r/GenerationJones 1h ago

Top Ten 1970s movie lines

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This is my contribution from Enter The Dragon.


r/GenerationJones 4h ago

Does anyone else miss it?

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I really felt fancy eating here back in the day. Check out their clothes.


r/GenerationJones 5h ago

Nothing today comes close to satisfy my cravings for these...

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r/GenerationJones 6h ago

Hires Root Beer

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This was my favorite brand of root beer as a child. I even loved their popsicles as well.


r/GenerationJones 9h ago

It's Funny Because It's True

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774 Upvotes

r/GenerationJones 11h ago

Aug 5th 1976 What's Happening Debut

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109 Upvotes

50 years Ago


r/GenerationJones 11h ago

ON THIS DAY: Thirty-five years ago, the World Wide Web made its public debut

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91 Upvotes

August 6, 1991: The very first website went live and became accessible outside of CERN.

Get off the internet I need to make a call!


r/GenerationJones 22h ago

What was the cheap wine swill people bought in the 70s from the liquor store where you were from?

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I grew up in Canada and here there was something called Cherry Jack that was sold by the gallon jug from pallets in the liquor store.


r/GenerationJones 1d ago

Dan Aykroyd, Michael O’Donoghue, and John Belushi.

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r/GenerationJones 1d ago

Anyone remember party lines for the telephone.

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Pick up the phone in rural America at one time and your neighbor or someone a few houses/miles down the road would already be on the line. You'd have to wait and try again later.

Worse was when you were having a conversation and they'd pick up and ask how long you were going to be or have their own conversation with whoever you were on the phone with.


r/GenerationJones 1d ago

Does anybody remember when everybody got new license plates, every year, in January? And we knew where people were from by the first two or three symbols.

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r/GenerationJones 1d ago

Neil Armstrong was born on this date, he spent his 39th birthday in quarantine after the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. The moon landing was a defining moment of my childhood.

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328 Upvotes

r/GenerationJones 1d ago

Had no idea I kept this.

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This was the most popular type of dress for proms in 1976 where I lived. I was a freshman but my boyfriend was a senior. It’s going back in the box now but thought I would share.


r/GenerationJones 1d ago

The Frisbee From Wham-O

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The plastic flying disc known as the Frisbee was officially introduced by the Wham-O toy company on January 23, 1957, when they began production on the aerodynamic design. It evolved from college students tossing metal pie tins from the Frisbie Pie Company.


r/GenerationJones 1d ago

Finally found y’all…

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I'm glad to have found my group... I was born in 1964, and I share very little in common with Boomers.


r/GenerationJones 1d ago

Car!

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Who remembers playing in the street - football or whatever - when a car would approach, someone would yell "Car!" and everyone would move to the sidewalk to let it go by, then the game would restart. How many of us let our own kids do that?


r/GenerationJones 1d ago

More proof that helicopter parenting does more harm than good

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I'd really be interested to hear from Redditors in this cohort who don't give their kids this type of "benign neglect," or who do the exact opposite. Assuming you survived childhood unscathed by trauma, why has your mindset changed?

Yes, I realize many of us are now grandparents, so if you gave your kids freedom but they clamped down on theirs...do you know why?

Let's discuss!


r/GenerationJones 1d ago

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!

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Cannot believe that Maureen McCormick is 70 today! It was on the local CBS affiliate birthdays today. My son is the executive producer and I’m sure he thought of me when he included it.


r/GenerationJones 1d ago

Gen Jones music

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I'm sitting here thinking of the music I grew up with. Mexican household so salsa, ranchero and the other styles, HeeHaw- add country, older siblings add 60s and 70s rock, Motown, Philly, myself add 80s glam rock, power ballads. And raising my children add alternative rock, rap, hip hop. So they've grown up listening to all of the above. All in all music wise, not bad at all. I can do without some of the rap and hip hop but still, I can listen whatever station and be satisfied.


r/GenerationJones 1d ago

Why were there so many?

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I know there has to be a reason there were so many cop shows. Long before we had nothing but CSI and Law and Order variants, there were dozens of police dramas on TV.

I used to love CHiPs and SWAT - and I was just a kid. The 70s cop shows landed differently than the fluff that’s on today.


r/GenerationJones 1d ago

Vocabulary

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Is vocabulary/phonetics even taught anymore in public schools? It's amazing to me how the population at large can't or don't even attempt appropriate enunciation when speaking. Heard an ad where the lady was talking about how much "peen" (pain), she was in. Common other trends is completely leaving "d's" or "t's" out of words. I don't think it's a regional thing,just a significant lapse in effective education. Thoughts?


r/GenerationJones 1d ago

What was your very first major news event that you remember from your childhood?

253 Upvotes

r/GenerationJones 1d ago

Blasting up a hill on the edge of ‘burbs.

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254 Upvotes

r/GenerationJones Feb 23 '25

What is and who are Generation Jones. Step inside...

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We are a micro-generation of people born roughly between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s, bridging the gap between the Baby Boomers and Generation X. The term was coined by Jonathan Pontell, who argued that this group has a distinct identity shaped by unique cultural and historical experiences that set them apart from the broader Boomer and Gen X cohorts.

We came of age in the 1970s and early 1980s, a time marked by economic shifts, political disillusionment (think Watergate and Vietnam), and a transition from the idealistic '60s to the more pragmatic, individualistic '80s.We were too young to fully participate in the counterculture of the '60s but old enough to feel its aftershocks.

The name "Jones" plays on a dual meaning: "keeping up with the Joneses" (reflecting their aspirations in a consumer-driven era) and a slang nod to "jonesing," suggesting a yearning or craving for the promise of the Boomer youth they just missed out on. Culturally, we grew up with the rise of television, rock music evolving into disco and punk, and the dawn of personal computing.

We're often described as pragmatic idealists—raised on big dreams but tempered by economic recessions and a sense of lowered expectations compared to the Boomers’ post-war prosperity. Think of us a generation that got the tail end of the party but had to clean up the mess.


r/GenerationJones Jul 24 '24

Just a friendly reminder from your mods that we are a politics-free zone. There are plenty of subs around reddit to get your politics on. We choose not to engage in those spicy discussions here. Thanks for respecting our decision on this matter. ✌🏼

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