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Topic: The Good Old Days
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Craig Hamilton
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 501
From: Luton
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted January 22, 2007 06:45 PM
KIDS WHO 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 colored 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 butte! r 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!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Craig
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James N. Savage 3
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1375
From: Washington, DC
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted January 24, 2007 06:17 AM
Wow Mark. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
I'm sorry to hear about those really rough years in your childhood.
As much as we all like to hold on to the past, you made a really good point when you said "Some things are better now".
When my wife and I watch vintage shows like "Andy Griffin", "Happy Days", etc., its easy to think, "boy, I wish things now were like they were back in the 50's". And I do it all the time. But then we remember, with those times also came bad things, like racism, etc.
I read something in a wise book one time that said something like- every age comes with good and bad things- and thats so true.
Thats the great thing about nostalgia. We can hold on to the good things from yesterday, and leave the bad things in the past ![[Wink]](wink.gif) .
Nick.
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Paul Adsett
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Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted January 24, 2007 08:14 AM
I think Nick has hit the nail on the head - we tend to remember the good times and discard the bad ones. I grew up in Wales in the 50's and that was a great time to be growing up, so many new things were happening, our first 14 ins television, rock and roll (remember Bill Haley and the Comets arriving in London and being swamped by teenage girls!), the Coronation of our beautiful Princess Elizabeth, Hilary and Tensing conqouring Mount Everset, Eurovision and Telstar (getting up at 3am to see the first transatlantic TV), Eagle comics, Juke boxes and bobby sox, espresso coffee, cycling from Cardiff to John O'Groats and back, shops packed with stunning looking 8mm cine projectors, Radio Luxemburgh, sunning on the beach at Lavernock listening to Alan Freeman (best ever DJ), Z-cars, That was The week That was, Destination Moon on the radio, Hancock's Half Hour, Brains beer, ......... and the sun shined every day!
What great times! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Trevor Adams
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 763
From: Auckland,New Zealand
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted January 24, 2007 01:59 PM
In the 30's-40's,I remember getting electricity,then,a radio! Our house had one cold tap,served by a 400 gallon tank.Our meat and butter was kept in a gauze safe on an outside wall of the house.My mother had one gas ring to cook on.Various horsedrawn carts clip-clopped up and down our street,the milko,the breadman,the bottlo,the night cart.And how about "bath night"(Sunday)?Not much fun being the third person to use the three inches of tepid,grey water!!!
I was an adult before my folks got an,electric stove,washing machine and fridge. And we lived in the middle of a city that now has a population of 1.4 million(Auckland)They were the good ol' days?
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