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In reply to the discussion: An Almost Baby Boomer 50th HS Reunion [View all]Maeve
(42,279 posts)We had IBM typewriters (ooo, modern!) and yeah, I did punch cards in college--we were told that was one of those "jobs of the future". Flash forward to '84 when my eldest was born and Hubby was playing "Star Wars" on his Commodore 64 while waiting for the contractions to get close enough to take me to the hospital (he blew up 15 Death Stars that night, a record he never equaled again) Oh, and we only got three tv stations--out in the country, the PBS signal was too weak to reach.
I remember gas wars, where the stations kept lowering their prices. And they gave out premiums (anyone remember dinosaur shaped soap with a prize in the center?) And Dad bought a new car every two years....
Our high school lost two grads to Vietnam and we planted trees in their memory my senior year.
We'll have our 40th reunion in June.