Demographers define the baby boom birth years as 1946 through 1964. These are debatable years but that gives us a reference point, as to whether or not you are a Baby-Boomer.
I was born at the beginning of these years in 1948. So the 1st Baby-Boomers are just now starting to become Senior Citizens if you use social security benefits as a guideline.
This last vacation to Colorado (2 weeks ago) really opened my eyes as to whether Baby-Boomers will continue to wear long hair or not. On Sunday I went to church with my sister & hubby where the pastor and wife had confessed they had gone through a “hippy” phase in their lives. Many of the men in the congregation (including the pastor) had long pony tails or loose longer than shoulder length gray hair and many had longish gray beards. Yes, quite a few of the women did also (minus the gray beards).
While visiting Sis we went on a ride to Rocky Mountain National Park, to get there we drove through a town called Lyons. Stopping at a public restroom downtown we parked across the street from a “Senior” complex. Again there were lots of long gray haired men and women but this time with motorcycles. In Estes Park we saw a beautiful marble sign that said:
MUSEUM and right under it on the same sign it said SENIOR CENTER. Wish I would of gotten a picture of that.
I stopped coloring my hair about 2 years ago when it started looking like I was balding as the red hair grew out and the gray showed up. So I cut it all off short and spiked it for a time now it is long shoulder length and gray. I’m OK with that! Maybe even more so after this last vacation to Colorado. LOL
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