Tiffanie Darke, a British writer, has penned a new memoir, Now We Are 40: Whatever Happened To Generation X? Published by Harper Collins, the book play mostly to a British audience, highlighting cultural touchstones most familiar to Gen-Xers who grew up in the United Kingdom. The book will be...
An Australian newspaper, The Independent, rpublished an article about Generation X: In the war between millennials and baby boomers we have forgotten about the work-hard, play-hard Generation X. It has captured the attention of a lot of people, so I wanted to pass it along. Here is an excerpt: The...
Etan Patz’s killer was finally convicted yesterday. The 6-year-old boy went missing on May 25, 1979, after he left home to catch the school bus. The bus stop was just two blocks from the family’s apartment in Lower Manhattan. Patz was the first child to have his picture...
Kellyanne Conway talks about her “operating principle” as a Gen-Xer in a recent Question and Answer in the Washington Post: “My father left when I was very young. I didn’t meet him until I was 12 or 13. We had no alimony, no child support. He went on to have another family. He’s...
The following essay about Generation X, We Are Not A Lost Generation, was written during the late 1990s. It was first circulated via email and then later posted to numerous blogs and websites. The earliest record of it that I could find was a chat board where it was posted in October 2000....
Over the years, I’ve discovered some fabulous online photo archives. Among my favorites are those that feature scanned images from the last four decades of the 20th Century. I especially love the ones filled with high-quality images of Gen-X. Great pictures of Gen-Xers in childhood and youth...
“. . . the late 1970s suburbia . . . young kids full of angst and hormones – what are they to do? I’ll give you a hint – it WASN’T bowling. Roller skating yes, bowling NO. Bowling was for the old man, not the young kid.” In September 2010, a woman born in either 1964 or 1965,...
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 the 1950s. I recently purchased it and have no other information about it. The second picture is...
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 Viceroy full-flavored cigarettes or a pair 1970s red tights, provide anecdotal evidence of our life...
Chloe kicks off her series on The Last Lost Generation over on her blog, Light From A Pixel. Please hop over and check it out. It’s a beautiful piece. This is a year-long series she’s created, so be sure to connect with her on Facebook so you never miss a post. Here is an excerpt from...
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 event was called the Children’s March for Survival. Today’s Daily Photo features...
These beautiful class pictures feature Gen X in New Zealand between 1976-79. They reveal some popular trends from the Gen X childhood era. The pictures are from Plateau School in Te Marua near the Wellington Region. While the styles are not a mirror image of what American kids were wearing around...
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