MEET THE JONESES!

[@TammyFraleyfraleyfoto]

I was born in 63 as well. I in no way identify with my boomer siblings who were teenagers in the 60s and always identified more with Gen X but felt a little old for that group. I read somewhere that we are the largest generation and the most forgotten. No kidding.

[@sues6847]

Born in 68, baby of six so I guess we were born into three generations as we are not stair steps? Different generation but I totally understand your point.

[@teacherjoe7019]

Thanks, You really nailed everything that I've been saying for many years. Members of the Generation Jones cohort like me have been totally ignored by the sociologists. We don't fit in their neat 20-25 year generations. I was born in 1959 and I never enjoyed the blue plate special where you get everything. It was like showing up to a party and everything was gone. I think we are stronger because we had to work for everything that the boomers took for granted.

[@rossmarshall3906]

I'm 69. Boomer got the Gold, we got the Shaft, the X-Gen's were the audience. The Mill's were just kids wacking off, while the Zoomers were the spots left on bed sheets.

[@gdmaze1258]

I was born in June of 64 and relate more to Gen X then I do with the Boomer Generation.

[@chiarac3833]

Yes, you really are GenX, but someone mislabeled a bunch of us.

[@bizygirl1]

Same here! I get really bothered to be called a Boomer. I don’t relate At All. But I’ve checked all the Gen X boxes

[@patrickelliot8763]

Born in 1961. Loved New Wave. Hung out at a goth bar. I don't have a fetish for spanking children. So I dont' feel like a Boomer. I feel like an X-er and I agree politically with the Millenials/Zoomers.

[@VoxUrania]

Yeah, my 60th is coming up. I definitely feel like the labels don’t really fit.

[@mjsolomon]

Me too. I was born in August of 64.

[@NormanNormal-w7u]

Generation Jones members had the best music in the 70s.

[@peterhogan9537]

after 74 music went down hill.

[@LillianCenteno-u3r]

We sure did.

[@mysticgardener2704]

Born in 1960 and never felt I fit into the boomer gen. Today I learned I belong to the gen Jones! This was an excellent portrayal of us. Thank you

[@MrBob714]

Born, summer 59.

[@jeffdawson2786]

Thanks for this. We are sandwiched between two more notable categories.

[@generationjones-le8ge]

Thanks for subscribing! I appreciate your comment.

[@JETTSTACHI]

Remember H.R. Puffinstuff? Born in 1960. Had a crush on Jack Wild. But my first crush was Underdog.

[@generationjones-le8ge]

H.R. Puffinstuff was a great show!

[@cm37177]

Saturday morning cartoons 😮

[@pequena_ninera]

Actually I can identify myself with Generation X a lot. I was born in 1964, so I experienced a lot of what the Generation X experienced, I'm just one year older than those born in 1965. LOL.

[@jen4730]

in the past i allways thought of us as the Forgotten Generation. its nice to have our own label )

[@bizygirl1]

Gen X has no idea how forgotten lol 😆

[@rossmarshall3906]

Suggestion: tell all the critics, "It's not my (our) fault!" Point to the older folk, who just seem like they don't understand nor care.

[@The-Thinking-Cat]

omg, I remember seeing Vietnam war coverage on TV every day, and one of my chores was to grab the newspaper and bring it inside. I silently, as a child, saw and read with horror, not old enough to talk about it, but dismissed by parents, as though I were unaffected. Also Assasinations of MLK and Bobby Kennedy, hippies, college students, and cops hating and fighting each other, Mad magazine (one thing about our gen is we were allowed to read and watch anything), counter culture, but all performed by people much older than myself.

[@susangrande8142]

This was my childhood too (born in 1958), and I adored Mad Magazine!

[@ToothTwister77]

I was born in 1960 and this all rings true to my thoughts and experience. My Father was an Air Force pilot getting ready to go into a war that was just ending. I grew up with a negative view of hippies and the tune in, turn on and drop out drug philosophy, but rejected his dislike for rock music, which I liked; not a unique story but it wasn't too contentious between us. Always felt like the GEN X demographic didn't describe my sensibilities.

[@mjsolomon]

I think the kids born in the 60s should have gotten their own nomenclature.

[@rexrexrex992]

Read an article in Time or Newsweek back in the late 80’s. They called us “Tweeners”. Said we were 1960-64. Raised like boomers without the same opportunities. Regardless of the label it’s good to know I’m not the only one that noticed our strange position.

[@JChow-e1c]

1964 here! I do relate to traditional Boomers more than Gen x though. I remember the stuff you do too. 💟☮️

[@exploringdimensions4all853]

Thank you! 1964 here. It feels like all of my experiences have been lost amid an almost total public denial that our generation ever existed. I was raised inside the city of San Francisco, so I appreciate the local references too!

[@TheJointAlpharettaNorth]

This is so Millenial as well, oddly, and explains why my mom (Gen Jones) always said "we got ignored, left behind, and blamed. You're going through all the same things." We really are... Thank you for helping us all understand and recognize what's going on in all our lives!

[@impalaman9707]

I'm a Gen Xer born in 1971, but I find your particular generation interesting and in some ways, I relate to you better than my fellow Xers. You guys would have been the children of the first hippies or beatniks. Those little kids you see running around on the Woodstock film---that you guys! You remember the 60s as well as I remember the 70s, and in some ways, those two decades share similarities, and make me long for a simpler time to go back there. I remember President Ford, long lines at the gas stations, when McDonalds was always full and people dressed up to go out to eat at a fast food restaurant. Now it saddens me to see this generation is "too good" to go to a fast food restaurant to eat

[@tange7521]

I was born in 1963, and I remember 100% of these events. Well done, thank you.

[@davidwhitney1171]

I was born in 1957, so technically, a "boomer," but I've never felt like one. I do remember the assassination of President Kennedy, the first major news event I remember. I do remember everything else but from the vantage point of a child. GenZs who don't know my age sometimes ask me if I was at Woodstock; I was a bit too young (eleven). When young people ask my age now, I tell them, "I was too young to be a hippie, and too old to be a hipster..."

[@SS-dm9dk]

1957, this guy is talking about everything I remember as living it

[@thomaskingsbury6560]

Indications are 1955 forward are generation J.

[@7SideWays]

A ton of my friends are retired Jonesers. I'm retired Gen X so we run in same circles. I asked them if they knew about Gen Jones. Half did. I'll tell them about your video.

[@davidphelps2121]

I too am from the bay area and was born in October of 1964 10 weeks before the Gen X'rs, and 19 years and 10 months from the first Boomers, I always felt disconnected from both sides Boomers and X. Boomers during my school years seemed so old, and now on the verge of 60 years old, it's Generation X that seem so young. The irony of a birth year.

[@laurachristianson1688]

Uh not everyone dumped our old vinyl, some of us hung on to them with a fierce passion, nothing has made me happier than its resurgence. Now I can replace some of those crappy cds that I was forced to buy in the interim.

[@thisisme2476]

For awhile, they were called " Baby Boom echos"

[@eh1702]

I had that aha! moment too, although I’m not American. A lot of us had Silent Generation parents, born in the lingering Depression, childhood (in the UK & Europe being bombed) suffering absent parents, grinding poverty, bereavement, and terrifying things like TB - not having much of a childhood even as little tots Yes, they were often absent parents even when present physically, but (especially in the UK & Europe) we were aware that their own upbringing did not equip them well. My own parents left school and started work full time at 13 & 14, my oldest sibling at 15, and with a change in the law, the rest of us at 16. The Silent Gen worked hard and played hard, they had their lives - and us children had ours. Like roommates passing on the stairs. Frankly, this free range hard-knocks childhood that Gen Xers make such a big thing of - it wasn’t new to working class families. I found out at about 18 that I had been a “latchkey kid.” We hadn’t known until then that normal life for everyone we knew was considered a thing, let alone had a name. The media noticed “working mothers” and “single mothers” now that they were on a roll in the media against the evil “unemployed youth”. Our government deliberately scapegoated school-leavers caught in the big recession as if we *were* the problem rather than faced the problem…of their making. As for “working mothers”, again the middle classes treating new-to-them as new. My mother had worked full time since age 13. Her mother (an abandoned wife) also worked full time all her life. From marriage and census certificates I know that my great and great-great grandmothers on both sides also did paid work all their lives. And in finding that out, I saw from thousands of other records that they were typical. Anyway, a very autonomous, self-reliant childhood was the norm for working-class families for many generations. I think Gen X feel exceptional because they were the last cohort where it was the norm. I think Gen Jones are not as resentful of our parents personally the way Gen X seem to be, and not so full of “how tough we had it” since we knew our parents had it much tougher. We know all their frugal habits - many of which we continued as we moved into adulthood - and had our inherited fear of debt consolidated by that 80s inflation. Those of us leaving school in the mid to late 70s (aged 16 in the UK) had complacent young (boomer) teachers who could not seem to see that we had a snowball’s chance in hell of getting a job. (Statistically, annually, more chance of getting diabetes or cancer.) I remember one calling us “children of the rocket age”. They assumed we were “rebels” as they saw themselves: we had our noses pressed up against their window. We were talked about all the time by the media as if we were semi-criminals. Any gap in employment history was not forgiven by managers whose own boats had risen in the postwar full-employment tide. I moved 400 miles aged 18 to just get a job as a shop assistant /store clerk in one of those wealthier areas of the country that had Yuppies. I had already been “made redundant” (let go in economy drives) twice - last in, first out. Several friends never got that first “proper job” just temping or workfare “youth schemes”, got stigmatised irretrievably, despaired, and got into drink and drugs by way of consolation. They did not survive. And in the UK, as we finally got a foothold in the late 80s & 90s, the boomers took the ladder (free higher education, good health care, social security) that Greatest Generation & Silent generation built, pulled it up after themselves and started selling it it for pennies.

[@babelouis6150]

Great comment.

[@AuLily1]

Because we were children in the 60s is why we remember them!

[@taniahess1980]

Awesome job! I am a gen x baby, but so relatable!

[@The-Thinking-Cat]

I was born 1958, only just now finding out why I don't identify with any of the stuff I hear about baby boomers. I am relieved to discover that I am a gen Jones...I am not alone in how I feel and think. I grew up in Seattle, near the University of Washington, so very exposed to counter culture as a child, but not seeing it as wise or something I wanted to be, with idiotic drug use and sex transmitted diseases, which I want to point out, we were educated about at a very young age, on tv and even at school.

[@thomaskingsbury6560]

In the early 80’s credit card interest was as high as 18%, today it is at about 29%. Iran is a bigger problem now than back then. I looked forward to today and thought we as people would be so much better than we were then. What I see happening now is not at all what I had in mind. I could not have imagined these events occurring as they are now. Born in 1957. Gen J is the never considered generation.

[@rebeccaoliver7977]

I've never spent much time thinking about the labels put on me. When I saw that part of the Baby Boomers were labeled Jonesers, I was curious and looked it up. The primary description I saw was "keeping up with the Jones" and I knew that didn't describe me. If it did describe this group, I surmised it must describe the spending habits of many around me. I was most impacted in my youth by the assassinations of JFK and MLK and the protest and unrest that followed. Nuclear war and the Russians were also a source of fear for me. But my Silent Generation parents -- at least one of them was very frugal because of her upbringing and I heeded that advice. So I grew up and while I had a time I spent too much money, I recognized the fact and adjusted. I did work that gave me a retirement and safety. Eventually, I returned to something I'd loved early in my life as a hobby. That became my North Star and I retired before I hit 60 to do that "hobby" full-time with the belief I can be successful with it. I'll likely generate money but my retirement is more than adequate. It was a gamble -- that'd I'd live a long, healthy life and eventually find my bliss. I'd be interested in whether others felt a need to keep up with the Jones. I've remained single, with a significant other of 24 years before he passed -- that helped me live more comfortably and pay my house off early. I never wanted children. I know for many that is a huge expense. While some consider it a great joy, many tell me how lucky I am I have no children because theirs are an endless source of grief. They lose sight, it seems to me of when they aren't cross wise with their kids.

[@generationjones-le8ge]

Thank you so much for watching the video, and for your very thoughtful comments. I appreciate it.

[@janicerennie422]

I, too, was born in 1963. I appreciate your starting this group for those of us who've felt adrift amidst the hype about Boomers and GenX . We are no longer lumped in with our older or younger siblings and neighbors. - which feels nice. 🎉

[@duppyshuman]

I'm Black and was 4 years old with sisters a year older and younger when Kennedy was killed and living with my aunt and uncle in the south. I clearly remember my aunt was devastated, believing his promises to black people were never going to happen. She told us "the 3 of you have to be very quiet this weekend". She bought a copy of the local news paper which had a drawing of him on the front page. She bought a small can of blue paint, thinned it out and painted a blue stripe next to his image. At the time I did not understand any of it. She did live to see and enjoy the changes that occurred.

[@generationjones-le8ge]

Thanks so much for sharing your memories! I hope you're doing well.

[@duppyshuman]

Thank you for the heart. My aunt is my mother's closest sibling. Over the years my extended family and I have talked about this, helping my recollection become more vivid. @@generationjones-le8ge

[@ZFabia2010]

LOVE IT about time Tired of being mis-genarationed!

[@Roberta-my7qr]

Around the time of the oil crisis, Nixon's change to the "petro-dollar". The Reagan administration and the adoption of "Neo-liberaliam", the brain child of Milton Friedman. Very significant in terms of the abandonment of the the working class.

[@LillianCenteno-u3r]

And this year the "petro-dollar" will die.

[@BCKC100]

Good job! Actually I had not heard of this generation group of which I am a part.

[@rossmarshall3906]

A Boomer's Perspective: Witnessing the Gap, Warning of the Future The recent presentation on the Jone's generation resonated deeply with me. Unlike the often inflammatory rhetoric surrounding our age group, this perspective offered a thoughtful examination of their experiences. Born in 1955, I stand at the cusp of the Baby Boomer generation, now 69 years old. Looking back, it's clear that my own path diverged from the traditional "Boomer" narrative. In the early 1980s, my early 20s, I actively chose a non-conformist path. This placed me at odds with the older "Baby Boomers," now aged 72-75, who were my brother's generation. Their tight-knit social circles often excluded younger siblings, and many like my brother, now 62, simply drifted away. In a way, we were fortunate to witness both sides of this generational divide, but it also shaped us into individuals caught between two worlds. Financially, despite a higher level of education, I haven't achieved the same level of security as either generation. For decades, I've voiced concerns about the very issues we face today, but these warnings often fell on deaf ears. Labeled a radical or paranoid individual, perhaps I was more of a solitary voice visionary highlighting a looming storm. The reality is, "they" are now reaping the consequences of past actions. I don't take pleasure in pointing fingers, but the truth is undeniable. The future of civilization rests heavily on the shoulders of Millennials. Their success is not just their own, but a collective necessity for all of us. While the past cannot be rewritten, we can learn from it and work together to ensure a brighter future for generations to come. If the Mill's fail, civilization will fail. Don't expect the true Baby Boomer to help. They are getting to old to care, not to mention too old to learn- Can't teach an old Dog new tricks! ROSS weirdvideos.com contact. I'll help you all write, compose, edit and publish, and promote!

[@RadioPsychicAstrologyByPepper]

Hi. My friend who is also Gen Jones is named Kevin also. You have such a kind face and voice. I am definitely subbing. My husband straddles the cusp of Jones and X Dec 65 i was born a decade later and will be having a birthday next month. This was really informative and super calming for some reason. I can listen to you speak for hours! ❤ Pepper. from Cleveland

[@patcurrie9888]

Cusp Boomer here Aug 64 or solid Joneses, hmm. Either way it's all good. Wife is a Cusp Gen Xer. Biggest thing I noticed first generation to widely go to college, last generation to enjoy pensions and young enough to embrace technology.

[@DonRamon-fh8on]

Very informative video. The world changed alot in 60 years.

[@skybarwisdom]

Born in 58. I was into Disco and Rock, Joined the Air Force in 78 and married and bought my first house in 85. I'm happy to separate myself from the boomer generation as I never was a hippy, never liked the Beatles and was too young for the social conflicts of the late 60s and Vietnam war protests.

[@eh1702]

In the UK, another feature of childhood for Gen Jones was the routine “bomb scare” evacuation from shopping streets (few malls as yet) big stores, sports centres & other public buildings. Without parents around, of course. This would be triggered when someone with an Irish (or fake Irish) accent would call and say a bomb had been planted. It happened so frequently that it may as well have been fire drill. So frequently that the protocol became - code word or eff off. And week after week after week as we grew up, that segment of the news about IRA bombs going off. (My dad was an engineer by then. When they interviewed for apprentices, he had parents from northern Ireland begging him, offering bribes, anything, to take their sons so they could avoid getting sucked into “the Troubles”. Actually they got through on their own merits: those kids were smart, diligent, strivers.) In my region bomb-scares had less urgency, as ordnance explosions were more likely to be bomb-factory accidents in residential areas. (Political reasons I won’t bore you with). But I feel for America’s kids now, with their shooter-drills. On 9/11, Brits could not believe the crowds hanging around in Manhattan waiting for the double whammy.

[@bcd4562]

❤ I'm a proud Gen Joneser. I really can't relate to the Boomer generation. I always related more to Gen X but was too old, born in '62.

[@acrowdofone6075]

Oh wow, I can relate to so much here. Never really could identify with the older baby Boomers, as my experiences growing up were quite different from their's. It's nice to be part of a group where I don't feel like an outsider.

[@hula691]

My friend and i took a bus to Eastridge when we were in junior high because our parents were too busy.

[@cm37177]

Life as a kid was the 70s😮

[@LillianCenteno-u3r]

same.

[@Swimdeep]

I see you’re a Bay Area boy…Me too. Female, ‘62. What high school? My grandparents lived near Eastridge, and I remember how exciting it was to go there even if only window shopping. I relate completely to Gen Jones; thanks for doing this video

[@generationjones-le8ge]

Thanks so much for commenting. My family left the Bay Area for South America when I was 10. But we often returned to San Jose over the years. My parents retired in Sunnyvale. My wife and I are going to visit them next month. San Jose is way out of my price range, but it still feels like home to me.

[@Swimdeep]

@@generationjones-le8ge Ha! Small world. I lived in Sunnyvale thru my teens until I went into the US Air Force. It was a little odd to me when you pronounced “San Jose” because Bay Area locals, especially San Joseans say, “San-a-zay.”

[@generationjones-le8ge]

@Swimdeep When I'm back "home" I revert to pronouncing it "San-a-zay". I hope you're in good health. (I visited your KZbin channel). Take care.

[@susangrande8142]

@@Swimdeephow funny! I’m an Gen Jones, born in 1958, and my family moved from San Francisco in 1967, yes, the Summer of Love. I still pronounce it “San-a-zay.” 😆

[@originalsusser]

Generation Jones 🙄 True Gen Xers all had one thing in common. A dislike of labels generally and unnecessary labels especially!

[@panninggazz5244]

born in 54. was the baby of the family. siblings 8-9 years older. Always used the term "being on the cusp"...Cusp being an astrology term picked up by the Boomers who talked astrology non stop until they became money crazy, then they adopted strange straight clothing an left us in the dust.

[@JChow-e1c]

Born in 6r. I ifentify with Boomers way more than Gen x. 💟☮️

[@Tennesseemomtho]

I think they cut this generation off a few years to early. I was born in 1968, I remember the moon walk, Nixon's I'm not a crook speech, and long gas lines. None of these are applied to Gen X. The Jones Gen should be cut off at 1968 or 1969 to include Gen Xers that don't belong to Gen X.

[@generationjones-le8ge]

Thanks so much for watching the video. You make a good case for adding at least a couple more years to our group. I'm glad to include you🙂

[@generationjones-le8ge]

I hope you'll consider subscribing🙂

[@thomgri]

cusp generations sit between 2 generations. usually it is a 5 year gap due to differences between the generational change. xennials sit between xer and millenials, but have more in common with xers. as far as i can tell joneses are half n half. some are more like boomers and some are like xers. it really depended on economic background. also i find to many joneses are hooked legacy media. theres other medias to use that are not full of minipulation so much.

[@escherita]

Wow. No mention of president Ronald Reagan at all..He did exist, and he had a large impact on US History. I think had quite a bit to do with getting america over those recessions in the late 70s.

[@generationjones-le8ge]

There will probably be a more detailed 80's video in the future that will future President Reagan.

[@escherita]

@generationjones-le8ge ok. Yeah, as a generation-x person, Reagan was all we ever heard about. Thank you for making these, they are interesting.

[@laurachristianson1688]

Oh yes…. Reaganomics, the beginning of the end for America.

[@zymeerwhitman8761]

I ain’t know you was born 1963 I thought you wasn’t an baby boomer I thought you was Gen X

[@jeffseven2194]

Born a Boomer but identify more with gen-x now I know why

[@peterhogan9537]

the world changed the day after Nixon left office, a new era began.

[@generationjones-le8ge]

It was indeed a major turning point.

[@christophermonces6944]

Question, who came up with this stuff? I feel like we are our own individuals, even if we are the same age.🤷

[@generationjones-le8ge]

Good point. We are indeed individuals. But as individuals we do have shared experiences with others of similar ages and backgrounds. Thanks for you input.

[@dethmetalrox8492]

Ok boomer

[@Tangobutton]

Not ironically, we generation Joners were the first generation (or, as I always called it sub generation) to be disgusted and resentful of the boomers. We knew we were different. And we were proud of it. The boomers kept all the jobs to themselves in the 80s, except for a lucky (?) few Jonesers who could play the part. For most of us, that were artists, musicians, creatives, or other proud weirdos and freaks, We were working Joe jobs and happy with that. A lot of us didn’t want to have kids. Many of us never did drugs because we saw with the boomers did to themselves. Those were those ugly, selfish hippie highschoolers that roamed our neighborhoods at a certain time in the afternoon when they got off from school. I grew up in Detroit. I remember seeing them with their greasy long hair and a weird clothes. We were nothing like them. We are the people in the 80s that younger generations oh-so-admire these days. The 80s in America were nothing like what you see in the movies. It wasn’t that cool. It was a hungry, desperate time for a lot of us in this blank generation. It was very competitive out there because the boomers were not going anywhere and they didn’t want to hire us because we were not like them at all. Commercials were never made with us in mind because we didn’t have any money! The boomers did! Look at any early 90s advertising that has young adults with kids. Those are the boomers. Those yuppies. That certainly wasn’t us. And out there in the world, you can see who we are now, even still. We might have a chunk of purple mixed in with our gray. We are definitely still wearing eyeliner. And we are paying for those front row seats to see what’s left of our cool old new wave bands. Sure, there’s a lot of Jonesers Who really needed to pass for normal to get jobs back then. They needed to pass for Boomer. But trust me, Boomer is not some thing that we actually aspired to be. Not one bit. We knew we were cooler than them. And long before the phrase “OK, boomer” existed, we were definitely saying it to them in different words… At least 40 years ago if not longer. But especially in the early 90s. It was insufferable how everything was marketed to them. And nothing was marketed to us. We always had to find our way. And find our culture and find our tribe-once again, this is us finding our tribe. That’s what makes us unique as a Sub-generation. We are the grandchildren of the men who came home from World War II early, due to injury, primarily. They began having children a few years before the rest of them. So our parents were actually the first sub generation. I’m not sure what to call them so for lack of anything better I’ll just call them the alcoholics! That’s kind of the part of the Equation that is being ignored, The World War II happenstance.

[@dethmetalrox8492]

@@Tangobutton let me translate for you since english is my 2nd language. The term joner is stupid and those that use it are retarded...