To all of us kids who survived the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's & 70's

[geareduplyn]

Buying a REALLY BIG Snickers Bar for a nickel

Getting under our school desks and staying away from windows in case of a Nuclear Attack

Listening to the bomb tests broadcast live from Bikini

The only illegal drugs we knew about was 3.2 Beer, and maybe some pilfered Southern Comfort.

A gay person was someone who was happy and outgoing

75% of the cars in the student parking lot contained a loaded shotgun during duck hunting season.

Riding your horse to school if the roads were really bad because of the weather

Being a teen in the 50s. That says it all

 

[Hecate]

1975. We had a great big station wagon and Mom and Dad would toss sleeping bags and pillows in the cargo area for us 4 kids to use on the long drive from Ohio to New York for vacation.

I also remember walking door to door selling Girl Scout cookies with my younger brother in tow (he was a cute little red head - sold a lot of cookies!), and not a parent in sight. I can't even imagine my boys selling Scout popcorn without a grownup along - and we live in a pretty safe, small town.

 

[jvls1942]

born 1942.. I can relate to many of these memories.. One I always lke to tell is: Gary W.and I , in the 7th grade at a nun run school.. for a month , once a week we each brought a .22 to school with us and left them in the cloak room with the nuns' knowledge. we had bullets in our pockets.. after school we carried the guns downtown to the YMCA and took gun safety and shooting..

I would like to see THAT happen in today's schools...

 

[aberfitch]

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That was AWSOME!!

 

[kitchwitch]

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My middle school had a functional shooting range up until 1999. I never used it, but they shut it down very quickly after Columbine and it has since been turned into new art rooms. My argument at the time was "would you come into a school, intent on killing as many people as you could, if you knew they all knew how to shoot back?"


I was born in '86, but I can relate to some of the stuff in my early life. Climbing trees, catching snakes, playing in the creek, going with grandma to play bingo in the smoke filled church hall! I went once, won the jackpot and everyone thought it was the cutest thing. It was the only time those old birds weren't yelling and swearing at the person who won

 

[NC chicken man]

I was born in 1962 and boy is this a great thread brings back some great memories ,I was 8 yrs old before we got a TV and if we wanted to go swiming we dammed up the creek in the pasture so the water was about 3' deep and did we ever have a good time ,when I get more time I'll add more here.

Aaron

 

[Whispering Winds]

I was born in 52', played in the woods by myself all day, wouldn't dream of letting my little 8 year old do that now. Rode bikes all over the country; wouldn't dream of letting my 8 year old do that now. Didn't have TV from the time I was 6 until I was 12, no big deal even if I thought it was. I read books, and played outside. I was a change of life baby, so mom and dad both were in their 50's when I was young, and they didnt' want to play with me, (but they were so good to me, and I lost my dad three days before my HS graduation in 70, and my mom in 90, and i still feel cheated) so I had an imagination out of this world. It's still there, according to DH,

and I wouldn't have traded that part of my childhood for anything. . .didn't have farm animals, but had every other pet you could imagine, and still love them to this day. . .could go to "The Cowbell" and have a nickel cherry coke and a nickel bag of chips . . . and we thought we were poopin' in tall cotton . . . aaaaah, those were the days!!!!

 

[LilBizzy]

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Ohh, I LIKE purple!!!
I walked to and from school, and then to and from Church. Never got a ride, even in the pouring rain.

We got "spanked".. with * insert horror movie "someone's gonna get it" music* Dads "motorcycle belt"

The gruesomest game we had was "operation" or maybe the Rock 'em sock em robots. Kerplunk, and tiddlywinks. Ants in the Pants
SSP racers...

But most of the time, we played outside. Innocence.. back when 12 year olds still had no idea how that baby got into the womans tummy..and we didn't care.
Keds..


Oh, and .. darn, I just had a good one, but forgot.

 

[Imp]

Had B&W TV as a little kid. We got color when I was about 12. I couldn't tell the differences for several months.

Imp-Oh the imagination of childhood.

 

[LilBizzy]

Oh, I remember now!!!
Cereal prizes- and we had to eat the cereal until we got to the toy at the bottom. No digging through the box ( yeah right LOL)
and 45's.. on the back of the cereal box.. The Monkees, Bobby Sherman...Michael Jackson before he turned white..

Ahhh, the sears wish book.. You knew it was close to Christmas wwhen that came out.

Mood rings.....

oh, by the way for you younguns- 45's are mini records.. Records..Um, kinda like huge CD's