Bring back the good o' days, Things ..........

[njcarita]

........... I miss from my childhood

1) sticking to the plastic covers on the sofa

2) almost being blinded by the glass balls on click clacks.

3) frying on the beach cause we didn't know what "spf" was-- we used tanning oils.


Really was great growing up in the 60's and 70's

 

[klineyqueen]

Interesting....I can't say I miss sun burn. but hey...if that is waht makes you happy!

 

[NikiM20]

........... I miss from my childhood

3) frying on the beach cause we didn't know what "spf" was-- we used tanning oils.


Really was great growing up in the 60's and 70's

You used tanning oil?????????I cant believe im about to admit this but, we used Crisco to tan with

 

[Cindy B]

We didnt use Crisco--we used baby oil.

 

[branv]

The safety feature in my parents van was floor to ceiling shag carpet. We didn't even have back seats. Ahhh, I can remember sitting in the...not kidding...bean bag chair in the back, reading a book, or wrestling with my brother and getting carpet burn. And that lovely heated or mildewy shag carpet smell in the summers.

I also remember sitting in my granfather's lap steering his truck.

Going to the mall and six flags with my friends when I was 11...without parents.

How about the glory days of eating raw cookie dough? Oh the dangerous lives we led!!

 

[coolbeans]

I remember riding in the hatchback part of my dad's station wagon, on the highway, with no seatbelts waving at people and them waving (all five fingers) back at me!! Now that was fun!!
Oh, and being out on my bicycle all day with my best friend just having fun and only checking in every so often. When the street lights came on we had to be back in the yard.
There is a song that says it was a different world when we grew up not just a different time. That is soooooooo true.

 

[mrsklamc]

I apologize in advance, but what is a click clack?

 

[Youarehere]

I remember riding in the hatchback part of my dad's station wagon, on the highway, with no seatbelts waving at people and them waving (all five fingers) back at me!! Now that was fun!!
Oh, and being out on my bicycle all day with my best friend just having fun and only checking in every so often. When the street lights came on we had to be back in the yard.
There is a song that says it was a different world when we grew up not just a different time. That is soooooooo true.

"We were born to mothers who smoked and drank
Our cribs were covered in lead-based paint
No childproof lids
No seatbelts in cars
Rode bikes with no helmets
and still here we are
Still here we are

We got daddy's belt when we misbehaved
Had three TV channels you got up to change
No video games and no satellite
All we had were friends and they were outside
Playing outside

School always started the same everyday
the pledge of allegiance, then someone would pray
not every kid made the team when they tried
We got disappointed but that was alright
We turned out alright

No bottled water
We'd drink from a garden hose
And every Sunday,
All the stores were closed.

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world"

-Bucky Covington



I'm not so sure about some of these- we had an Atari and Activision and we were never hit with a belt, but alot rings true.

 

[MeggerasMa]

Oh, let me answer(and I can only hope I am right). Click Clacks were two hard plastic balls, about the size of pool balls. They were suspended from a metal ring on two strings and the goal was to grasp the ring and move your arm in such a fashion that the balls clicked together below the ring and then had enough momentum to clack together above the ring. You tried to get them clicking and clacking longer than anyone else without stopping. And if I'm wrong I'll only be embarrassed for a day or two.

 

[njcarita]

I apologize in advance, but what is a click clack?

here is a picture

 

[jgates]

The ones we had were slightly smaller than golf-balls I believe.

And how about lawn jarts?????? Definitely a no-go now!!!

 

[TupperMom7]

Let's see:
Drinking well water from the garden hose - not bottled water like my kids like.

Swimming in slightly green pool water in our flimsy 12" swimming pool (wearing a bathing cap of course, so water didn't get in our ears)

Sitting on the hump in the backseat of our Chevy car. I don't know what kind of car it was - four door the color blue - I suppose the exhaust pipe was under that hump.

Falling asleep in the backseat of the car on road trips - no seat belts used then.

Dipping rhubarb in sugar and sucking the juice out of it.

Eating kool-aid icecubes

Having a lemonaid stand and not needing a parent there to protect us.

Playing outside after dark. Hide and seek in the summer (jail break) and sleigh riding in the winter.

 

[PigletsPal]

And we also could sleep with our windows opened and front doors unlocked. You all know of course that we are sitting here sounding like our parents................LOL But I would take it all in a nano second.

 

[Leader of the Club]

How about flash cubes for the instant cameras!

My friend and I would ride the bus uptown when we were 8 years old and shop in the big department stores with our allowance. (my dd is 18 and I won't let her ride the bus uptown.)

Fondue parties (okay, we still do that in our family!)

Going to the drive-in with mom and dad and falling asleep in the back seat before the second, grown-up movie came on.

 

[Mickey527]

We went to school in the snow. The bus couldn't go up the hill so we walked to it. I don't remember ever having a snow day.
We sat in the back of the station wagon facing the people behind us and made funny faces at them and they made them back. We didn't have seat belts but when you have 6 kids and two parents you don't need them your crowded enough to not fall out of the car.
We played outside every day, rain or shine. Our swimming pool consisted of the flooded road because we didn't have storm drains in the country.
My dad painted a 4 square on the street and played with us every night. Some of the other parents were the "baseball" dads, some were the "race" dads and some pushed the swings.
Our moms stayed home and every day they met at one or the other's house for coffee. Not one of them drove, we did our grocery shopping on payday, with dad.
We caught every kind of bug and little creature that there were, and the boys blew some of them up with firecrackers.
We knew all the stars in the sky and could see them at night because there was no city lights to drown them out.
No nintendo, but who wants to play games on a black and white tv?Not to age myself but Winky Dink was our morning show and Ed Sullivan was the Sunday night show. We watched the news and nothing else.
The Beatles on ED Sullivan and the moon landing were talked about for weeks.
The boys played guns with sticks and I don't think any of them grew up to murder or kill anyone. The girls all had baby dolls and not all of us grew up to be mothers. (sp) lol.
We built our own go carts with baby carriage wheels we found and old wooden crates from the grocery store. We didn't have brakes and didn't wear helmets and I have the scars to prove it.
We climbed trees, we didn't need a trampoline, we had ropes and tires on rope, we didn't have the $1000 swingsets.
We dug holes to China.
We didn't have car alarms, house alarms and in some cases locks on our doors. Our neighbors were the block watch, I don't think I ever saw a policeman until I was in my teens and that was when we moved to the city.
We could go into anyone's house and know the mom would have cookies or snacks, and never a pop tart or fruit roll. We ate homemade cookies or fruit and loved it.
Our bib treat was on Thursday night. Dad got paid, we went grocery shoppping for the week and each one of us got $1.00 for Mc'Donalds. I got 2 cheesburgers, fries and a shake and still had enough change so I could get a cone with strawberry dip at Dairy Queen.
I could go on and on. I wish my grandson could live in a world like that. I never knew what we had until I didn't have it anymore.
By the way, I am 53, I was born in 1954.

 

[trulygoofy]

Ah, the memories are coming back...
I loved riding in the back of my dad's truck.
On car rides we had the back of the station wagon to play in and we liked to get the truck drivers to honk their horns. We could play games sitting in the back or lay down on sleeping bags we had spread out. We had to wait to go to the rest rooms because there was not a rest stop or McD's every few miles!
Hours of cartoons on Saturday morning were a treat.
Breaking off and licking icicles was great. We didn't really care what the water had dripped off of. The best ones were the really long ones off of the roof.
My mom made really good snow ice cream too.
Every year we got our beginning of the year burn and then we were good to go for the rest of the summer. Blisters and peeling were just something that came with summer for me. I did not put on sunscreen whenever I went out...just at the beach, but I had to wait half an hour after eating to go back in the water back then!

 

[Ciao Mickey]

TO ALL THE 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.



Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.



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 cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda 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 chatrooms..........

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 were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,

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!



Little League had tryouts 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, doesn't it?!

 

[njcarita]

The ones we had were slightly smaller than golf-balls I believe.

And how about lawn jarts?????? Definitely a no-go now!!!

never heard of lawn jarts--
but I lived in NYC when I was a kid-- we had no grass to play on.

I googled it cause I was curious---
says they were banned for manufacturing and resale in the United States.

How could I have missed playing with them growing up????

 

[njcarita]

How about flash cubes for the instant cameras!

forgot about those-- didn't they got hot to the touch when used???

 

[sarahlovesmickey]

You used tanning oil?????????I cant believe im about to admit this but, we used Crisco to tan with

OMG!! We used to use babyoil.....boy did that stuff give us the best tan ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!