When I Was Young ... (Game)

[peramangkelder]

Oooh! I loved The Man From UNCLE especially Illya Kuryakin played by David McCallum
I like him now as 'Ducky' the Chief Medical Examiner in NCIS

 

[Kadee]

I either walked or rode a bike everywhere I went including school and shopping I was sent to do by my parents
The city had 40.000 + people so it wasn’t a small country town

 

[chic]

I used to eat cotton candy.

 

[hollydolly]

I was obsessed with the Fairground and carnival when I was a kid. When it came to our city it stayed for 6 weeks each year, I would be there every evening, just to soak up the atmosphere..

 

[chic]

I was a good baseball player.

 

[mike4lorie]

Had many paper routes...

 

[chic]

I won a dance contest when I was 8.

 

[peramangkelder]

I used to play marbles....and was good at it

 

[hollydolly]

When I was young I never had a bike... I had to learn to ride on my friends bike...

 

[peramangkelder]

My Dad found an old bike frame which he renovated for me and painted it 'girl' colours and I had a new white woven plastic basket on the front handlebars.
I loved riding my bike to the local Library and bringing the books home in my basket....I was allowed to take 2 books out on loan.

 

[Millyd]

I lived in a big city ( suburb ) called Melbourne, My parents didn’t have a car we traveled by tram anywhere we wanted to go including going to the huge Melbourne fresh food market right in the centre of the city

 

[moviequeen1]

When I was young,I never was interested in dolls. I liked playing with my younger brother and his friends. One day we were playing tackle football,me vs the 3 of them.They couldn't stop me when I kept scoring ,until I brother told them to tackle me at my ankles,that stopped me cold

 

[Sunny]

I never had a bike either, Holly. Don't really know why; I had most other toys and sports items. Probably I just didn't care enough to insist to my parents that I really "needed" it. I eventually did learn to ride a bike, but I was an adult by then and never felt very secure on one.

 

[Lc jones]

When I was young I wore Sweet Honesty perfume and Gunnysak dresses. We would go to school dances and do the Hustle and Bump.

 

[JustBonee]

When I was young, I lived on my grandparents farm ... and I felt like I was in heaven with all the farm animals. I loved playing with baby goats especially, and even considered the pigs in their pen my friends. .. .best childhood ever.

 

[Sassycakes]

When I was young I loved going to the movies in the afternoon at the Saturday Matinees.

 

[chic]

When I was young there were "specialty stores" for everything. We'd get fruit at the fruit store, bread and pies at the bakery, fish at the fish store, meat at the meat market, ice cream at the ice cream parlor, cold cuts at the deli, tools at the hardware store, thumbtacks and paper at the stationery store and on and on. We did have supermarkets but my grandparents preferred the old fashioned way, so my parents obliged. It was nice in a way.

 

[mike4lorie]

Played house league and competitive Lacrosse

 

[hollydolly]

When I was young there were "specialty stores" for everything. We'd get fruit at the fruit store, bread and pies at the bakery, fish at the fish store, meat at the meat market, ice cream at the ice cream parlor, cold cuts at the deli, tools at the hardware store, thumbtacks and paper at the stationery store and on and on. We did have supermarkets but my grandparents preferred the old fashioned way, so my parents obliged. It was nice in a way.

We still have that..not as much as when I was young, but certainly we still have the butchers, the bakers, the newsagents, the independent hardware store, and so on... despite the huge superstores... The only real thing we've lost is the greengrocers...but aside from the supermarket we can buy fresh fruit & veg if we live near a town with a street market as I do.. here's a pic from last Saturday at the market...

..and here's a 30 seconds video I took so you can hear the market stallholder shouting his wares which he does every 2 minutes...

 

[mike4lorie]

Played Street Hockey

 

[JustBonee]

I was such a tomboy. I loved climbing trees.

 

[mike4lorie]

Could go to the store with twenty-five cents, and come out with a huge bag of candy...

 

[Sassycakes]

When I was young I lived in the City. We had so many kids living on our block. You were never alone outside and parents even sat on the steps at night to watch us. We were never alone and played game after game. Jail break was my favorite game to play.

 

[chic]

I played shortstop with the kids in the schoolyard, I was that good.

 

[Sunny]

Girls and women usually didn't wear pants (which were called slacks, dungarees, etc.) They were only worn for the most casual occasions, such as when we were on vacation. Little girls always wore skirts to school, and our mothers wore dresses for everything.