The Best-Selling Poster of All Time This 1976 poster of Farrah Fawcett is the best-selling poster of all time. A whopping 12 million copies have been sold since it debuted all those Charlie’s-Angels moons ago. My brother Billy had it taped to the back of his bedroom door at our house on Harrison Street in […]
Prom and Paneling (Daily Photo)
Thank You Thank you to the faithful email subscribers of the Gen-X Daily Photo. I appreciate you sticking with me as I know the feature has been highly irregular. The challenge of gaining traction has been the lack of time needed to write sufficient text to go with the photos. Without copy, the posts have […]
1978 Easter Egg Hunt, Tennessee (Black and White Photos)
The following images were taken during a 1978 Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by a United Methodist Church about 14 miles south of Chattanooga. Despite the happy occasion, a quiet stillness emanates from these black and white images. There are 14 faces in this first photo and only two are turned toward each other. Everyone is […]
The Braided Ribbon Barrette {Daily Photo}
I cherish the stillness of this photo, taken in the 1980s on a school field trip outside of Boston. Aside from the innocence so beautifully captured here, the best thing about this image is the braided ribbon barrettes! Surely you remember these from the 1980s. They were so popular. I remember girls bringing metal barrettes […]
Giant Parachute Games in Elementary School
There were plenty of things I hated about gym class in school, but giant parachute games weren’t among them. I loved playing them and always looked forward to it. I was thrilled when a reader (Joanna) sent me this terrific picture of kids outside of Boston playing parachute games. It brings back so many great […]
Jennifer’s Jacket Is Falling Apart (Young Girls and their 1970s Coats)
A post about the 1970s coats Generation X girls wore in the, well, 1970s. 1970s coats were the best! It’s cold here in the city It always seems that way And I’ve been thinking about you almost every day… From John Denver’s, I’m Sorry, 1975 These pictures remind me of a little-known song called Jennifer’s […]
Life on Bluefish Court, 1970s Kids
I have been blogging for more than 20 years. I started off journaling on the Open Diary, and later moved to Blogspot and then WordPress. Even before platforms like the Open Diary made online publishing easy, I wrote a song-of-the-week essay and sent it to all my friends via email. (Feedback was sparse. Ha!) This […]
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