Those Were The Days!!!

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:37 am

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, 60's 70's and 80'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. 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 cakes, white bread and real butter and drank 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 th 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 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 nolawsuits from these accidents . We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. We 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! Football teams had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to dealbroke 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 TODEAL 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, show this to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were. PS -Hope you can see this print at your age lol x

theia · Post by **theia** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:14 am

How true that is, Carolly :-6

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:26 am

Carolly;697807 wrote: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, 60's 70's and 80'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. 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 cakes, white bread and real butter and drank 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 th 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 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 nolawsuits from these accidents . We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. We 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! Football teams had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to dealbroke 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 TODEAL 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, show this to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were. PS -Hope you can see this print at your age lol x

You missed out going to mumps and measles parties to make sure all the kids got over their childhood deseases early before they'd do too much harm and the fact that it was all so much FUN.

The hightlighted parts could well have a bearing on the discussion on allergies in the peanut thread.

kazalala · Post by **kazalala** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:30 am

I dont think im old enough

:D

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:49 am

theia;697817 wrote: How true that is, Carolly :-6I know.....does make you think about yer childhood dont it lol

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:52 am

Bryn Mawr;697822 wrote: You missed out going to mumps and measles parties to make sure all the kids got over their childhood deseases early before they'd do too much harm and the fact that it was all so much FUN.

Marbles....snakes an ladders........a small black an white tele.....outside toilet.....newspaper instead of loo roll..........chips also from newspaper and so it goes on Bryn.

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:53 am

kazalala;697825 wrote: I dont think im old enough

:D:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

ye right!!!!!!!!

Indian Princess · Post by **Indian Princess** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:01 am

That was wonderful, thank you. I miss t he 70's. I was born in 1967 and boy do I rememeber the cars with no seatbelts.

Things were sooooooooooooooooooooo dif

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:08 am

Indian Princess;697840 wrote: That was wonderful, thank you. I miss t he 70's. I was born in 1967 and boy do I rememeber the cars with no seatbelts.

Things were sooooooooooooooooooooo difYes they were hun and in some ways sooooooo much better.

theia · Post by **theia** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:30 am

Indian Princess;697840 wrote: That was wonderful, thank you. I miss t he 70's. I was born in 1967 and boy do I rememeber the cars with no seatbelts.

Things were sooooooooooooooooooooo dif

My daughter was born in 1967. In those days we had to wrap babies tightly in white cellular blankets and put them to sleep on their sides. They looked a little like a chrysalis, no hands or feet showing. How things have changed!

Uncle Fester · Post by **Uncle Fester** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:37 am

Memories are made of stuff like this , don't forget the fun we had on VE day:D

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:57 am

Those were fun times - we had such a large family, we had a baseball team and played in the street and the rest of the neighbors would sit around and cheer us on. Baseballs would go in all directions and hit parked cars - no law suits..

Fun years

Patsy

kazalala · Post by **kazalala** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:42 am

Patsy Warnick;697964 wrote: Those were fun times - we had such a large family, we had a baseball team and played in the street and the rest of the neighbors would sit around and cheer us on. Baseballs would go in all directions and hit parked cars - no law suits..

Fun years

Patsy

yea now kids are not allowed to play in the streets:(

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:45 am

Carolly;697833 wrote: Marbles....snakes an ladders........a small black an white tele.....outside toilet.....newspaper instead of loo roll..........chips also from newspaper and so it goes on Bryn.

Tin bath in front of the fire on a Saturday night, jack frost on the inside of the bedroom window, bucket of water outside the back door to keep the milk cool 'cos there was no refridgerator - meat safe on the yard wall for the same reason - takes you back a bit

I remember when we got our first little black and white telly, it was when ATV first reached our area so there were two channels to chose from.

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:02 pm

Hi Carolly,

Yes, those were the good old days. We never locked our doors and walked everywhere.

Families ate together at a dinner table and talked about their day.

Kids we allowed to walk to all their sports activities alone and weren't afraid to walk home late at night.

We had cheap access to the local swimming pools where we were allowed to scream, shout and stuff our faces with junk food.

We'd roast marshmallows and mickies over an open fire and not start a forest fire.

We cleaned up one of the local horse stable and be allowed to ride the horses for free. But, somethings always stayed the same. The owner of the stables always sold his palomino, Nancy, and stole her back that night. So, we got to ride this beautiful horse all the time.

We played kick the can till all hours and the neighbors never told us to stop and be quiet.

And, most of all, the whole city was like a family.

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:47 pm

Bryn Mawr;698000 wrote: Tin bath in front of the fire on a Saturday night, jack frost on the inside of the bedroom window, bucket of water outside the back door to keep the milk cool 'cos there was no refridgerator - meat safe on the yard wall for the same reason - takes you back a bit

I remember when we got our first little black and white telly, it was when ATV first reached our area so there were two channels to chose from.
Oh god dont it Bryn:rolleyes:

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:48 pm

Kathy Ellen;698131 wrote: Hi Carolly,

Yes, those were the good old days. We never locked our doors and walked everywhere.

Families ate together at a dinner table and talked about their day.

Kids we allowed to walk to all their sports activities alone and weren't afraid to walk home late at night.

We had cheap access to the local swimming pools where we were allowed to scream, shout and stuff our faces with junk food.

We'd roast marshmallows and mickies over an open fire and not start a forest fire.

We cleaned up one of the local horse stable and be allowed to ride the horses for free. But, somethings always stayed the same. The owner of the stables always sold his palomino, Nancy, and stole her back that night. So, we got to ride this beautiful horse all the time.

We played kick the can till all hours and the neighbors never told us to stop and be quiet.

And, most of all, the whole city was like a family.Good days hun ...never to return....................................good to see you babexx

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:52 pm

Are you actually saying that you poor English buggers didn't have indoor sanitation in the late 20th century?

*bloody amazed, so I am*

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:46 pm

Uncle Fester;697886 wrote: Memories are made of stuff like this , don't forget the fun we had on VE day:DErm Im abit young for that lol!!!

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:49 pm

Chookie;698215 wrote: Are you actually saying that you poor English buggers didn't have indoor sanitation in the late 20th century?

*bloody amazed, so I am*
In the 50s and early 60s some houses didnt no. I lived in the East End and no we didn't have an indoor loo till we moved to a new place in the 60s.

weeder · Post by **weeder** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:12 pm

Born in 1952. Entertainment was buying a cake, and going to visit friends.

No TV. When my grandmother and aunt came to visit, we danced in the living room. No air conditioning. laying on top of the covers, hot. Windows opened listening to crickets and summer sounds. Sunday night in high school, one driver picked 12 of us up, to all go to the movies together. Great times. Id go back in a minute.

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:25 pm

Weeder - it was a party car & everyone jumped in - fun times

Don't forget the Hand Me Downs

where you where something your sister grew out of - that was your new school clothes.

No one does that anymore - they wouldn't dare - now its labels

I was happy just to have some clothes

Patsy - 1957 sister & best friend 1952

cinamin · Post by **cinamin** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:45 pm

I look back on my days when I was very very young and remember that I was a child being raised by children, as my parents were like......well my mother was 16 when I was born and my father 18.

Crazy

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Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:24 am

weeder;698253 wrote: Born in 1952. Entertainment was buying a cake, and going to visit friends.

No TV. When my grandmother and aunt came to visit, we danced in the living room. No air conditioning. laying on top of the covers, hot. Windows opened listening to crickets and summer sounds. Sunday night in high school, one driver picked 12 of us up, to all go to the movies together. Great times. Id go back in a minute.
:rolleyes: wouldn't we all.......................

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:26 am

Patsy Warnick;698258 wrote: Weeder - it was a party car & everyone jumped in - fun times

Don't forget the Hand Me Downs

where you where something your sister grew out of - that was your new school clothes.

No one does that anymore - they wouldn't dare - now its labels

I was happy just to have some clothes

Patsy - 1957 sister & best friend 1952
The kids dont realise today how lucky they are and have no idea or care lol what we had!

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:27 am

cinamin;698261 wrote: I look back on my days when I was very very young and remember that I was a child being raised by children, as my parents were like......well my mother was 16 when I was born and my father 18.

CrazyHow interesting...........how old are they now?

weeder · Post by **weeder** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:00 am

Patsy Warnick;698258 wrote: Weeder - it was a party car & everyone jumped in - fun times

Don't forget the Hand Me Downs

where you where something your sister grew out of - that was your new school clothes.

No one does that anymore - they wouldn't dare - now its labels

I was happy just to have some clothes

Patsy - 1957 sister & best friend 1952

I was just thinking of the no clothes thing the other day. I grew up in a neighborhood that was really out of my parents league. Thanks to my mom, who fought to get at least that for her kids. Cosequently, all of my friends came from homes where there was money, and they all had great clothes.

My mother could barely get us what we needed to start school. So, I raked leaves and shoveled snow at 12. Babysat... went to work at the phone company at 14 during the summer. Had a job after school, in a mens shop, in the mall all through high school. The experiences served me well. I have always had a strong work ethic, whithout which I would never have survived.

Thankfully during my high school years... wearing the same pair of jeans, every day, for an entire year was cool The pressure to dress like a barbie doll was over. What about the parties on Friday or Saturday night, at someones house, when 50 or 60 kids would show up? Bob Dylan, the Turtles, and later The Beatles playing while everyone found corners to make out in?

Sororitys and fraternities were huge during my era also. Really, justgive me one weekend. I would be so happy. It would be like Back To The Future.

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 12:07 pm

Weeder

we had a similar up bringing

We had a very large family - my neighbors had 2 - 3 children & wealth, for Christmas they would get ski equipment - I was happy if I received a clock radio.

We had to berry pick during every summer - all summer long we caught a old delapitated school bus at the corner at 6:00a.m., picked berrys all day, returned home @ 4:30 and had chores. Also baby sat Friday & Saturday nights

Schools wouldn't allow girls to wear pants for the longest time.

Don't forget the PEA COAT

Yes - the house party's - packed with everyone

Crazy, Fun Times

Patsy

weeder · Post by **weeder** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:42 pm

I LOVED pea coats... and English Leather cologne. Yardley cosmetics. Chandlers was the upscale shoe store where an expensive pair was 14.98$

Becks, Bakers.. shoes 6.98 7.98 Beautiful Crazy Horse sweaters 14.98.

And we went out on Real Dates. Waiting for someone who you liked to call?

We had cliques. Greasers, Collegiates, Hippys, Nerds, Jocks. Mustangs, GTOs, Firebirds... Black tights, eyeliner... on and on and on.

The village pool was a dollar. My mom didnt have 2 dollars a day to send my sister and I. We figured out all kinds of ways to make money. 29 bucks was like 150.00 today. Friday night dances at the pool. I could go on and on. Nice to hear of someone whose upbringing was like mine. It is kind of comforting. Things are so different now, its like I imagined it all.

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 2:02 pm

Weeder

Did you have to wear saddle shoes?

Patsy

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 2:54 pm

weeder;698486 wrote: I was just thinking of the no clothes thing the other day. I grew up in a neighborhood that was really out of my parents league. Thanks to my mom, who fought to get at least that for her kids. Cosequently, all of my friends came from homes where there was money, and they all had great clothes.

My mother could barely get us what we needed to start school. So, I raked leaves and shoveled snow at 12. Babysat... went to work at the phone company at 14 during the summer. Had a job after school, in a mens shop, in the mall all through high school. The experiences served me well. I have always had a strong work ethic, whithout which I would never have survived.

Thankfully during my high school years... wearing the same pair of jeans, every day, for an entire year was cool The pressure to dress like a barbie doll was over. What about the parties on Friday or Saturday night, at someones house, when 50 or 60 kids would show up? Bob Dylan, the Turtles, and later The Beatles playing while everyone found corners to make out in?

Sororitys and fraternities were huge during my era also. Really, justgive me one weekend. I would be so happy. It would be like Back To The Future.Thanks for sharing that....I was lucky as back in the 60s I met The Beatles. Long story but Love Me Do had just been released and they wernt very well known at all. Yes if only I had that little book now they all signed.ahhhhhh....about a year later I saw them again but they were alot more famous then but I still collared Paul to sign my LP of Please Please Me.....which I still have and is worth a nice few hundred quid as its an early signature and after that period everything went through their fanclub. Gawd those were the days lol.........

weeder · Post by **weeder** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:30 pm

Very, very nice.... Its like you are a bit of a celebrity...

weeder · Post by **weeder** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:43 pm

Patsy Warnick;698589 wrote: Weeder

Did you have to wear saddle shoes?

Patsy

Yes, I had to wear saddle shoes. But worse than that... One time my parents decided that they were tired of our new school shoes wearing out too fast. My mother forced us to get these shoes she called OXFORDS. They looked like a cross between a theraputic shoe, and something a nazi soldgier would wear. My sister and I were actually crying in the shoe store. They also weighed a ton. Remember now, they were the ONLY shoes we had. We wouldnt be caught dead in those shoes. Thank God we had sneakers. We would put our sneakers in our school bags.. Remember SCHOOL BAGS??

leave the house in the oxfords.. and change when we got to the corner.

Heres another cruel oldie but goodie, My mother wouldnt let us have long hair. Every few months she would set a chair in the kitchen with a towel on it. A glass of water with a comb in it was on the table. The scissor was in her hand. She used to call us in for our PIXIE hair cuts. Horrible.. absolutely horrible. Remember training bras? They were these totally flat bras. Like the sports bras they have now. Everyone in the sixth grade wanted one. For the back part that you could see through your shirt. You guessed it..... not my sister and I. For us it was the undershirts with the skinny shoulder straps. Nothing modern or undurable in our house.

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 6:42 am

weeder;698635 wrote: Very, very nice.... Its like you are a bit of a celebrity...
No lol but I must admit I was a singer and could tell stories that would make yer hair curl.....mind you if you like it straight that wouldn't be any good!!!:wah:

weeder · Post by **weeder** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:56 am

I have very curly hair...... and even though I never was a singer.... Ill bet I could curl yours too:wah: First husband was a musician. What a ball. Fillmore East. These are some of the groups I heard the first time they played in the US Emerson Lake and Palmer... Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, J. Geils.... yeah yeah yeah.. Great Times.

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:12 am

weeder;698859 wrote: I have very curly hair...... and even though I never was a singer.... Ill bet I could curl yours too:wah: First husband was a musician. What a ball. Fillmore East. These are some of the groups I heard the first time they played in the US Emerson Lake and Palmer... Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, J. Geils.... yeah yeah yeah.. Great Times.
Oh yes they were wern't they hun....mind you being alot bleedin younger helped:wah:

weeder · Post by **weeder** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:28 am

Younger is right. We used to get out of the late show at 4am... and as you know Im sure, The night was young!!!!! It would kill me now!!

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:34 am

weeder;698870 wrote: Younger is right. We used to get out of the late show at 4am... and as you know Im sure, The night was young!!!!! It would kill me now!!

lol I agree....I get up now the time I used to go to bed fgs!!!!:wah:

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:26 pm

Chookie;698215 wrote: Are you actually saying that you poor English buggers didn't have indoor sanitation in the late 20th century?

*bloody amazed, so I am*

I'm talking the early / mid seventies and yes, a po under the bed and the toilet in the back yard. A home so full of love that minor inconveniences didn't come into it.