Rare Polaroid Pictures from 1975
Hey, won’t you play another Somebody done somebody wrong song And make me feel at home While I miss my baby? While I miss my baby… –From B.J. Thomas. Top 100 Hit of 1975 The following Polaroid photos...
View ArticleYou Don’t Have To Be Everything To Everybody
Robert holds me in the last perfect peace of morning. Those moments before the sun steals the amber of porch lights and conquers the winding rum of dawn. Outside our bedroom window I hear my new...
View ArticleMust See Vintage BMX Videos and Pictures From the 1970s
In light of the passing of BMX legend Dave Mirra yesterday at the age of 41, I thought I’d post some vintage BMX videos from the 1970s. This first video was shot in the Summer of 1976. The entry slide...
View ArticleMother and Baby, 1969
In celebration of Mother’s Day, which is May 14, I will be posting pictures throughout the month of Gen-Xers with their mothers. Most of the photos in this collection were taken in the 1960s, 70s and...
View Article1973 Afterschool Special on Divorce: My Dad Lives In A Downtown Hotel
Latchkey Generation During my first two years of high school, I lived in Southeast Kansas. My parents both worked 20 miles away, across the border in Oklahoma. I was the quintessential latchkey kid....
View ArticleBerlin Wall film premiers on PBS | The Wall – A World Divided
A new PBS film about the Berlin Wall, The Wall: A World Divided, has brought back memories of my German penpal. Read on to learn more. My Pen pal Helga Hosch In the 7th grade, nine years before...
View ArticleText in the Time of Elizabeth Wurtzel
There are three or four sentences and 50 distinct ideas in every paragraph Elizabeth Wurtzel writes in her latest piece on the lamest generation for The Daily Beast. Oh, to be so brilliant. Oh, to...
View ArticleMy Yellow Balloon: A Story About Love, Loss and Letting Go
I remember those days when I was six and eight and 10. The world was not so cruel, even if I was young and full of worry. Days when I was easily lost in stories and films. Nothing compares to those...
View ArticleChristian Slater To Narrate Generation X On National Geographic
Consummate Gen-X bad boy Christian Slater will narrate Generation X on National Geographic. Yea! I’ve written about our lost generation of latchkey kids now in midlife for about nine years, so I’m...
View ArticleHippie Parents: Anecdotal Evidence of Generation X (Daily Photo)
The Daily Photo is an opportunity to visit the stories and experiences of Generation X through slides, videos and pictures. In this exercise, the smallest details, such as a reference to a pack of...
View ArticleChildren and Mother in 1972 (Happy Mother’s Day)
This is a picture of a mother with her son and daughter, 1972. Location of the photo is unknown. It was sent to me a former blogger about a year ago. She has since shut down her site (Ready for the...
View ArticleProject 1979
I learned about a project yesterday that seeks to examine the lives of 30-something Gen Xers. It’s called project1979. Here is an explanation from the project blog: “project1979 is a transmedia-fueled...
View Article25th Anniversary of Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland. Shouldn’t I have written about this before August? Probably. I bought Generation X back in...
View ArticlePreppy Secrets Diary
Before we kick off the first Blue Plate Special of the year (the week’s top stories about Generation X), I want to share with you the Daily Photo. It’s Kirsten Major‘s Preppy Secrets Diary from 1984....
View ArticleDaily Photo: Children’s March for Survival, 1972
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and a great excuse to look back on some of the first protests of Generation X, including the first time Gen-Xers marched in Washington. The year was 1972 and the...
View ArticleDressed For Church: Gen X Kids vs. Baby Boomer Kids
These two photos provide a nice comparison and contrast between Gen-Xers and Baby Boomers as we all appeared when dressed for church. The first photo is an original 35 mm slide image that was taken in...
View ArticleGeneration Name Thirteeners and the Latest Gen X Links
Sometimes — like every day — I look at my 9-year-old son and wonder how did we go from four to nine in like three days? I snuggle with him every night while he says his prayers and lately the bed’s...
View ArticlePew Finds Generation X Facing Insecure Financial Future
Gen Xers have less wealth and six times more debt than their parents did at the same age Washington, DC (PRWEB) September 18, 2014 — — The Pew Charitable Trusts released a report today finding that...
View ArticleMonica Lewinsky Re-Enters Public Life To End Cyber-Bullying
Monica Lewinsky has re-entered public life and launched a career as an advocate against cyber-bullying. The following video captures only her fourth speech since her scandalous affair with President...
View ArticleRemembering the Generation X Magazine Swing by David Lauren
The glossy inaugural issue of SWING, a national Generation X magazine, arrived in November 1994, complete with articles about poetry slams, the growing trend in indoor rock-climbing and coffee shops...
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