Things from your childhood that would baffle young people of today

terry123 said:
Playing hop scotch for hours under a huge oak tree with friends. We lived in the country and had good friends down the road. We would play hop scotch and hide and seek while our folks visited on the porch and drank coffee.
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I taught my kids to play hopscotch. They loved it! Will teach my grandkids when they get a bit older.

Most of these things I don't miss, though I do wish kids had the freedom to be out of adult reach that I had - and my children had.

Adult fears and our perception that the world is too dangerous a place for kids has tremendously restricted this generation of little ones. Then the older group whines that kids spend all day playing video games.
 
You had to put this stuff, called "film" into a camera. You could "take" 12-24 or 36 pictures, but you didn't see them. You had to drop them off at a pharmacy ( I guess they were sick), and wait a week until magically appeared in a thick envelope. Most were blurry, and you forgot why you took that picture. You brought them home and were supposed to put them in an album with black pages, but they wound up in a cardboard box in the closet , where they remain for decades.
 
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1952- “Molly,” a ten-year-old strawberry roan, retired as the very last horse to pull a milk wagon in the city. A local tradition for years, the horses were well-loved by thousands of neighborhood children. One mother told the story of how she couldn’t put her child down for a nap each day until Molly had passed by on her route.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
You had to put this stuff, called "film" into a camera. You could "take" 12-24 or 36 pictures, but you didn't see them. You had to drop them off at a pharmacy ( I guess they were sick), and wait a week until magically appeared in a thick envelope. Most were blurry, and you forgot why you took that picture. You brought them home and were supposed to put them in an album with black pages, but they wound up in a cardboard box in the closet , where they remain for decades.
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jujube said:
Almost all the stores closed on Sundays.

Going for a drive on Sunday afternoon, no destination in mind, just driving.

Going to a movie and spending hours there. There were cartoons, newsreels, previews, then the "first" movie, followed by the "main" movie. If it was really hot outside, you could just sit through the whole thing again.
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yep, all them things, purchased a junker for $100.00, age 16, ran 2 months. Vehicle represented freedom, away from parental restraints
-does parental restraint still exist doesn't seem like it.
 
applecruncher said:
Sitting down with paper and pen, writing a letter to someone.
Then, folding the letter
Put into an envelope
Write the person's name and address on the envelope
Put a postage stamp in the upper right corner
Take letter to mailbox or post office and mail it
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when your pc crashes and you are busted, you can relive all those behaviors.
 
The small tubes inside the old TV set would periodically burn out. Sometimes you could tell which one was bad and sometimes you couldn't. My dad would pull them out and go down to the drug store, which had a testing machine. He'd buy a new tube and reinstall them. We'd hope we hadn't missed anything.

Sometime in the late 1950's, we did something (can't remember what) that pushed my mother over the edge and she turned the TV to the wall for A WHOLE YEAR.
 
Cast iron toys and banks.
6 party telephone line and you turned the crank to speak to an operator.
Skip jacks. A snow ski that you sat on.
Wind up toys made of tin.
Returning bottles for refund money.
Wax lips and candy cigarettes. Bubble gum cigars.
Ink pens and ink wells. Usually leaked ink on your shirt.
The invention of ball point pens.
So darn many to list.
 
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