To Those of Us Born Between 1925-1970

An email I recieved

[Dallas]

No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us, WE ARE AWESOME !!! OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!    
To Those of    Us Born   1925 - 1970  :
   
At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno.. If you don't read anything else, please    
read what he said.
 
Very well stated, Mr.. Leno.
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TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1930s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s!!  

 
First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant
 
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
 
Then, after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies
in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
 
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets, and, when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps, not helmets, on our heads.  
As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.

 Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

 We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.

 We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And we weren't overweight..  
WHY?
 
Because we were always outside playing...that's why!
 
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day.
--And, we were OKAY.

 We would spend hours building
our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes... After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

 We did not have Play Stations, Nintendos and X boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVDs, no surround-sound or CDs, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms...

 WE HAD FRIENDS
 and we went outside and found  them!
 

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from those accidents.  
We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand, and no one would call child services to report abuse.
   We ate worms, and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.  
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and  
-although we were told it would happen- we did not put out very many eyes.

   We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
  Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.
Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.  Imagine that!!    
  The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!  

 These generations have produced some of the best  risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors ever.  
The past 50 to 85 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas..  
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.  
 
If YOU are one of those born between 1925-1970, CONGRATULATIONS!  
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.  
  While you are at it, forward it to your kids, so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.  
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?
~~~~~~~
The quote of the month  by
Jay Leno:
   "With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"  

 For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us.....go ahead and delete this.  
For the rest of us. ...pass this on...  

[Ditter]

I was born in 1940 and while I agree with most of this I disagree with some of it. Particularly the part about kids going out to play all day and parents not having a clue where they are. That is insane!

[jack1165]

Is that yours? I’ve become addicted to that show Pickers. The guy keeps saying how much more valuable a good condition boys bike is since they wailed on them much more than girls.

[Ditter]

Street lights? We ain’t got no stinkin’ street lights, city girl! ‘0)

[xrmusn]

1939 New York

Remember in high school swimming in old limestone quarries. Cold, deep water in July....ah memories....

[advertising guy]

10/55 here
still dang handsome too

ok...just the “still” is true

[Ditter]

Yes small towns still exist and they still know every single thing about you, even the things that you wish they didn’t. Guess what? They are still discussing you daily.

[Focault's Pendulum]

10/55 here

05/55....newbie!!!

[weston]

I had great parents, but basically us kids were free to roam as long as we stayed within certain boundaries. We had a couple mile radius with caveats to stay away from certain peoples yards and be home when the street lights came on.
When I was 9, my folks put me and my 11 year old sister on a greyhound for a two day trip to my grandparents house. I have so many great memories of stopping in every little town and the wonderful characters who kept us entertained along the way.
Can you even imagine doing these things today? The slide into moral decay has come swiftly for America.

[goat granny]

Now that is funny......
:O) you old red neck you......

[gunner03]

Born 1935, have some better ones. Digging underground forts, trading comics on Sat morning, having the local cop boot our butt and watching as our parents did the same. Running a trap-line before and after school to get money for your first pair of Levis, going to the library to get your view of life and the world, and that sneak peek at National Geographic. Hobo camps down at the train yard (per mother, “they’ll steal you away if you go near”) yet giving these same people peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, as that’s all we had. Trips to the fire house to help my fireman uncle polish the fire truck, helping to polish the brass buttons on his uniform, everyone was Mr. or Mrs/Miss. Every day, I ask myself, why did it end?

[goat granny]

When I was a tot, they still advertised for burlesque shows in downtown Detroit. I learned to read young...:O)

[Ditter]

I grew up on the outskirt of Houston but it was not the huge city it is now. I roamed around miles from home, alone, except for my horse. Sugarfoot is the reason I could go so far. I would not let a kid do that today.

[advertising guy]

youbetcha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[goat granny]

Pickers is fun, I have 4 son’s and my husband fixed everything they broke with duct tape....it was a miracle item...

[wardaddy]

1957 here.....it was a glorious time in Dixie

so many kids and everyone played outside and kids had much more freedom

[Kickass Conservative]

I got my Stingray on my ninth Birthday. It was Gold with a sissy bar and a white banana seat.

My Dad went to the Bike Shop on his way home from work and helped the owner assemble it. Since we lived where there were a bunch of off road trails, my Dad had the guy put on front and rear over sized knobby tires. I was the envy of the Elementary School that year.

Like everyone else here, I used to put playing cards secured with clothes pins on the frame and forks that would flap when the spokes hit them. It didn't sound like a Harley, but it was cool.

[wardaddy]

My little brother is 40 and I agree that the 80s were the end

political correctness,feminism, tort abuse and games took over by the late 80s

[Kickass Conservative]

When we lived in New York in the late fifties, my brother was in the High School Shooting Club and used to take his 22 rifle to school.

They had a range in the Basement, under the Gym.

[Ditter]

LOL! You guessed it granny.

[greyfoxx39]

‘Fist bump’ 39er...I lived in a town so small we didn’t even have street lights!