Why People Born 1955–1964 Aren’t Baby Boomers

Ode to Generation Jones: punks, yuppies, but never hippies

Sound of Music bar, San Francisco punk club, 1984. Utilizer, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0.

In a documentary on the 1970s punk scene, an interviewee (born in 1959) explained how he didn’t identify with the typical Baby Boomer characteristics and that he was too old to be a Gen X. He felt as though he didn’t belong and just defined himself as a punk.