And I’m kinda glad.
It was a different era that’s for sure.
How did we survive 60 years ago?
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
I also remember that calling long distance telephone was extremely expensive.
Especially when your dad was bringing home $60-$75 a week. The latter if he could get overtime unloading rail cars.
It used to really piss my mother off when we would get long distance calls from certain deadbeat relatives and the operator would ask if we would “accept the charges”.