Not just a different life but a different world
2007-09-11 00:20:06 · 19 answers · asked by Ronni 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
So much so. I can remember that, as a little kid, we never locked our front door, even when we went on vacation. Try doing that now. I grew up with security..........I could go anywhere in town, and know that I was being looked after and safe. And, if I were pull some bone-headed stunt or vandalism, word usually got back home before I did.
2007-09-11 09:44:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it is a different time since I was a boy.... I can't remember the last time I was a girl but I can only speculate that it was different than the time now.
The world I live in now however, is certainly much the same world I lived in when I was a boy (and or girl).
As I cannot remember when I was last a girl, the possibility of the world I live in now being different is fairly favorable.
... wait.... this is Earth, right?
2007-09-11 07:28:23 · answer #2 · answered by Laibach 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is. I grew up in the 60s. School was a learning place, orderly, with the tone set by the people in charge. We actually studied geography and history and social studies. Music has changed. Movies have changed. All media has changed: TV, radio, newspapers. There was celebrity awareness, but no celebrity fetish or mania as there is now. And of course no internet. I always had the latest MAD magazine or Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, and that carried me month to month when I was a pre-teen.
A bit later, in high school, I never knew a girl who was pregnant or married. It just about never happened. People focused on values other than looking sexy. They really did. There was more going on in their heads than that. Porn was held off to the side of life. No sleaze trickle down.
Another thing I remember, and really miss, was that there were more stores and shops everywhere, and our economy and middle class hadn't tanked to the degree that there was anything like the current proliferation of dollar stores that there is now. Walmart didn't have a choke hold on mainstream shoppers. There were lots of stores, and a hierarchy of sorts: dime stores, variety stores, discount department stores, and department stores. Sears still had a catalog thick as a phone book. There were still department stores in town that were 5 or 6 stories tall, that had everything.
All long gone. It was pretty neat.
2007-09-11 07:37:49 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. Vincent Van Jessup 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's more different for children than for adults but yes, in London we had gas street lights, the milkman had a horse, I had a bath once a week (same water as Mum and dad had used), i remember fog where you literally couldn't see the hand at the end of your arm and I could wander the streets and parks without my parents worrying about me, all day from the age of 4. I'm 55, in case you're wondering.
2007-09-11 07:37:10 · answer #4 · answered by Pedantic Scorpion 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup... I grew up in the 80's and I think things were much simpler (even then), just look at TV alone. At least in the 80's it was entertaining, now it's all crap. Just for fun... the A-team was considered (for its time) one of the most violent shows on TV. It was the only show I have ever seen with explosions that never killed anyone...
2007-09-11 07:28:43 · answer #5 · answered by jjonesacctony 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes!! Big Time! I was a child in the throughout the 80's and things were so simple and safe back then. Now I'm fearing for my life!!
2007-09-11 07:26:33 · answer #6 · answered by Kraziegurl79 ist ein Rock Star 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, very much so. When I was a child / teenager, if an adult told you to behave yourself on the bus or train, you did it. Teenagers would never have dreamt of shouting abuse at adults. There was a mutual respect but that doesn't seem to be evident - at least not in London.
2007-09-11 07:30:13 · answer #7 · answered by KD 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll say! Back then, fire was all the buzz. Hot food! Wow! It's hard to remember just how icky raw brontosaurus was for breakfast. In fact, it's kind of hard to remember anything now a days, Er, what was the question? peace
2007-09-11 07:44:37 · answer #8 · answered by Pilgrim Traveler 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yeah, it is...I still remember playing in the street and cycling everywhere until the sun faded in the sky, sure there were the usual warnings of 'don't talk to strangers' but we were innocent and carefree and other than the odd spot of teasing, we didn't beat or murder other children, we were courteous to older people and weren't so cynical and precocious...
:-)
2007-09-11 07:29:27 · answer #9 · answered by Snake Eyes 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes it is. there wasn't quite as much violence back then. kids respected their elders more. you never heard a small child swearing. there were a few teenage pregnancies, but not like now. schools were a safe place. there were a lot more mom & pop shops.
2007-09-11 07:44:50 · answer #10 · answered by frostbite 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋