Posted on 10/09/2018 7:29:41 PM PDT by vannrox
This is a walk down “memory lane” as I relate what it was like growing up as a young boy in the early 1970’s. I was in my early teenage years. I went to school, watched a lot of television, and played with my friends. Enjoy…
As strange as it seems, there is very little on the internet about what it was like growing up in the 1960’s and 1970’s. It’s almost as if it was scrubbed from existence. In it’s place we now have the Obama narrative of a racist nation and terrible injustices. That narrative has nothing to do with reality. It is a scripted lie intended to manipulate people into believing something that just isn’t true.
Here, in my own little way, I would like to relate some stories of what it was like for me growing up as a kid. For “shits and giggles” I have chosen the year of 1971. It was the last year that I had as a kid before I had to go out and work at 14 in the coal mines.
This narrative takes place in Western Pennsylvania. We lived in a small town about a two hour drive from Pittsburgh. It was a hilly and tree shaded world, with railroad spur lines that snaked in and out of the hills and crossed over viaducts and into tunnels. I well knew those lines as I would often walk along them with my friends on hikes and adventures.
Visiting my Aunties
Many weekends my parents would drive into Pittsburgh to visit my relatives. Both were from Pittsburgh, though from different areas. We would take turns visiting the families. In the morning we would visit my father’s family, and in the afternoon we would visit my mother’s family.
(Excerpt) Read more at metallicman.com ...
It was Benjimen Franklin's blog and Thomas Paine's blog which made the real difference in the War of Independence.
The Pirates were world champions in 1971.
I enjoyed doing things on my own during the 70’s.
By 1971, I was about 14 y/o, already in the 7th grade.
I was already used to getting up on time and getting a bus to school. doing lots of walking around downtown Detroit.
I was always organized enough to get home before it was late.
I started my first job outside the home at age 14.
My first real girlfriend also at 14 years. Not much privacy though.
I was in my infant years, but have a sister who was a decade older. My impression is that that there is not, and never was a ‘golden’ era. There are good and bad things from every time. That said, I strongly feel that the freedom / liberty of the USA is under an assault never experience before.
1971 was pretty much the last year for the big Hemi-powered cars from factories of Dodge & Plymouth. It was the peak of the muscle-car era.
Franklin and Paine would have given much for a platform on which to post and disseminate their full “blog,” not an excerpt.
How ironic...I just pulled a Brittanica Book of the Year 1971 out of a box (2 minutes ago) to give my son...he was born that year. Interesting walk down memory lane, as I looked at a few pages. It WAS a “nicer” time for kids than now...innocence has been taken away...but...the 1950s were even better for kids...IMHO.
Unleaded has and catalytic converters killed the power
Cars
Thanks for posting. I grew up about an hour east of Pittsburgh in the 70s and 80s. Total trip down memory lane...
Children today have a lot more “stuff” than children in the 1970s had. Some of that “stuff” was (in the 1970s) the stuff of science fiction.
But I feel sorry for children today. They have more “stuff” but they have a lot less freedom. That loss of childhood freedom is as good a measure as any of how dreadfully we have allowed leftists to ruin America.
Thanks for posting. I have book marked the blog. The guy is about the same age as I my wife and I. I really enjoyed the article. There were a whole lot of similarities in the article. There was nothing in the “70s Show” that was similar to my experience because I was not a pot head.
I had to go to work in my family’s struggling lumber mill when I was 18. I did manage to take some classes at a community college. I got a job working as a firefighter which was much more lucrative than working in our lumber mill.
Gas
I was 12 in 1970. Got my first job delivering the morning paper. Tina Turner and the Ikettes made me aware of women. We buried my next door neighbor (he lasted 3 months in Vietnam).
Always love seeing that pic. That Hot Wheels got like 5’ of air! The look on the kid rider, is priceless.
Thomas Paine did indeed excerpt his publication Common Sense, driving traffic to the bar he owned where patrons could view the rest of an article while drinking.
agree, but the mid 50’s thru the mid 60’s was the best a great time to be young
“It’s almost as if it was scrubbed from existence.”
They have scrubbed it. Especially female fashion.
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