11.23.2009
My Parents Were Awesome
There's no lack of platforms from which to dispense the idea that Baby Boomers were hipper and more passionate than we are or ever will be; and that nothing truly great had been created in pop culture before their coming of age or will ever be created again now that they've been weighed down with mortgages and children. Sometimes those very children don't seem to have much interest in proving them wrong. Case in point: My Parents Were Awesome, featuring pictures of young people in bell bottoms and long vests who are now old people. A few pictures date back to the pre-LBJ era but not enough for a full My Grandparents Were Awesome site, which I think is a shame. I'd start it myself if I could track down the lost picture of my paternal grandmother, already well into her fifties in said picture wearing cat-eye glasses and a violently patterned dress, dancing with a man who was not my grandfather and who appeared to be feeling her up.
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Our grandparents were indeed awesome-er. Check out "Margaret and Deet" on page 2 of that site. Clearly grandparents and clearly awesome. Anyway, if you ever do start that site, I will be happy to submit a picture of my grandpa as a giddy Italian-American boy of about 11 or 12, proudly displaying his accordion featuring his first name spelled out on a mirrored custom plate on the side.
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