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Once again great thread Can, I only go back 35 years but I remember spending so much time outside. From the morning till my parents would be yelling at me to get home and it would be night we never seemed to run out of things to keep us busy. Nowadays I almost have to force my kids to go outside. They have entirely too many indoor toys its not even funny. And if I want them to stay active I have to shell out 50 bucks and sign them up for T ball or basketball at the Y. When I was a kid there was always a pick up game in progress somewhere at any of the local parks. But these things are continuous. If you were to talk to our parents or grandparents they would have told us the same thing about their youth. And when our kids become parents they will probably tell their kids and grandkids how good they have it.
Some things I remember:
Stretch Armstrong
Star Wars action figures (the originals)
Electric football
Hot wheels (still have all of mine)
GI Joe
The great thing is a lot of these are still around today and I can enjoy them with my kids.
Once again great thread Can, I only go back 35 years but I remember spending so much time outside. From the morning till my parents would be yelling at me to get home and it would be night we never seemed to run out of things to keep us busy. Nowadays I almost have to force my kids to go outside. They have entirely too many indoor toys its not even funny. And if I want them to stay active I have to shell out 50 bucks and sign them up for T ball or basketball at the Y. When I was a kid there was always a pick up game in progress somewhere at any of the local parks. But these things are continuous. If you were to talk to our parents or grandparents they would have told us the same thing about their youth. And when our kids become parents they will probably tell their kids and grandkids how good they have it.
Some things I remember:
Stretch Armstrong
Star Wars action figures (the originals)
Electric football
Hot wheels (still have all of mine)
GI Joe
The great thing is a lot of these are still around today and I can enjoy them with my kids.
That's one of the biggest differences from what I observe. We used to play sports outdoors all year round, and as long as the weather was relatively decent, we played for most of the day and into the night. In fact, we would play street hockey under the street lights........we had to yell "car" over and over and over. Darn cars, how dare them cut through a hockey rink!!!
That's one of the biggest differences from what I observe. We used to play sports outdoors all year round, and as long as the weather was relatively decent, we played for most of the day and into the night. In fact, we would play street hockey under the street lights........we had to yell "car" over and over and over. Darn cars, how dare them cut through a hockey rink!!!
street/roller hockey was the best thing ever... i'd dress up in catcher equipment, walk outside and make my uncles shoot on me... wanted to be the next patrick roy lol
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1950 2 Door Mercury Coupe Lead Slead - AWESOME
Ed Sullivan and Jack Benny - HILARIOUS
Blackjack, Clove and Beemans gum - NOSTALGIC
45's and LP's on the HI-FI - PARTY!!
Cruisin in that 50 Merc to the local A&W - WHAT A NIGHT
James Dean - ROCK STAR
Bettie Page - OOO LA LA
Fifty years, eh? That would be 1960, so what I would do (after hiding the DeLorean) would be to travel to Liverpool, wait 3 years, go to the Cavern Club and scrawl 'stay the fcuk away from New York' in big letters on the wall.
That's one of the biggest differences from what I observe. We used to play sports outdoors all year round, and as long as the weather was relatively decent, we played for most of the day and into the night. In fact, we would play street hockey under the street lights........we had to yell "car" over and over and over. Darn cars, how dare them cut through a hockey rink!!!
You really dont even have to go back that far. I remember 10-13 years ago when my brother and I would go out front and play football with the kids in my neighborhood. That or we'd make forts out of trees or something. All day long. Up at 7 and we'd go til the sun went down.
Now I barely see any kids outside doing anything. Durn kids and their fancy video gaming devices.
Knowing what life is like now, I would go insane back in that era. If I had been born back then Im sure I would have been fine, but I wouldn't know any better anyways. If I could go back in time I would tell my parents what to invest in.
I think about things like this as well. I'm often reminded of it as my girlfriend/wife is 10 years younger than me. Sometimes things happen and I laugh, while she is like I don't get it. Some joke on television someone makes or something I notice while driving.
My daughter has Mp3 players, playstations with internet browsing. She takes my wifes phone texts me. 6 years old...lol. I tell her all the time, you know what I did for fun at your age, road a green machine. I mean it was the new technology for big wheels. We played football in the street from sun up to sun down. At sun down, it was hide and seek, or red light green light. Oh, and don't forget the Karate movies. Every kid in the neighbor hood watching kung fu theatre and then about 4 p.m. was out fighting each other thinking they were Bruce Lee. Taking your own popcorn to the Crest theatre in Parkhill. We would walk 15 blocks, a whole group of us kids.
Now days, I cant find kids playing outside. Maybe some of the younger kids, but kids from ages 8-14...not on my block. We were all so much safer back then too. I guess thats why. I just recently had a situation where my daughter wanted stay the night at another kids house. It was so tough for me because we don't know this family. When I was growing up there was alot less fear about those things.
The communication thing, yesss. I sometimes watch the show that 70's show. So nastalgic to me. They all just ended up at Eric's house. No phone calls. No texts or special arangements. They just sat in a room and talked. Or went to water tower and hung out. T.v. only had 4 channels...lol back then. Technology has made life better these days, still sometimes I do wish for the older days.
OH MAN!!! The Green Machine!! I'm about your age, so I remember having one of those!!! I rode it until the wheels fell apart!!
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