I found this on a Formula 1 racing site that I go to and I think that it is very true.
How true is this?
If you lived as a child in the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's, looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have...
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Our cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cupboards, and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors.
We would spend hours building 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 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. No mobile phones. Unthinkable.
We got cut and broke bones and broke teeth, and there were no law suits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame, but us.
Remember accidents?
We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.
We ate patty cakes, bread and butter, and drank cordial, but we were never overweight...we were always outside playing. We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one died from this.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, video games, 65 channels on pay TV, video tape movies, surround sound, personal mobile phones, Personal Computers, Internet chat rooms ... we had friends. We went outside and found them. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rung the bell, or just walked in and talked to them. Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves!
Out there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian - how did we do it?
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.
Footy and netball had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.....
Some students weren't as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. Tests were not adjusted for any reason.
Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one to hide behind. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law - imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
And you're one of them. Congratulations!
Please pass this on to others, who have had the luck to grow up as kids,
before lawyers and government regulated our lives....... for our own
good......
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The older I get, the better I was.
Very true
Hows those ribs doing car54
Born in 61 and look how far I've come--at a party a couple of weeks ago, who had to show the 20 year olds how to eat the worm out of the bottom of a tequila bottle? Really glad the wife didn't see that (again). The kids tried to rat me out to her, but of course I denied it and she either believed me or forgot about it...
Yeah, my wife's that way too, particularly with some of the favorite jokes I like to tell. Kind of like Frank the Tank from the Movie Old School.
Words can't describe how much I enjoyed that post , car54...I'm a '61 model myself, Ontrack.
Thanks '54 ,
Coyote
I'm a 55 model and remember those days well.
That's back when you were "Responsible" for your own problems.
You cut yourself, go get a dang band aid put on and get back out there to play pronto. No sniveling kid! :D
Boy, now days if you even raise your voice to the neighbor kid or you get sued!
Seems like you can't eat that, drink that, do that, say that, mean that, think that, buy that, use that, breath that, etc. etc. Whew!!!
Awe, the good ole days.
They keep telling me "Just wait til the golden days".
Heck I'd settle for copper or silver right now! :D
Opps. Forgot we're not supposed to make car54 laugh. Sorry buddy. :o ;D
I hope you act as young and feel as old as I do, Coyote ;)
'51 model here.
My ribs are healing very good. I can laugh.
I was telling my grandson's teacher that when I was in 8th grade our science teacher hooked up a hand cranked army surplus electric generator to my ear lopes and started cranking away. The teacher replied, " I have heard about those good old days. If I even look at a student wrong I'm in trouble."
Brad
Great post car54, and so very true! I'm a May 59 model myself, and nowdays i sound more like my dad every day ;D
In all seriousness, i'm glad i grew up in the times before all the hi tech, fast paced, stressed out stuff of today, it wasn't all good, but was a lot of fun.
Btw, my wife says i'm still a big kid! ::)
Quote from: LilSmoker on November 09, 2007, 11:08:53 AM
Btw, my wife says i'm still a big kid! ::)
Thank goodness there is some kid left in most of us. ;D
I'm a 50 model and Susan is a 44.
One of the things I did as a kid was to make a potatoe gun. Take a 3" metal pipe, add gun power, pack it with a piece of cloth, make a wick that went into a small hole at the bottom of the pipe. Stuff a potatoe in the head of the pipe and light the wick. BOOM there goes a flying potatoe.
Today if a kid did that he / she would go to jail.
Did a lot of stuff when I was growing up. Like by the age of ten I was reloading my own shot gun shells. Today they would lock up the parents.
When I did something wrong my butt got busted, but it was a Hard Love given by my parents. Today it is jail time for the parents.
A few years back Susan had a 4th grade student tell her that when he grew up that he was going to come back and butt *ucker her. Admins answer: Oh the poor child has had a hard life. We need to understand him better and reach out to him and have a talk. My answer to that was and still is bull chit.
When I was a kid if I had said like that to anyone I would have eaten so much soap that I would have chit bubbles for a week.
I hate to say this as I love my country -- but I believe that what once made this country great, its people heros to the rest of the world that, that time has passed.
I feel bad for the young people today that will never know Hard Love, but instead are bribed with a playstation to be good.
I know there are many good kids serving this country, but I believe they are in the minority.
Olds
You said it all Olds. I was tough on the three I reared. The oldest, my daughter, now appreciates it. She is in college now to become a teacher. A late start, but at least she is finally on the right track. The two boys, 19 and 18 almost broke down the door getting out at 18. The youger of the two has a welding skill and will eventually appreciate my efforts. Hopefully the 19 year old will grow up one day. So far he is just bumming from family and friends that will put up with it.
Add me to the '61 vintage...pretty amazing isn't it? I remember lying to my parents about putting on make-up when I was 14...told them I "fell down" and that was the "smudges" on my eyes!!! My Dad said, "You fell on your eyes?" I had to weed in the yard for a month!!! Has anybody seen how 14 year olds dress and are "made up" now...? I feel old!!! :)
Hope your doing good car54
I'm a 60 model ;D
HEY HEY I WANT TO BE A ROCKSTAR ;D
nepas
Well, I guess I should confess that so far I'm the pup of the gang here. '70 model, but everything in the first post still applied to me...could be because I've lived in a small town all my life.
I'm a 1960 model too!
But sometimes I feel like a 1970 model.... Does that count?
On the other hand I sometimes feel like a 1950 model... Usually after feeling like a 1970 model!
:D ;D ;D
Mike
QuoteWell, I guess I should confess that so far I'm the pup of the gang here. '70 model
Don't beet yourself up TT I'm a 1977 model but I can still remember a lot of that stuff. One of my most fondest memories has to be laying in the back dash of a Chrysler, staring out the rear window at the other cars going down the road with my ear pressed against the speaker listen to Elvira
I remain a dog on the internet......
Sparkler
Boy my buddies and I used to do some crazy stuff. Now kids don't do anything unorganized any more. I worry about my boy and soon to be born son or daughter because I don't see a lot of kids out playing by themselves any more.
I'm 1971 by the way. And a music nut. How's this for a good year?
"13 Questions" - Seatrain
"A Case of You" - Joni Mitchell
"After Midnight - Eric Clapton
"African Herbsman" - Bob Marley and the Wailers
"Ain't No Sunshine" - Bill Withers
"All Day Music" - War
"All I Ever Needed Is You" - Sonny and Cher
"All the Madmen" - David Bowie
"Amazing Grace" - Judy Collins
"America" - Yes
"America's Great National Pastime" - The Byrds
"An American Trilogy" - Mickey Newbury
"Angel From Montgomery" - John Prine
"Another Day" - Paul & Linda McCartney
"Baba O' Riley - The Who
"Baby Blue" - Blizzard
"Baby I'm-a Want You" - Bread
"Baby Jump" - Mungo Jerry
"The Back Seat of My Car" - Paul McCartney
"Be Nice To Me" - Runt
"Beautiful Brother of Mine" - Curtis Mayfield
"Because I Love You" - Masters Apprentences
"Beginnings" - Chicago
"Behind Blue Eyes" - The Who
"Black Country Rock" - David Bowie
"Black Dog" - Led Zeppelin
"Black Magic Woman" - Santana
"Bless The Beasts And Children" - Carpenters
"Blue Money" - Van Morrison
"Bombers" - David Bowie
"Booty Butt" - Ray Charles
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Aretha Franklin
"Bring the Boys Home" - Freda Payne
"Brown Sugar/Bitch/Let It Rock" - The Rolling Stones
"Burn Down the Mission" - Elton John
"Can You Feel It Baby" - Sherbet
"Can't Find the Time" - Rose Colored Glasses
"Can't You Hear Me Knocking - The Rolling Stones
"Carey" - Joni Mitchell
"Change Partners" - Stephen Stills
"Changes" - David Bowie
"Cherish" - David Cassidy
"Chicago" / We Can Change the World - Graham Nash
"Chick a Boom" - Daddy Dewdrop
"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" - Middle of the Road
"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" - Mac and Katie Kissoon
"Colour My World" - Chicago
"Cool-Aid" - Paul Humphrey
"Corner Stone" - The Wailers
"Country Road" - James Taylor
"Cousin Norman" - Marmalade
"Coz I Luv You" - Slade
"Crazy Love" - Helen Reddy
"Cried Like A Baby" - Bobby Sherman
"Cry Baby" - Janis Joplin
"Day After Day" - Badfinger
"Dead Flowers" - The Rolling Stones
"The Desideria" - Les Crane
"Do You Know What I Mean?" - Lee Michaels
"DOA" - Bloodrock
"Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted" - The Partridge Family
"Dolly Dagger" - Jimi Hendrix
"Don't Knock My Love-Pt. 1" - Wilson Pickett
"Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You" - Wilson Pickett
"Don't Pull Your Love" - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
"Don't Rock My Boat" - The Wailers
"Double Barrel" - Dave and Ansell Collins
"Draggin' the Line" - Tommy James
"Drowning in the Sea of Love" - Joe Simon
"Duppy Conqueror" - Bob Marley and the Wailers
"The Eagle and The Hawk" - John Denver
"Eagle Rock" - Daddy Cool
"Ernie" - Benny Hill
"Everybody's Everything" - Santana
"Family Affair" - Sly & the Family Stone
"Flim Flam Man" - Barbara Streisand
"For All We Know" - The Carpenters
"Free" - Chicago
"Free The People - Sherbet
"Freedom - Jimi Hendrix
"Friends" - Elton John
"Funky Nassau" - The Beginning of the End
"Get Down" - Curtis Mayfield
"Get It On" - T. Rex
"Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved Pt. 1" - James Brown
"Gimme Some Truth" - John Lennon
"Girl, I've Got News For You" - Cherokee
"Go Away Little Girl" - Donny Osmond
"Gonna See My Baby Tonight" La De Da's
"Got to Be There" - Michael Jackson
"Grandad" - Clive Dunn
"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" - Cher
"Hallelujah" - Sweathog
"Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
"He's So Fine" - Jody Miller
"Heart of the Country" - Paul McCartney
"Help Me Make It Through the Night" - Sammi Smith
"Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" - The Fortunes
"Here Comes the Sun" - Richie Havens
"Hey Big Brother" - Rare Earth
"Hey Girl Don't Bother Me" - The Tams
"Hey Mister, That's Me Up On The Jukebox" - James Taylor
"Hey Tonight" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Hope" - Mason Proffit
"Hot Love" - T. Rex
"Hot Pants (She Got to Use What She Got to Get Just What She Wants)" - James Brown
"How Can I Tell You" - Cat Stevens
"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" - The Bee Gees
"How Do You Sleep?" - John Lennon
"I Am......I Said" - Neil Diamond
"I Don't Blame You At All" - The Miracles
"I Don't Know How To Love Him" - Helen Reddy
"I Don't Know How To Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack - Yvonne Elliman
"I Don't Want to Be a Soldier Mama" - John Lennon
"I Don't Want To Do Wrong" - Gladys Knight and The Pips
"I Feel the Earth Move" - Carole King
"I Heard You Knockin'" - Dave Edmunds
"I Just Can't Help Believing" - Elvis Presley
"I Just Want To Celebrate" - Rare Earth
"I Know I'm In Love" - Chee- Chee and Perry
"I Love You For All Seasons" - Fuzz
"I Used To Be a King" - Graham Nash
"I Woke Up in Love This Morning" - The Partridge Family
"I'd Love to Change the World" - Ten Years After
"I'll Be Gone" - Spectrum
"I'll Meet You Half Way" - The Partridge Family
"I'm a Greedy Man pt.1" - James Brown
"I'm Eighteen" - Alice Cooper
"I'm Losing You" - Rod Stewart
"I'm Still Waiting" - Diana Ross
"I've Found Someone of My Own" - Free Movement
"If" - Bread
" If I Were Your Woman" - Gladys Knight and The Pips
"If Not For You" - Olivia Newton John
"If You Could Read My Mind" - Gordon Lightfoot
"If You Really Love Me" - Stevie Wonder
"Imagine" - John Lennon
"In My Own Time" - Family (number 4 in the UK)
"Indian Reservation" - Paul Revere and the Raiders
"Indian Summer" - Audience
"Inner City Blues(Makes Me Wanna Holler)" - Marvin Gaye
"Is This the Way to Amarillo?" - Tony Christie
"It's Too Late" - Carole King
"It Don't Come Easy" - Ringo Starr
First hit by Ringo Starr, the last member of the Beatles to have a solo hit
"Jeepster" - T.Rex
"Joy to the World" - Three Dog Night
"Jumpin' Jack Flash/Youngblood - Leon Russell
"Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" - The Temptations
"K- Jee" - The Nite- Liters, see (New Birth)
"Knock Three Times" - Tony Orlando and Dawn
"Kooks" - David Bowie
"Laughing" - David Crosby
"L.A. International Airport" - Susan Raye
"L.A. Woman" - The Doors
"Legend In Your Own Time" - Carly Simon
"Let's See Action" - The Who
"Let's Stay Together" - Al Green
"Levon" - Elton John
"Liar" - Three Dog Night
"Life is a Carnival" - The Band
"Life Is Getting Better" - Flake
"Life on Mars?" - David Bowie
"Lonely Days" - The Bee Gees
"Long Ago and Far Away" - James Taylor
"Love Her Madly" - The Doors
"Love Means" - Sounds of Sunshine
"Love the One Your With" - The Isley Brothers
"Lucky Man" - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
"Maggie May" - Rod Stewart
"Malt And Barley Blues" - McGuinness Flint
"Make It With You" - Ralfi Pagan
"Mama's Pearl" - The Jackson 5
"The Man Who Sold the World" - David Bowie
"Marianne" - Stephen Stills
"Me And Bobby McGee" - Janis Joplin
"Me and My Arrow" - Harry Nilsson
"Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" - Lobo
"Mercy Mercy Me(The Ecology)" - Marvin Gaye
"Mighty Clouds of Joy" - B.J. Thomas
"Military Madness" - Graham Nash
"Monkberry Moon Delight" - Paul McCartney
"Monkey Time" - Laura Nyro
"Mother" - Barbara Streisand
"Mr. Bigstuff" - Jean Knight
"Mr. Bojangles" - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
"Music is Love" - David Crosby
"My Brother Jake" - Free
"My Sweet Lord" - George Harrison
"Nature's Way" - Spirit
"Never Can Say Goodbye" - The Jackson 5
"Never Ending Story of Love" - Delaney & Bonnie
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" - Joan Baez
"No Matter What" - Badfinger
"Nuts, Seeds & Life" - Eric Burdon and War
"Oh My Love" - John Lennon
"Oh Yoko!" - John Lennon
"Old Fashioned Love Song" - Three Dog Night
"Only You Know and I Know" - Delaney and Bonnie
"Once You Understand" - Think
"One Bad Apple" - The Osmonds
"One Less Bell to Answer" - Fifth Dimension
"One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (Part 1)" - Honey Cone
"One Tin Soldier" - Coven
"One Toke Over the Line" - Brewer & Shipley
"Only You Know and I Know" - Delaney and Bonnie
"Oye Como Va" - Santana
"Pay to the Piper" - Chairman of the Board
"Peace Train" - Cat Stevens
"Power to the People" - John Lennon
"Pretty As You Feel" - Jefferson Airplane
"Proud Mary" - Ike & Tina Turner
"Pushbike Song" - Mixtures
"Queen Bitch" - David Bowie
"Question 67 & 68" - Chicago
"Rain Dance" - The Guess Who
"Rainy Days and Mondays" - Carpenters
"Remember Me]] - Diana Ross
"Resurrection Shuffle" - Ashton,Gardner & Dyke
"Riders On The Storm" - The Doors
"Right On The Tip Of My Tongue" - Brenda and The Tabulations
"River" - Joni Mitchell
"River Deep-Mountain High" - The Supremesand The Four Tops
"Rock Steady" - Aretha Franklin
"Savior Machine" - David Bowie
"She Didn't Do Magic" - Lobo
"She's a Lady" - Tom Jones
"She's Got a Way" - Billy Joel
"She's Not Just Another Woman" - The 8th Day
" Signs" - Five Man Electrical Band
"Sister Morphine" - The Rolling Stones
"Sit Yourself Down" - Stephen Stills
"Sitting in Limbo" - Jimmy Cliff
"Smackwater Jack" - Carole King
"Smiling Faces Sometimes" - Undisputed Truth
"So Far Away" - Carole King
"Sooner or Later" - The Grass Roots
"Spanish Harlem" - Aretha Franklin
"Stay Awhile" - The Bells
"Stay With Me" - The Faces
"Stealin'" - Taj Mahal
"Stick Up" - Honey Cone
"Stoned Love" - The Supremes
"Stoney End" - Barbara Streisand
"Stop,Look,Listen" - The Stylistics
"Soul Power Pt. 1" - James Brown
"Southbound Train" - Steel River
"The Story In Your Eyes" - The Moody Blues
"Summer of '42" - Peter Nero
"Sun is Shining" - Bob Marley and the Wailers
"The Supermen" - David Bowie
"Superstar" - Carpenters
"Superstar" - Murray Head
"Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)" - The Temptations
"Sway" - The Rolling Stones
"Sweet and Innocent" - Donny Osmond
"Sweet City Woman" - Stampeders
"Sweet Hitch- Hiker" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Sweet Mary" - Wadsworth Mansion
"Take Me Home Country Roads" - John Denver
"Take Me To the Pilot" - Elton John
"Teach Me How To Fly" - Copperwine feat Jeff St John
"The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
"Temptation Eyes" - The Grassroots
"That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" - Carly Simon
"Theme From Shaft" - Isaac Hayes
"Thin Line Between Love and Hate" - The Persuaders
"Timothy" - The Bouys
"Tiny Dancer" - Elton John
"Tired of Being Alone" - Al Green
"Toast and Marmalade for Tea" - Tin Tin
"Too Many People" - Paul McCartney
"Trapped By A Thing Called Love" - Denise LaSalle
"Treat Her Like a Lady" - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
" Two Divided By Love " - The Grassroots
"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" - Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney
"Walk Away" - James Gang
"Want Ads" - Honey Cone
"The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)" - The Doors
"Watching The River Flow" - Bob Dylan
"Watching Scotty Grow" - Bobby Goldsboro
"We Can Work It Out" - Stevie Wonder
"We Got to Get You a Woman" - Runt
"We Got To Have Peace" - Curtis Mayfield
"The Wedding Song" - Paul Stookey
"Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get" - The Dramatics
"What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye
"What Have They Done To My Song, Ma?" - Melanie Safka
"What is Life" - George Harrison
"What the World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin and John" – Tom Clay (feat. The Blackberries)
"When You're Hot You're Hot" - Jerry Reed
"Where Do I Begin" (Love Story) - Andy Williams
"Where To Now Saint Peter?" - Elton John
"Where You Lead" - Barbara Streisand
"White Lies,Blue Eyes" - Bullet
"The Width of a Circle" - David Bowie
"Wild Horses" - Rolling Stones
"Wild Night" - Van Morrison
"Wild World" - Cat Stevens
"Willin'" - Little Feat
"Without You" - Harry Nilsson
"Won't Get Fooled Again" - The Who
"Yo-Yo" - The Osmonds
"You Are Everything" - The Stylistics
"You Can Close Your Eyes" - James Taylor
"Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" - John Prine
"Your Move" - Yes
"Your Song" - Elton John
"You're All I Need To Get By - Aretha Franklin
"You've Got a Friend" - James Taylor
"You've Got To Crawl (Before You Walk)" - The 8th Day
Some great tracks there Carter (http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s62/Gitster59/Big-Thumbs-Up.gif)
All good tracks to me. ;)
David Cassidy ??? ::)
I had a 6' poster of him on the back of my bedroom door!!! He was a hottie when I was eleven!!!
I had Raquel and Farrah...and they never even knew it! :P ;)
Hey , Did I miss Waylon & Willie ???
Coyote
And how about us old farts. I did not see Ricky Nelson, Buddy Holley, etc. etc. :D
Geez guys I just noticed "Harley and the Kick Starts" wasn't on the list. >:(
Opps, just remembered that was my old band and we never did a gig on the air. :D ;D ;)
Oh well putter on dudes. ::)
I wonder if Smokey Robinson has a Bradley? ;D :D ;)
I think anyone who doesn't have a Bradley should be crying Tears of a Clown.
Badum Bum Tshh
:D