Do you remember this days?

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Lliam · Accepted Answer

Well I started high school in the fall of 1969. I was surfing, skateboarding, snow skiing, driving my car all over the place, backpacking, and partying throughout the 70s.

I was born in 1954 and grew up in one of the new, post war suburbs that were popping up all over.
There were large vacant lots for playing football and baseball with neighbor kids.
There were nice parks with dangerous playground equipment, basket ball, handball and tennis courts, baseball diamonds, tether balls, and other things.

My friends and I used to run around playing army with small, realistic toy guns and military equipment like helmets and ammo belts that our dads had brought home from the war.
We walked around the neighborhood on the tops of the cinder block walls that divided back yards and sometimes climbed onto garage roofs.

We dug fox holes and built temporary forts in fields. A friend had a tree house in his back yard.

When I was young, there was a river bed about a mile or so away. It usually just had a small creek in the middle where we could go to catch frogs and pollywogs and see the occasional snake.
That river eventually got cemented in with a channel running down the center. No more wildlife.

My first bike was metal with no sprockets. When I was little, some neighbor boys who were a couple years older made fun of my training wheels and helped me remove them. My mom was surprised and a bit concerned when she saw me riding without training wheels.
In about 1965, I got a red Schwinn Junior 10 speed bike for Christmas. 10 speeds were the new cool thing. Sting ray bikes with banana seats didn't come out until later.
Nobody wore helmets or safety equipment.

We rode around for miles and explored everywhere. And it's true that our parents didn't monitor us. We just had to be home in time for dinner. But then we could go back out and play until it was time for bed.

For indoor entertainment, the family watched TV together and sometimes listened to records. But my sister and I would also play with toys or board games.

I don't remember any plastic things like Big Wheels back then. Everything was made of metal, including roller skate and skate board wheels.

There were definitely slot cars and electric railroad sets. I don't know when Hot Wheels came out but I never got into them.

There were hobby shops with all kinds of cool stuff like slot cars, trains, chemistry sets, microscopes, model sets of cars and airplanes, and paint for models.

When going for drives, there were no car seats. Few people even used seat belts. I would sit on the edge of the back seat and lean on the back of the front seat between my parents to watch out the window. If my dad had to stop fast, my mom's arm would shoot out automatically to block me from flying over the seat, as if that would have helped if we crashed.

People could ride in the beds of pickup trucks.

They were the best of times. All the focus on safety ruined it. I feel sorry for kids these days. They need adult supervision 24/7 and are handed electronic devices to keep them occupied. The only activity they get are organized sports. And I can't imagine being strapped into a car seat. I would go insane.

Aside from some scrapes and the occasional broken bone, I don't remember any kids being badly injured or killed.

MrOracle · Accepted Answer

That thumbnail could easily be a picture of me at 4 or 5 years old. That's the GenX childhood captured in a single photo.

sage2021 · Accepted Answer

My son probably would remember.

Personally I had a Schwinn Stingray bike. It was metallic purple with a white bandana seat and a white wicker basket attached to the handle bars

I'd love to see a picture of one of those!!

wkksjdjfjg · Accepted Answer

Yes, and I miss you so much 🥹

exitseven · Answer

yes, the world was a different place. I remember Stingray bikes and we had a station wagon that had no seat belts. My brother and I used to ride in the back sometimes if my father had the seat folded down and he was carrying some big piece if furniture,

Kids do not have neighborhoods anymore. They are all in daycare and everyone is playing organized sports. I remember we had whole bunch of neighborhood kids. Every family had 4 or 5 kids or more. You would know older and younger kids and everyone played together. There were no bike helmets and skateboards were popular. If you fell off your skateboard you got bad case of road rash,

Houses were smaller but they did not seem small.

realbiggrin · Answer

Absolutely. Really good times. My brother and a friend got in some trouble for ramming big wheel size hole in the drywall of a house that was being built. My father had to fix the damage. And we got to say so long to our big wheels for awhile.

Shy-boy53 · Answer

Oh I was an 80’s kid but quite a few of the bits on the clip reminded me of growing up. If there was a bike involved then a ramp was never far behind. We were living Evil Knievel’s! . Scars to prove it too 🤣

NathanDavis · Answer

I remember playing outside with other kids... lol 
 
 hard to believe that's just nostalgia nowadays, lmfao...

FunkyMonkee · Answer

THESE days? Yes, most of my teen years. The `70's were the lowest cultural point in the history of the planet!!

Anonymous · Answer

Reckless, dangerous, and stupid and weird.  As bad as oddball President Carter (who i still like) was photographed on Google Images in the 70s riding on the hood of his Limo

queenofcardio · Answer

I wasn't alive in the 70s

Mike_Hum · Answer

100%. It was a glorious time

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

I won't click your link. Remember that.

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