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Old 07-17-2011, 08:52 PM
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Those of You Born
1930 - 1979


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 childproof 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 O.K.

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 Playstations, 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 chat rooms. 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 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 past 50 years
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!
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Old 07-17-2011, 09:14 PM
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Amen!!!!!!!
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Old 07-17-2011, 09:16 PM
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Old 07-17-2011, 09:18 PM
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I'm part of that generation...before the technology explosion. Alot of that is true for me. I was always outside inventing games to play. Good to remember those days after reading that... thanks W. I made it through all of my schooling (kindergarten, middle school, high school, college) without internet or a cell phone.
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Old 07-17-2011, 09:37 PM
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Early 80's should be included in this... But maybe not. I didn't live in a house with cable till I was 17 and moved out my parents house... I was born in 80 btw
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Old 07-17-2011, 09:39 PM
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Yeah I remeber the good ole days !!
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Old 07-17-2011, 09:40 PM
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and the part about outside was the best....We always stayed outside...all summer long and bare foot most of the time.....I was lucky to live out in the country were would could shoot guns and had lots of land to do what we wanted..

How many guns did me and my brother make with sticks and old ax handles...

This is funny but I can remember like yesterday.... We would watch Tour of Duty and then go outside the next day and kick some azz in the barn yard
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Old 07-17-2011, 09:43 PM
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Or play G I joe against cobra. Or He-man and skeletor,and play with them hot wheels on a lil homeade dirt track. And the remote controls took 16 c batteries to operate. lol
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This may be whats wrong with me but....We drank the same water that the cows and horses drank...and would swim in the rice field water when pumping.....killed every bird that flew and ate it....we had a club house in the barn yard...always had a fire going and put some water in a pot,steal a few onions from the garden and clean what ever birds we killed and cook them

I ate them all....you dont even want to know
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I was born in '29. Guess I missed OUt.
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I was born in '29. Guess I missed OUt.

bet you were excited when the wheel came out and electricity huh?
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Salty inverted OU football....made the very 1st football out of trout skin...
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Salty inverted OU football....made the very 1st football out of trout skin...


Yep, I turned it upside down.
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All I needed to be happy as a kid was a BB gun, a bike and a dog.
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Birth Class of 1958 Salutes You and the good ole days, Parents could whip that a$$ without worrying about child services or lawyers, which is the problem with most kids today, I could ramble for hours, thanks W.
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Old 07-18-2011, 12:10 PM
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Birth Class of 1958 Salutes You and the good ole days, Parents could whip that a$$ without worrying about child services or lawyers, which is the problem with most kids today, I could ramble for hours, thanks W.
Any adult could whip dat azz. School, baby sitter, grand parents, aunts/uncles, next door neighbors. If you was bad, you got a whompin.
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AMEN!!!!!

I remember us fighting during a backyard football game, my dad lined all of us up with hands placed on the wall of the shop, pulled off his belt & said....here's the deal, I'm gonna swing level, you wanna move up & down that's up to you! He whooped all 10 of us!
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AMEN!!!!!

I remember us fighting during a backyard football game, my dad lined all of us up with hands placed on the wall of the shop, pulled off his belt & said....here's the deal, I'm gonna swing level, you wanna move up & down that's up to you! He whooped all 10 of us!
awesome! lol! you'd have 13 lawyers showing up at your door the next day nowadays!!
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We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,
Locks on doors or cabinets

I hear this stunts your growth??
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