How did we survive 50 years ago?
Memory Posted By: Boomer Boy ,and Crazy Pete
We drank water from the tap not a bottle and nobody knew about the dangers of lead poisoning so even cribs were painted with brightly colored lead based paint. Medicine and Bottles with tablets did not have child proof lids
No seat belts or air bags in cars, nobody knew or if they did told our parents smoking and drinking was bad for the baby, kids shared coke from one bottle, soda had masses of sugar and we ate real white bread and butter and everything else including full fat milk that we are now told is bad for you
Parents couldn't reach us ( no mobiles ) and most of the day we would be out playing with friends and parents knew we would be safe with hardly any weirdos wandering the streets. If we got caught doing stuff we shouldn't the cops would take us home and we may well have a got a hiding for breaking the law ( but no do gooders saying mustn't smack children ). And if we played up in school the same applied.
While playing we got cuts and bruises and the occasional tear in jeans but it was just part of being a kid and no visit to the hospital.
We had no fancy games but could play for hours making a Go cart or a new tree swing and for other games most times we would find a ball and whatever we could use as a bat. or in the summer all jump into the nearest place we could find and if the water wasn't that clean we just didn't swallow it.
We rode our bikes with no helmets and doing whatever stunts we could ( bikes were so much heavier and hard waring ) and always had punctures to repair or get dad to help with.
If we didn't get in the team we were not good enough and that was that.
But most of all we were allowed to be kids
To dream, to invent and to play.
It's no wonder that the generation that grew up then created some of the most innovative and exciting technology we have today
Thanks for those years and all those "BAD THINGS" that is why we are who we are today r Boy
Memories by Crazy Pete-posted below
I remember my father going to the farm,and picking out a chicken. The farmer would hang the chicken by the neck,and cut his through. We would bring the chicken home,and my mother would take the feathers off the chicken. We never got sick from eating chicken. these chickens were free range and they didn't cost any more. What would Mr. Prude think?
All our Halloween costumes were home made. Today we would put the stores out of business,if we didn't buy Halloween costumes for our kids. We bought our sugar,and flour by the 25 lbs bags. Most food was bought in 25,50,and 100 lbs bags,because there were no Supermarkets
I remember Elvis in. 1956 when he was first on the Ed. Sullivan TV show the girls went crazy over him. Elvis was not only a singer. He was a bona-fied sex symbol. He was so influential that young men began to wear their hair like him and began dressing like him. And who could blame them. Elvis drove girls into a wild frenzy. He made them faint.
I for one dressed like Elvis for a while.
I remember going to a dance,and the girls were on one side of the room. The boys were on the other side of the room,and the girls would dance together. After some time I would muster up the courage to ask a girl to dance,after some of the guys would dare me.
There will be a lot more to come in next blog.
Crazy Pete
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