How many of you grew up in this era?

[CWayne]

I did,

How about you?

Roger that. And we . . .

Took hunter safety classes at age 11.
Played Army men outside.
Couldn't stand to sit in front of the Atari for long.
Rode our bikes tens of miles without our parents being aware.
Were given access to firearms and plinked around the back forty with them from about age 9.
Actually asked girls out to the movies or dancing or whatever . . . in person.
Had the balls to ask girls to slow skate with us down at the roller rink.
Knew how to use a road atlas to find with precision wherever we wanted to go.

Did you ever learn how to fold the map back up?

I never did, one time use and crumpled it up and threw it in the back seat

I definitely could fold it back up. Otherwise, the old man would whack me upside the head good and hard. He had a thing about neat glove compartments.

 

[Wyatt earp]

I did,

How about you?

Roger that. And we . . .

Took hunter safety classes at age 11.
Played Army men outside.
Couldn't stand to sit in front of the Atari for long.
Rode our bikes tens of miles without our parents being aware.
Were given access to firearms and plinked around the back forty with them from about age 9.
Actually asked girls out to the movies or dancing or whatever . . . in person.
Had the balls to ask girls to slow skate with us down at the roller rink.
Knew how to use a road atlas to find with precision wherever we wanted to go.

Did you ever learn how to fold the map back up?

I never did, one time use and crumpled it up and threw it in the back seat

I definitely could fold it back up. Otherwise, the old man would whack me upside the head good and hard. He had a thing about neat glove compartments.

Your post reminds me of my grandfather and his cigars, he would just dump the ashtray on the floor board. That's probably why my dad is a neat freak/perfectionist and I turned out like my gramps.

 

[petro]

there were no gangs and drive-by shootings when we were kids
we played stick-ball in the street and built tree houses

We even had pocket knives at school.
The horror.

 

[Uncensored2008]

there were no gangs and drive-by shootings when we were kids
we played stick-ball in the street and built tree houses

We had gangs in Los Angeles, but they fought with chains and pipes, they didn't shoot people. Mostly blacks versus Mexicans.

 

[CWayne]

This whole thread sort of reminds me of a video I stumbled across months and months ago. I went and looked and found it.

Somehow, I don't think today's kids would have survived our era.

 

[Dalia]

Before we touched the paper money we had earned at work.

 

[Likkmee]

Youngsters

 

[Wyatt earp]

there were no gangs and drive-by shootings when we were kids
we played stick-ball in the street and built tree houses

We even had pocket knives at school.
The horror.

Was just at harbor freight, you can still buy Rambo knifes.. $8 bucks..


I wonder what happened to mine, never did use the matches

 

[petro]

Funny thread....considering the behavior modeling the current occupant of the WH is doing.

Politics in the Lounge?


tsk tsk

They can't help themselves.

So far though the TDS epidemic hasn't invaded the Gardening/Landscaping pages yet.

 

[Mr Natural]

We had the best of everything.

 

[rightwinger]

I did,

How about you?

We used to call that generation Hippies

They were reviled by their elders

 

[MarathonMike]

there were no gangs and drive-by shootings when we were kids
we played stick-ball in the street and built tree houses

And made our own stilts out of 2x2s,played army, smear the queer, shot off real fireworks, waded through creeks, rode our banana bikes everywhere, and..........

 

[rightwinger]

there were no gangs and drive-by shootings when we were kids
we played stick-ball in the street and built tree houses

And made our own stilts out of 2x2s,played army, smear the queer, shot off real fireworks, waded through creeks, rode our banana bikes everywhere, and..........

Tackle football without gear
Hockey on a nearby pond

 

[irosie91]

I can still remember my strict cuneiform teacher who would rap our knuckles with a chariot whip if we ruined a perfectly good tablet.

did you chew on your stylus

 

[irosie91]

there were no gangs and drive-by shootings when we were kids
we played stick-ball in the street and built tree houses

And made our own stilts out of 2x2s,played army, smear the queer, shot off real fireworks, waded through creeks, rode our banana bikes everywhere, and..........

the banana bike was an INNOVATION in my mid-teens

 

[Auld Phart]

I did,

How about you?

We used to call that generation Hippies

They were reviled by their elders

That was 10 years before 'hippies', back during the time of Beatniks

 

[mdk]

All that occured when I was growing up in the 90’s as well.

 

[rightwinger]

I did,

How about you?

We used to call that generation Hippies

They were reviled by their elders

That was 10 years before 'hippies', back during the time of Beatniks

Richie Cunningham

 

[MarathonMike]

there were no gangs and drive-by shootings when we were kids
we played stick-ball in the street and built tree houses

And made our own stilts out of 2x2s,played army, smear the queer, shot off real fireworks, waded through creeks, rode our banana bikes everywhere, and..........

Tackle football without gear
Hockey on a nearby pond

I remember in junior high school playing flag football for the first time. I said "What is this bullshit?"

 

[MarathonMike]

there were no gangs and drive-by shootings when we were kids
we played stick-ball in the street and built tree houses

And made our own stilts out of 2x2s,played army, smear the queer, shot off real fireworks, waded through creeks, rode our banana bikes everywhere, and..........

the banana bike was an INNOVATION in my mid-teens

I had a sweet 5 speed. I never did figure out how to have my girlfriend ride with me without crashing.