[kjo]

I grew up in DETROIT in the fifties. Can you imagine Detroit today? Kids could go anywhere using public transporation. The rule was if you got lost stop any adult and ask directions.

All the men were tied and hatted; the women in business suits and high heels. What a great, great, country this used to be.

Cops used to walk beats until the late fifties. They knew everyone in the neighborhood. People sat out on their front porches all summer. You could hear the Tigers’ game on every radio through the opened screened front doors of homes.

[widowithfoursons]

At least we have nostalgia. If only it could be effectively communicated.

[dfwgator]

I remembered when my Dad was transferred to Hawaii when I was nine years old, we were staying in a Waikiki hotel for a month, while we waited to get our base housing.

I spent many of those days alone walking around downtown Honolulu by myself without even thinking about it.

I look back now and think, “was I insane?” But it was a different time.

[Alouette]

I grew up in DETROIT in the fifties. Can you imagine Detroit today? Kids could go anywhere using public transporation.

I remember my parents let me take the bus to Northland when I was 11 years old.