” I was taking my clothes to the laundromat in a wagon when I was 9 or 10 years old. Course I could also go to the store and but Pall Malls for my dad back then too. “
In 1964 when I was 10, my parents both worked full time, so my older brother (12) would do the housework, and I would mow the lawn, and make a complete dinner for everyone. Today, my father and mother(both college professors) would probably be locked up for child abuse ;-)
I was born in 64 but as a kid in the 70s I grew up much the same way. We mowed grass, did housework, made dinner etc. It helped that we were in a small town with a grandmother and great grandmother only a couple blocks away but we were pretty much on our own and free to roam when our chores were done.