Which Colors Define “Old School Cool” for Gen X and Boomers?
What Colors Did Gen X and Boomers Actually See Every Day?
What Colors Did Gen X and Boomers Actually See Every Day?
Gen X didn’t inherit the spotlight. It learned to live without it.
When people talk about Boomers today, the conversation often gets stuck on stereotypes. But step back into the everyday reality of mid-20th-century adulthood, and something else becomes clear: the way Boomers lived was quietly, structurally cool.
“I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said ‘I want to be let alone!’ There is all the difference.”
When Michael Jackson released They Don’t Care About Us in the mid-1990s, the public response was far from unified—and for many people, barely formed at all.
When I was a child in the 1990s, road trips came with a quiet uncertainty. If the car made a strange noise or refused to start, the solution wasn’t a phone call or an app—it was a service station.
1. Katharine Hepburn
“You’re scrolling on that smartphone? We built the cell networks it runs on.”