Below is from an email I received some time ago. It’s all very true.

If you lived as a child in the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's, looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have...
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Our cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cupboards, and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors. We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then ride 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 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. No mobile phones. Unthinkable. We got cut and broke bones and broke teeth, and there were no law suits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame, but us. Remember accidents? We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it. We ate cakes, bread and butter, and drank cordial, but we were never
overweight...we were always outside playing. We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one died from this. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, video games, 65 channels on pay TV, video tape movies, surround sound, personal mobile phones, Personal Computers, Internet chat rooms ... we had friends. We went outside and found them. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rung the bell, or just walked in and talked to them. Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves! Out there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian - how did we do it? We made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever. Footy and netball had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't, had to learn to deal with disappointment.....
Some students weren't as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. Tests were not adjusted for any reason.
Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one to hide behind.
No speed humps!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law - imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
And you're one of them. Congratulations!

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Anthony

Anthony,
I wonderful Statement. I remember many of those days!

Regards,

Rocky

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Remember when parents didn't shove you into 30 different extracurricular activites? Remember when you had to eat with your family (No microwave ovens means no re-heating)? Remember when kids talked to their friends face-to-face (No cell phones)? Remember when you fell off your bike and scraped your knee, instead of turning around and suing the bike manufacturer and DOT for not having kid-safe asphalt? Remember when Sesame Street was educational?

I only spent 36 days in the 70s, but boy those were the days, weren't they?

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How soon we all forget. Some of the best times we had as a family, were at the dinner table. Sharing our days experiences, and just airing out differences. That is one of the biggest problems with todays falilies. No communication. Therew are alot of reasons why there is no communication, but it is like everything else, you have to make time for it.

Also, remember when Coke was 20 Cents, and a penny bubble gum was a penny. How about a Movie for 1.50. Those days are gone forever I'm afraid.

Everyone, Have A Great Day And A Better Tommorrow!

Respectfully,

Rocky Cudd

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I was born in 1956; Elvis was making a name for himself. I grew up on a
country road on the outskirts of town. One of my earliest full memories
was on the faithful day in Nov, in 1963, I had just turned 7 and was a happy go lucky kid, That day the president was killed and all the grown-ups were crying. That’s the day when Americans really lost their innocents.

As I got a little older I would ride my Bike with the Banana Seat, High Handlebars and the sound of playing cards slapping against the spokes. I was allowed to go anywhere I wanted and Mom and Dad didn't seem worried. Later I found out that I was the one they worried about the most! (Middle of 5 Kids)

Where I lived a car would pass by maybe once an hour and always beeped thier horn. Now, the road has migrated from many years of repaving even closer to Mom and Dads House. A car passes by every 5 sec of every hour 24/7 the home I grew up in no longer is considered a country road. No one walks on the street in fear of being run over.

Anyway, Yes I believe my generation was the last
of the liniage.

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Also, remember when Coke was 20 Cents, and a penny bubble gum was a penny. How about a Movie for 1.50
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I remember when Coke was a Dime and a Movie was a Quarter ... :/

> Also, remember when Coke was 20 Cents, and a penny bubble gum was a penny. How
> about a Movie for 1.50
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> I remember when Coke was a Dime and a Movie was a Quarter ... :/
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PoorBoy,
Now Your Showing Your Age!

HaHa

Regards,

Rocky

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Senior Citizens Rule ... hahaha

> I was born in 1956; Elvis was making a name for himself. I grew up on a
> country road on the outskirts of town. One of my earliest full memories
> was on the faithful day in Nov, in 1963, I had just turned 7 and was a happy
> go lucky kid, That day the president was killed and all the grown-ups were
> crying. That’s the day when Americans really lost their innocents.
>
> Anyway, Yes I believe my generation was the last
> of the liniage.
>
Tim,
Your one year ahead of me, but we share an awful lot of the same memories.
The biggest thing I miss about the past is my 1969 Chevelle SS 396. Of course I did not get it until 1975, but those were the days.

Oh and lets not forget the "Rupp Minibikes", and the first "Mopeds" that had the motor on top of the back wheel of a bicycle.

Rocky

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> Senior Citizens Rule ... hahaha
>
And I guess you use your Senior Citizens ID card everytime you go to McDonalds
or go to a movie!

HaHa

Rocky

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Remember when hard drugs were just used by junkies.

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The biggest thing I miss about the past is my 1969 Chevelle SS 396
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PoorBoyzDream

> > Senior Citizens Rule ... hahaha




Not yet! right Rocky! But my oldest Son will be 30 in April!
My Grand Daughter turned 10 last week!

Po Boy, You young whipper snapper

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> The biggest thing I miss about the past is my 1969 Chevelle SS 396
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> PoorBoyzDream
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Poorboy,
Thats impressive. I used to run my Chevelle in Maryland at the OLD 75/80 Racetrack, (FOR THOSE FAMILIAR) It was called the "Great Pumpkin". It was a 396 - 750 HP with dual Holley 780 dual feed dual pumpers. Unfortunately I let one of my Navy buddies drive my pride, he didn't listen, and he wrapped it around a concrete enbuttment. Broke both of his legs and one arm, but it was no consolation.
All I have left is my wheels and I still have the Keith Black Crate Engine that I was going to put in. I have had it in storage at my Mom's house now for 19 years.

Regards,

Rocky

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Remember the Soviet Union? I confess: I looked up to Michael Gorbachev. I thought that anyone who was ballsy enough to tattoo his nation's emblem on his head had to lead - The corporeal form of his country's beliefs.

Remember when computers had BASIC in ROM? There was always a computer in the house - I practically grew up on an Atari. All you needed was a keyboard, a little bit of brain-work, and within a day or two your one-button joystick would be put to use for shooting aliens of your own design. Now it's headshots in Unreal - And Atari is no longer Atari...

Remember when chatting on line took place at the local grocery store? Remember when Mir went up? Remember when Mir came down? Remember hockey? Remember rotary phones? .o0( I still have mine... )

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I'm feelin' older than dirt.

The 1st computer systems I ran:

1. IBM 705
2. IBM 1401
3. IBM 1410
4. IBM 360/40
5. GE 425


Ziggy

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THUNK!

Owww... i tink i bwoke my jaw...

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It is a true wonder indeed but for me (MR NegativeRights :)) I suspect the greatest life expectancy changers are (1) fresh water, (2) good sanitation, (3) ample varied food and (4) general health knowledge of how to sure or quarantine public diseases. Everything else is just minor.

We have lived so long because the great 4 are historic life changers.

My father in an odd sense pulled it all together for me when he reminded me (with a sadistic smile on his face) that I could have been one of the thalidomide generation. (Though thalidomide is actually a brilliant drug with respect to cancer, leprosy et al.)

Though yes I agree we have gone rather 'rules' mad at times.. A health centre where I go and do some washing up at after the clients evening meal once a week has been threatened with having their cooker taken away because the top (head hight) collects dust.. The official that threatened this did not say they would take away the fridge (same hight), the lower surfaces, the air ducts, the workers :) etc....

I do think some people with these types of jobs left education without realising that they need to look up from their books once in a while...

As to go-carts, brakes and running into the bushes I remember my first tricycle and being pushed on my way down a slight incline... The choice was either the road or a brick wall at the back of a garage. Even I at the age of 5 knew that the wall was a better choice... I still have the scars today.

Amuses me that some have the idea that the world is a hostile place or that humans are wicked or bad in general... Yet were still here after millions of years of knocked knees and bruised heads...

cRunchy

> The biggest thing I miss about the past is my 1969 Chevelle SS 396
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> PoorBoyzDream
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That is a beauty PoorBoy!!!

I hear a country song coming on..

Remember when a Ho' was a hoe, and a screw was a screw. Coke was a coke and when you said "I am down with that it" meant you had the flu. Crack was was something you did when you were cracking jokes...


Ziggy my first computer was in high school. It was an IBM 1620 with it's attached Card reader.. It had 10K worth of Wangs Iron Core Memory and was bigger then a desk. I graduated to Challenger 1P, and then a Heathkit H-8.. I owned a DEC Rainbow and IBM XT.

Timmy my oldest child is 30 and I have 6 children and grand-children. Senior Citizen bedamned.. I'll be out swimming with sharks :)

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