CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1920-70

[Lloyd65]

This is so True,I have been through and done about 90% of these

And never regretted any of them,,

It was a great way of living back then..





CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who occasionally

smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were often painted with bright coloured lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks some of us took hitchhiking.

As children, in carry baskets, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a Ute on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Fruit Tingles and some fire crackers to blow up frogs and lizards with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

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 down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.   

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape or DVD movies, no surround sound, no mobile  phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet 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.

Only girls had pierced ears!
...and...only girls wore pink shirts!!

...and...only girls carried handbags!!!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross buns at Easter time.......no really!

We were given BB guns and sling shots for our 10th birthdays,

We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing at Maralinga in 1956.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and bully's always ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade'....   

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 70 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We "WALKED" to school with our friends in the mornings and at the end of the day, the only people who used cars to get "to and from" school, were teachers, Imagine that, and EVERYONE who I walked with, is STILL alive yet!!!!.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

Cheers Lloyd Hope you had a good laugh, its all true.

[Boxhead 71]

I love it. Absolutely love it. Awesome. 

[edz]

Good one lloyd, yep my kids cop the O'l " back when I was a little boy " and a hell of a lot of what you have written, my youngest [ miss 5 ]  is amazed  by the stories ...I'm not that old mind you " a product of early 1963 " .. well done .

[Jeepers Creepers]

so the big 50 this year....   

[krisandkev]

Yes, that one came out a while ago, but it is still good.   Kevin

[camlisa]

Well said, Wow I had such a good childhood when you think of it like that. Brings back some great memories.

[LB]

Couple more,

We survived $ drink nights (those were the days) Tuesdays for me Roundabout Hotel Hurstville

You were chased by mum with the wooden spoon (and you didn't go on to be axe murder)

A job was a job

Cars were made of metal

At the blue light disco you were searched for alcohol not drugs or weapons.

LB

The only "right" we had was to pack our bags and move out if we didn't pull our heads in

will dispute the pink shirts due to mambo, hypercolour and fluorescent bobby socks. (sorry born early seventies hence teenager in the 80's.....not saying the fashion was pretty). and also the video games, damn proud of my Atari!!!!

Understood the true meaning of corners due to no seat belts and vinyl seats (great fun in Granddads Holden premier)

5 seater cars meant mum dad and as many of your friends as you could fit in, the parcel shelf was not out the question.

Lastly the unwritten rule of the big night out  "you never left a man behind".

[D4D]

Those were the days

My missus was horrified recently when I preferred one primary school over another for our son because he could walk there...

[firecracker]

Oh Lloyd, how true how true.

[03hilux]

So true.

But I didnt see "burning your ar5e and back of your legs on the hot vinyl seat after a day at the beach"

[nbd73]

Wow, thanks for the memory blast. Fit into the tail end of categories (1973 to be exact) but all so, so true. I was only talking to someone the other day about how as kids we roamed parklands and paddocks, swamps & creeks. We made toy guns out of 25mm conduit and timber door stops (are guns even allowed as toys any more?) and had water pressure powered rockets fired off the good old garden hose. There's nothing wrong with a bit of nostalgia, does make us realise that whilst there have been massive gains made in medical & dental care, we do live in a heavily regulated and changing world. I intend my boy (1.7 currently) to learn how to use garden tools, how to kick a ball and how to swim and run. I'm not one eyed enough to think he won't play with video devices, buy I'm gonna try damn hard to ensure he gets some degree of exposure to how things were. He is going to know the basics of "doing things" himself, and what more appropriate time to reflect this than my looming 40th birthday.
Lloyd, thankyou you made my day (& week actually) I may recycle some of this one day (unless you have a patent!!)

[fuji]

so the big 50 this year....   

Well done! Big BBQ at your place?

[Dingo0163]

Most cars were 6 seaters with a bench seat in the front . Utes were three seaters not just two bucket seats in them. The old man would have a few stubbies and listen to the races on Saturday. If he had a win we would have Chinese take away for tea. The only other take away around , but you had to take your own pots for them to put it in. There was no plastic or foil containers back then.

[MR MAC GU]

Perfect...it should still be this way but unfortunately these are the generations that invented all these things and changed the rules of living to what we see today...

I remember these days all too well... Many great times were had...


Sent from Behind you...BOO

[D4D]

That is just sad...

http://www.news.com.au/technology/modern-technology-keeps-us-tuned-in-but-turned-off/story-e6frfro0-1226583804430

"Younger people are often intimidated by making phone calls in favour of Facebook," she explained.

[BLKWDW]

That is so true. The good old days although i missed the boat.

[Marschy]

My sister was married in the seventies. A photo of me and my brother in platform shoes and butterfly collars and mop-top hair is hilarious to look at now.

[gronk]

My sister was married in the seventies. A photo of me and my brother in platform shoes and butterfly collars and mop-top hair is hilarious to look at now.

C'mon then....post it up  !!!!!



Amazing that in just a short time span ( and these things were almost unheard of  in the 60 ' and 70 's ) things like asthma, allergies, gay people( except for catholic priests ) have proliferated

Must admit though, the ease of living is a lot better theses days, but I sure enjoyed the quality of life back then ( I was born in 59 )

[D4D]

I blame modern medicine, it has unbalanced the law of the jungle where only the strong survived

[speewa158]

& back then you had to drive home from the pub ...cxause walking was just out of the question 
& telling lies to policeman " lvvvvvv oNlY HAAd 2 0r 3 Beeee"Hic"sr  ( some belived me )
& making spending $15 on fuel & grog to go to the drives on Sat Night
& going to the drives with a boot load of bods
& still getting up to milk cows at 4am the next day
                      lts time to take my pills & have a lye down now 

[jaycamrie]

Thats right the good old days where we would be outside playing with the kids
or off camping with the car and tent and eskies full of ice
not sitting here typing on the PC telling the kids to turn the ipod or nintendo down
i am trying to concentrate 

Cheers

[McGirr]

Yes the good old days........I even had hair back then 

Mark

[edz]

Sorry Jeepers / Fuji been and gone, was almost a new years tike  and now on the wrong side of 50.

[sonny]

Utes were three seaters not just two bucket seats in them

This is what my parents had and when I came along that made 4 to fit in the front of the ute.  My "Child restraint" as a toddler was mum's shoulder (I stood on the seat in behind her shoulder as she drove) - quite often through the paddocks with dad standing in the back of the ute with my older brother and shooting kangaroos (sorry conservationists - but they wrecked the wheat crop and we had to have an income to eat)

[edz]

AAhhhh the days before seat belts, how vivid the memories of my head  meeting the steel dash of our VW pick ups dash are.in the crash .
Didnt improve tho looks any though.bonus was a nice lady gave the then 3 yro a lemonade icy pole to make the cracked head all better .LOL .