I remember

[gekolite]

Crusader, have you seen rags, or Dudley lately ? I did not live in snow country, so our flexi's had wheels, so we had similar experiences on asphalt hills with the same teeth chattering thrills, with moving traffic, sometimes bicycle towed.

 

[Hermanthegerman]

Oh yes!

 

[noyd666]

SORRY HERMAN =SLIPS. YEP OLD DAYS AS KIDS WAS GREAT, IN BY DARK MUM SAID THAT WAS IT, HARDLY SEE A KID OUTSIDE NOW AT ALL , EVEN AT XMAS. SORRY HERMAN.

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

YEP OLD DAYS AS KIDS WAS GREAT, IN BY DARK MUM SAID THAT WAS IT, HARDLY SEE A KID OUTSIDE NOW AT ALL , EVEN AT XMAS.

Yeah, I was told to get out of the house and not come back until the streetlights came on.

My favorite thing about Christmas has been seeing the kids trying out their new bicycles. And even that seems a rarity nowadays.

 

[RetroGrow]

I remember when I could remember stuff.....I think......

 

[ydijadoit]

You nailed it, Crusader. I got yelled at for not coming home. I have to yell at my kids to go outside. Something is amiss, and I believe it's too much technology, delivered at too high a rate.
Must make pine cone fights, and pickle in the street seem lame. How very sad.
regards

 

[dddaver]

Flexi-flyers! Standard snow/ice play equipment.


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My neighbors had an insane version of this that had metal skate wheels instead of snow runners. We'd take that thing up the street then rattle at high speed down the pavement headfirst trying not to shake loose any teeth, or dash our brains out running underneath parked cars. It's amazing that any of us survived our childhoods.

Those sleds were cool. We used tobaggons too. Injury or near death experiences were just part of the fun. I still remember one day after an ice layer had formed on the snow ripping fast down St. Mary's Cemetery hill, with NO control, NO stopping, running right across Rte. 281, grinding sparks on that bare pavement, somehow dodging all the cars doing 45mph or so, finally stopped by the snow bank the plows had made on the other side of the highway. What fun!

Another day, there was this natural small ramp halfway down the hill. If you hit it just right you could go airborne. What a thrill. I had this bright idea to stand on our toboggan holding the ropes like a freaking horse and try going over that ramp. What a hellacious wipe out. Head first in packed snow. Really rang my bell. What a BLAST!

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

I got yelled at for not coming home. I have to yell at my kids to go outside. Something is amiss, and I believe it's too much technology, delivered at too high a rate.
Must make pine cone fights, and pickle in the street seem lame. How very sad.

Wow, pickle! Nothing to do? Wander the street and round up two other kids, two mitts and a baseball, and you're set.

It used to be that before kids could play they first had to negotiate and hash out the parameters and rules of the game. Real important skills needed in life. Maybe it was just two tykes role playing with bath towels safety pinned around their necks trying to decide who got to be Batman and who got Superman with the super powers, or what were the boundaries and special rules of a ball game. You don't see that now. They're either inside in front of the computer screen or mom's driven them to a coach supervised sporting event where everyone wins a trophy for participating.

 

[gekolite]

I wonder sometimes if all this electronic communication and activity is good for the human race, this is eliminating personal human interaction. The human species evolved from group or tribe behavior, with everyone close and personal, being able to experience everyone's individual personalities and emotions. This taught us understanding and compassion, and acceptance in order to maintain a harmonious group. Now no one really interacts face to face, so we are losing our true spiritual bond with humanity. Now our human spirituality is an electronic device.

 

[Eighths-n-Aces]

when there was not a traffic jam before and after school BECAUSE OUR PARENTS WERE NOT AFRAID OF MAKING US WALK !

 

[LowFalutin]

I remember...

I remember...

...when God was a Boy.

 

[noyd666]

...when God was a Boy.

lol that's a real good memory.

 

[SirSteely]

OHHhhh I remember my newly released Intelivision video game. It was THE best thing since Stretch Armstrong! Anyone up for a game of Pong?

 

[RetroGrow]

Hitchhiking.....without fear....

 

[floralheart]

Hitchhiking.....without fear....

I still help out people in a jam

 

[Madjag]

I pick up hitch-hikers and give them rides, water, and whatever they might need that I have.

Though my mind may Judge people I meet and "think" that they are this....or that...., I still open my heart to people I might meet from the many cultures and world-views. I have suffered enough to know that I am a lightweight when it comes to doing without, being beat-down, and living day-to-day wondering how I will get by.........

Always help when you can. The good Karma is immeasurable..............................

 

[nukklehead]

sorry if already mentioned... ac/delco am + FM (oh boy) car stereo and if you were hot stuff and 8-track...

How bout aftermarket car A/C---had a sears roebuck...

 

[Hank Hemp]

I remember when you would wait for Life mag. to come with pics of the new cars. I was a Chevy boy my cousins were Ford. In Sept '59 the new cars came out. My God the '59 Chevy was the worst looking cat this side of the '59 Ford. Hate both to this day. A neighor a couple of weeks ago brought home a '59 Chevy station wagon, I went over and asked him to park it behind the house so I wouldn't have to look at it. LOL He did.

 

[ydijadoit]

OHHhhh I remember my newly released Intelivision video game. It was THE best thing since Stretch Armstrong! Anyone up for a game of Pong?

Haha! Yes. I played mine alot. Funky controller, with the slide in plastic covers for different games. Sears even sold their own line of games for it. And that dork George Plimpton doing the ads for it on TV.
Sadly, my friends and I had a far better grip on the real world, than most of the kids I see today.
We'd play my Intellivision, or my buddie's Atari for an hour or so, but if the sun came out, or we heard one basketball being dribbled....
"Screw this, let's go outside!" TV off, and out the door we went.
Regards

 

[Capt.Ahab]

Shit. I remember a lot of stuff.
I started writing some of it down but it just makes me sad and a bit mad when I think about what we have lost.
Some of the things from the "good old days" were not so good but if I could go back in time I would do it in a heartbeat.