so true - we slept in cots with brightly coloured lead-based paints and survived. No seat belts, air bags etc, riding in the back of a trailer or flat top was a special treat! Shared one bottle of pop with four other friends and no-one died! Spent hours building go-carts, ride themdownhill and after a few hits in bushes re-designed them with brakes ! Ate worms and mud pies, & the worms didnt live in us forever! Fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones & teeth an no lawsuits! If you weren't picked for football/netball team you dealt with the disappointment. Imagine that!
Got anymore to add??
2006-09-23 02:55:28 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
ouch fabien! Lol. Yes we were told not to be wimps and get on with it!
2006-09-23 03:04:02 · update #1
ann94..you didnt dare tell your parents cos you knew they'd side with the local bobby or the teacher or shopkeeper and get an extra clout if you were in the wrong!
2006-09-23 03:10:14 · update #2
michael g - yeah we had one of those 'driving' seats for my little brother lol!
2006-09-23 03:21:45 · update #3
aah yes, the scrumping , the doorbell ringing and running off, how innocuous and harmless it all sounds now compared to today
2006-09-23 03:23:42 · update #4
yes girl72 you get an amen! Things were still alot like that up to the 70s :-)
2006-09-23 03:30:19 · update #5
There are just too many great answers on here, if i had my way you'd all get 10! So I'm taking this to a vote and thanks everyone :-)
2006-09-25 21:55:52 · update #6
Still alive !!!! you cheeky monkey !
2006-09-23 02:56:51 · answer #1 · answered by banditblue1200 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Oh yeah! Remember all that. Actually do you remember the '
car seats for kids that hooked onto the front bench style seats?
They were just toys, with a steering wheel and little beep horn, with minimal protection if any. No one hurt either. And the speed limit was 65 back then... I guess fewer crazies? Less road rage!
You made you own fun and did not depend on your parents to invent things for you to do! Imagine, we survived without PC's,
computer games, cell phones of any type. For Christmas you actually got a new baseball bat or a hockey stick and were thrilled with it. Now that's a average trip to the mall.
And that lead based paint smelled great! I always like Red Devil Paints...that devil looked so cool ( no pun intended). An the old hardware stores smelled great too. Screws 'n
turpentine....ahhhh! lol Now they smell more like a florist.
2006-09-23 03:07:30 · answer #2 · answered by michael g 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I was born in 1961, I can still remember the coal man delivering coal. Leaving the key in the front door, hedge hopping in the park. being in the swimming team in junior school. Buying 8 mojos for a ha'penny from Mrs Pope's Corner shop. Toffee logs for 1d each. If we had a shilling we had enough sweets to last at least till the wrestling started on ITV on Saturday afternoon.
Mick McManus, Les Kellet, Marc Rollerball Rocco, The Royal Brothers. There were so many of them.
When Dad was on the coaches as a driver he would take us on the trips to Barry Island and we would play on the scrapped steam engines in the scrap yard for hours.
The list is endless, they were happier and safer times.
2006-09-23 03:26:02 · answer #3 · answered by LYN W 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was born in 53 but I remember going down to the neighborhood store with a penny and coming out with all kinds of candy. Going outside from the minute we woke up till dinner time without even checking in. Walking down the street at 9pm with no worries.
Gas was 25 cents per gallon, a brand new home cost about $4,000.00 a car 2500.00. Wax lips, wax mustaches, little wax bottles with some sort of red liquid in them. climbing trees, running through burning leaves that were in the street, flying kites, 2 sectioned roller skates with the keys you wore around your neck, walkie talkies that had a range of 2 blocks, 45's.
2006-09-23 06:05:33 · answer #4 · answered by morris 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Had the Cane the Slipper at school a slap on the legs at home if you were bad.
Played in the street, changed your vest and had a bath once a week (don't ask)
Called each other all the names under the sun non were politicaly correct
Went scrumping (pinching apples form other peoples trees in their gardens) and ate the straight away
Hows that!
2006-09-23 03:00:48 · answer #5 · answered by philipscottbrooks 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And ran around with the ends cut out of my sandals because they were too small.I could get extra wear by cutting the ends out. Managed to learn to ride a two wheeled cycle without the aid of stablisers. Fell off more times than I can remember..no one to get the grit out or say there there dear throw your bike away and I'll get you a new computer. Walk to the shops for a loaf of bread and getting a rollicking for taking the middle out of the newly baked loaf. Was told off when I deserved to be and I said was sorry and then sent to be without any supper....crumbs how did we survive. Oh and used to stick my finger in my pals lemondae powder again and again and again!
2006-09-23 03:06:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
played rat a tat ginger always got caught and was given a clout around the ear never told my parents because they would have given me another, played games like kick the can with a gang of friends and never caused any problems or got bored. those were the days, the sixties were the best
2006-09-23 03:03:39 · answer #7 · answered by Mature Lady 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I walked home alone from Infant school, aged 5, in 1964 along a busy main road in Birmingham.
We had fillings at the school dentist WITHOUT an anaesthetic
2006-09-23 03:01:31 · answer #8 · answered by Fabien Tempest™ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We use to play out in the street at night or out in the woods and we didn't have to worry about being raped, murdered, or abducted. We use to be able to eat raw eggs without fear of getting sick. Boy I sure miss those days. I'm afraid to even let my great niece play out in the fenced backyard unless I'm out there with her. It's pretty sad. We also didn't have the peer pressure that kids have today. We could feel safe at school.
2006-09-23 03:01:15 · answer #9 · answered by Marenight 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes swam in muddy ponds and rivers, swung on trees over brooks....did wheelies on bikes up and down hills....went out in the dark in woods and didn't get harmed.....ate all the food that is considered wrong to eat nowadays....slid on a tray instead of a sledge down snowy slopes lol.....ate crab apples without getting stomach ache...ate stoggy puddings at school and didn't get fat.....didn't get picked for the school choir because of having a voice like a cheese grater though came first in music! wasnt allowed out after 8pm because I was a GIRL!!!! Wasn't allowed to go abroad on holiday with my friends though my brothers were...because I was a GIRL!!!!
2006-09-23 03:07:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Played out with friends and no anxious parents.
Walked everywhere.
A ride in a car was special.
Holiday meant a week at the seaside with donkeys, buckets and spades and hired deck chairs.
2006-09-23 09:40:20 · answer #11 · answered by Amanda K 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋