What a Ride!
What’s Your Favorite Cedar Point Memory?
Cedar Point is celebrating its 150tth anniversary this year with new rides, a nightly parade and plenty of souvenirs. But there’s one thing that one of the nation’s oldest amusement parks is missing: your memories.
Here’s one: getting panic-stuck in the tube slide at the Fun House. A teen worker slid down and coaxed the young park-goer through. Her family still teases her about it. We’re omitting the name to protect the magazine editor’s identity.
Share your memories, photos and videos at cedarpoint.com
Boomers, We’re OK
…And We Prove It Every Day
“Just wait until you’re our age.”
That’s what you might want to say the next time a Millennial or another younger person dismisses your advice or mocks your opinion. The catchphrase, “OK, Boomer,” gained popularity last year as a rebuttal to Boomers who were perceived by Millennials, Gen Xers and others as being out of touch or judgmental.
Of course, every generation has people who are judgmental and out of touch; that’s not just reserved for Boomers. But OK, we can take a joke, even an ageist one. Let’s hope the term fades with the New Roaring ‘20s (that’s 2020 for you younger folks).
Fact Finders
Teams Kick Off Mind Challenge Competition
They’ve been sharpening their trivia skills and adjusting their thinking caps. Now it’s time to discover who knows what for the second annual Mind Challenge for the New Majority.
For the next four months, teams from rec and senior centers throughout Northeast Ohio will be competing weekly in the Mind Challenge trivia competitions. The six-member teams represent more than 20 communities.
The semi and final matches are set for May 6 at the JACK Thistledown Racino. The first-place team gets $3,500; second place $2,000; third $1,500 and fourth place $1,000.
...
Boom!
Pop Culture Chronicles
Anniversaries
Been There, Celebrated It, And Now It’s Boring
By Mike Olszewski
A new year is upon us and we say goodbye to “the teens” and head into the last year of the second decade. (Keep in mind that there was no year “zero” so 2020 is the final year of decade number two for this century.) We hope your holiday season was memorable, and if there’s one thing boomers like to do is remember.
For the past 10 years, we’ve been commemorating everything that happened in the 1960s. Granted, there was a lot to commemorate from tragedies (the deaths of JFK, MLK, RFK, Malcolm X and so many others), historical events (Apollo 11, The Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show”) and entertainment events (the explosion of pop culture on TV, the so-called Summer of Love, the change from AM to FM radio, groundbreaking books like “The Feminine Mystique” and “Catch 22.” The list goes on and on.
Did You Know?
Sometimes it was a comparison of extremes. The 50th anniversary of Woodstock was celebrated in Bethel, New York. A friend of mine, writer/pop historian Martin Grams Jr., attended the anniversary show and said the promoters did a great job saluting that special moment in time. Oh, and the couple on the cover of the Woodstock soundtrack album was even on hand. They met at the festival and have been married since.
Then we have another anniversary just a few months after marking the ill-fated Altamont Raceway show by the Rolling Stones. A free show, lots of people hurt and the exact opposite of Woodstock. But that wasn’t the end of the 60s. We have another anniversary in just a few months. No one can pin down the date when the 60’s era started, because it was an event or series of events rather than January 1, 1960.
...
