My Generation

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While I was born in ‘83, that still took me back.

Accurate.

Most of that was going on in the 70’s.

Kids are still doing many of those things today. Here’s my daughter and four of her friends last night after already having spent 24 hours together:



I sat this one out, but did get to hear two ELO songs, Night Ranger, and the YMCA.

I love these threads. Sometimes I think of the shit we did as young teens and I'm amazed considering these days parents would be horrified.

At 11/12 years old I would take the subway from East Boston to downtown Boston, take a walk to the combat zone to go to Jack's Joke Shop, buy some stink bombs and whoopie cushions, see a movie on State Street, go to the arcade, get some food at Faneuil Hall, and then take the T home again.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: frayedends, December 17, 2023 10:21 AM

Don’t hold it against me, we would also ‘live off the land’ while camping at semi-remote lakes. We got dropped off, well below driving age, 3 of us.

Besides normal things like fish, frogs, clams & cattail roots, we had squirrel, woodpecker, chickadees & whatever we could take down with a pellet rifle.

This was the 70’s, rural MI.

I'm first year gen X. We lived in the woods on a river. I literally had a Tom Sawyer childhood.

Grew up on a dead end road in the middle of nowhere in the 70s and 80s. I spent the majority of my days fishing, riding bikes, stomping through the woods with a pocket knife and a BB gun, climbing trees, etc.

As a young kid in the 60-70's, we were outside everyday playing and doing something (mostly sports).
I live in a suburban neighborhood, there are kids of my same age then and it is a ghost town in the streets for kid.
Nowhere playing or doing anything.
Where are they and what are they doing?
Imagine they are stuck at the game keyboard.
Sad

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Most of that was going on in the 70’s.

Ditto- That brought back memories and we did all that and more. Everything but the ouija board.

A bicycle was the first ticket to freedom. Sure we could walk a long ways but being mobile opened up whole new places to explore.

Just going out and playing all day. Swimming in the rivers and lakes then saying some big kids threw us in as an excuse for being wet.

Born in ‘61 and this brings back great memories for me, and the pic and the description of the biker gang is spot on.

We had a great climbing tree in our front yard that was climbable up to 35’ or 40’ or so +\-, and I had climbed it untold 100’s of times or more that I could do it safely and confidently with a blindfold on which probably scared my mom when she watched me do that. She couldn’t have been too scared though because she requested an encore performance for my dad!

Ah, the “good old days” of more humble and adventurous childhood!!

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Originally posted by frayedends:
I love these threads. Something I think of the shit we did as young teens and I'm amazed considering these days parents would be horrified.

I went to a party last night with some friends who are in their early 50s, and there a ton of "back in the day" stories told. It was great fun, and you're right -- parents these days would be horrified.

We all did things back then that a) kids now don't know how to do (corded telephone, anyone?), and b) we wouldn't get away with if we did now.

Hey, we all survived it!

For a kid in the 70's it was pretty much the same. We played a game called "Kill the guy with the ball", also known as "Smear the queer" (I imagine that name would put folks in apoplectic shock today). Essentially, you'd get any number of guys, kick a football, all run to it. Someone would pick it up and run and try not to be tackled.

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Originally posted by 1s1k:
Most of that was going on in the 70’s.

Same with the early-to-mid '90s.

I remember my friends playing "TAG," aka The Assasination Game. Someone got nominated to be the victim, someone got nominated to take him out, and nearly any place was fair game. Of course, it was done with squirt guns, blunted pencils, water balloons, and whatever else came to hand. Telling a friend "bang, you're dead" on a school bus these days would likely get a kid kicked out of school and the parents labeled as terrorists....

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Originally posted by 1s1k:
Most of that was going on in the 70’s.

Was doing that in the 60’s and early 70’s in rural Canada

I forgot to mention that 3 out of the 5 girls were wearing high top Chucks and jeans with holes in them, but not the same 3 girls. I didn’t ask, but I swear the one girl Bedazzled her jeans. Vans, the shoes, are also quite popular with the kids today.

The 80s are back.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
Was doing that in the 60’s and early 70’s in rural Canada

Yup! Same here. Did all that in Louisiana, Arkansas, Massachusetts, upstate New York, and then full circle back down to Louisiana.

Great times, outside playing sports all year, on the bike when we wanted, basketball, baseball, football, golf, up in the am, home for lunch, gone until bedtime...

Well before Helicopter moms were a thing...