Things You Remember As a Kid

the last fact is just SCARY!

Space Sticks and hardly any kid ever hurt themselves AND if we did...we brushed it off and went on with life. Not at all like the pampered pricks today!

playing kick the can at midnight in suburban L.A. among the orange and walnet groves. no adult gave a damn.
everything was fine.

You are awfully close to my age!!!!

No fucking Yo YO Yo Yo shit talk

the sun felt like my friend instead of my mortal enemy

parents had absolute authority over thier children under the law

people had time to discuss things going on in thier world

the music had meaning , talent and thought behind it.

imagination was important

Girls HAD to wear dresses to school. Pants or shorts where NOT allowed, much less jeans! The only people who wore jeans were cowboys.

Many high schools had a student "smoking section".

It was safe to ride your bike all day long with friends throughout the neighborhood.

Skating rinks were mobile and came through town every three months or so. Stayed a month or so and then moved on.

Going to the drive-in to see the lastest movie.

The latest music was bought on a 45 record, your parents bought albums.

People left their front doors unlocked at night...and it was safe.

Catching fire flys at night in a jar.

I'd forgotten about kick the can! I loved that game.

Anyone ever play ghosts in the graveyard at night.

i never played ghosts in the graveyard but I have played 'the doors' there!

no seat belts, and you could even lie on top the back window while dad was driving, crazy!

LOL

I didn't play in the graveyards but I did love the Doors!

Ghosts in the Graveyard sounds familiar. Yeah, I remember staying out till midnight with my friends (who lived on my street) playing Hide n Go Seek, Tag, Statue Maker or scaring ourselves half to death with ouija board, ghost stories. The entire street was full of kids playing. Mom and dad would leave the front door open and the screen unlocked and around midnight I'd come in to go to bed.

We use to step and drag fire flies on the ground to see them burn out (I wouldn't do that now).

My first record player was a "close and play" one. I saved up my allowance to get my first 45, Spanish Harlem by Aretha Franklin, actually I wanted something else and got mistaken on the song's name. Now I can't remember what the song I wanted was. I bought it at Ben Franklin's Five and Dime.

everyone rode a 10 speed bike.

[My first record player was a "close and play" one. ]


Don't feel bad, mine had vacuum tubes and had to warm up! i got it from my father when he got a new solid state stereo. It WAS sterophonic though. Actually, when I think back on it, it didn't sound half bad compared to digital crapola.

I hate to say that sounds like the good old days....but it sure does compared to what's going on in the USA today.

Spyrograph

Light Bright

Lincoln Logs


Now THOSE were toys.

with 1.00 allowance you could by a big bag of penney candy from the old fashion candy store

donating tax stamps to school class for charities.

the fifty dollar ones were prized.

guess i just dated myself, huh?

A feel good thread! It's a nice change.
Thanks.

Getting money (pennies actually) from the grocery store for returning coke bottles!

Trust me when I tell those of you not old enough to remember, there was a "Good old days". The USA and the world is in decline. Things are going down the toilet.

I would say we peaked in 1970, and since then we've done nothing but go downhill. Todays world is designed to stifle independant thought, imagination and self determination.

There was a time when we would fight back against what is going on.

I am too old to do it without the help and support of the young, and the young think we are just stupid old hippies. So long as the talmudvision and the jew magazines are telling them who they should be and what they should do, it is hard to reach them. Most of them are totally disconnected from reality, lost in a technological distraction. We need to wake them up to the fact that technology has not made their lives better or more fulfilling, it has made them almost not worth living.

you could stay all day out in the woods miles out catching big bullfrogs in a pond in Maine and come home when it when it felt like it was getting close to suppertime, and mom wouldnt even worry?

toy: Baby Crawl Away
band: Kiss
movie: Smokey and the Bandits
McDonalds tasted better!
Remember the crying Indian on the tv commercial when people littered?

oooh ohh, thought of another one.

full tank of gas, 3 pks of cigs and the rest left over to spend for the movies and a few beers on the weekend

total price twenty bucks

True! You have a point there.

Someone said it earlier...imagination. Sadly, that seems to be a thing of the past.

"The teacher made copies for class on a duplicating machine (not a copier) and the copies smelled really good."

I think that was called the mimeograph.

It seems so strange now but I remember as a little girl in school up until about 5th or 6th grade, we had to wear dresses to school but in the nice weather we could wear shorts under it so we could twirl around and around on the monkey bars (over asphalt and concrete, no less) and in the winter we could wear pants under our dress to walk to school but had to take them off while hanging up our coats in the "cloak room" (does anyone else remember having a cloak room?)

Of course, there was no microwave, computer, video games, vcr, dvd etc. We only had a black and white tv the whole time I lived at home with about three channels.

I remember watching a lot of Gilligan's Island and the Munsters after school.

In kindergarten, we churned butter once and ate it on saltine crackers. I still remember that as one of the best things I've ever eaten. And we took a nap on these multi-colored rugs that each of us had to bring to school.

And speaking of those games, our favorite was "Mother, may I?"

And I read so many books, especially horse stories and Encyclopedia Brown.

I'm 44 now. My kids are hooked on video games and tv and are always bored. Especially my older son, who I had involved in way too many activities when he was younger. I learned better with my second and let him have more time to just hang out in the yard and play with sticks. But now he's becoming a pre-adolescent and getting all hooked into media, skateboards and trying to look cool. What a shame.

i own and play 3 pure tube guitar amps.
there's no other way, really. it's the stuff. round out the whole thing with a pure tube pre-amp for recording. it's what the human ear wants to hear. life. digital is a 0-1 copy of life in neat little files.

Twister, hide-n-seek with all the neighborkids, outside iceskating rinks with the song "LOVE HURTS" playing

I had a spyrograph and lost all the clear plastic "gears". I remember most of the toys were injection molded plastic, the main difference between now and then is an imagination was neccessary then.

I used to take the back of an etch a sketch my brother had and make complex sketches with a dull pencil.
You couldn't draw anything on the damned thing with the knobs very well, and my brother never figured out how I was so much better at it than him.

Spin the Bottle! Wait, they may still play that.