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What was it like growing up in America in those days
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:12 pm
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:12 pm
1960s. Not talking about the social turmoil etc but just as a child/teen. With TV becoming really popular it must have been a nice balance between indoor and outdoor life. Today it seems all about guns, race, sex etc. Seems like it really was a better time.
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Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:14 pm to RedRifle
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:15 pm to RedRifle
Well, am I white or black?
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:15 pm to RedRifle
I was a kid in the middle/late 60's. We didn't have TV until I was 12, and color TV was a luxury for most people. Most kids stayed outside after school, or all summer. I know some parents who would lock their kids out of the house most of the day.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:16 pm to RedRifle
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:16 pm to RedRifle
watch mad men
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:16 pm to RedRifle
Not to mention the 62 two door impala and 63 lincoln continental were available for CHEAP.
Early 60s were the glory days of US auto industry...so many good looking cars without ztupid tail fins...
Holy shite, small town pic has a western auto... I can barely remember the old store.
Early 60s were the glory days of US auto industry...so many good looking cars without ztupid tail fins...
Holy shite, small town pic has a western auto... I can barely remember the old store.
This post was edited on 4/3/14 at 1:19 pm
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:18 pm to YouAre8Up
I was born in 1960 and life was a lot simpler. Playing all day and HAVING to go in for dinner or when it got dark.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:20 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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I was a kid in the middle/late 60's. We didn't have TV until I was 12, and color TV was a luxury for most people. Most kids stayed outside after school, or all summer. I know some parents who would lock their kids out of the house most of the day.
Sounds like my childhood in the 70's except we had color TV with 3 whole channels of entertainment to choose from. Course you'd have to go outside and turn the antenna to get one of them and even then it was a bit iffy.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:21 pm to RedRifle
Up to the mid 60s, it was wonderful. Then everything began changing, the economy, family structure, music, religion, ect. All for the worse. Today is worse in so many ways.
For example, growing up in a very small town, we seldom locked our doors. If we did, it was simply latching the screen door. I'd love for my grandchildren to be raised in a pre 1966 environment. Alas, that's gone forever.
For example, growing up in a very small town, we seldom locked our doors. If we did, it was simply latching the screen door. I'd love for my grandchildren to be raised in a pre 1966 environment. Alas, that's gone forever.
This post was edited on 4/3/14 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:21 pm to RedRifle
Some of your classmates would have died from polio. Others would have worn leg braces the rest of their lives. The good old days are now.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:22 pm to SuzukiGoat
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Holy shite, small town pic has a western auto... I can barely remember the old store.
Still have one here. It's the best fishing shop in town.
Small towns in those days still had a viable main street. Most had their own lumber mill, etc to provide some jobs for the local economy. Economies of scale and big box stores, shopping malls killed main street. The five and dime next to the barber shop was heaven for a small boy.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:22 pm to Wtodd
Daily life has become 1000X more complicated and stressful than it was in the 60's. And the LSD back then was 1000X better, too.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:23 pm to justlookin
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Up to the mid 60s, it was wonderful. Then everything began changing, the economy, family structure, music, religion, ect. All for the worse. Today is worse in so many ways.
For example, grown up in a very small town, we seldom locked our doors. If we did, it was simply latching the screen door. I'd love for my grandchildren to be raised in a pre 1966 environment. Alas, that's gone forever.
I was born in 1970 and my childhood sounds pretty much the same as yours. Course I grew up in rural north Alabama where things were pretty much then like they had been for the 100 years before that. .
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:23 pm to RedRifle
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:24 pm to Jim Rockford
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Some of your classmates would have died from polio. Others would have worn leg braces the rest of their lives. The good old days are now.
Kids can't even bring a gat dang peanut butter sandwich to school without someone dying and all the kids are doped up on ritalin!
This post was edited on 4/3/14 at 1:24 pm
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:25 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Most kids stayed outside after school, or all summer. I know some parents who would lock their kids out of the house most of the day.
this also held true in the late 70s/early 80s
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:25 pm to justlookin
Havent locked my doors when not leaving on a trip...ever.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:26 pm to RedRifle
Would have loved to have grown up during those days. I was born in '88, which I like because I still had some good childhood years of playing outdoors with my neighbors, but also I am not too far back, so I still understand computers, internet, etc.
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