Baby Boomer

Dive into the historical events that inspired Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire' and see how each lyric tells a story of its time.

I'm thinkin' there's at least a couple or three that bring a smile to your face. Maybe most of them, maybe all.

The '57 Chevy was the car every baby boomer wanted.

Catalogs from Sears, JC Penny, Montgomery Ward, and Spiegel used to bring the world to even the smallest of Midwest towns.

Whatever happened to Rook?

Before video games it was all about Pinball!

A doctor recommending cigarettes? Well, we won't ever see that TV ad again.

It's too expensive to keep those schools open, with the one room or two rooms. But there was a day.

The internet we had in back in the day was called a Party Line.

There were a lot of ways to make money in the old days.