Getting through HS and college in the l970's, without being waylaid by drugs. So many persons did. I think the current generation is more grounded, less likely to have life long problems due to LSD, cocaine, etc.

Perhaps in earlier times booze and cigarettes was a huge problem, and that is much less now. So few smokers now compared to before.

I did have a lot of GF's when I was younger, often sex for a week and then it was over. Now people have to worry about AIDS, herpes, etc.

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Originally posted by flashguy:

To the OP: walking to grade school, and lunches at home.

flashguy

Started kindergarten in 1955. Walked about half a mile to a one-room country schoolhouse complete with his and hers outhouses. We thought we were riding pretty high on the hog, it had a hot air furnace! No stove tending for us rich kids!

Sack lunch.

Unfortunately, enrollments dipped to the point where it wasn't financially feasible to support the building and a teacher so we started busing to The Big City for 5th grade. The really sucky part was my class got split up between the 4 grade schools in town and I was the only one going to Central. My 5th grade teacher was Mrs. Patterson. Her husband was the Country Sheriff and her background was teaching in a State Reform School. One did NOT screw around in Mrs. Patterson's classroom!

‘66 grad, same as others, odd jobs, waited for the draft, Vietnam, beer, fast cars, riots & Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon.

Hair bands.

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Originally posted by zipriderson:
Hair bands.

As in "scrunchies" or Angel's "White Hot"?

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Originally posted by Warhorse:
Sex, drugs, rock & roll baby!

Those three, in reverse order.

In no particular order...
The Beatles
Viet Nam
The Kennedy's and how they left us
1968
The Moon landing

I grew up with a Father who had fought in the Pacific in WW2.My Mother and Father grew up in Great Depression. My Mother had diabetes starting as a child.I watched her suffer numerous amputations and blindness but still manage to be a stay at home mom and take care of my sister and I and the household, never complaining.

After living through THERE sacrifices in life I always, and still do,find it hard to complain about my problems.

Fizzies

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Started kindergarten in 1955. Walked about half a mile to a one-room country schoolhouse complete with his and hers outhouses.

My 1st & 2nd grade school were a TWO-room country schoolhouse in the middle of a very small farming community. The bottom floor was the grade school, top floor was High School. I had to either walk about a mile, or ride the school bus, that went in a loop up the river, across the new dam, down the river & back across to the school. 45 minute ride. Afternoons it changed directions, so IF I rode the bus it was always "ME" on "almost the first" & off ALWAYS almost the last whichever way it went.

Nobody got too upset if I just walked. Made better time anyway.

Kennedy was still in office when I graduated from HS. Our civics teacher is the reason I knew where all those little countries were and how they might be important to us someday.

The 50s came & went. The older I get the More I Like Ike.

The Viet Nam War

Work, plain and simple.

-Checking the answering machine for messages when you got home.
-Using pay phones regularly.
-Credit Cards when they had to use the carbon paper and imprint machine.
-Sending and receiving letters as a regular way of communicating with family, friends, and significant others in your life.
-Long distance plans / phone cards; watching your minutes so you didn't "go over" and get a huge bill.
-Readying newspapers / magazines to figure out what was 'going on in the world'.
-Sending bills in with checks, hoping that they arrived before the due date even when you sent them 7-10 days before the were due.
-Calling the bank to check your balance and you would talk to a real person to get that information.
-Air Popper Popcorn.

Alternative/grunge music and dialup modems

I have different memories over different periods.

My grade school years were through the fifties. Rock & Roll, Mickey Mouse Club, Eisenhower. Without a doubt my fondest memories were during this period. My apologies to Stand by Me but I never had friends like the ones I had when I was 12.

Graduated from HS in 1965. My memories are about the Kennedys, Woodstock, moon Landing and Viet Nam, Beatles, the Stones and so many other great bands. It was a difficult decade to process. No bad memories but no real great ones either.

The 70's were a pretty pointless decade to me. No real muscle cars save the 71 Cuda. Polyester and super wide ties were stupid, oh, don't forget about the platform shoes we wore. Ugh. I had graduated from college and was starting my career. Oh yeah, a marriage that went bad was in there as well. I guess we were all busy just "Stayin' Alive". Just not a favorite decade.

Thirty years in a nut shell.

I became an instant Beatle fan the first time I ever heard them in 1963 (I think that was when they first year they started playing their records here in the US). I remember my father telling me that the Beatles were just a fad. Boy did I let him know how wrong he was when people like Perry Como, Frank Sinatra and others started singing Beatle songs.

Listening to Benny Goodman and other big bands of the day on my parents record player. Rotary telephones and even placing a phone call thru an operator. Being able to tell what the car you were looking at was, and the excitement of the new models every year. Home made go-carts with lawnmower engines. I like Ike buttons. Elvis, soda fountains, bottle of Coca-Cola for a nickle. Having a quarter in my pocket made me feel like I actually had some money, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, black and white westerns on a B&W only TV. Korean War scared the crap out of me. Love ins, Viet Nam and my physical downtown LA in 1965 or 1966. Sputnik, Jack Benny, (Oh Rochester) Doris Day, John Wayne. I still know exactly where I was when they announced over the school loudspeaker that Kennedy was dead. Bay of Pigs was kinda scary. Watching Watts burn from a hill miles away. The early days of the Greatful Dead. I wonder what I’m forgetting...

1620, 1403, 360/18, 1130, the 360 family.

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll

Bob

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Originally posted by senza nome:
1620, 1403, 360/18, 1130, the 360 family.

Clever.
Can those of us outside the joke get the decoder please?

Watching the Challenger blow up on one of those TV carts on wheels at school. Watching them burn down the Branch Davidians on the same cart.

Unsupervised freedom all day in the summer. No nagging mother, no nosy neighbors, total freedom on a bicycle cruising through the 'burbs.

MTV and NEW Coke, along with Clear Pepsi, Kurt Cobain and the Alternative Music movement.

September 11th while in college and all the fallout from that.