You Might be a Baby Boomer IF...

[Marathoner]

18 minutes ago, Sower said:

Subic bay, military city for Navy/Marines. (60's) My dad was military, and we lived at Clark AFB in the mid 50's, off base out side of  Angeles city, just a few miles from the infamous Mount Pinatubo that erupted in 91. Angeles is no more, nor Clark.

For us kids back then it was a blast, riding caribous, calises and jeepneys, running around in the jungles with local kids..

Thanks, Marathoner

Ah yes, we went to Subic often. We were there in the late 70s; my father was stationed at Clark AFB. You may have been there before the "elephant cage" was built (in 1966)... a.k.a. the AN/FLR-9 antenna array, the forerunner of the NSA's digital surveillance today. My father was Army, but he was one of those guys who knew the elephant cage like the back of his hand. He supported the monstrosity and would work on it when something went wrong. Because he was in STRATCOM, he was stationed at installations that weren't standard Army assignments. He worked for DCA (Defense Communications Agency) after Vietnam. 

Edited December 8, 2024 by Marathoner

[missmuffet]

8 minutes ago, other one said:

Famotidine will take care of that.

That would be Pepcid or Zantac. Pepcid is not strong enough for me

I need to take Prilosec which is a PPI. There was a big recall on Zantac

a while ago so I won't take that.

[Marathoner]

1 minute ago, missmuffet said:

That would be Pepcid or Zantac. Pepcid is not strong enough for me

I need to take Prilosec which is a PPI. There was a big recall on Zantac

a while ago so I won't take that.

Right. I take omeprazole (Prilosec) as well. A proton pump inhibitor drug is the most effective at reducing stomach acid production. 

[missmuffet]

1 minute ago, Marathoner said:

Right. I take omeprazole (Prilosec) as well. A proton pump inhibitor drug is the most effective at reducing stomach acid production. 

Yes, I will probably be on it the rest of my life. My doctor wanted me to take a

higher dose but I am sticking to only 20 mg.

[Marathoner]

Just now, missmuffet said:

Yes, I will probably be on it the rest of my life. My doctor wanted me to take a

higher dose but I am sticking to only 20 mg.

I took 40mg daily after the Barrett's Esophagus diagnosis, but that was because there were ulcers in my esophagus, stomach, and upper intestines. 3 months later, an endoscopy revealed that all of those ulcers were gone, so the doctors had me step back to 20mg daily. My last endoscopy this summer was good. They'll do another endoscopy in 5 years. 

[BornAgain490]

2 hours ago, Dennis1209 said:

You ate at some of these:

• G.D. Ritzy’s
• White Tower
• Chi-Chi’s
• Red Barn
• Shakey’s Pizza
• Horn & Hardart (coin window vending)
• Sambo’s
• Henry’s Hamburgers
• Farrell’s
• Howard Johnson’s
• Steak and Ale
• A&W Root beer
• Lum’s
• Burger Chef

Mid-70's Sambo's near me was destroyed by the people in the neighborhood a week before it was to open. They viewed the restaurant's name as a racist slur.  It never had a chance. 

[NConly]

4 hours ago, Dennis1209 said:

You ate at some of these:

• G.D. Ritzy’s
• White Tower
• Chi-Chi’s
• Red Barn
• Shakey’s Pizza
• Horn & Hardart (coin window vending)
• Sambo’s
• Henry’s Hamburgers
• Farrell’s
• Howard Johnson’s
• Steak and Ale
• A&W Root beer
• Lum’s
• Burger Chef

I have seen only two of the list below the Mason Dxon line so I barely passed.

[Dennis1209]

10 hours ago, Jedi4Yahweh said:

I am not familiar with most of those, maybe before my time.   I have been to a Chi-Chi's but have not seen one in awhile and we have A&W near my house.  Anybody remember Shoney's or Krystal's?   Not sure if they are around anymore.

Now that you mentioned them, yes, how could I forget? It's a side effect of being a Baby Boomer, I suppose.

Unless I have the dreaded Baby Boomer mentality these days, I remember fast food joints tasting so much better in the past. Unless taste buds fade with age, I recall everything edible tasting better back then. 

[Dennis1209]

9 hours ago, BornAgain490 said:

Mid-70's Sambo's near me was destroyed by the people in the neighborhood a week before it was to open. They viewed the restaurant's name as a racist slur.  It never had a chance. 

That is how I recall it, too.

[Dennis1209]

I recall eating at the White Tower (Wellston, MO.) trolly hub as a kid; for some reason, the name White Mill sticks in my mind. The place smells fantastic, and there are little things on each table to play the jukebox.

My grandfather and I would use streetcar and bus tokens to go to the riverfront and watch the construction of the Gateway Arch.

Also, my mom and grandmother grocery shopped in Wellston, a suburb of St. Louis. Unless you are a Baby Boomer, you probably did not experience getting Eagle Stamps and redeeming them. Or grocery stores offering lovely dinnerware sets, glass sets, Funk and Wagnall encyclopedia sets, etc., one by one with x-dollar purchases.  

Or the patriotic promotion of sending your baby teeth to science. Today, we finally know what that was all about.

Can generations after Baby Boomers remember summers without air conditioning, no TV, and many vehicles stick shift? How many today can drive a clutch and stick shift if need be?

I remember the excitement of Dad getting my Mom her first electric washing agitator with wooden pins to squeeze the water out. How much better do milk and soda taste in glass bottles? Picking up soda bottles from the side of the road, cashing them in for 2₵ each so that I could get a real barber haircut instead of the burr crew-cut my Mom would give me.

Getting a new pair of Keds tennis shoes and brown Boone dockers for school at the end of summer. Today, air Jordon’s for what, $200.00 plus? Back when they played baseball for the love of the game. Seventeen cents a gallon of gasoline during gas wars, route 66, one Interstate highway, and three TV stations at best. Prop planes, no commercial jets yet. I ordered the “X-ray” glasses from the back pages of a comic book, prayer, and the Pledge of Allegiance in school.

Dick Tracy B&W cartoons, with the fantastic wristwatch that never would come about, a pipe dream. Single-income families, where the husband was the breadwinner and a stay-at-home mother raised the children—no government entitlements, working hard to get ahead and survive. There are no smartphone faceplants, and children babysit with their smartphones. Conversations at the family dinner table. Going outside and playing with neighborhood children.

My church, and every other church we visited, was pretty much filled up. Respect and courtesy for pastors, the police, politicians, teachers, and chivalry for women were the norm.

How has America changed since the generation that preceded mine, the Greatest Generation (WW II)?