leo Beuerman were among my favorites. I was so thrilled when the classroom lights dimmed and the librarian,...

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1983: Students Release Balloons with Messages

I’m gonna live my life Like every day’s the last Without a simple goodbye It all goes by so fast… The Williams Brothers, 1991 Twice during my childhood, I released balloons with messages. My classmates...

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Revealing Letter: Austrian Gen-Xer on Kids Raised by Parents Traumatized By War

Editor’s Note: The following post was originally a comment about the Austrian childhood left on the Who Is Generation X page. I thought it made some fascinating observations about Gen-Xers from...

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Rare Pictures: Gen-X Seacoalers Harvested Coal on England’s Beaches in the...

The men are taking young Simon out to sea to ensure he does not become fearful of the sea because his father was drowned three weeks previously…I don’t know if I should use these photographs or how I...

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Where Water Meets The Land

by Chloe Koffas, Contributing Writer Light From A Pixel Growing up in the high desert of New Mexico, every hot and dusty month of July held the promise of the rain of a monsoon season. Thunderstorms...

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1970s Baby Equipment: “Dangerous” Stroller, Swing, Crib and Car Seats

Here is a series of photographs from the Nelson archive (ALL RIGHTS RESERVED) that feature Gen-X babies and 1970s baby equipment. They underscore for me the work of the the U.S. Consumer Product Safety...

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When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Flannel (Parody)

When I am an old woman 👵🏻 I shall wear flannel with a Raspberry Beret that doesn’t go, and has always suited me, and I shall spend my “entitlement” on Shasta sodas and fingerless gloves and Candie’s 👡...

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1968 Family Vacation: Yellowstone National Park

I love to see my friends’ vacation pictures on Facebook. In the years before social media, it was rare to see such pictures — at least in my world. What about yours? I do recall my friend Sandy doing a...

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Harvest Gold Memories

Guest Post by Chloe Koffas, Light From A Pixel Editor’s Notes: One of the longest-running Gen X blogs shares the title of this post. Check out Harvest Gold Memories. The photos in this post feature...

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Revealing Letter From Russian Gen-Xer on Latchkey, Soviet Childhood

Editor’s Note: The following post was originally a comment about the Soviet childhood left on the Who Is Generation X page. I thought it offered a revealing and fascinating glimpse into life for Soviet...

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The Gen-Xers From Picher, the Nation’s Worst Environmental Disaster

The year I graduated from college, 1990, the United States was in a recession and more than 40 percent of new college graduates worked in jobs that did not require a college degree. (1) Struggling to...

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Life Is Not A Journey

I first saw this video posted last week in a private Google group on generations. It features a monologue by Alan Wilson Watts, a British philosopher. Watts was born in 1915, and a member of the G.I....

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Halloween 1973, Faded Photographs

The longer I blog about my generation, Generation X, the 13th generation of Americans, and the older I get, the more it feels as if I’m merely compiling a record of demographic nearly forgotten before...

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Sisters in Patchwork and Pinafores + Rebecca Goldstein

A beautiful picture of sisters wearing identical dresses. This photo was taken in 1976, and reflects the patchwork dresses with pinafores that were popular during the Bicentennial Era. Do you remember...

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Family’s Lost 8 mm Memories, 1976-77 (Rocky View)

Frank went to a flea market in search of an 8 mm projector. He found one, and inside the case was a family’s lost 8 mm memories from 1976 and 1977. He uploaded the vintage film to YouTube in 2013. It...

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The Despair of Generation X: Addiction, Poverty, Broken Family Ties

A fellow Gen-X blogger, Solo Gen X Warrior, has written a pretty gut-wrenching post, The Despair of White American Gen-X and the 2016 Election. I wanted to pass along the link, and encourage everyone...

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Repost: Life in Mossley in Lancashire, 1978

The following is an excerpt from My Life In Music: 1978, a post on the blog Imaginary Friends. That’s a well-chosen name for a blog written by a Gen-Xer. Excerpt In 1978 I was living with my mother and...

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Filmmaker Looking for Teens in 1989 Film Featuring Children of Vietnam Vets

In 1989 filmmaker David Hoffman recorded a therapy session for Gen-Xers who shared stories about growing up with fathers who were Vietnam War veterans. The teenagers, all of whom appear to have been...

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Who did Homecoming Court Better, Gen-X or Gen-Z?

These are the days To hold on to But we won’t Although we’ll want to… Billy Joel, This Is The Time, 1986 I love homecoming games! I remember the very first one I attended in 1976. I was in 4th grade...

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It’s Skip Day. The Official Gen-X Holiday

It’s Skip Day! The official, unofficial Gen-X holiday. As we announced last year, June 5, 1985, was the actual day Ferris Bueller took off. So, take the day off, Xers! And if you can’t miss work, by...

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Vintage Home Movies From 1967 (Looking For Jennifer Steen)

A series of 8mm home movies were purchased at a flea market. The buyer reports that films were well shot, and according to the professionally-labeled reels, Jennifer Steen would have been born in 1967,...

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8 mm Halloween Video, 1972 (Lamco International School, Liberia)

The following 8 mm film was shot in 1972, and features a Halloween parade at Lamco International School, Liberia. It’s a short, beautiful film, and I loved seeing all the homemade costumes. Seeing so...

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Song In The New Apple Commercial: Story of An Artist

Listen up and I’ll tell a story About an artist growing old Some would try for fame and glory Others aren’t so bold Daniel Johnston‘s 1982 song, Story Of An Artist, is featured in a new commercial for...

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News Omits Gen-X From Chart Defining All Living Generations

Generation X is not just a lost or forgotten generation. We are now an omitted generation. In a story  that aired on January 11, CBSN completed omitted Gen-Xers from a chart titled “Generation...

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80s Halloween Mixtape Features Echo and the Bunnymen, Killing Moon

In starlit nights I saw you So cruelly you kissed me Your lips a magic world Your sky all hung with jewels The killing moon Will come too soon The Killing Moon, Echo and The Bunnymen, 1984 Kelly, a...

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Study Finds Gen X, Millennial Women Have Lost Ground

The level of well-being of young American women rose significantly for members of the Baby Boomer generation but hit a wall in generations that followed, the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) concludes...

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Man’s Discovers Old Apple Computer; Plays 30-Year-Old Video Games From His Youth

The following tweets are from Professor John Pfaff’s Twitter feed. The author of Locked In, a book about the true causes of mass incarceration, recently found a 30-year old Apple computer in his...

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ICYMI: The Late Gen-X Actress Rebecca Shaeffer Featured on 20/20

Nearly 30 years after her tragic murder, beloved Gen-X actress Rebecca Shaeffer has been featured on 20/20. You may remember Shaeffer as Patty, the younger sister on the hit series My Sister Sam, which...

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The Most Historic Gen-X Landmarks in the World

Back in 2008, I was blogging daily about Generation X, and I came up with the idea of taking a whistle-stop tour of Gen-X landmarks across the world. All along the way I would meet up with Jennifers at...

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1967: Here’s Where I Was Born

I was born in Los Angeles County General Hospital on September 30, 1967. The following day, my mother turned 33. Growing up, I loved to watch soap operas with my mom, especially General Hospital,...

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Win A Parody Marathon Gen-X Car Sticker

In November, this blog’s Facebook page will turn 10 years old! To celebrate this milestone, I’m giving away five Gen.X parody marathon stickers. Favorite Cartoon from Childhood All you have to do to...

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Life on Bluefish Court, 1970s Kids

I have been blogging for more than 20 years. I started off journaling on the Open Diary, and later moved to Blogspot and then WordPress. Even before platforms like the Open Diary made online publishing...

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Generation X Anthology of Life in the Deep South during the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s

Submissions are now being accepted for level:deepsouth, an online anthology that documents the experiences of Generation X in the Deep South during the 1970s, '80s and '90s. The writer, editor and...

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⭐️ Gen-X Book Club & Podcast Announcement ⭐️

Here’s a picture of me (front left) with some high school friends, my Care Bears folder (Tenderheart Bear lol), a mullet 😆, history textbook and a preppy crewneck sweater, 1983. It’s the only known...

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We Were Generation X

Kirsten Major is a writer living in New York City. Over the years, she has written noteworthy pieces on Generation X. The following is a piece she wrote several years ago. I linked to it at the time...

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MTV Documentary Airs on Tuesday

An MTV documentary that was a 2019 Tribeca Film Festival favorite, is set to air Tuesday night on A&E. What would Gen-X look like without MTV? My last years at home with my parents were spent...

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Before Cobra Kai There Was Hong Kong Phooey

My husband Robert is pretty much ready to call it a night every night at 9 p.m. So, the fact he kept me up three nights in a row binge-watching Cobra Kai, is an indication of just how much Gen-Xers —...

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Lifetouch Declares National School Picture Day. Post your best #GenX school...

Today, Lifetouch, a national school photography provider, celebrates the second annual National School Picture Day, an opportunity to relive and celebrate school pictures, from bowl cuts to mohawks,...

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Everest 78 and a Little Girl on a Snowy Mountain, French Alps, 1978

We were…waiting on a miracle Tryna find ourselves in the winter snow –Ed Sheeran, 2020 Everest 78 In 1978, Pierre Mazeaud became the first Frenchman to climb Mount Everest. The event was widely...

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Generation X, Winter 1980

It was such a long winter. One that began on March 13, 2020, and ended just the other day. I spent two springs, a summer, fall, and winter basically indoors. I wonder if I look younger than I would...

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New Gen-X Anthem from the Holderness Family

The Holderness Family has created a new Gen-X anthem. The part at the end about collect calling? All true. LOL. The post New Gen-X Anthem from the Holderness Family appeared first on Jennifer Chronicles.

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This 1990s prom dress is too 1990s for the 1990s.

This 1990s prom dress is too 1990s for the 1990s. I purchased the original recently for my collection. I paid around $15, so if you swipe it and put in on your wildly famous 1980s Instagram account,...

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During the pandemic, I had some of the happiest days of my life.

I am part of a private online group of writers publishing journal entries every day during the month of June.  [A Journal Entry, 6.3.21] Happiest Days During the pandemic, I had some of the happiest...

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Gen-X Boys, Field Day, June 1979 (Daily Photo)

I have so much fun with the sort-of-daily photo on Facebook, but I often forget to cross-post them here! Earlier this morning I posted a picture of Field Day 1979 and someone cleaned the photo up a...

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