[EQAndyBuzz]

“Was you 6 and staying out till 10.30pm in the dark and cold too?”

I was a little older. 8-9. In the wintertime I would take my hockey stuff and walk to Abe Stark Rink in Coney Island to play hockey at 11:00 at night. My father would pick me up at the rink at 2 in the morning after his shift let off.

Different times.

[manc]

They were different times sadly.

I don’t even let my kids leave my street now , my oldest at the weekend is back by 11.00pm in his car.

Way too many idiots now, back then we had our locals to look out for the neighborhood and child molesters etc were not welcomed. Now they have more rights than hard working honest folk.

[nopardons]

When I was 10 and 11 my mother would drive my friend and me to the ice and roller skating rink that was at the old World's Fair ground, in Queens and we would skate all afternoon and my mother would pick us up around 5:00P.M. !

Kids, even little kids, used to be dropped off at the movies, alone, for an afternoon, to sit through two movies, coming attractions, cartoons, and a short on Saturdays. And sometimes I was forces to take my younger sibling with me, when we were around the same ages as these kids in the article.