We pre-boomers remember when there was a gas station on every major corner, several different brands for every type of product in the supermarket and dozens of airlines from which to choose. What happened?
You can think of other areas were there are fewer choices, but let’s stick with these for now. At first, the big [...]
As a pre-boomer kid, I had mixed emotions about this transitional time of year. We were back in school and had many months to go before summer vacation. In Philadelphia, what we referred to as Indian summer (a last gasp warm spell) was usually gone by the time fall become official at the beginning of [...]
Pre-boomers (those born between 1930 and 1945) are about to become big losers with no cost of living (COLA) increases in Social Security next year, a cost increase for Medicare Part B and the Medicare Advantage program set to be slashed by $100 billion. It seems as if the “Forgotten Generation” is about to become [...]
In 1952, through the efforts of the National Secretaries Association and the public relations department of a leading Madison Avenue ad agency, National Secretaries Week was established. The goal was to encourage more people to consider a career as a secretary.
Image by George Eastman House via Flickr
Over the years the week shrunk to a day, [...]
I lived over a mile from the elementary school I attended from kindergarten through the eighth grade. During the ‘40s folks called it grammar school. Those years represented a happy and innocent time of my life, as I suspect they did for most pre-boomers.
The walk to and from school was an exciting time. We started [...]
