Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patagonia Pete Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Getting beat up by all the tough girls in your neighborhood ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 And we weren't confused as to who was a boy or a girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waxahachie Kid #17017 L Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Don't forget: Drive-in movies; seeing a caboose; Saturday morning at the movies; cartoons at the movies, as well as previews, and newsreels; hoola-hoops; shootin' shell cap guns, by Mattel; Captain Kangaroo; polio shots, and later oral vaccines; poodle skirts; sputnik; one black house telephone; '57 Chevys, new at the dealerships; everything closed down on Sundays; gasoline 25 cents per gallon; no state sales taxes; no state income taxes; new/different car designs every year; going trick or treating without any parents tagging along; getting a painful small-pox vaccination, and the resulting scar; hearing real rock-n-roll, on the radio; Patsy Cline was still alive, and doing concerts; alcohol was the major drug of choice; we had a president & v.p. we could respect; not a debtor nation; we know what gender we were; went barefooted all summer; the family went to church every Sunday; only had one automobile; had candy cigarettes, and bubble gum that lasted all day, wax lips and teeth, as candy; Twinkies that were bigger, more moist, and actually tasted great; a nickel for a bottle of Coca-Cola; gathering soda-pop bottles, from around the neighborhood, and turning them in to the local grocery store, and collecting 2 cents per bottle (to be recycled); not needing to go armed everywhere; no one had/needed a bicycle helmet; making sling-shots and using old inner-tubes for the elastic part; dictatorships were afraid of us; if you were lazy and did not study, you repeated the grade level you failed; trophies were given to the winners, and not just everyone that participated; no interstate highways; gravy was considered a beverage; no "woke", or c.r.t., or gender i.d. problems; no stupid gun control laws; no marxist-socialist-leftists holding office; disney simply catered to clean, wholesome, entertainment for kids. I feel sorry for the kids today. We have made some progress, in certain areas, since the boomer days, no doubt, but, in many ways, we have not. I would not trade the memories I have, as being a baby boomer, for anything available today. The potential for an exciting future was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Penny Candy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Too old to be a Baby Boomer by about three years! I remember, for a short time, in Chicago, when you picked up the phone and an operator asked, "Number lease?" Pay phones were a nickel, until they switched to a dime! Until sometime in 1947 penicillin hadn't been released to the general public, and sulfa was the only med available for scarlet fever! Until 1952 or so, NO vaccine for polio! Summers were considered "the polio season". Mom kept me away from the beach, which was a good idea...except then she enrolled me in swimming class at an indoor public pool! Didn't realize that the bug was waterborne! Fortunately, didn't catch it! OTOH, no mumps, measles, chickenpox vaccines either! Got "natural" immunity...by coming down with them all at one time or another! Oh, yeah, remember going to the shoe store, and you could step up on that machine and see the bones in your feet? Wonder if that has anything to do with my neuropathy? Wonderful tool for shrinking kids tonsils and adenoids...called x-ray. Only two years after the "bombs", so they didn't realize what they were doing to the thyroid glands! As far as crime was concerned, The Mob only went after each other. Left most of the rest of people alone. Regardless of what people saw as "corruption" in Chicago is the days of Richard J. Daley, the snow got plowed even after a big storm, and the South Side wasn't a "freefire zone"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Part of the Silent Generation, as am I! A quite different world, and until recently we lived in the best of times. Still the best place to live, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Born March 1942. I remember all of this and so much more. Alas, this shall not pass our way again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamus McGillicuddy Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Being over exerted was believed to make one susceptible to contracting polio so our municipal swimming pool every hour had a “polio break” where everyone had to exit the water and sit quietly for five minutes. Seamus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 5 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: Penny Candy Imagine the shoplifting of lollies today if they were still like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 10 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: Imagine the shoplifting of lollies today if they were still like that. There was a woman with the eye of a basilisk who watched the penny candy at the corner store, as they were called then. Kids were kids, but I don't think there was much shoplifting. In those days offenses in school or in public earned a whuppin'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 These won't be coming back - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8956647/Australians-flog-Red-Skin-lollies-online-2-500-Allens-changed-name.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 That is so wrong. "In America Redskins is a slur for Indians." "In America Chico is a slur for Mexicans." Well I'm pretty damn sure that Australia is not in America, and I don't believe they have too many Indians or Mexicans over there. Are they going to change the name of the fruit because kiwi is bound to be considered by somebody to be a slur for new zealanders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 3 minutes ago, Alpo said: That is so wrong. It gets worse.....one of Australia's oldest and most famous cheese companies - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-13/coon-cheese-changes-name-cheer-racist-slur-stephen-hagan/13053524 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 17 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: It gets worse.....one of Australia's oldest and most famous cheese companies - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-13/coon-cheese-changes-name-cheer-racist-slur-stephen-hagan/13053524 WOW!! ........ what a crock of "dog-meat" .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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