What era did you grow up in and do you miss it in any way?

[Daniela1982]

How do you miss - or not miss - the years you grew up in?

[Anonymous]

I grew up in the 80’s, partly in the city as well as on the reservation. Times seemed simpler back then. On the Rez we could go out, play in the raid puddles, go hunting w our BB gun, swim in the wash when it rained a lot. We used to take steaks from my mom’s fridge, my cousin would get potatoes, we’d cook it in a coffee can down in the wash. We built tree houses in the trees in the wash, walked up the mesas for ceremonies. Sat on the wall at the edge of the Mesa at the end of the day when everyone was driving home from the ceremonies. We got to see a lot of people, they’d give us food because there was so much of it from the ceremonies. We’d sleep out in the dark in sleeping bags or on my aunt’s roof in the cool summer nights. We used to go to this one house to get chased by the dogs. Play football in the wet dirt from the rain, roll down the hill in tires. Eat cereal, watch cartoons. Take all my aunt’s dishes out and have a water fight. Filled up all her dishes w water. Cruise their little car on the rez when my aunt was gone. We did a lot. Built underground forts not realizing it could cave in on us lol I remember we always use to go to this girl’s house that I liked when I was maybe in 7th grade, we always tried to get her to come out at night w us. It was fun.

[Daniela1982]

Sounds like you lived your life and had fun, unlike kids today who can't keep their noses out of their phones for more than 5 minutes.

[Opinion Owner]

For sure. I remember playing red rover, close lining each other lol if I had 3 wishes one wish would be to go back for one day to relieve those days

[Daniela1982]

A lot of people wish they could re-live their childhood. Others didn't have a good childhood, which sucks.

[molonski2]

I think we all romantice our era to some degree , there were parts of the era that were horrendous , ( violent thats for sure ) , but there were parts of it that were wonderful and free , and as per your example a phone call was certainly a phone call , something generally to be cherished , a suburb may well be a country away.

Technology as we know , is really good and bad at the same time , you certainly can't get away with too much these days. Biggest thing that concerns me is helicopter parenting , and staring a phones.

I miss the element of a random meeting , this seems to just rarely happen. On the negative , there was more child abuse , school teacher who thought of themselves as gods , and of course all that happened in the Churches.

[Daniela1982]

Are you talking the Catholic Churches?

[molonski2]

All Churches , and societies , scouts , abused children in Australia in 60/70/80s..
Catholics were particularly prominent.

Then we had the ultra violent sharpies and skinheads , headed by the likes of Dennis Allen and his brother , turf wars and other such bs .

[Anonymous]

I born in the late 1980's but basically grew up in the 90's. I do miss it. There was no social media. You didn't have to worry about anyone taking a photo of you without your consent. You especially didn't have to worry about someone randomly attacking you just to make a video for tiktok. There was never any lock downs. Food shopping was also a lot cheaper. Where I live, as I kid we could walk the streets and not have to worry about being kidnapped.

[Daniela1982]

Ahhh, those were the days...

[Losalt]

Same here.

[erandal]

I was born in the early 70’s and the 80’s are what I consider my ‘growing up’ years. The music was probably the best it has ever been, we all had manners and respect for rules, and nobody was ‘offended’. If you didn’t like something you either shut the hell up or you did something about it.

[Daniela1982]

I think 70's music was outstanding and have a good CD collection of them.

[peedy]

I have a collection of 70s music to... on cassette tape lol

[Daniela1982]

@peedy I have a cassette player but only around 30 home made music tapes. Eventually the tape breaks or it goes bad. Never put a magnet near a cassette tape.

[Sparkie460]

I was born in the late 60's and grew up in the 70's and 80's. I loved it back then. Everyone had respect for each other. We all played together in the streets. There were no cell phones. The phone was on the wall. Things seemed simpler back then. Computers were just coming out. If you have a report to do you went to the library, not Google. Nobody was offended by anything. If you had a beef with someone, the two of you settled it in person. Everyone knew what sex they were.

I wish the world was like that today.

[Daniela1982]

Don't we all wish the world was simpler.

[Sparkie460]

It was simpler back then. Technology ruined it

[Daniela1982]

The Viet Nam war didn't help any.

[Zatsuma]

80's and 90's. I miss being able to run up and down the stairs in house and have my mum scream at me to slow down before I fall and break my neck! Oh and also her telling me to not sit so close to the telly or I'll go blind.

[Daniela1982]

ha ha

[WeirdoFriendly]

My childhood shows were Drake and Josh, Icarly, and a bit of regular show. My childhood activities included manhunt or flash light tag in construction yards or playing dance central when the nights began to drag on. These were with 15 or more people. Sometimes we had to go looking for the last person still out hiding. I miss those days of fun. Of not having a care in the world about what we were talking about or doing. Just as long as we were together, we had fun.

[Daniela1982]

You sound older than 20.

[WeirdoFriendly]

How old do I sound? And why do you think so?

[WindAtMyBack]

Grew up in the 60s and entered adulthood in the mid 70s. No, I don't miss it. There were many things I think were better then. There were also things I think were worse.

Things were completely unbalanced then. I think they are even more unbalanced now, but I still don't miss the past. If there was any time during my life that I miss it would probably be the 90s, which for me personally was the best decade of my life.

[nolabels]

I was born in 1958, so I grew up in the 1960s.

It was a great time.

Go out and play, get hurt, heal, go out and play some more, and some more, and some more.

Building log cabin forts, learning skills that would serve me as an adult. Good times.

Mountain Dew tasted like it should, with real fruit juice and real fruit pulp swirling around in the bottle.

Yeah, the 1960s was a great time for me to grow up.

I miss it.

[Rei13]

I grew up in the nineties to early 2000s. I think what I miss the most is that people weren’t as glued to their phones or computers, something I am definitely guilty of now. Social Media was a thing but not like it is now and there was a better balance between it. It was great because you got a designated computer time and then everything else was outside

[SnowedIn]

I was born in 1974 and grew up for the rest of that decade and the 1980s.

I do miss a lot. Things that were affordable. Things that didn't break due to planned obsolescence. That TV was a special occasion (particularly after my crt tv warmed up).

We rode bikes that could be fixed (and we're affordable in the first place).

And, yeah, all the stuff in your pictures.

[exitseven]

I grew up in the 70s and 80s. I was among the last group to grow up without the internet. We played outside and raised hell around town often with the dismay of the local cops. I dont think I would be a very successful teenager today.

[Daniela1982]

I'm sure you would manage.

[exitseven]

I would be locked up for sure.

[BlackJeep]

I grew up in the 70s and 80s and thank God there weren't cell phones capturing the shit we did. We all would've been cancelled or in jail. There is no way a teen today could get away with what we got away with

[Daniela1982]

I can tell you were a hell raiser.

[BoopBoopBeep]

I grew up in the 80s. I miss arcades. It wasn't just a place to play video games. EVERYBODY, especially in a small town, would be at the local arcade. They had food and drinks, outdoor benches for when you needed fresh air, I met SO many girls that I didn't go to school with there. It was a great social environment filled with every clique you could imagine. I can't think of anything like that that really exists today.

[Daniela1982]

Nope, all the arcades are gone. They did have some great games though. Now all replaced by Nintendo, Playstation, and X-Box.

[BoopBoopBeep]

@daniela1982
Yeah... and it's just not the same experience, and most of those games are moving away from same room cooperative play (couch co-op), so they're way less social than arcades were.

[OlderAndWiser]

I grew up in the 1960's and it was one of the most turbulent decades of the past hundred years. We had a cultural revolution and popular music was at a zenith of creativity, but we also had horrible political unrest, political assassinations, and the beginnings of increasing airplane hijackings and school violence.

[D_Bone_Steak]

80's and early 90's. On the better side, was the lack of that constant phone pecking. On the worse side, the asshole back then was probably going to kill you rather than just annoy you online.

[richardcory]

I miss having a real space program, and a society that believed in an amazing future for mankind. I'm saddened to see those dreams die.

I don't miss the widespread sexism and racism, or the ever present threat of nuclear annihilation.

[OG956]

I grew up in end of 90' (95) + in 00' and it was a best part of my life (in ways of my childhood, life and things we had) :) of course everyone has + and - sides in their life, but I can say, it was way better, then in what kids are growing up today + in what people are living today.

[andreasderjuengere]

My ''Era'' was one that was quite disinterested in ''Eras''.

So somehow I still live in it.

I miss nothing - just remember a number of things very fondly :)

But meanwhile there are -and were- new things to discover.

[ADFSDF1996]

Born in the mid 1990s, grew up in the 2000s and 2010s.

I miss not having to worry about adult matters (finance, career etc).

[Massageman]

I miss riding around behind the DDT truck, inhaling petrochemicals. :- )

[Daniela1982]

And you're still alive?

[Massageman]

Helped build-up my resistance to governmental "smoke jobs".

[Iron_Man]

I lived in the area where I’ve experienced everything I’m telling you when I was a kid I was free happy go lucky and things were exciting and well built and well-made

[Iron_Man]

era…

[Anonymous]

Everyone had an upstairs and downstairs and it had a front and back yard, no mobile communication devices, biked around to find your friends, stayed outside until bedtime and begged to go outside but only could if our chores were completed.

[Luopio27]

Im 38 so I grew up in the late 90s and early 2000. Way before socisl medias and smart phones.