* The Special Group Born Between 1930 - 1946.
Today they range in age from 75 to 90. Are you or do you know
someone “still here”? *
* Interesting Facts:
You are the smallest group of children born since the early 1900s.
You are the last generation, climbing out of the
depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of
a world at war which rattled the structure of our daily lives
for years. You are the last to remember ration books for
everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves. You
saved tin foil and poured fat into tin cans. You saw cars up on
blocks because tires weren't available. You can remember milk
being delivered to your house early in the morning and placed in
the "milk box" on the porch. You are the last to
see the gold stars in the front windows of grieving neighbors
whose sons died in the War. You saw the 'boys' home from the
war, build their little houses. You are the last generation who
spent childhood without television; instead, you imagined what
you heard on the radio. With no TV until the 50's,
you spent your childhood "playing outside". There
was no little league. There was no city playground for kids.
The lack of television in your early years meant, that you had
little real understanding of what the world was like.
On Saturday afternoons, the movies gave you newsreels
sandwiched in between westerns and cartoons.
Telephones were one to a house, often shared (party lines) and
hung on the wall in the kitchen (no cares about privacy).
Computers were called calculators; they were hand cranked.
Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing
the carriage and changing the ribbon. INTERNET'
and 'GOOGLE' were words that did not exist. Newspapers and
magazines were written for adults and the news was broadcast on
your radio in the evening. As you grew up, the country was
exploding with growth. The Government gave
returning Veterans the means to get an education and spurred
colleges to grow. Loans fanned a housing boom. Pent
up demand coupled with new installment payment plans opened many
factories for work. New highways would bring jobs
and mobility. The Veterans joined civic clubs and became active
in politics. The radio network expanded from 3
stations to thousands. Your parents were suddenly
free from the confines of the depression and the war, and they
threw themselves into exploring opportunities they had never
imagined. You weren't neglected, but you weren't
today's all-consuming family focus. They were glad you played
by yourselves until the street lights came on. They were busy
discovering the post war world. You
entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world
where you were welcomed, enjoyed yourselves and felt secure in
your future though depression poverty was deeply remembered.
Polio was still a crippler.
You came of age in the 50s and 60s. You are the last generation
to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our
homeland. The second world war was over and the cold war,
terrorism, global warming, and perpetual economic insecurity had
yet to haunt life with unease. Only
your generation can remember both a time of great war, and a
time when our world was secure and full of bright promise and
plenty. You grew up at the best possible time, a time when the
world was getting better... You are "The Last Ones."
More than 99 % of you are either retired or deceased and you
feel privileged to have "lived in the best of times!"*
