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To Those of Us Born Between 1925-1970
An email I recieved

Posted on 02/06/2010 8:02:54 AM PST by 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.
~~~~~~~~~
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...  



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KEYWORDS: babyboomers; chainemail; chat; childhood; oldage; parenting; senile
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To: Kickass Conservative
Some of the boys used baseball cards that are worth a fortune today......
81 posted on 02/06/2010 10:09:08 AM PST by goat granny
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To: tflabo

is that a Western Auto, Huffy or Murray

Schwins were more elaborate

believe it or not those style bikes were first designed for folks with physical and mental handicaps but folks thought they looked cool

remember folks who would turn a bike upside down on the frame and make it taller


82 posted on 02/06/2010 10:09:16 AM PST by wardaddy (Book of Eli.....awesome.....Denzel Washington was perfect....Mila Kunis is smoking..nothing PC)
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To: goat granny

I hope I wasn’t one of them. LOL


83 posted on 02/06/2010 10:10:34 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (There is nothing Democratic about the Democrat Party...)
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To: mulligan

medical help is better and washing machines

that is what my old grandma born in 1905 used to say


84 posted on 02/06/2010 10:10:35 AM PST by wardaddy (Book of Eli.....awesome.....Denzel Washington was perfect....Mila Kunis is smoking..nothing PC)
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To: Ditter

Yeah.
I get a bit paranoid about the safety of my six and nine year old Sons.

I’ve learned that if you keep a camera (or a picture taking phone) and use it frequently at parks where one’s little children are playing, the weirdos will keep away.


85 posted on 02/06/2010 10:12:36 AM PST by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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To: SamAdams76

That was an enjoyable read. I grew up at the same time and we were all over the map. The game of “Risk” outside kept us all entertained one whole summer. Anything within 10 miles was game and everbody knew everybody. We all grew up together and went through all kinds of experiences that we keep to this day. As far a supervision goes, if you wronged an individual you got your ass beat.


86 posted on 02/06/2010 10:12:47 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: Kickass Conservative

I had a cast on my right arm to the elbow in 6th grade....had a spell there where I was a “good” kid and the folks bought me a new stingray bike with 3 speed shifter on the frame forward of the banana seat.....sissy bar........and cards...

now son...DO NOT ride this bike til we remove your cast ok ?

soon as the folks taillites went gone......was racing the neighbors and hit a car coming around the corner on our street

new cast LEFT arm armpit to knuckles, new cast RIGHT arm armpit to knuckles

reckon the folks were mad ?

it got worse.....two broke arms ....who whipes my butt ?

Ma’ma ............ rough times


87 posted on 02/06/2010 10:14:05 AM PST by advertising guy (Consumer Of Confiscated Liquers Czar)
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To: Dallas

We used to go play in the DDT fog when the mosquito fog machine came down the truck. The fog was so thick you couldn’t see your buddies or even hear them.


88 posted on 02/06/2010 10:14:40 AM PST by gitmo (FR vs DU: n4mage vs DUmage)
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To: Dallas
1956 checking in. Thanks for the memories!

I grew up in southwestern Michigan. It was a grand time to be a kid - lots of youngsters in the neighborhood and always someone to join a game of cops & robbers or cowboys & Indians. Baseball bats turned into machine guns, and I was always envious of the boys who could make such persuasive machine gun noises. We played hide and seek on summer nights until well after the street lights came on. Parents knew we were nearby, and it was OK.

I don't think kids today would know how to play Simon Says, Mother May I, or Red Rover. Cowboys & Indians would just leave them scratching their heads. We loved to jump rope with silly rhymes like the one about the lady with the alligator purse.

Our neighbor had one of those Kool-Aid pitchers with the smile on it, and always had ice cold Kool-Aid for us on hot summer days. She also gave us graham cracker sandwiches filled with leftover chocolate icing whenever she baked a cake for dessert - yum. Our bikes were basic transportation, and we loved to ride over to a local ice cream shop for a treat.

What a great time!

89 posted on 02/06/2010 10:14:55 AM PST by Think free or die (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money - M.Thatcher)
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To: Ditter

I grew up in an outlying neighborhood in Jackson Miss with maybe 200 homes in it surrounded by woods etc.

We were given time limits (dark thirty) but we could go anywhere but down to the store about a half mile away on the boulevard without permission....farmland, golf course etc

There were a couple of feminine boys that stayed close to home and one couple of kids whose daddy was a cop were real strict but the rest of us roamed...scores of us


90 posted on 02/06/2010 10:15:22 AM PST by wardaddy (Book of Eli.....awesome.....Denzel Washington was perfect....Mila Kunis is smoking..nothing PC)
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To: Dallas

I don’t think we even had locks on the doors to our house.


91 posted on 02/06/2010 10:16:53 AM PST by gitmo (FR vs DU: n4mage vs DUmage)
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To: Dallas

I’m having trouble reading your post - could you please repost using a larger font? TIA.


92 posted on 02/06/2010 10:18:02 AM PST by Moltke (DOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the Big House - HOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the White House.)
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To: gitmo

in my tiny hometown, the Johnsons’ did not even have a front door...just a sheet


93 posted on 02/06/2010 10:18:13 AM PST by advertising guy (Consumer Of Confiscated Liquers Czar)
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To: wardaddy

Best of all men were men and women were women, guys were guys and gals were gals...nobody had to figure that out....any ‘thing’ else was just that.


94 posted on 02/06/2010 10:18:32 AM PST by caww
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To: gunner03

‘54 here. Forts were big when I was a kid, too.

Remember when some very wealthy people in town donated a large piece of land to the township for a park just outside my neighborhood (we were surrounded by parks which had ponds, creeks, big climbing trees, hills for sledding, sheltering woods for spying on lovers....no end to entertainment).

The parks people bulldozed an area in early summer that year to build a road and parking area. They pushed a bunch of earth into a long ridge and left it like that and it got covered with weeds and grasses. The neighborhood kids got together and built an elaborate fort above and below ground. It was amazing. The older kids had one end with the better fort and the young kids got the other end where they put in cruder earthworks. In between was an obstacle course and we had all kinds of scenarios we played out. I was completely obsessed with the whole thing for a while.

One morning in late summer we all headed to the fort - ran up the hill and stopped in shock. The bulldozers had flattened our fort! We were devastated for at least a day until we started to enjoy our pre-fort activities again and or course other new adventures.

I had great parents, a wonderful area to grow up in and have lots and lots of good memories of childhood. We may be getting older, but we were very lucky to grow up when we did in the golden years of American life. Those really were the days.


95 posted on 02/06/2010 10:19:20 AM PST by Natural Born 54
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To: Dallas

I once built an elevated clubhouse in my backyard with nothing more than scraps of wood found around the neighborhood. It had electricity too, courtesy of an extension cord run from the house, and an old light socket and bulb I found, which hung from the ceiling by a nail.

Try to get away with doing that today. You’d have the city inspector down on you so fast your head would spin.


96 posted on 02/06/2010 10:20:12 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (The liberals are asking us to give Obama more time. Is 25 to life enough?)
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To: Dallas

Amen.


97 posted on 02/06/2010 10:20:33 AM PST by jwalsh07
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To: advertising guy
That one is a belly laugh...Same thing happened to one of my son's buddies in front of our home...They decided to play Evel Kenvil on their bikes....put up platforms to jump from one to the other...One of the boys missed and broke both his arms...me being a nurse, my son brought him into the house and he was shocky...took him home and told his parents they should get him to emergency...

My son came home from visiting him and said mom, he cannot even pee without help. Both arms in casts... I did feel sorry for the kid, he was a good kid with a big problem.

98 posted on 02/06/2010 10:20:40 AM PST by goat granny
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To: wardaddy

I am a girl and when I played with my girlfriends we played at home, mine or theirs. But I was the only kid with a horse and when I rode I was alone and I went miles and miles on city streets and open country as well. If someone had kidnapped me my parents would not have a clue where to begin looking.


99 posted on 02/06/2010 10:20:50 AM PST by Ditter
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To: gitmo

Oh my, how did you ever survive that....it would send todays parents into spastic head explosions..


100 posted on 02/06/2010 10:22:54 AM PST by goat granny
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