Posted on 03/04/2016 10:06:31 AM PST by PROCON
If you grew up in the 1960s or 1970s, then you know how relaxed everything used to be. Our parents never forced us to wear seatbelts, we pretty much at whatever we wanted, and were given way more responsibiity than we should have been given. It's a little sad kids today won't get to experience half the things we did, but looking back, there's a good reason why they won't.
Were these 12 things we did as kids kind of dangerous? Yeah, maybe some of it was.
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Last time I was in SE New Mexico I noticed the little town we lived in (HOPE, NM) had filled in all it’s abandoned cisterns.
Back in those days, most of us just thought a “queer” was just some weird kid, nothing more.
We’d have to go back in time when that was possible. Now, those years or time is long lost. I was in Tokyo for several months and witnessed kids as young as six or seven alone with their book packs on their back traveling on the subways and outside rails.
Yep, and there wasn't much wrong with beating him up.
It began in 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was murdered and America went into an anti-gun anti-violence hysteria.
No it began with the women's movement in the early 1900's and gained speed ever since.
Gramps missed the afternoon school bus (actual city bus but used a pass) and had to walk a couple of miles back to the projects.
Triage was done by those who were still standing and had something to wrap a body part in. Never ever was a call to be made on a parent rescue. Even the local pharmacist was sworn to confidentiality. How to stop bleeding? Hiding bruises? Loose teeth? Head gashes? Burns? The right bandages for a butterfly closure?
All learned before the age of ten!
Love it, too. We recently got GRIT TV. A close second.
Amen!
I remember M-80s. They would blow a cinder block to pieces.
Running behind and getting cooled off with the DDT spray!
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I thought I was the only idiot who had done that.
Do you realize how stupid that sounds?
>>> How much of the casual attitude toward children in the 1960’s and 1970’s was due to the fact that families could afford to have broken arms set and cuts stitched up. Now, not so much.
I think it was because folks had more kids then than today. Thus, they could afford to lose a few. My grandmother was one of 16, Only 12 made it to adulthood.
You and me both.
True story - just last week my 19 year old son watched this version of that movie, having already seen the remake. He commented several times about how much better the Matthau version was.
I remember taking a used CO2 cartridge from a pellet gun, boring the puncture to as big as possible and filling it with ground-up powder from an M-80. Then you stick the M-80 fuse in the CO2 cartridge and epoxy it in. When the epoxy was set the next day, you could use it to basically blow up a tree.
When I was little I had a plastic maze with a blob of mercury that you moved around by tilting it. Somehow, I’m still alive.
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I did the same thing with the mercury blob. In addition, I brushed my teeth with paste that came out of a lead tube. Did you?
>>> You had to be back at sundown?
My Mom was strict! We had to be back by 6PM sharp for dinner. Earlier in the day, I could be and often was miles away. On my 12th birthday I got hit by a car (glancing blow) on a 4 lane road in town (at least 3 miles from my house), and managed to keep it secret from my folks for many years. Huge bruise on my arm/shoulder... my siblings covered for me.
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