When my mom needed a break from the four of us, she would give me 50 cents and the 4 of us would walk down a 4 lane divided highway well over 2 miles there and back. 50 cents could buy a bunch of candy and the walk got us out and away for quite a while. Can you imagine now sending a 12 year old girl with a 10 year old boy, a 6 year old girl, and a 3 year old that far? I think someone would call social services
I used to regulary walk to a 5&dime store at a shopping center near my parents house.
My parents still live in the home that I grew up in, and I would never let my kids walk to that shopping center.
There’s a bunch of apartments near the shopping center that were turned into low income housing, and the crime in the area skyrocketed.
I think they are finally starting to get rid of all those apartments, and I think the neighborhood will be much better.
It’s Lake Highlands in Dallas. It’s really beautiful, and the single family homes are still great. It’s just the crime in the area has really gone up.
i remember my mom letting me (along with my friends) take all the empty Coke bottles, load them in a wagon and walk them to the store for money... and then we would spend it on candy and comic books... those were the days... when i would stay at my sister's (she's 20 years older than i am and his kids my age) my niece and nephew and i would turn the coke bottles in and go to Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour... we would order grilled cheese and fries, a clown sundae and have water to drink...