A blast from the past
Apr 17, 2020 10:17:22 #
Apr 17, 2020 10:23:21 #
Charlie157
Loc: San Diego, CA
Great photo, when dirty hands just added flavor without potential killing you. Great days!!!
Apr 17, 2020 10:23:43 #
A familiar scene that I remember well. This also accounts for why kids of my era grew up with the immunities we have.
Good catch, Sue.
--Bob
Good catch, Sue.
--Bob
SueScott wrote:
Gotta love those grubby hands!
Apr 17, 2020 10:24:58 #
Apr 17, 2020 10:39:04 #
When kids played outside, got dirty and built up their immune systems. Thus eliminating being allergic to everything!
Apr 17, 2020 10:49:14 #
One morning my 9-year-old niece came over and found an ear of corn that had been on the table since the night before. There were flies from the rice fields on it so thick that you could hardly see the kernels. (We were visiting my mother-in-law in Sangrahan, above Yogyakarta.) She grabbed the ear of corn, shook off the flies and ate it without batting an eye. I was shocked, but evidently, she was not raised with "germ paranoia". That was 4 years ago. We visited Sangrahan again last Christmas and found her to be one of the healthiest, prettiest young ladies in the village.
Apr 18, 2020 06:45:50 #
SueScott wrote:
Gotta love those grubby hands!
Great image!!!
The best part he knows where his hand have been!!!!!
Not so much about the persons hands that made the sandwich
Apr 18, 2020 06:49:21 #
Apr 18, 2020 08:03:14 #
SueScott wrote:
Gotta love those grubby hands!
Yep, boys eat a lotta dirt. Great shot.
Apr 18, 2020 08:26:55 #
ELNikkor wrote:
One morning my 9-year-old niece came over and foun... (show quote)
Both my parents were immigrants, we were raised in Hells Kitchen, NYC. When my mother was making a meal if some food fell on the floor she would say in Italian; some like kiss it up to God and put it back on the table. My children grew up with some thing like that. Not so much my grandchildren.
Apr 18, 2020 09:54:57 #
Apr 18, 2020 11:03:34 #
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who 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-base paints.
We had no child-proof 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 & 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, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no social networking.
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 these 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 50 years from 1930 - 1979 have been 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 them, CONGRATULATIONS!
We have had the good luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.
Maybe your kids would like to know how brave and lucky their parents were.
________________________________________
Quote extraordinaire from 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?"
First, we survived being born to mothers who 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-base paints.
We had no child-proof 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 & 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, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no social networking.
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 these 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 50 years from 1930 - 1979 have been 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 them, CONGRATULATIONS!
We have had the good luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.
Maybe your kids would like to know how brave and lucky their parents were.
________________________________________
Quote extraordinaire from 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?"
Apr 18, 2020 11:42:58 #
Apr 18, 2020 11:48:31 #
AirWalter
Loc: Tipp City, Ohio
bobbyjohn wrote:
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50'... (show quote)
What a great post and reminder of those days when I too did most of those things. Thanks for posting.
Apr 18, 2020 13:06:49 #
bobbyjohn wrote:
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50'... (show quote)
👍 Looking back, those were the best of times.
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