View Full Version : CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE CHILDREN WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!
I know this has been around for a while and I'm sure most of us have seen in in an email or two, but I thought I would post it up again!
CONGRATULATIONS IF YOU WERE BORN IN THE
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they
carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't
get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured
lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when
we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took
hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE
actually died from this.
We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it,
but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were
back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down
the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the
bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all,
no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound,no cell
phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat
rooms...........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us
forever.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it
would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang
the bell, or just yelled for them!
Football teams had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't
had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.They
actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers
and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
sneakerd
07-17-2012, 08:25
I was 10 years old in '69, I did all of that stuff- not to mention rockfights in and around houses under construction. Still have scars from the stitches!
I was 10 years old in '69, I did all of that stuff- not to mention rockfights in and around houses under construction. Still have scars from the stitches!
Yep, and when we got those BB guns we had BB gun wars......man that was awesome.
I was 10 years old in 1869, I did all of that stuff- not to mention rockfights in and around houses under construction. Still have scars from the stitches!
fixed it for ya [ROFL1]
great post spleify
[Beer]
BB gun fights, M-80's, riding in the back of P/U trucks, fist fights at school no expulsion or arrest, took our shotguns to school so we wouldn't miss bird hunting on the way home, could whistle at a girl or tell em they were pretty without arrest, and being labled a sex offender, lived through race riots, stole beer form beer trucks, cops caught ya made you pour it out and the threat of telling your parents, same with street racing, etc etc...
airborneranger
07-17-2012, 08:46
We had bb gun fights until a friend got an eye shot out - seriously! I wish we had ballistic eyewear back then.
StagLefty
07-17-2012, 08:53
BB gun fights, M-80's, riding in the back of P/U trucks, fist fights at school no expulsion or arrest, took our shotguns to school so we wouldn't miss bird hunting on the way home, could whistle at a girl or tell em they were pretty without arrest, and being labled a sex offender, lived through race riots, stole beer form beer trucks, cops caught ya made you pour it out and the threat of telling your parents, same with street racing, etc etc...
Ditto !!!! [Beer]
sneakerd
07-17-2012, 08:53
I also almost always had a gun magazine with me..... wonder how that would work today?
i dont think kids even climb a rope in gym anymore
Chad4000
07-17-2012, 09:15
it's that generation that raised this one... lol
but seriously though, I was born in 81, so I guess I'm a 90s kid. and we still had dodge ball, I didnt make the team the first time I tried to get running back on the hawks, etc.. none of that is true now but I dont think it's that far removed.... heres hoping anyway....
Tinelement
07-17-2012, 09:20
Although I only made the age list by 26 days, December of '79, that article described my childhood to a 'T'!!
Great post! Thanks.
I didn't survive the 70's & 80's I am mentally scarred for the rest of my life. Specially after the 80's pop music. [Flower]
That's how we rolled !
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t84/Jetvourax/mDro9.jpg
That's how we rolled !
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t84/Jetvourax/mDro9.jpg
[Beer]
I don't know how it is in other towns around the country these days but in Boulder (yeah, I know....) my neighbors kid's soccer teams (mostly 8 year olds) don't keep score as they don't want anyone to "lose".
Nobody spanks their kids, they have "time-out's" (which doesn't seem to have much impact...at all).
I mentioned at a party last Winter that a snowboarder had terminally connected with a pine tree at a local ski resort and the parents looked truly horrified that their kids might have overheard that someone died.
I'm fairly happy in knowing that I won't be around in 50 years to see what all of this coddling will lead to. Sometimes I run around in my backyard with scissors just to feel young again.
I don't know how it is in other towns around the country these days but in Boulder (yeah, I know....) my neighbors kid's soccer teams (mostly 8 year olds) don't keep score as they don't want anyone to "lose".
Nobody spanks their kids, they have "time-out's" (which doesn't seem to have much impact...at all).
I mentioned at a party last Winter that a snowboarder had terminally connected with a pine tree at a local ski resort and the parents looked truly horrified that their kids might have overheard that someone died.
I'm fairly happy in knowing that I won't be around in 50 years to see what all of this coddling will lead to. Sometimes I run around in my backyard with scissors just to feel young again.
We will have a nation of biebers, obamas, and other gurly mens[ROFL1]
BlasterBob
07-17-2012, 11:06
I was born in 1936 and have luckily experienced most of the fun/risky/dangerous stuff mentioned above. What a GREAT childhood I had. Now it appears the biggest part of our great land seems to have turned to shit, especially with all the politically correct stuff we encounter daily.
However, our U.S.A. is still the best Country in the entire world.[Beer]
rockhound
07-17-2012, 11:09
full contact football (no pads)
air soft guns are for wusses, bbs do more damage
we actually rode our bikes no tvs no video games
trying to get my kids to do the same
Wow that brings back some memories
Anyone remember the wrist rockets and the things you could destroy with them...not that I did any of that stuff
[Angel2]
Now to get my daughter to do the same
airborneranger
07-17-2012, 11:18
Dodge ball and Smear the Queer in PE- full contact and volleyballs thrown at ungodly velocities knocked us down good. It was an honor to bleed a bit and gain some status.
I had to explain Smear the Queer to the my kids [ROFL1]
Wow that brings back some memories
Anyone remember the wrist rockets and the things you could destroy with them...not that I did any of that stuff
[Angel2]
Now to get my daughter to do the same
My cousin and I on my grandpa's farm did a lot of unsafe (to today's standards) stuff. Late 70's to the late 80's.
Lets see we did; Roman candle tennis, Bats in the barn tennis, bottle rocket Army games, fishing with M80's, Back Cat realistic army men play time, ditch'm the mean rooster, made a race course for our BMX bikes and several jumps across irrigation ditches, BB guns were the greatest and we had so many fun shooting sessions.
Out of everything we did other than a minor BB ricochet to my cousins forehead and the typical cuts, bruises, not a broken bone in our bodies that I can remember !!!
My wife blatantly calls many of the kids & teens today, the slang word for kitty cat. I agree, kind of sad. Whats the word used "coddled", definitely explains the kids today.
I was born in 79 and still did all that stuff. You know sometimes I miss those days, who wouldn't want a summer off with no responsibilities except for maybe mowing some lawns to earn mall money.
My cousin and I on my grandpa's farm did a lot of unsafe (to today's standards) stuff. Late 70's to the late 80's.
Lets see we did; Roman candle tennis, Bats in the barn tennis, bottle rocket Army games, fishing with M80's, Back Cat "weapons of mass destruction" army men, ditch'm the mean rooster, made a race course for our BMX bikes and several jumps across irrigation ditches, BB guns were the greatest and we had so many fun shooting sessions.
Out of everything we did other than a minor BB ricochet to my cousins forehead not a broken bone in our bodies!!!
My wife blatantly calls many of the kids & teens today, the slang word for kitty cat. I agree, kind of sad, made me who I am today.
I agree with your wife, most kids now a days are "Kitty Cats".
I broke my wrist playing smear the queer, next day I was a lethal weapon with that cast.
Ahh memories!
What a GREAT childhood I had.
No doubt...I look at today's environment and just shake my head.
I align with Chad above "it's that [our] generation[s] that raised this one..." How did we, that lived through a real childhood, allow ourselves to morph into "this phuck-fest" we have today? [<-- rhetorical, not looking for any answers] but I blame "us" for allowing this to happen.
sellersm
07-17-2012, 11:54
Great memories! So true! I'm a child of the 60's and did all those things and more! Who remembers the thrill of riding your bike on a freshly graveled (they called it 'paved') road and seeing who's the first to wipe out? You pick gravel out of your knees for weeks...
Times have indeed changed, but who do we really have to thank for it?
ChunkyMonkey
07-17-2012, 11:59
I was 10 years old in '69, I did all of that stuff- not to mention rockfights in and around houses under construction. Still have scars from the stitches!
hahaha.. my lil bro has a stitch scar under his lip..and I have one on my head. Rock fight was fun.. still dont get whats so fun about paint ball fight.
Yep, that's how life was back then for sure. But some of the mischief I was involved with and never got caught.....oh my. Things I wouldn't be alive to tell about now.
Thanks for the post Leif, Brings back a crap load of memories. Born on date "71".
Most memorable ones were when I would ride alone with my mom in the car. I'd be standing up in the front seat, and my mom would put her arm across me when she hit the brakes. Really!! that was safe.
There were 4 of us kids, I was the youngest. When there was no more room in the back seat, I rode in the back window of our LTD. I freakin' loved it. Not only did I get to pick on my sisters, I was a human missle![Coffee]
Never wore helmets on Bicycles,,even while playing "chcken" or jumping our ramps.
Tying the "little red wagon" to go carts was fun too.
BB gun wars,,,yhea ;)
HBARleatherneck
07-17-2012, 14:32
did they have bicycle helmets when we were kids? i really dont remember seeing them. some guys wore dallas cowboys or pittsburg stealer helmets, when we played rough. (and the donkeys too)
did they have bicycle helmets when we were kids? i really dont remember seeing them. some guys wore dallas cowboys or pittsburg stealer helmets, when we played rough. (and the donkeys too)
Or Mets and Yankee,,and all those Topps baseball cards too ,,,brbrbrbrat
But they did have them,,just not like they are today.
http://www.bhsi.org/history.htm
StagLefty
07-17-2012, 15:05
Concrete playgrounds,metal slides that you could fry eggs on,real chains on swings,homemade forts and tree houses-and we lived though it all.
I propose a "Run with Scissors Day" [ROFL1]
Sharpienads
07-17-2012, 15:55
Welp, now I know who all the old fogies are!
But seriously, what is a "video tape movie"?
Jumpstart
07-17-2012, 16:27
We would get a bunch of friends together (4-5) in my older bro's room, turn out the lights so it was pitch black, and start swinging.
Oh, and we would play "smeer the queer" during football season.
jerrymrc
07-17-2012, 16:33
Welp, now I know who all the old fogies are!
But seriously, what is a "video tape movie"?
Come on over and ya can watch one. I did not not have a helmet until I started racing Karts at 12. that would have been 1970.
Or Mets and Yankee,,and all those Topps baseball cards too ,,,brbrbrbrat
I live in a somewhat poorer hood and the other day I heard a couple of boys ride past with cards on there bikes. They were damn proud of that noise. [Beer]
Always went plinking with my 22 in the Forrest. My older friend (that had the car) never could hit anything so he started bring a .410 shotgun out.[ROFL1]
I never saw cable TV until 1983 when I came home on leave from Belgium.;)
....must go buy new band/tubing for my wrist rocket, this thread will be my destruction!....or the neighbors window in light of my poor aim [Beer]
sellersm
07-17-2012, 17:24
As I mentioned in another thread (may be lost due to the crash), I carried my .22lr to high school each day cuz we had a target rifle team! This was in late 70's (graduated HS in '79)...
Loved the sound of bubblegum cards in my Stingray 'clone' bike (too poor to own one, so I made a copy).
Ah, a time when kids were less fragile. [Coffee]
'60s kids here.
Didn't wear a bike helmet til my late 20s. I was the one doing the biggest jumps too.
A child seat was the back seat. Seat belts? [ROFL1]
Surprised I survived all the second hand smoke.
Started shooting .22 and 410 at eight years old.
A big wheel, a big hill and a busy cross street...
School would be considered a prison experience now.
Started teaching rappelling after a fifteen minute lesson at 16.
There is more but my old fingers are tired.
:D
Not_A_Llama
07-17-2012, 22:17
Maybe. But kids in the 1920s must have had it rough.
Hardly any of them have survived.
Probably a good thing Ronin is as young as he is.. He'd of never survived. I see he's staying out of this thread. [ROFL1]
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