My childhood took place in the 1980s -- during the Reagan years -- and was similar to what you describe. Lots of bike riding and playing outside. Computers were pretty primitive and there was no internet. We played with those plasic green army guys and had cap guns that looked like real guns (gasp! can you imagine?). Phones still had cords and rotary dials and weren't much good for standing on street corners with. In a lot of ways, it wasn't too different from the 1950s, I don't think.
Several of my elementary school teachers were women in their fifties. They would have been in their twenties when they began their teaching careers, which would've begun in the 1950s. So these were some of the same women who taught your generation. Your generation and mine have them in common.
It's funny being a GenXer because we have these Leave It to Beaver early childhoods playing wiffleball in the street and that kind of thing (but with feminist, divorcee moms yelling for us to come home in the evenings) followed quickly by highschool years that included the internet and Bill Clinton. A lot changed between 1979 and 1992 (my school years).
I used to walk 2 miles home from school when the weather was good. In the 50's you didn't need to worry about getting abducted or molested. We have lost a lot of innocence.
Speaking as someone who was born in 1976, it was almost like we got all of the leftovers from the 1950s! I went to a school on Lawn Guyland that was built in 1947, and most of the teachers there started their careers in the 1950s. Alot of the music we listened to was "classic rock" and most of the movies and tv shows at the time were centered around the baby boom.
Now I am 30, and surrounded by all of these punks in their late teens and early 20s who seem to dominate the culture. It seems as though my generation was one of those "between" generations that got passed over.