Growing Up Boomer

Growing Up Boomer" is a generational biography about how the largest generation was shaped and how they in turn reshaped the world. There are roughly 80,000,000 Boomers in the U.S. (born 1946-1964) and they are still shaping the world.

The years from 1946 through 1980. The World is a changing . . .

Hula-hoops, Vietnam, Children could walk safely to and from school.

While the "Easy Bake Oven" was the hottest toy for Christmas in 1963:

In China "The Great Leap Forward" was responsible for 31 million deaths due to starvation and famine which remained mostly unknown to the western world.

Annual Average Domestic Crude Oil Price was $2.91 a barrel.

Gallon Gasoline: 30 cents - GDP was only: $468.71 billion dollars

1 oz Gold: $35.25 - 1 oz of Silver: $1.29

Minimum Wage: $1.18/hr - Average Cost of a New Home: $19,300 - Inflation Rate: 1.24%

The University of Alabama desegregated only after Gov. George Wallace stepped aside when confronted by federally deployed National Guard troops.

Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated June 12.

Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech, August 28.

South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated November 2.

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas November 22.

Jack Ruby assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald, November 24, on Live TV.

This was just part of 1963 and most Boomers were in front of the TV watching

"Petticoat Junction" or "The Fugitive."

"Understanding where you come from will help you redirect where you are going."

We all need to stand in front of a mirror and take a long look at ourselves. What we see is NOT who we are, it is "who we were" based on our past thoughts and decisions. Change the thoughts and decisions and we change ourselves. We change who we become and we can change the world. There is still a lot of time.