Remember when???

[jameskb2]

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Wow JB,

You just went way up in my "earned it" respect department.

 

[Bass Man Bruce]

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My Grandma was totaly amazed that in her life she read the news of Wilbur and Orville when it happened and watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.
My kids laughed like crazy when I told them that when my Grandpa dated my Grandma he picked her up in a horse and buggy.

For me Friday was special cause we got to stay up late and watch Zorro.
With 7-up and popcorn!

Also, Yup EVERYBODY went home for Walt Disney!

 

[Bob_VT]

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I remember my first Communion withe the huge white bow.... my Sea Cadets Uniform.....

Our first color TV and being amazed by the NBC peacock.......

Baseball cards were for flipping and making noise in the spokes of a bicycle!

I remember meeting a couple of men who grew up with my Dad when I lived in Brooklyn and one of them teaching me to catch with a mitt.... The Torre Brothers.

Going to my first baseball game with my Dad to see the Brooklyn Dodgers....

The Parachute Jump and Steeplechase in Coney Island....

The boardwalk!

Crap I hate getting older.....

 

[DJ]

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Snoop Dog, Britney Spears, Barry Bonds, et al?

Yup, "what up-dog"? What a bunch of crap. Kids today playing to the lowest common denominator.

I remember watching my dad walk, many times, in the Memorial Day parade. He was wearing his Army Air Corp. uniform (WWII Bomber Pilot). I could not have been prouder. That's when the parade was attended by everyone and we-Remembered.

 

[oops!]

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my grand father drove the first truck ever into rocky rapids alberta...the shell is still on the homestead land......

i remember driving the tractor...a massy ..(on someones lap).....as we hayed the land.....i was 4 (i think).....we pulled a wagon wheeled cart

i...we....own that land now.....it will be a safe haven for my family......


but....someone had to mention.......


KICK THE CAN

i havent seen someone playing kick the can in 35 years !

at least they still play hockey in the street...they have nets now.....not piles of snow as goal posts

my question is....without the past...how do you know how to plot the future?

 

[Caveman Charlie]

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I remember getting up early on Saturday morning to watch cartoons on TV. They were on all 3 channels. I liked Bugs Bunny and the other warner brothers cartoons.

 

[joed]

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Yea the full uneditted version. They concerned then about us seeing Sylvester get his tail stuck in a light socket when he posed as lamp to get Tweety bird.

 

[JB]

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There is another side to that coin.

Litter. When I was a kid I could walk a mile of hiway and pick up enough deposit bottles to get cash for a movie and a chocolate shake and cheezeburger afterward. There were even more liquor bottles, but there was no deposit on them.

Domestic violence. Saw a local man punch his wife unconscious on the street. My brother accosted him and made him quit. A cop comes up and tells my brother that a man can beat his wife if he wants to. Years later I heard that she shot and killed him. Self defense.

Segregation and prejudice. I was forbidden to caddy at a local Country Club because I was white and my black caddy friends were forbidden to go inside the clubhouse. Other stories are too horrible to tell.

Pollution. Cities stunk to high heaven, many cars left a smoke screen so thick you had to pull over and wait.

Disease. All people under 15 were quarantined at home for a whole summer to try to avoid them getting polio. Could not be in any public place or associate with other kids except siblings.

If you made it to 12, you had survived two kinds of measles, whooping cough, scarlet fever, mumps, two kinds of flu, chicken pox and maybe typhoid fever and/or tuberculosis.

It is a nice thing about memory that it saves the sweet and discards the sour in life, but some smart dude once said that those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it.

 

[joed]

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I usually remind people about going out to the little house in the yard with the moon on the door to do your business.

 

[QC]

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i havent seen someone playing kick the can in 35 years !

My kids do, in the street and they run home when the cranky neighbor lady threatens to call the cops. Works for me.

at least they still play hockey in the street..

My kids do that too (roller), and I have seen them use a crate for a net when they have destroyed the other one. They also use a small transformer that is on the curb to the side of my house, man that's loud when a puck hits it.

You see, I know it is hard to imagine, but I think there are a lot of things that are the same. Yes, my kids have MP3 players (incorrectly referred to as iPods as dad hates have-to-have brand names), xBoxes, PCs, TVs, DVDs, DVD players, but the thing that got them the most excited this last weekend was the probability that we were gonna shoot.

They still hang out with the girls hoping one of 'em will give them a kiss. They still ride their bikes, break chains, make forts, go on hikes, take my tools and leave 'em in their forts, dig holes, walk the dogs, beat each other, get bad grades, get good grades, ditch school, play little league, break windows, make slingshots, go-karts, tear apart old lawn mowers, leave all of it spread in my garage. They leave skateboards placed exactly where I step on them to get a beer out of the garage frig (doesn't matter if they're right-side up or upside down, both hurt ). They dirty the carpet with mud and get yelled at for it by a crazy lady usually referred to as Mom (who is home). The oldest likes fast cars and nice girls, beer, boats, creek fishing, spearfishing. The middle one likes to chase the youngest one with the spears. One of my favorites was the middle one chasing a girl down the street with a hatchet and the new neighbor bringing him and the hatchet to me. I said, "we're pretty lenient parents, but even we draw the line at hatchets." Still our favorite story of meeting each other. We eat dinner at the neighbors house, they eat dinner here. We hang out in the street and drink beer. We take the kids to pizza parties after games.

See, I'm thinking the world is gonna be OK because there ARE kids that play, and do the right thing, and chase girls with hatchets, and now hope they can steal a kiss from the same girl . . .

BTW, for me, it was TV trays and a TV dinner for Disney. Maaaaaan, now that might be something we'll have to try again here, except we'll use a DVD . . .

 

[oops!]

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love it....

 

[kadesdad07]

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All this is so true, as I sit here on my a@% in front of the computer writing this. I remember walking 3 miles with a bucket and rod to go fishing all day. Now I have to decide if I want to ride three miles to get in the boat for half a day.

 

[rogerwa]

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I'm with QC. Yes, a lot has changed, but my boys spend hours outside playing baseball, football, hockey in the driveway, etc.. I have baseball diamonds worn into the grass in both the front and back yards. I also have a 1 y/o garage door that has tons of puck marks on it, even though I warned them to put the net on the street side (you didn't want to be around me when I found the marks).

A lot about what has changed is us, not the kids.

A lot about what has changed in the kids is the expectation. Expectation that they will get a ride, new shoes, money for this or that, cell phone, blah blah blah. I don't think they understand the difference between want and what it truly means to NEED.

 

[zibzer]

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Amen...

Although Im 22 and kinda hit the end of that era i was the same way growing up in a small town. We didnt use the phone to get ahold of friends, we just rode our bikes to each others house and played. Dirt bikes and no helmets caused a few lifetime scars but Im still alive. Antenna gave us 7 tv channels(on a good night 8 when Detroit came in).. no nintendos. well maybe an origional NES but it wasnt played much. Metal slides with rust (then the park bought plastic slides that gave shocks all the way down...we hated them). Mother said what to do and we listened. Homework was done with pencil and paper. Computers and super nintendos were popular at the end of my childhood, but it wasnt until grade 7 when most people owned them. My grandfather let me play around with his old cars he had in his backyard. My first fishing rod was a stick with old fishing line with rusty hook (i found) tied to it. My first (remembered) boat trip was in a wooden boat that leaked almost faster than we could bail.

I see now even at my young age that todays generation has it a lot different. Ever since the computer technology started to advance at super speeds it seems to have gone downhill. I hope that when I have kids that they can have a childhood like mine (or even a little harder) because i find with doing things and getting bruises you learn a lot more than when you sit in front of a tv or computer all day.

 

[puddle jumper]

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Fishing when i was a kid. Ya that brings back some memories. We fished a river so much "when i was 10" that if we didn't limit out in about 2 hour no one was catching fish. The other thing we did was arrow head hunting. It must of been funny to see becouse one of the best places to look was the white person grave yard " its kinda like the negro thing that JB said but native Canadians". All us kids would go down to the grave yard and wonder around looking at the ground. The tourists would look and look and shake there heads.
But like JB also said i met a lot of my friends from the back of my dads truck when he and my mom were in the bar and had no baby sitter 'That cost beer money". I was also programed to smoke as it was OK for me to go down to the local store at the age of 6 and buy them for him, it was also OK for him to hot box us kids in the car with out the windows down. This was all normal back then.
And as QC said i think we will be OK as our kids get older and the dumb pill wears off at about the age of 25 give or take a year or two.

 

[patrickray]

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I Remember doing my paper route and going collecting. Knock on the door and say collecting. They would pay you for the week and I would give them a little stub.
How about going to the little store with 25 cents and getting a bag full of candy.

Not locking your doors when you leave the house? Or at night? Locks dont seem to mean anything any more.

Or how about when the news was only 20 minutes. Not two hours?

And bait shops? Ha! you made your own or dug for your bait....

 

[Haut Medoc]

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I Remember doing my paper route and going collecting. Knock on the door and say collecting. They would pay you for the week and I would give them a little stub.
How about going to the little store with 25 cents and getting a bag full of candy.

Not locking your doors when you leave the house? Or at night? Locks dont seem to mean anything any more.

Or how about when the news was only 20 minutes. Not two hours?

And bait shops? Ha! you made your own or dug for your bait....

"Gee, I'm a little short this week, I'll pay you next week".....
But don't deliver their paper, (or be late with it) & it's a national crisis......

 

[Caveman Charlie]

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In my area you still don't need to lock your doors. It's one of the few places left like that.

 

[arboldt]

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In my area you still don't need to lock your doors. It's one of the few places left like that.

Around here, we do lock the doors at night (we sometimes forget, though). A couple of years ago we headed up to the lake for a week. When we got back our next-door neighbors chided us for leaving the garage door open (they shut it for us).

One of the saddest things was about 10 years ago. One house in the neighborhood is rented out by the couple that originally owned it. One young family with twin 6-year old boys rented it. This family moved to our small city from some big city (LA, I think). The boys were never allowed outside. The garage door opened only for one of their cars to go in or out, and as the door was shutting we could hear the car doors being locked and the alarm being set. So paranoid!

And all the other neighborhood kids played in the front yards and the quiet street.

I felt so sad for that family and their isolated kids. Do most people in big cities feel they have to live like that?

 

[Caveman Charlie]

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My neighbor was originally from Minneapolis. He is a retired school teacher and he bought the house across the road just for hunting ground. It took him 3 years before he would relax and not be afraid everyone was out to get him. His wife and daughter will still not sleep in the house alone. They complain that because the neighbors are so far away that if someone attacks them and they scream no one will hear them. I had to laugh at that.