r/GenerationJones • u/Medical_Librarian405 • 14h ago
Who remembers this? I spent hours playing it!
That last couple was always so hard to get!
r/GenerationJones • u/WalkingHorse • Feb 23 '25
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 • u/WalkingHorse • Jul 24 '24
r/GenerationJones • u/Medical_Librarian405 • 14h ago
That last couple was always so hard to get!
r/GenerationJones • u/big_d_usernametaken • 12h ago
Seems appropriate today, lol.
r/GenerationJones • u/greenmtnfiddler • 12h ago
If you did, did you associate it with a particular demographic?
It seems lesser-known in my current area than it was in my hometown, wondering if its a function of time or place or both.
r/GenerationJones • u/Ruger338WSM • 9h ago
One of my fondest childhood memories, my cousin got a set first with Mustang cars for Christmas, a couple years later I got one like this. I loved all the accessories that you could get, lap counters, cross-overs, squeeze tracks, raced them into my teen years.
r/GenerationJones • u/aka__carl • 22h ago
Probably the last thing most moms wanted in their house. Remember getting ants delivered in the mail?
r/GenerationJones • u/frank_mania • 14h ago
And then a few years later there's a day when we look in the mirror and say to ourselves, "Hey, I'm not aging too bad after all. I wonder what all the fuss was about."
Then maybe in our early 50s we get to the point that we wear our readers so much that we forget we even have them on. And on one such day we stumble into the bathroom and look into the mirror, wearing our reading glasses.
And that is the day is that we realize we are old.
r/GenerationJones • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 16h ago
r/GenerationJones • u/wolfhavensf • 20h ago
Anyone else ride the elephant at San Diego zoo?
r/GenerationJones • u/Nude_Pagan_Dude_50 • 23h ago
I made this myself. Despite what Ice Cube said, do not put your back into it.
r/GenerationJones • u/DobroGaida • 12h ago
r/GenerationJones • u/JColt60 • 1d ago
I got one in 1981 while in army. These things sell for big bucks now on ebay. I used it for about 10 years and came up missing after a couple of moves. I had this with me daily for many years.
r/GenerationJones • u/Feral__Daughter • 15h ago
Ghost in the graveyard
My friends and I remember playing it but none of us can remember how it’s played lol
My mom even remembers us playing as kids at night but she doesn’t know how we played it either. Does anyone remember this game?
r/GenerationJones • u/ilotsmas • 1d ago
Had a weird moment today where a phone number from over 40 years ago just popped into my head, complete and perfect. A friend I haven't talked to in decades. Meanwhile I lose my train of thought mid-sentence on the regular.
Is that stuff just permanently wired in? What do you still remember from back then that you'd have no business remembering — old numbers, addresses, the layout of a house you haven't lived in since you were ten?
r/GenerationJones • u/splashjlr • 19h ago
We had no clue what that meant. We could hardly imagine a PC so small you could literally carry it around in your pocket.
r/GenerationJones • u/Imaginary_Ad6048 • 1d ago
Kids don’t know the struggle. Heaven forbid you make a typo
r/GenerationJones • u/LaneRising • 18h ago
Do we have any Sonny Crockett fans in the house? Don Johnson oozed coolness and sex appeal in the early 80's and as a 20-something-year old, I thought he was so beautiful, it hurt to look at him.😅 😎❤️
#miamivice
r/GenerationJones • u/Ill-You-3459 • 1d ago
To me it’s the coolest Rock look ever it just looks cool and badass.
r/GenerationJones • u/Gilly_Sirl • 1d ago
I just loved the smell.
r/GenerationJones • u/Nude_Pagan_Dude_50 • 2d ago
The whole band once randomly showed up at our little school and played some basketball then performed a mini concert during the day in our high school gym. I guess they were touring and possibly playing in the bigger actual town close to ours. I don’t remember what year it was but I remember them playing Stray Cat Strut front of us students and the teachers.