PEOPLE OVER FORTY SHOULD BE DEAD

EMail | 1/17/2004 | W. Toeppe

[missyme]

Is that like PF Flyers and eating Good and Plenty???:-)

Amazingly so we would eat fried Bologna Samdwiches, RC Colas and hotess cupcakes and we were skinny as twigs!

Playing hard is the key...

[brooklin]

Yeah, but I think that it would be the scrapple that would kill ya.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

We knew better than to play tackle football on gravel. I guess we were wussess.

We started out as tag in the street, sometimes it ended up as tackle. The grass on my yard never recovered from the footbll games in the late 60's or early 70's.

[LWalk18]

I retired in 1996 and remember the first week of my retirement like it was yesterday. I would wait for 2:30 for all the neighborhood kids to come home from school but it never happened,not one child in sight. I was stunned----they were all in after school care or some type of organized activity and there were never any kids out on the street playing kick ball or that type of game.

I was just thinking about your point as I reading this thread. I am definitely under 40, but in comparing my childhood to my parents I think that the number of mothers who worked outside the home factors into why there are no children playing outside after school. Both parents are at work so a neighborhood is virtually devoid of adults from 2:30-5:00, when most kids come home from schools. Kids are either put in daycare or come home alone, remaining inside.

[LisaMalia]

I loved jumping off of those swings! Also jumped off a few playground "merry-go-rounds" when it was going full speed. Talk about a head rush!

I walked around with scraped knees and elbows most of the time, but that was ok, cause Mom would get out the trusty Mercurochrome. That nasty orange stuff....wonder if they still make it?

[Mamzelle]

I was thinking, too, about how I got up on Saturday and wandered all day in the woods until dark--and nobody thought to send the cops--

[BSunday]

Congratulations! Tell her all the Freepers say great job!

[missyme]

It was also cool as a kid and take I think your 89 cents and buy the latest and greatest "45" of the Guess Who: AMERICAN WOMAN, SHARE THE LAND, NO SUGAR TONIGHT, just loved that group!

[LisaMalia]

Amazingly so we would eat fried Bologna Samdwiches

I loved those! My mom could actually make gravy out of fried bologna...delicious.

Our soft drinks consisted mainly of koolaid, because it was only a nickel a package. It was a major treat if you would get the occasional glass of Pepsi. We kids would savor every sip...:)

[LisaMalia]

I had a big collection of 45s. Mostly the Monkees, I had a mad crush on Davy Jones. I remember just living for the night their TV show was on.
I saw a rerun awhile back, and couldn't believe how hokey that show was. I sure did love it at the time though!

[Riley]

That's it! PF Flyers.

Picnics at Samuel Taylor park. Trying to dig a hole to China. Listening to sonic booms in the sky. Going out to play while it was raining- the creeks would be gushing, we'd come back covered in mud from head to toe and get hosed off before being allowed into the house. Buckeye fights. All manner of 'forts'. Staying up late while on a sleepover to watch "Creature Features". My friend's go-cart, with a Briggs and Stratton lawnmower engine in it and a broken steering wheel. Trick or Treating as Mechanised Goblins off of my friends fathers station wagon tailgate- we each got shopping bags worth of candy. Flying kites. Trying to find lost kites. Looking for firecrackers on the fifth of July, up and down Butterfield Road. Long hikes in the hills of Marin, looking for spent rifle casings, which make pretty good whistles. The smell of a candle scorching the inside of a pumpkin.

[GrandMoM]

Hi, just bumping for later!

[missyme]

NO Joke! (Mercurochrome) we had tons of it! and it worked just fine.... Put a little on maybe a band-aid and it's out the door again! Kids are awaiting for us!

So glad we had the opportunity to be part of that generation.!

[Squantos]

Ping for your take and contribution......:o)

[missyme]

I know I sure wish I had all my 45's! Davey Jones he was cute but of course I was one of those David Cassidy fans!

I also like that one guy from that show "Here Come the Brides" remember that and "Love American Style"

[Riley]

Oh yeah, and getting up early to watch an Apollo launch.

[missyme]

You know what was also pretty cool is that when I got my first lunch pail, I think it was Fred Flintstone or Pollyana it was great cause when you opened it up during lunch period you never knew what great things your mom put in it, and of course we got ORANGE,ORANGE Kool-aid in my thermus.

[missyme]

Or maybe Magilla Gorilla...LOL Saturday Cartoons were the best!

[Riley]

Oh man, that's right! I had a "Cowboy in Africa" lunch pail, with Chuck Connors on it.

Daktari. Rat Patrol. The FBI. The Wild, Wild West. Hogan's Heroes. Waiting a week for the next episode of 'Star Trek'. Not TNG, not Voyager. Just regular Star Trek. F-Troop. Getting to go to Disneyland, back when Walt still ran the place, and being *absoluely convinced* that I'd just ridden in a real submarine. 'Playland at the Beach' in San Francisco.

[HighWheeler]

Sorry to give you the bad news Lisa:

http://www.mercurochrome.org/