Nothing says Generation X childhood like a banana seat bike and plaid poncho. If you look closely, you’ll see the paint on this banana seat bike is a grassy green fading into lemon yellow. This ombre paint design where colors fade into each other was very popular trend in bikes in the 1970s. I won a bike […]
Daily Photo: Children’s March for Survival, 1972
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 children who attended the event. They […]
Daily Photo: Generation Amerasian Still Looking for Father
Sharing the history of Generation X, one photo, one day at a time. Click here to subscribe to the Daily Photo. If you would like to submit a special photo for possible publication, please email me, jenx1967 [at] gmail [dot] com. Many years ago — probably 30 or more — a documentary aired on one of the […]
Daily Photo: Melanie Shankle, Best-Selling Author in 80s Pom-Pom Glory
It’s been several years since Melanie Shankle wrote this hilarious post, The Life and Times of My Hair, on her Big Mama blog but it still makes me laugh. Here is one of the photos complete with acid-washed background featured in that must-read post. I don’t know what I love more — her spiral perm, the […]
Daily Photo: Tiny Snowman on the Hood
Aside from the old snowman-on-the-hood trick, is anyone else impressed that her hat matches the car? Those racing stripes were popular on cars in the 1970s. I saw them on Chevelles and El Caminos. Even the Gremlin had racing stripes. The poor Gremlin. My high school friend Shawnda had a purplish-colored one. Our friend Melanie […]
1962 Ford Fairlane 500 (Daily Photo)
A 1962 Ford Fairlane | 7.12.2015 | 13th and Broadway in Oklahoma City