1960s Kids

AN EXTREMELY LOW NUMBER OF KNEECGROWES!!!….TRULY A GLORIOUS ,SAFE , HAPPY , PROSPEROUS TIME!!!!!

cars....I was about five, it was night, we live pretty much in the country, we were driving home at night on a two lane pretty straight road, first he let me sit in his lap and try to drive, I didn't do to well cuz I wanted to just hold the wheel steady and the car would go straight and I wouldn't make the adjustments you have to make to drive, then I sat in the passenger side and he got the car up to 120, I remember the dashed lines going by really fast. "Don't tell your mom we did this".

catholic school here, nuns were teachers back then, got hit on the knuckles with a ruler for looking out the window during class, also wrote "standards" or "lines", paddled for running into the girls restroom

I actually saw a picture of a cage that people put in their high-rise Apartments in cities they put it outside the window kind of like an air conditioner hanging out but it's a cage and then they put their children in there to get fresh air toddlers Etc if anybody knows how to put that on here please do I got more stories I'm a 60-year-old man LOL God bless you all

My desk in the first grade had a hole for an ink bottle. I learned to write with a quill tip pen in cursor. The first ball point pens were not sold until the early 1950's and were very expensive. Not until the 1960 with the arrival of the bic pen did modern ball points come into fashion as writing instruments. Dan

Yup, lived it all, plus much more.

Never did the Catholic thing though. We were / are Fundemental Baptist, and still damn proud of it!

Back then, life was actually enjoyable to wake up to each day.

Forgot to say we were happy.
3 months of summer.
Outdoors.
Making friends.
News was 1 hour, no fearmongering all day.
Doctors came to our home.

Wrestling

Yeah, we were playing catch with them.

I took one right on the top of my head, and I needed stitches.

I never understood why I froze when I saw it coming straight at my head. Maybe God did it to make us stop playing like that with the darts. Someone else might have gotten a worse injury.

I experienced every painful second of the stitches they were putting in my head, and I thought I was screaming the whole agonizing time, but I was out cold.

Why did they use an anesthetic that makes you feel all the pain as if you were awake, but makes you unable to respond?

Was it some kind of deliberate cruelty, or did I have an unusually conscious reaction to the anesthetic?

An anesthesiologist might be able to say, but I never knew one.

BUDDY HAD A LIQUOR STORE IN LINDENWOLD, NJ NEAR ME.

My family was Baptist, until the preacher told my father he was going to hell because he drank bear. That's the last I saw of that preacher, or the inside of that "church".

Mandatory Viewing..

Shop class was interesting. Taught a lot of basics. It was just strange having a teacher that did not speak correct English. "Here, you gotta buck up agin' the wood. The old guy would bellow because he must have been deaf as a stone."
"I gotta what?? "

"Buck up agin the wood!" Yes, yelling your hillbilly gibberish louder is not what I was asking. What the fuck is buck? agin' is against, I deciphered that word. :)


Or in metal class he would yell "Hot Stuff coming through" as he got everyone out of his way to pour the molton aluminum into the sand castings we made. Hammering metal to shape to make a steel funnel, or a steel tool tray against these wonderful old anvils with the perfect ring. Those anvils would cost a fortune today. But Pittsburgh was making steel like crazy at the time, and we were 20 miles from the mills.

And we had to learn how to draft drawings. Using a pencil lead that you had to sharpen not with a pencil sharpener, oh no, you had to sand that fucker to a point with a sanding block.

Why? I miss calculus class! Lemme out of this stupid class!





No CAD back then. Youbought a kit, that was a sanding block, a lead holder chuck, 2 triangles, a compass, and maybe a few templates for drawing circles and elipses, and a 3 sided engineers or architects ruler. ANd a tri-square.

the school had the big drawing boards.

BUt we could bring our new gun to show and tell.

Every boy that got a shotgun would bring it in and brag about it for a couple minutes in show and tell.

We also had a rifle team at the school.

Girls took Home Ec and Typing.

Boys took Metal shop and Wood Shop.

Those classes were mandatory by the way. At least for a year or maybe 2.

Every boy carried a pocket knife for eating his apple or peeling an orange. Nothing scary, just a scouting knife or something.

Or the slides so tall you could get up to almost flying speed by the time you shot off the bottom at a run, or with a tumble.

It was Darwinism in its purest form. If you were too stupid to avoid a Jart then you really had no chance at all.

What about the mosquito spraying trucks? What were they really spraying, and where did they go? Did the mosquito population get under control or something?
I also remember frogs, especially after a evening rain, absolutely covering roadways... where did they go?
I’m thinking the mosquito spraying trucks were actually frog spraying trucks.

Yeah, we were playing catch with them.

I took one right on the top of my head, and I needed stitches.

I never understood why I froze when I saw it coming straight at my head. Maybe God did it to make us stop playing like that with the darts. Someone else might have gotten a worse injury.

I experienced every painful second of the stitches they were putting in my head, and I thought I was screaming the whole agonizing time, but I was out cold.

Why did they use an anesthetic that makes you feel all the pain as if you were awake, but makes you unable to respond?

Was it some kind of deliberate cruelty, or did I have an unusually conscious reaction to the anesthetic?

An anesthesiologist might be able to say, but I never knew one.

What about the mosquito spraying trucks? What were they really spraying, and where did they go? Did the mosquito population get under control or something?
I also remember frogs, especially after a evening rain, absolutely covering roadways... where did they go?
I’m thinking the mosquito spraying trucks were actually frog spraying trucks.