I attended elementary school. First I attended a private Catholic school in Connecticut, and then when my father was promoted we moved and I attended a public school in Western Pennsylvania.
Posted on 12/23/2018 3:04:15 AM PST by vannrox
Here, I would like to relate a little about what it was like growing up as a boy in Pennsylvania. For, I am a native born American who lived through the 1960’s and through the 1970’s. I am pretty typical for my generation. The 1970’s was the decade of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. It ended on a whimper with Jimmy Carter at the helm. Here we talk about the 1960’s and 1970’s and what it was like growing up at that time. School
I attended elementary school. First I attended a private Catholic school in Connecticut, and then when my father was promoted we moved and I attended a public school in Western Pennsylvania.
Before I started work, I was permitted an allowance. My sisters both received an allowance with no strings attached. Mine was contingent upon my successful completion of my chores, and usually meant that I would get “paid” after I mowed the grass on Saturday (shoveled the drive in the Winter).
As a kid, my allowance of $1.00 per week was given to me every Saturday afternoon after the grass was successfully mowed. The hardest part was deciding how to spend it and get the very most out of every penny. Of course, a trip to the corner store for candy always figured into the picture!
One of my favorite treats was Dubble Bubble – a hard piece of pink bubble gum that included a tiny printed comic tucked between the gum and the outer wrapper, all for just a penny. I remember my first experience with inflation – the day when the
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Jethro Tull? Oh. I thought that was the guy who painted with putty knives.
And the other half had the same father?
I'm probably not the first to notice but...nope. The author is thinking of Bazooka Bubble Gum. Dubble Bubble had no comics. Bazooka did...often featuring Bazooka Joe.
And the black kid is way in the back of course...
For later....
Great story newfreep!
***I see inflation had already crept in***
that’s because LBJ took the silver out of money and replaced it with printer’s ink. Instant inflation.
Thats pretty methed up!
The kids in the class picture are rather young for kids who would graduate in ‘77.
Snide comments? No way! Bobby Orr was the greatest player of all time!
Grew up in the 70s. Parents split up when i was young in the mid 70s. Mother got custody of us kids and she was a severely mentally ill person who abused us kids. We were dirt poor on top of that. We kids starved alot and never knew a christmas with decorations and gifts. Oh, I had a collection of toys. But that was made up of mismatched odds and ends, bits and pieces, that were handed down to me by friends or found in the streets somewhere. Food and toy commercials that aired on tv served only to torture me.
I do have some fond memories of my life in the 1970s, but those good memories are tempered with all the bad things (the daily abuse, the back breaking poverty, etc) that were also going on in the background of my life.
Thankfully at the time i was blissfully unaware, naive, and completely ignorant about economics, politics, current events, and world affairs. What was going on in the adult world, i didnt know and understand, nor did i want to. I never watched the news on tv, not even for the weather. And the only parts of the newspaper i looked at were the comic strips, the movie theater section and the tv schedule section.
I was born in 1959. I never knew homosexuals existed until I was about 13 years old. Nowadays, kids are taught by society how cool homosexuality is before they can even walk. What happened to our America?
I had the best toy gun in the neighborhood. It was a chromed steel .45 caliber 1911 cap gun. It was deadly accurate.
A photo of my children’s public school classes would be about 50 percent non-European and I would say that is the major difference between growing up 40-50 years ago versus today.
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“I graduated from High School in 1977.”
But the children in the ‘73-’74 class picture appear to be about 10-12 years of age.
“Within two years of our high school being integrated a large number of white kids were acting like hoodrats.It was disgusting.Instead of bringing them up it brought us down.”
Why would you let a public policy bring you down?
That’s sick. (funny, but sick!)
Tricky Dicky took out the gold and left the silver for LBJ
However we are talking FDR, Truman and Eisenhower. back in the good old days when America was the land of the free and the home of the brave before the long descent into major inflation, open borders, communists, and bizarro social dementia,
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