We didn’t have fast food when I was growing up,’
Things that have gone away...
Drive in movies.
Sunday drives
Picnics
Using any vacant lot as a playground
Not coming home until the street lights came on
Sex education
We played games to win not just participate
The families knew each other and if you did something wrong it got back to your parents before you did.
Taking public transportation from the time I was around 8, alone!
Walking to school (again alone)
Riding in the back of a pick up truck
It is a wonder we survived our childhood.
“Did not have “fast food” until I was around 16 when Jack in the Box showed up one day.”
Hey, same here! Maybe from the same town? Right behind the corner shell station? 4 cheese burgers for a dollar was great. :)
Sex Education
I should have expanded on that. There was no “sex education” in school in the 1950s as it was considered the parents job ( and what you could learn on the street).
This weekend always reminds me of JFKs funeral, I was 6 and recall riding my bike 2 miles to the convenience store for some candy and the guy had the funeral on TV, maybe the first time I saw an adult cry.
Rode my bike 2 miles on city streets at 6, unbelievable these days.
We had Jack-in-the-Box not too far from the house but it was a rare treat - and I mean rare - when Dad would surprise us with a bag of burgers. As I grew older once in a great while it was KFC.
They did eventually open an A&W Root Beer drive in down the street too, complete with car hops on roller skates! Man, I loved their chili dogs!
Now my fifteen year old gets Post Mates deliveries of McDonalds and Firehouse subs.
We would have thought we were living like kings! (Not that we could have afforded Post Mates when we were kids).
What a different world it was…
I remember when my family returned to the States in 1966 after our tour in GITMO, the real estate agent took us to a new kind of restaurant. They had 15¢ hamburgers. Had a big yellow M above it. He was so proud of that. They tasted like cardboard.
How about “rumble seats” in the back of cars?