To Those of Us Born Between 1925-1970

An email I recieved

[Ditter]

I was born in 1940 and while I agree with most of this I disagree with some of it. Particularly the part about kids going out to play all day and parents not having a clue where they are. That is insane!

[jack1165]

Is that yours? I’ve become addicted to that show Pickers. The guy keeps saying how much more valuable a good condition boys bike is since they wailed on them much more than girls.

[Ditter]

Street lights? We ain’t got no stinkin’ street lights, city girl! ‘0)

[xrmusn]

1939 New York

Remember in high school swimming in old limestone quarries. Cold, deep water in July....ah memories....

[advertising guy]

10/55 here
still dang handsome too

ok...just the “still” is true

[Ditter]

Yes small towns still exist and they still know every single thing about you, even the things that you wish they didn’t. Guess what? They are still discussing you daily.

[Focault's Pendulum]

10/55 here

05/55....newbie!!!

[weston]

I had great parents, but basically us kids were free to roam as long as we stayed within certain boundaries. We had a couple mile radius with caveats to stay away from certain peoples yards and be home when the street lights came on.
When I was 9, my folks put me and my 11 year old sister on a greyhound for a two day trip to my grandparents house. I have so many great memories of stopping in every little town and the wonderful characters who kept us entertained along the way.
Can you even imagine doing these things today? The slide into moral decay has come swiftly for America.

[goat granny]

Now that is funny......
:O) you old red neck you......

[gunner03]

Born 1935, have some better ones. Digging underground forts, trading comics on Sat morning, having the local cop boot our butt and watching as our parents did the same. Running a trap-line before and after school to get money for your first pair of Levis, going to the library to get your view of life and the world, and that sneak peek at National Geographic. Hobo camps down at the train yard (per mother, “they’ll steal you away if you go near”) yet giving these same people peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, as that’s all we had. Trips to the fire house to help my fireman uncle polish the fire truck, helping to polish the brass buttons on his uniform, everyone was Mr. or Mrs/Miss. Every day, I ask myself, why did it end?

[goat granny]

When I was a tot, they still advertised for burlesque shows in downtown Detroit. I learned to read young...:O)

[Ditter]

I grew up on the outskirt of Houston but it was not the huge city it is now. I roamed around miles from home, alone, except for my horse. Sugarfoot is the reason I could go so far. I would not let a kid do that today.

[advertising guy]

youbetcha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[goat granny]

Pickers is fun, I have 4 son’s and my husband fixed everything they broke with duct tape....it was a miracle item...

[wardaddy]

1957 here.....it was a glorious time in Dixie

so many kids and everyone played outside and kids had much more freedom

[Kickass Conservative]

I got my Stingray on my ninth Birthday. It was Gold with a sissy bar and a white banana seat.

My Dad went to the Bike Shop on his way home from work and helped the owner assemble it. Since we lived where there were a bunch of off road trails, my Dad had the guy put on front and rear over sized knobby tires. I was the envy of the Elementary School that year.

Like everyone else here, I used to put playing cards secured with clothes pins on the frame and forks that would flap when the spokes hit them. It didn't sound like a Harley, but it was cool.

[wardaddy]

My little brother is 40 and I agree that the 80s were the end

political correctness,feminism, tort abuse and games took over by the late 80s

[Kickass Conservative]

When we lived in New York in the late fifties, my brother was in the High School Shooting Club and used to take his 22 rifle to school.

They had a range in the Basement, under the Gym.

[Ditter]

LOL! You guessed it granny.

[greyfoxx39]

‘Fist bump’ 39er...I lived in a town so small we didn’t even have street lights!