For the rest of us... please pass this on.
Big Wheels!
Child of the ‘60s and enjoyed all that—and more. I am thinking maybe someone born in 1955 put this together.
Born in 1955, still remember a lot of that. Also remember the milkman came by every week, milk was in glass bottles, including half pint size at school, had a cardboard top you’d pull off. First time I saw a bicycle helmet I didn’t know what it was, found out and thought what the hell???? people actually wear those damn things????
After riding in cars that had no seat belts for years, it took me probably 10 years to get used to the idea and actually remember to put one on. Never bothered much till they made it a law...didn’t want a $125 tiket so I started wearing one. Knew a kid in high school (notice past tense) had a wreck, riding in the back seat, seat belt cut him almost completely in half. No he didn’t live through it. Only a lap belt in those days. guy in front seat wasn’t wearing one, threw him out the window, he was busted up a bit but lived.
Some idiot talked me into jumping off a barn roof with an umbrella...No, it didn’t work like it does in the cartoons...fortunately it didn’t involve a trip to the hospital...
6 oz Coke, nickel. Candy bar, nickel. Gas $0.199 a gallon. Fill the car for $5 and get change. And not these tiny, sheet metal death traps wee have today, they were heavy duty CARS made of steel... usually weighed as much as 2 cars today. No way you could kick the door and leave a dent half the size of Rhode Island...
Plastic sandwich bags originally had foldover flaps, NOT zip lock...before that we used wax paper. Red solo cups...thermos bottles had glass vaccuum bottles inside and a cork stopper. Kept coffee hot maybe 3 hours, but first time it was opened, got cold in a half hour. drop it once, break th little glass nib at bottom, had to replace the glass insert.
Typewriters weere not electric...want it reheated? Fire up the oven, microwave didn’t exist.
My grandparents still had a hand pump water well in 1970. worst thing you could ever do was walk away from that pump and forget to fill the primer bucket with water. My grandfather had to drive about 10 miles to get water to fill it...AFTER he whipped your ass...
Kids today are way too protected. I got cut, scraped, whaever, wiped off the blood and kept playing. Maybe a band aid if it didn’t want to stop bleeding. And right back out there in the dirt with it. OK if my mother didn’t come up with work to do...which is why if I ever managed to get outside, I made sure I stayed there.
They need to get outside, roll around in the dirt, eat some of it. Make mud pies. You get immunity from a lot of stuff that way.
I still refuse to wear a helmet when I ride my bike.
nostalgia...it ain’t what it used to be...
A trip down memory lane....
Get Smart
Beverly Hillbillies
Petticoat Junction
Mayberry RFD
The Rifleman
Wild Wild West
Mission Impossible
The Saint
Peter Gunn
The Lone Ranger
Bat Masterson
Green Acres
Perry Mason
Bonanza
And of course, Johnny Carson...
This post made my day!
I missed the concrete anchor for the slide by about eight inches ...
While these anecdotal commentaries are cute attention-getters, let’s look at the reality based upon life expectancy at birth:
1930: 59 yo
1940: 62
1950: 67
1960: 70
1970: 70
1980: 73
1990: 75
2000: 76
2010: 78
2020: 79
The statistic’s do not, however, reflect the human side of longevity; meaning that while life expectancy has increased 25% since 1930, the quality of life may not be on the same page.
I wasn’t alive yet.
Sorry but I was smart enough not to eat worms or mud pies.....