For those born between 1930-1965....
steveinaz
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Those Born 1930-1965!
TO ALL THE KIDS
WHO SURVIVED the 1940's, 50's, and 60's!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs 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 infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, 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 koolade made with sugar, 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 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or 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 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 walked in and talked to 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!
These generations have 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!
If 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 so much of our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
"Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we are here we might as well dance!"
TO ALL THE KIDS
WHO SURVIVED the 1940's, 50's, and 60's!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs 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 infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, 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 koolade made with sugar, 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 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or 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 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 walked in and talked to 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!
These generations have 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!
If 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 so much of our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
"Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we are here we might as well dance!"
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Good stuff....I was born in 1966 so I'll consider myself part of this crowd."Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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I love it! I didn't get a BB gun though...
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I shot my neighbors window out around 12 years old when I snuck my gun outside.
I am not quite as old as this thread implicates but I think I still ate lead paint.Skynut
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steveinaz wrote:First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
I was born in 1981 and with the exception of the few above, just about everything else in there applied to me. I remember leaving the house early in the morning on weekends and being gone for hours. The way I knew it was time to come home was when I heard my Dad whistle. I also got a Daisy "Red Ryder for my 9th or 10th b-day and learned how to shoot."I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very depressed."
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Yeah I remember when I was 4 or 5 I sat in the corner of my bedroom enjoying that whole bottle of orange flavored baby aspirin (no tamper proof top) and I lived to tell about it. Took quite a few spills off my bike...apparently I have a hard head (no helmets back then). I hit my head on the dash board during a rear end collision sitting on my aun't lap in the front seat of the car when I was about 3-4 years old. Again still here to tell about it. Hey KOOL AID...drank a steady diet of that too.
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I was born in 67 and all the above applies to me as well. My wife and I were discussing this very topic just the other day.
I actually feel sorry for the children of today. They can't even go outside without an adult or babysitter to watch over them. Teenagers aren't even allowed to cruise in most towns and cities. I'm glad I grew up when I did. I'm glad that I had the freedom to ride my bike miles from my house. I'm glad that when I went out trick or treating, I was out for hours, on my own and would fill up pillow cases with treats."SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
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Gone are the days of
The Snoopy Snowcone maker
Playing marbles on the playground at school
Sitting in the "think tank" (an old refrierator box) in 3rd grade if you were disruptive in class.
Playing tether ball at recess
Building and flying your own kite
Gas powered COX engine kit cars
Evel Kneviel Motor cycle jumping kit
AFX race tracks
Made up baseball/football games
Playing with real plastic Army men
Building plastic model kit cars and planes
Trading Wacky **** stickers with your friends
Saving your allowance to buy more BB's
Saving your allowance to buy gas for the Mini-Bike.
Saving your allowance to buy the new Kiss LP.
H9"Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul! -
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Oh man, this thread is cool!
All of us had Crossman 10 pump BB rifles. The holy grail of BB rifles was the 10 pump Sheridan rifle (spelling?). We only heard about it, never seen one.
The best time we ever had was when the creek froze over in the winter, then we walked to the other side and proceeded to hunt birds in the trees. We took packed lunches with drinks and snacks and stayed out ALL DAY! Video games, MTV and all that other BS was not around back then. We felt like kings, especially when a POOF of feathers flew when you hit a bird and you heard it hit the ground.
Plastic army men ruled the days too. We set up both sides and used rubberbands found on the ground and stolen off peoples newpapers to shoot each others army.
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65 here! that post brought back memories! i remember thinking we were master carpenters and mechanics. one project involved hacking the forks off an otherwise good bike and shoving them onto your forks to make a 'chopper'. it was bad **** for a 9 year old! my dad was impressed. that is until he discovered the donor bike was his! :eek: that put an end to my bike customizing schemes.
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Eh, i was born in 80 and I can relate to most of those things. But then again, I grew up in the "country", so I think it was different for people who grew up in the city. But I never had video games and wasn't allowed in front of the TV before it was dark out. Riding bikes, running in the woods, building things. My parents were very l enient about letting us out to do our own thing, and we never worried about serial killers or kidnappers or any of that BS. And I can't remember all the itmes I came home bleeding just to have my mother wash it and throw a band-aid on... people are insane nowadays.If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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Oh...I could go on and on. Remember building those tree forts? Stealing/borrowing/begging for scrap wood. We built one on stilts over a creek next to a tree leaning over. I can't tell you pissed my Dad was at all the tools I lost or ruined in the process. The things we learned from just doing stuff is amazing. Also remember I had a Crossman 1010 pump BB gun. A hunting we would go. I actually feel bad today about shooting so many birds and squirrels. Back then it was cool, today it seems pointless and a tad cruel. We used to shoot frogs in the pond in the woods at the end of our subdivision. We'd wait in the brush with our scopes and pick 'em off as they stuck their eyes up. Atleast that a little more sporting, but I feel terrible today about that now.
I used to get mad if I was grounded from going outdoors and meeting up with friends for the whole day to explore things, hunt things, blow things up, tinker with things and just basically be on my own all day long on the weekends.
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heiney9 wrote:Gone are the days of
Evel Kneviel Motor cycle jumping kit
Saving your allowance to buy the new Kiss LP.
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YES, you hit it home.........Destroyer and Hotter than Hell........had to mow about 10 lawns to buy these LP's, (about a buck a lawn), and then had to have one of my friends "hold" the albums for me, cause my mom wouldn't allow anything "kiss" in the house...
I had the jumping kit as well.....stretch armstrong, (he ended up getting real hard though through the years)
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My Evil Kneviel jump kit was 3 or 4 blocks of wood, a piece of plywood and my bike.
I was Evil Kneviel.Skynut
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Man! Some of you all were violent little buggers weren't you?
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This thread is awesome! Brought back lots of memories (of the 70's early 80's for me).
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Ah, I remember it well. Sort of.
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This thread is a riot!
We used to dig tunnels by the creek and build tree forts. We chopped the hell out of some of those trees. That was 25 years ago and the trees still stand today.
Summertime, we were almost never in the house. Soccer, baseball, wiffleball (that F-ing ruled!), fishing, crabbing, army down by the creek in the weeds, tunnel digging, tree forts and of course...making out with the local girlies! Kissing a girl back then was like hitting a home run!
Ahhhh those were the days!
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I remember the first time I got to walk trails with my BB gun by myself (thanks to grandpa). I was about 8, and I thought I was cool as hell. My Grandpa was a serious outdoorsman, hunter, fisherman, etc. Whenever we'd go to his lake house, he would let me and my brother do just about anything---fond memories for sure. We lived in the city of Saint Louis, so walking around with a bb gun wasn't an option. The lake house was built from the ground up exclusively by members of the family.Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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I've seen this several times, and each time it reconfirms my belief as a teacher that video games and TV are killing our children's ability to imagine.
Name the last time you saw kids playing "Hide and go Seek" or "Kick the Can" at dusk?
We used to haul wood from construction sites all the time to build forts, bike jumps, etc.
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john d. strong wrote:Plastic army men ruled the days too.......to shoot each others army.
We used M80's for grenades. Lit with the freely available matches. Anybody else drag their toes on the pavement while you were standing on the runningboard of your Granddaddy's pickup.........@45mph :eek:>
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Forgot about the countless times I almost blew my fingers off. Living so close the Wisconsin border we almost always had a stash of fireworks. Parents trusted us back then, why I have no idea! We did some pretty crazy things, but we were smart about it and the few times something did happen to neighbors property, etc., we always confessed and took our punishment. It was all a part of growing up. No cable, vcr's, video games, iPods, etc. We had to entertain ourselves. Geez, I almost forgot about my Chemistry set and Erector set and Lincoln Logs. I was always finding alternate uses for my stuff. I had an Electronics set too that I used together with the Lincoln Logs and Erector set and made some pretty cool stuff."Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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59 here; can remember all of this. One thing not mentioned here are the wood carts we made with roller bearings as wheels....wow did I have fun with those...._________________________________________________
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Skynut wrote:We used to use model glue as napalm when playing with the little plastic soldiers.
Firecrackers were the land mines.
I'm laughing myself silly with this thread! Great great stuff!
Lincoln logs rocked too. We built roads and parking garages to ride our Hotwheels and Matchbox cars around in.
X-mas time meant a new Bigwheel. All of us gathered at the basketball court down the end of the block and proceeded to have our own "Smash Up Derby." We would stand on the back with one foot, grab the handle grips and kick with the other foot then....WOOOOOSH...let them all fly into the center of the court. All you saw were Bigwheels flying everywhere! Grab yours from the pile and commence again.
How many of you had one of these when you were little? This was some great ****!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Mattel-Vertibird-Verti-Bird-Helicopter-Toy-Working-1971_W0QQitemZ6031695395QQcategoryZ1185QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Can't believe they are still around being sold.
Oh the memories!
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john d. strong wrote:All you saw were Bigwheels flying everywhere!
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Mark, you are too much!!!dorokusai wrote:I only had myself to play with when I was young.Marantz AV-7705 PrePro, Classé 5 channel 200wpc Amp, Oppo 103 BluRay, Rotel RCD-1072 CDP, Sony XBR-49X800E TV, Polk S60 Main Speakers, Polk ES30 Center Channel, Polk S15 Surround Speakers SVS SB12-NSD x2
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First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnantWe 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,
Otherwise, EVERYTHING ELSE applies....1953."Just because youre offended doesnt mean youre right." - Ricky Gervais
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