how did people entertain themselves years ago ,no tv ,no computers :etc: ?

Answer 1

Back in the early 50s and 60s when I was a kid and a teenager,we play outside in our neighborhoods; things like hopscotch, kick ball, dodge ball, and stick ball, we held derbies with our little red wagons; as a teenager we went downtown to hang out at the square with our friends, went to park to play soft ball, or roller skated;during winter we skied or ice skated or went snowmobiling, sleding and tobbining, and then there were always the movies where you could get in for less than a dollar on Saturday morning for cartoons and a great kids movie; later for a 250 to 300 dollars you could get into to see great movies of all gedries; I remember every Friday night was date night and they showed some great date movies example: Annett and Frankie Beach movies, Gidget; Saturday nights where fright nite with movies such as Bones, Grave Yard Hunter, The Undead,All the AAbott anc Constello Movies, featuring the Mummy, Frankenstien, Werwolf and Creature from the Black Lagoon.
I think you get the idea;we socialize more with our neighbors and we knew it was safe to walk the streets with out being afraid that some pervert would stalk us and no one was a stranger,neighbors knew each other and watch out for all the kids in the nieghborhood; and it was nothing to walk down the streets with out getting shot at or hasseled and believe it or not it was even safe to hitchhike and actually get where you were going. This is what it was like with our tv and so on.

Answer 2

I think you mean real far back. Remember the average person spent most of their day just trying to get enough money to provide food, houseing and clothing for their families. Maybe once a month there would be a get together at someones farm or in town and they would have a dance with good food ect....

When it was over everyone would load up in the wagons and go back home. Next month they would do it all over again. Children usually didn't go to school
or it wasn't a 5 day a week thing because the parents needed them at home to help with the work.

But childre still had dolls, made out of ceramic or wood. Boys had toys wagons (made out of wood)
They would do things like go fishing and hunting (yes kids knew how to be responsible with guns back then). They played games like kick the can, hopsctotch, sack racing, collecting frogs. ect...

Since there wasn't any electricity when the sun went down, most people went to sleep. so there were less hours a day to need to be entertained.

Answer 3

We got up at 4 am and after spending the day chopping cotton, picking cotton, pulling corn, slopping the hogs, feeding the cattle, bailing hay, plowing the lower forty, milking the cows, churning the butter, feeding the chickens, gathering eggs, drawing water from the well, washing clothes in a wash pot outside, hanging them up on a clothes line, gathering vegetables and fixing farm equipment.
We entertained ourselves by rocking in the rocking chair on the front porch with a glass of tea, talking of how blessed we were to have so much while others had so little.

Answer 4

Those who could, read. Singing and dancing seems to be an entertainment across all classes. Obviously, they had a lot of children, so you can guess at that form of entertainment.
And then, people used to have a lot less free time, en mass, to waste on entertainment...

Answer 5

They had real lives. I hate TV. I use to computer to listen to old radio shows. They are great. Ones like Magic Island, Life of Reily, I was a comunist for the FBI, things like that. Much better than TV.

Answer 6

Depends when. There was the radio but before that, working practices were very different so people had less time. People would work longer hours and only have a sunday off to study the bible.

Children who didn't work would play outside.

Answer 7

music and theatre.... we have always been able to live it up man... computers and TV ain¨'t livin it up right...

Computers are not really entertainment anyhow... are they. I mean really.

No, would be more inclined on living 180 years ago as Life would have been different.

Answer 8

They got off their lazy butts and went outside to play. If not that, they were too busy working in the fields to be entertained. When they did have time to be entertained, it was often by going to the local town to buy candy.

Answer 9

As kids, we played lots of ball games, football, baseball, we played games in the streets as there were very few cars. We ran lots of races with each other. Family outings in parks, few then. A few playgrounds, swings, bars, see saws,etc.

We had family games, some card games, which no one here would know.

We did lots of studying with home work, read lots of books.

Then radio came along. Many serials, Lone Ranger, many that no one here ever heard of. Movies with Saturday serials. Movies once a week, 10 cents, hard to come by. We were limited to our radio time by parents, studies came first.

We had our winter games, snowball fights, sledding, skiing, ice skating.

We had our chores around the house.

We did lots of hiking in the hills, hunting Indian arrow heads, swinging on grape vines. Fishing, swimming in the river. Lots of drowinings. Played on the railroads, lots of accidents, driving parents to near insanity.

Girls played lots of hop scotch, jacks as well as much of the above, but they also had chores, learned to cook, sew, etc.

Parents worked hard to make a living, mothers had no modern appliances, washed clothes in a tub and wash board, hand ringers, hung on clothes lines, ironing with no electric irons, heating irons on a wood stove.

Girls curled their hair with curlers, waving irons, heated on the wood stove.

This is all briefly said.

Answer 10

They read good BOOKS...
They paint pictures,
cook good food ... sitting
round the fire (the hot oven in the
kitchen will do) and tell stories,
drink lots of Red Wine...

AND THEY MAKE LOVE all night long...

No phone, no TV, no computer...
Must be paradise!!!