Speaking as a Boomer, only two years removed from GenX (born in 1963), I can tell you that, to us, the world we live in right now, is like the upside down world. A clown world. It makes zero sense to us and not only do we not relate to it, we don't WANT to relate to it. We were and are to this day, warriors.
I was born in 63 to in San Diego California and we had the metal wheel and then clay wheeled skateboards. We definitely identify better with GenX as we where getting thrashed everyday. She forgot one of the best ones, flying off the merry-go-round spinning so fast!
@@SadPuppySoup I mean it helped some, but as an adult approaching "retirement", things are pretty rotten here in 2024. I am certainly not feeling very lucky.
We lived outdoors all the time socking up all that vitamin D and all the physical activity made us so strong that we would destroy the kids nowadays. Plus girls back then didn't have all the hormones and chemical nowadays that accelerate their physical maturity so they were more active longer in life and in better health.
Born 1960. We rode our bikes with nothing on us for protection. Drank out of a garden hose. Climbed trees. Rode in the bed of pickup trucks. Played outside & used our imagination s. All of us at one time had a rock fight with other kids. Didn't have seatbelts until late 70s. Played with toys made out of metal. Lawn darts, swingsets, School play grounds. Anyone remember pump swings? We lived through it all.
Me too! I went out right after breakfast, came back for lunch and dinner but stayed out until the street lights came on. Then we played man hunt in our yards. This was summertime, but even during the school year we were active, always outside, even in the winter!
Oh, my goodness you guys taking me back to my childhood with all this reminiscing of the 70's. I was born in 66'. Remember DC & Marvel Comics, action figures, six-million-dollar man, bionic woman, big Jim and big Jack, Gumby & Pokey, DC comic figures, planet of the ape's figures, Muhammad Ali figure, Evil Knievel stunt cycle. board games, skates, skateboards, kites, yo-yo's, darts, super ball, pogo sticks, ping pong, homemade slingshots, cap guns, bb-guns, hide & go seek, last tag, Saturday morning cartoons, while eating cold cereal, tang, pop-tarts, Nestle chocolate/strawberry powdered milk, sizzlean etc. Huffy and Schwin dirt bikes, putting baseball cards in the spokes. For emergencies or colds, a kiss on the boo-boo, alcohol, turpentine, Pepto-Bismol, band-aids, witch-hazel, iodine, calamine lotion, flintstone's vitamins, phisoderm, cod liver oil, castor oil, etc., RV'S, and station wagons, VW's, Pintos, 240Z Datsun, Porsche. Who had their own Lemonade stand? So much fun. 😃👍
@@ericechols6056 I spent a whole year chomping at the bit for that damn Evil Knievel stunt bike. i was one happy kid on Christmas morning. And then in 1976 we got some red white and blue Firecracker bi centennial bikes. You talking about being the envy of the neighborhood, well the envy of the street, we lived in a very rural area, no neighborhoods there, just cow pastures.
Born in 1963. Lived all she spoke about. No seatbelts. We had to sit on the hump in the floor, over the transmission. The elementary school monkey bars were steel and 5 ft up. good luck when you fell. wood burning kits, lawn jarts, red rider BB guns. My dads favorite quote was "that's nothin!" And you got on your bike and went wherever the adventure was for the day, as long as you were home for dinner.
Proud Gen Xer here...born '71. Was never in a car seat or any similar contraption. I remember sitting on my dad's lap when he was driving so I could "drive" too!
I sat IN the steering wheel of my dads semi-truck while he drove down the interstate, it was a cab over (flat front) and I would watch the highway disappear under the truck, good memories
Gen Xer here. Car seats? What were those? We were in an adult's lap or on our own. Mom's arm was the only safety feature in cars. We are a strong bunch. Amazing we made it to adulthood. They even had commercials to remind our parents they had kids, "It's 10pm, do you know where your children are?" But what great times! We got to grow up unsupervised with no social media to capture it. Those were the days!
I laugh at the arm comment. Born in 68, I still remember that and amazingly, I still used it when my son got older even when he was in his seat belt or car seat...
Yes, Britt. We are totally OK. We are immune to everything, we ignore pain and BS. Just kick us out of the house in the morning, and we will drink water from the hose and entertain ourselves until the street lights come on. Then we’ll come in for dinner from a freezer meal and eat it from a tray in front of the TV, which we will get up and down to change the channel for, because there is no remote. 😂
That was my fun filled 60's and 70's life. Summertime wake-up, eat breakfast, go outside and play. Come in for an hour or so to eat something and go back outside and play with friends. Get yelled at if you came in and out of the house too much. School days, come home eat a snack and go outside until dinner, do homework and go to bed. Outside many fight, stumbles, bad kid crap like doorbell ditch, rock throwing, ball playing, dirt bike riding or basically anything neighborhood kids thought of. Great era to be a kid.
@@rockyroad7345 I think we had 'em, but no one labeled them. We had special schools, where those kids had to go. We weren't all mainstreamed like today. We also had two parent households, so these kids had extra help. Kids who now have labels, were called "bad kids", or "discipline problems" back in the day. They were the class clowns, who couldn't stay in their seats. They were the hoods and stoners in the alley behind the school. They were the bullies. No one had an IEP.
I'm a (late) Boomer, was a preteen/teen during the 70s, and all this applies to me as well. Used to tan on foil with a spray bottle of oil. Left the house after breakfast and didn't come back until dinner. We used to SLAM on our bike brakes and jump over them as they stopped. We were frickin' dangerous! And, we survived.
I am a kid of the 70’s and it was great. We were free to play, walk to the corner store for an Coke flavored Icee. We came in at supper and our parents didn’t know what we had been up too! But here we all are .It was sooo much better than today.
I'm a 70s kid I remember riding in the back of a pickup truck going 80 down the highway and waving at the cops we were passing,if my a ad did get pulled over the cops always gave out bubble gum and baseball cards hahahahaha
As a kid of the 70's I can remember my mom calling us all the supper or dinner if you are not from the south. She would come to the door and yell for us to come home. We could hear her four houses down. Funny
True! I grew up in the '70s (born in '65) and it was amazing! Of course, at the time it didn't feel amazing and I was just a kid, but looking back it was the best time of my life. The music (LPs, 45s, cassettes, 8 Tracks) movies, TV shows, comics, and even the food was great. The first video game I played was in 1974 when a family friend brought over the Atari system, which started my love for video games. Drive-in movies were still around and the first movie I watched at the drive-in was The Godfather. We used to run around barefoot outside, drink water from the garden hose, and swim in public fountains...and not one of us ever got sick! The only thing that was frightening at the time was the serial killers. The 70s were the era of the serial killer. And almost everyone I knew LOVED disco! Yes, people remember John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever, but he also starred in a TV show called Welcome Back Kotter and also put out a single record on 45 (his singing was so-so) called Ler her In. I'm sure you would have thrived in the '70s! For some reason, I can see you dancing away in Studio 54!!
I was born in 1954. No car seats. Mom just stretched her arm across me. In the 60s we played outside, drank out of the garden hose, you name it. The 70s were my late teens & 20s & I loved the 70s. Best time of my life !!
Born in 1954 as well. We did the same and when we sunbathed we didn't have suntan lotion we slapped coconut oil on our skin. Great times and we all survived. Jeanette, New Zealand.
That's my generation in the country and small town. We played with rocks, sticks. Made bow and arrows. Sh0 ea other with the BB g in and jumped off of rooves. Drank from the water hose. Fished in the creek. Jumped in from the trees and made ramps 10 ft high to play Evil Knievel. Drank and partied in the woods or down on the bridge and raided the country club and pool at night. And that's the nice things lol😮. Band aid? Huh? I remember those metal strap on skates and raggedy skate boards. Rabbit chasers and Paisley
Late boomer here. Pre-teen in the 70’s. Had the metal skates and she described them perfectly. We rode our bikes across town, just told our parents we’d be back later. Helmets to ride a bicycle wasn’t even heard of. Romper Room was a show on TV especially for kids. I forgot all about that. Miss Nancy would acted like she looked in a mirror and could see the kids. “I see Bobby, Billy, Cindy.” We hoped she would see us and call out our name. LoL, what a trip.
My dad had an old Plymouth Valiant with no seatbelts, and a hole in the floor of the back seat on the driver’s side. 😂 And I think younger people think we’re kidding about being locked out of the house until the streetlights came on, but that’s the absolute truth.
I'm a 70's kid. Born in 68. Romper Room was a televised Kindergarten classroom. At the end of each show the teacher Miss. Nancy would hold up a mirror frame and look in the camera and say the names of the kids that she could see at home.
100% true. Seat belts were not mandatory. We used to drive from Long Island where we lived to Florida where my grandparents lived in our station wagon. My brother and I used to fold the back seats down so it was completely flat in the back, and we would put our sleeping bags out and we had tonnes of room. We loved it.
I remember our first car that I remember riding in didn't have seat belts. So, my parents ordered a kid size set of seat belts that they had installed on the passenger seat. Before that I was riding around without a seat belt. Took mom awhile to stop putting her arm out even with the belt on me.
My family drove from PA across Canada to Detroit in the mid-60's, no seat belts and since I was the youngest I got to sit on the hump in the back seat.
I was born in 1962 . I've had😮 9 NDEs,18 concussions, fell from a 3 story building, went through the windshield...twice, and never broke a single bone.
Very proud Gen X. We grew up in a generation that made us tough. It was a time to hang out with friends, loving the outdoors, riding in the back of trucks, coconut oil tans and loving life.
Generation Jones refers to the second half of the baby boom. The first half of the baby boom entered the workforce during really prosperous times. The second half entered during the high inflation,high interest, high unemployment years of the mid 70s to mid 80s. So they struggled to "keep up with the Joneses".
Thank you for that explanation. I thought "Jones" was a reference to Jim Jones. I guess it could have been Shirley Jones and her Partridge Family. Keeping up with the Jones' was more of an 80's thing, wasn't it?
Generation Jones was born from 1954 to 1965. I was born in 1957, so I was a teenager/young adult during the 1970s. Karen Morgan nailed our experience. So much truth! So much wonderful freedom!
Oh, yes, me too. Loved the view back there, especially at night. That was back when the stars were still visible, remember? I also used to like to ride lying on my back on the floor in front of the front passenger seat, with my head up under the dashboard, my legs up on the seat, and the side vent open. Made me feel like an astronaut.
@brettv5967 never did that. Would over a pool or drop them from the roof to scare people. I am so happy I grew up when I did. Even without today's technology which is a giant reason kids today can't cope.
In the summer, I wasn't allowed to come in the house until dinner. The screen door was locked, and there was Kool-Aid, lays chips, and ham sandwiches on the porch.
Britt, thank you for this! I grew up in the 60's & 70's and Karen Morgan was spot on. My family lived in a village, about 3 blocks from a lake. Our only rules in the summer was that if we were going swimming, we had to tell an adult we were going (not necessarily your parent, any parent would do) you had to have a buddy with you and, of course, you had to come home when the street lights came on. We would leave our house early in the morning and not come back until evening. We rode bikes, climbed trees, drank from garden hoses, got dirty and then swam until our skin was wrinkled, etc., etc. I certainly have a full respect for the introduction of seat belts and other safety measures today, but there was something to be said for the freedom we had in those times. It allowed us to explore, be inquisitive and adventurous, and we learned how to be independent. Not everyone would approve or understand how we grew up, but I have the best memories and I wouldn't change it for the world.
I was born in '52, survived running all over the place alone, in the woods, through the pastures, all over town. No one ever worried about the girls not being safe. We drank water from the springs and creeks in the woods too. Had my son in '75 and he had one of those car seats that look like a carnival ride. Everything changed in the '80's. No computers, no phone that you have to drag everywhere, no internet, and we didn't need it.
A child of the 70s here. What a generation.there were no seatbelts and yes we were always in the front seat. I was by myself after school and before school at 6 years old.
I'm a late boomer too. I started driving the truck on the farm (age 9) at my summer job because I was too small to pick up the hay bales and throw them on the back of the truck. Just had to drive in a straight line, one of the big guys would turn it around to start the next row. All the cars had the bench seats in the front so I would sit in the middle of the back seat with my arms folded over the front seat so I could see out the wind shield.
Born in 64 For myself and three brothers the only child safety in our car was the back of Mom's hand, you could be in the back window and she could smack you without looking, while driving, and smoking a Pall Mall.😊 Those were the good old days.
Times were definitely different then than now. I'm 60 now, when I was raising my kids I went out of my way to push them to go explore. Now I wasn't crazy, but I wanted them to skin their knees every once in a while then brush themselves off and keep playing.
Gen Xer, born in "73, in the 80's we used to ride in the back of my dads pickup truck, lol. Singing the Beastie Boys Paul Revere going to my uncles camp, great times! Loved Romper Room! LMAO!
Born late 50s, grew up in the 60s, high school early/mid 70s. We were born and raised tougher, attempted "dangerous" stuff, wetent afraid of things, lived in great solid neighborhoods, and lived to be productive.
We used to have army battles at the end of the street. The dirt clods were our grenades. The only rule was that the clod could not have a rock in it. They also made a "snowball bat." It looked like a bat, but the fat end was cupped. You would pack the snow in the cup of the bat by tapping the bat into the snow. Once it was good and packed, you swung the bat, and the snowball would go flying. The only problem was that the snowball got really hard packed and would do serious damage to anything it hit. They quickly took it out of circulation.
I still have a scar on the side of my knee from a dirt clod that did have a rock. We played "chase" in the trees and leapt from limb to limb or climbed to the top and swung back and forth until you could reach out and grab the next tree. Our parents had a police whistle that they blew at dinner time. You had better be close enough to hear it, and you did NOT make them blow it more than twice (if you were going inside someone's house or going further afield you had their Mom call and report in where you were).
Born in 66 one of my first memories is standing in the back seat during a traffic accident and getting tossed thru the windshield and landing on the hood....good times:)
I was born in 64. This was quite a walk down memory lane. She forgot a few things though... metal tipped lawn darts (Jarts -we lost a lot of kids with those), Chemistry Kits (some with a blow torch, radioactive uranium core, iodine etc), Easy Bake Oven, Klakers (those really hurt) and lets not forget Super Slider Snow Skates. What a time to be alive! Annnndddd.... we didnt eat no Tide Pods!!!
Aw, you know we would have eaten those pods if we'd had them. Probably as a double dog dare. And Mom would have tanned our hides for doing it, since they're expensive!
Big Wheels were great. Go as fast as you could then pull that brake to do spinning power slides. It was sometimes in the mid to late 80s when they started chirping about seatbelts..
When I was little, my mom drove a 1968 Dodge Charger. I sat on the front bench seat between my mom and dad when I was too short to see over the dashboard. Mom's arm was my seat belt. She always had a cigarette lit and if it was winter, she didn't even crack the window. We didn't have health insurance because my dad was a coal miner, so when I needed stitches, Mom did it. When I went with my dad, I rode in the bed of the 1979 Ford F-150 with the dog. My lunch box definitely had rust. I once had my nose broken by a tetherball at recess. We owned and used lawn jarts. I have a scar on my chin from a heavy seesaw board when my friend jumped off and I hit that board with my face at 40 mph. And it was the best time to be a kid!
I was born in the early 60s. Seatbelts weren't used. I remember riding past a gas station where they used to tow cars that had been in accidents with holes in the windshields where the passenger's head went through. I knew because my mother would mention it anytime there was one parked there like that. There were no car seats. In 1983 when my daughter was born, she had a car seat because the law in my state had just been passed requiring car seats for children.
70's kid here, summers were great we woke up ate breakfast with the family, kissed mom on the cheek as we ran out the door mom saying lunch will be in the fridge and to be home for supper when the church bells rang 5 times. We had the whole day to ourselves and we would often go swimming in the irrigation pond a couple miles outside town no life guards or adults sometimes the older teens would be there and after supper we ran outside mom saying be in when the street lights come on and you could hear every mom saying this, great times. I'm 58 as of the past 18th and I wish I could do it all over again nothing changed. Wow wrote a whole page lol
Born in 72 and I'm just glad all my crazy childhood was not caught on camera like now. Lol. No seat belts, riding bikes till the street lights come on , and no seat belts
We had INREDIBLE EDIBLE MACHINES which were hot plate contraptions that cooked stuff you squeezed out of a tube (into an aluminum mold) that tasted like recycled bicycle tires and various toxic chemicals. We had POPPER-KNOCKERS/KLACKERS that were entertaining toys used to develop hand-to-eye coordination, annoy the hell out of adults within earshot, and also doubled as great weapons on the playground against bullies and aggressive dogs. Best of all, we had real LAWN DARTS, the kind with weighted metal spikes on the end. We had cap guns that fired rolled paper filled with gunpowder. And yes, sitting in the back seat of the family station wagon so you could wave continuously at the folks in the vehicle behind you -- even though they had already waved back at you -- was such a blast. Anyone ever ride lying down in the very back of the car with your cheek against the rear windshield because the glass was nice and cool? Yeah, we '70s kids had it made. All we needed was air in our bicycle tires, a baloney sandwich, and a bottle of "monkey blood" (Mercurachrome) for skinned knees and elbows. It was a special time and we were blessed to have been born when we were.
We rode in the back of a pick up truck bed sitting on the edge of the bed, on the highway to go to town for ice cream We survived, no seatbelts in the bed of a Pick Em Up Truck!!!😅😅😅😅glory days😂i😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤
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Born in 62. Everything she said was spot on. Playing outside till the streetlights came on and rushing home to get permission to play under the street lights in the middle of the road. Parents didn't care lol.
I was born in 1970. Elementary school in the 70s, junior and high school on the 80s, graduated from college in the early 90s. What were seat belts? Our Moms arm! We didn't know about real seat belts until until we were getting our drivers licenses in the 80s when we were getting our licenses when we were 16. We still rode on the back of pickup trucks and our parents' station wagons surg our legs hanging out of the back window! I miss those 20 hour trips from Pennsylvania to Florida to see my grandparents and go to DisneyWorld every year. We're all still alive and grandparents now! ❤️❤️ Our kids and grandchildren are treated like we were. Everyone is great!!! Please don't get blood on our new carpet, and it's only an issue if a bone is sticking out of your skin. Otherwise, we were always good, no matter the injury, a band aid would take care of it, and it did. We're doing great in our 50s, and you trust us with your children - our grandchildren! 🤪
I'm a 70s kid and absolutely loved it! Us kids were in the backseat without seat belts. We would play by running from one side to the other. If your parents needed to break in a hurry, we got thrown into front seat. Yes, those were the days. Loved every minute!
Born in 1965 as well, and this lady is batting a 1000. I've seen, heard and done almost everything she has said. And l'm proud to say kids are as tough as their allowed to be, you have to know what Hurt is to know your okay. Same way having nothing lets you know when you got it good.
She hit the nail on the head. My wife used baby oil and iodine and had sunbed on the roof. A seatbelt was my mother's arm when she slammed on the breaks on our pinto her arm was all the way across the seat .😮😂😂 . In the early 70s my dad would give me 2$ to go to stop n go to get him a pack of cigarettes a Budweiser and a quart of milk and I could keep the change for now n laters. I to was born in 65 the year of the wood Dragon but it changed to the year of the snake in late February. Just so happens we just went into the year of the wood Dragon.
In the 70s on a grade school play ground, they had a large steel pole with 2 swings on opposite sides attached to a cross pole at the top. They spun around. Little kids would sit in one while an older kid would put the other swing around their chest like a harness. Then they ran as fast as you could. The little kid would fly out super fast. It was a blast. UNTIL one time the older kid stopped suddenly. I swung all the way out and then straight back at the steel pole. To this day, I've never been hit as hard as I was that day.
I’m a 70s kid, today I rode my bike 82 miles, listened to the Ojays, my parents had a ford falcon, we were poor, we survived. It was tough, we had the cheese line, they delivered milk to our door. I suffer from depression, no giving up
Born '64. Didn't know they were called rompers stompers or I forgot, BUT... at 10 yrs old I had a girl at summer camp push me off them into a metal corner breaking my collarbone. Told my mother it was broken, she didn't believe me. Had to keep pushing back into place myself. Can still see where it was broken
When I was 12 in 1979, it took me 48 hours to convince my parents I had a broken arm. I went to school 2 days with a broken arm, they didn't even notice......and I told them.
I'm an “OG” Gen Xer, born in 65. Seat belts were never used, we used to ride around town standing up in the back of a pickup or sitting swinging our legs back and forth on a tailgate going down the road. My dad gave me my first rifle when I was 5, nobody died, he taught me to ride my first motorcycle when I was seven, in a pasture surrounded by 5 strands of barbed wire. I hit a fence post once and cried, he picked me up, put me back on the motorcycle and said you'll be ok but we're not going back to the house until you can ride this thing, and he wasn't lying. I'm still here. 😁
The speed limit was 75 mph in the 70s before the 'energy crisis' and Jimmy Carter instituted the 55 mph speed limit. People freakin flew. I remember as a kid when our car got a flat on the New Jersey Turnpike circa 1970s, it was terrifying. Sure people drive 70 now, but that was below the speed limit then.
Born '71 and YES! Its a different world now. We raised ourselves and figured it out or got killed off lol! GenX is who will get you kids through the apocolypse. We already lived it! We know analog and digital. When your digital crap gets fried, we are hear to teach you old school.
Yes, the car seats for kids in the 70s were pretty scary by comparison to today’s. They were like a little chair sitting on the seat with a cheesy little seat belt and a metal or padded bar in front. Didn’t matter if it was too big for the child. 😂😂
I was boomer (born 1959) in the 70s, and graduated high school in 1977. Everything you are saying is correct. It was a great time...We also had fantastic music.
My first 120 mph ride in a car was with my dad, knees on the front seat, fingers pressed against the window, watching the world blur by. I was 5 and loved every second of it. My dad says to me "don't tell mom", it wouldn't be the last time I would hear it.
Definitely true. I was born in '67,and remember sitting on my mothers lap in the front seat of the Vista Cruiser. When I got older it became a free for all in the back if the station wagon with my two older brothers. Great times
Romper Room was a TV show about young school children and a teacher. When she got pregnant, she was fired from the show. This was fuel for the Women's Rights movement of the 70's. Even the real roller-skates, with the built-on shoes had metal wheels. There was a key wrench, called a key, for adjusting the skates. Folk artist Melanie had a song called Brand New Key about having a roller skate key.
I also am from the 70's. Was just telling a friend, the we did not have computers or cell phones in our formative years, but when they came we were not too old to adapt to them, so it was kind of like the best of two worlds.
From 1979 to 1986, my mother drove a Datsun B-210 station wagon. The back seats folded down flat so you'd have more room in the hatchback trunk to put stuff. Nearly every summer the family would drive that car from either Kansas or Oklahoma to visit family in Michigan and/or Florida. My younger brother and I would pack a small box of toys (mainly Star Wars action figures and stuff) and play in the back of the Datsun (now known as Nissan) station wagon the whole trip. No seatbelts. No nothing. Even with the seats up, we didn't wear seatbelts. Not until they started passing laws in the mid/late '80s. My family loved their Datsun B-210s. Before the wagon, we had a brown sedan, and my grandmother had a lemon yellow one. She got into more accidents with that thing. I was in the last one. A minor fender-bender, but I was just shy of 5 and had fallen asleep in the back of my grandmother's car. I woke up in the footwell between the front and back seats, being told to get out of the car because someone had backed their truck into her car. I had rolled into the footwell and didn't wake up until the guy started waking me up and pulling me out from between the seats. That was 1977. On a weekend, or during the summer, on a clear day with no rain, we would leave the house after breakfast and not come back home for HOURS. Usually for a quick lunch and then disappear again until sundown.
I'm a bit older than your mom and I had stitches in my head 3 times when I was a kid. Dislocated my elbow when I fell off a fence, impaled a branch in my leg when I slipped climbing over a log, fell out of the car on the way to school one morning and much more. I had a stay at home mom too. She was the best.
We can adapt...and we don not fail...we may may not be perfect...but fail by choice never. And we do not give up. And we do not take shit when we do not want to. We work hard because we want the best for us and our family.
I was born in 1967 and grew up in the 70s I loved it we were tuff kids back then !! And we had a station wagon that had a back facing set !! Rompers Room was a shop for kids and had metal roller skates with staps we just tuff !!!
I remember breaking my arm, and for a week, my dad would tell me to shake it off. His favorite saying when we got hurt. Finally, my mom made him take me to the doctor. That was just the 70's.
I was a teen of the 60's. No seat belts (let alone shoulder straps). My second car, as an adult, had seat belts. This was during the brief era when it tried to figure out whether you had fastened the belt after you sat down, and if not, the car wouldn't start. Sometimes it couldn't be convinced. I was an electrical engineer, so I figure out how to bypass that real fast. Those roller skates used a thing called a skate key to adjust the width between the two clamps that grabbed the front of your shoe sole. (That way you could keep using the same skates with the new shoes when your foot grew. This also leads to the Melanie song "Brand New Key", 1971.) No elbow pads. No knee pads. Concrete sidewalks and asphalt streets were out skate parks. Yeah, I'm fine, thanks for asking. Romper Room was a little after my time. It was at the beginning of kiddie TV becoming "less violent" and more "educational". Give me Loony Toons, Captain Kangaroo, and Popeye on weekdays, and Sky King, Cisco Kid, Roy Rogers, Andy's Gang, and maybe Flash Gordon, Boston Blackie, or National Velvet on Saturdays. Sunday nights had Disney
Speaking as a Boomer, only two years removed from GenX (born in 1963), I can tell you that, to us, the world we live in right now, is like the upside down world. A clown world. It makes zero sense to us and not only do we not relate to it, we don't WANT to relate to it. We were and are to this day, warriors.
Amen, and couldn't have said it any better myself!👏😉 (Born in '59)
I was born in 63 to in San Diego California and we had the metal wheel and then clay wheeled skateboards. We definitely identify better with GenX as we where getting thrashed everyday. She forgot one of the best ones, flying off the merry-go-round spinning so fast!
Those years (1955-1965) are no longer considered boomer. It is now known as Generation Jones.
@@ronalddobis6782 I'll stick with Boomer. Generation Jone sounds absolutely stupid to me.
You are my baby sister's age. She was born two weeks after President Kennedy was assassinated.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s and wouldn't change a thing. We're one of the luckiest generations to ever walk the planet.
Gen Jones all the way!
Get up and try again
Have a nice fall? See you next spring.
@@SadPuppySoup I mean it helped some, but as an adult approaching "retirement", things are pretty rotten here in 2024. I am certainly not feeling very lucky.
I was a little kid the entire 70s. Fun stuff.
We probably have the best immune system out there because of all the crap we used to do.
True story! I never even got C*V*D.
@@lauraclark427 Nope!
That 5 second rule about food? 5 day you mean😅
That's no lie lol
We lived outdoors all the time socking up all that vitamin D and all the physical activity made us so strong that we would destroy the kids nowadays. Plus girls back then didn't have all the hormones and chemical nowadays that accelerate their physical maturity so they were more active longer in life and in better health.
Born 1960. We rode our bikes with nothing on us for protection.
Drank out of a garden hose.
Climbed trees.
Rode in the bed of pickup trucks.
Played outside & used our imagination s. All of us at one time had a rock fight with other kids.
Didn't have seatbelts until late 70s.
Played with toys made out of metal.
Lawn darts,
swingsets,
School play grounds. Anyone remember pump swings?
We lived through it all.
Me too! I went out right after breakfast, came back for lunch and dinner but stayed out until the street lights came on. Then we played man hunt in our yards. This was summertime, but even during the school year we were active, always outside, even in the winter!
Don't forget Clackers.
I rode in the back of a covered pickup truck 40 minutes to a racetrack in Callaway, Virginia. The fumes were like a natural child care service
Oh, my goodness you guys taking me back to my childhood with all this reminiscing of the 70's. I was born in 66'. Remember DC & Marvel Comics, action figures, six-million-dollar man, bionic woman, big Jim and big Jack, Gumby & Pokey, DC comic figures, planet of the ape's figures, Muhammad Ali figure, Evil Knievel stunt cycle. board games, skates, skateboards, kites, yo-yo's, darts, super ball, pogo sticks, ping pong, homemade slingshots, cap guns, bb-guns, hide & go seek, last tag, Saturday morning cartoons, while eating cold cereal, tang, pop-tarts, Nestle chocolate/strawberry powdered milk, sizzlean etc. Huffy and Schwin dirt bikes, putting baseball cards in the spokes. For emergencies or colds, a kiss on the boo-boo, alcohol, turpentine, Pepto-Bismol, band-aids, witch-hazel, iodine, calamine lotion, flintstone's vitamins, phisoderm, cod liver oil, castor oil, etc., RV'S, and station wagons, VW's, Pintos, 240Z Datsun, Porsche. Who had their own Lemonade stand? So much fun. 😃👍
@@ericechols6056 I spent a whole year chomping at the bit for that damn Evil Knievel stunt bike. i was one happy kid on Christmas morning. And then in 1976 we got some red white and blue Firecracker bi centennial bikes. You talking about being the envy of the neighborhood, well the envy of the street, we lived in a very rural area, no neighborhoods there, just cow pastures.
Born in 1963. Lived all she spoke about. No seatbelts. We had to sit on the hump in the floor, over the transmission. The elementary school monkey bars were steel and 5 ft up. good luck when you fell. wood burning kits, lawn jarts, red rider BB guns. My dads favorite quote was "that's nothin!" And you got on your bike and went wherever the adventure was for the day, as long as you were home for dinner.
Born in 59. My mom put baby oil on us for sun tan lotion!!!🤣🤣😂😂
For sure! : ) Good times!
I had a friend that seemed to always have a broken leg or arm from falling on the monkey bars.
1969. Rode on that drive shaft hump. Slept in the back window speaker deck. Stood between the front bench seat when you could fold down the arm rest.
Proud Gen Xer here...born '71. Was never in a car seat or any similar contraption. I remember sitting on my dad's lap when he was driving so I could "drive" too!
I sat IN the steering wheel of my dads semi-truck while he drove down the interstate, it was a cab over (flat front) and I would watch the highway disappear under the truck, good memories
hell ya bruther! Oct here.
My parents always made us do the shifting and if you don't know what shifting is you're not a genXer.
@@amydameron3928 That actually taught us to drive a manual without us knowing. I learned a lot that way
That was so fun riding on my dad's lap we really thought we where driving loved it 1972 baby here
Gen Xer here. Car seats? What were those? We were in an adult's lap or on our own. Mom's arm was the only safety feature in cars. We are a strong bunch. Amazing we made it to adulthood. They even had commercials to remind our parents they had kids, "It's 10pm, do you know where your children are?" But what great times! We got to grow up unsupervised with no social media to capture it. Those were the days!
So happy that there was no social media then to capture me and my friends "adventures" 😂😂😂
OMG! I remember those 10pm commericials!
I don't remember any car seats either 😂
I laugh at the arm comment. Born in 68, I still remember that and amazingly, I still used it when my son got older even when he was in his seat belt or car seat...
Yes, Britt. We are totally OK. We are immune to everything, we ignore pain and BS. Just kick us out of the house in the morning, and we will drink water from the hose and entertain ourselves until the street lights come on. Then we’ll come in for dinner from a freezer meal and eat it from a tray in front of the TV, which we will get up and down to change the channel for, because there is no remote. 😂
I was the remote and antenna Turner
That was my fun filled 60's and 70's life. Summertime wake-up, eat breakfast, go outside and play. Come in for an hour or so to eat something and go back outside and play with friends. Get yelled at if you came in and out of the house too much. School days, come home eat a snack and go outside until dinner, do homework and go to bed. Outside many fight, stumbles, bad kid crap like doorbell ditch, rock throwing, ball playing, dirt bike riding or basically anything neighborhood kids thought of. Great era to be a kid.
@@derekm4819 You just described my childhood. Were you in Albuquerque, NM too? lmao.
@@rickwelch8464 That was common kid life in Oakland CA and the other Bay Area cities in the 60's and 70's.
LOL! Yup!
I’m a kid of the ‘70s. And would not have it any other way. OK, the ‘60s were cool too.
None of us were allergic to nuts, lactose, gluten etc.
Exactly. And we were no sissified! Best era to grow up in!!!!!
Nobody had ADHD, bipolar or other "disorders".
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@@rockyroad7345 I think we had 'em, but no one labeled them. We had special schools, where those kids had to go. We weren't all mainstreamed like today. We also had two parent households, so these kids had extra help. Kids who now have labels, were called "bad kids", or "discipline problems" back in the day. They were the class clowns, who couldn't stay in their seats. They were the hoods and stoners in the alley behind the school. They were the bullies. No one had an IEP.
What are these Car Seats, and Bike Helmets she speaks of.
I'm a (late) Boomer, was a preteen/teen during the 70s, and all this applies to me as well. Used to tan on foil with a spray bottle of oil. Left the house after breakfast and didn't come back until dinner. We used to SLAM on our bike brakes and jump over them as they stopped. We were frickin' dangerous! And, we survived.
I think we're supposed to be Gen Jones. I dunno, Gen X feels like me.
We're dangerous people haha 😜🤘
I swear Evil Kenevil stole some of his stunt ideas from my friends and I, lol.
Gen X are the survivors of Gen X--the weak didn't make it.
I am a kid of the 70’s and it was great. We were free to play, walk to the corner store for an Coke flavored Icee. We came in at supper and our parents didn’t know what we had been up too! But here we all are .It was sooo much better than today.
Icees were so good! 😋
We got to learn by doing.
Of course it was better, we were kids. That kids don't get to do that now is our fault because we're their parents.
I'm a 70s kid I remember riding in the back of a pickup truck going 80 down the highway and waving at the cops we were passing,if my a ad did get pulled over the cops always gave out bubble gum and baseball cards hahahahaha
Riding in the back of the pick up making sure dad's beer cooler didn't slide around!
I'm a 70s kid. She's absolutely right.
Same here! I was born in 1967, the second year of GenX.
Same except dad cracked open a beer before we got going!
As a kid of the 70's I can remember my mom calling us all the supper or dinner if you are not from the south. She would come to the door and yell for us to come home. We could hear her four houses down. Funny
True! I grew up in the '70s (born in '65) and it was amazing! Of course, at the time it didn't feel amazing and I was just a kid, but looking back it was the best time of my life. The music (LPs, 45s, cassettes, 8 Tracks) movies, TV shows, comics, and even the food was great. The first video game I played was in 1974 when a family friend brought over the Atari system, which started my love for video games. Drive-in movies were still around and the first movie I watched at the drive-in was The Godfather. We used to run around barefoot outside, drink water from the garden hose, and swim in public fountains...and not one of us ever got sick! The only thing that was frightening at the time was the serial killers. The 70s were the era of the serial killer. And almost everyone I knew LOVED disco! Yes, people remember John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever, but he also starred in a TV show called Welcome Back Kotter and also put out a single record on 45 (his singing was so-so) called Ler her In. I'm sure you would have thrived in the '70s! For some reason, I can see you dancing away in Studio 54!!
Serial Killer-Son of Sam in NYC was close to me. Scary stuff!
I was born in 1954. No car seats. Mom just stretched her arm across me. In the 60s we played outside, drank out of the garden hose, you name it. The 70s were my late teens & 20s & I loved the 70s. Best time of my life !!
Born in 1954 as well. We did the same and when we sunbathed we didn't have suntan lotion we slapped coconut oil on our skin. Great times and we all survived. Jeanette, New Zealand.
My yrs too.. born in 53
I graduated in 1973, best time to be alive from clothes, cars,and music and even disco lol.
1972 Graduate ✌️
@@debbywilkins2239 71 here
I'm proud to be a child of the Late60's and 70's!!!! NO BETTER time to grow up in!!!! Wish I could go back to them!!!!
That's my generation in the country and small town. We played with rocks, sticks. Made bow and arrows. Sh0 ea other with the BB g in and jumped off of rooves. Drank from the water hose. Fished in the creek. Jumped in from the trees and made ramps 10 ft high to play Evil Knievel. Drank and partied in the woods or down on the bridge and raided the country club and pool at night. And that's the nice things lol😮. Band aid? Huh? I remember those metal strap on skates and raggedy skate boards. Rabbit chasers and Paisley
Late boomer here. Pre-teen in the 70’s. Had the metal skates and she described them perfectly. We rode our bikes across town, just told our parents we’d be back later. Helmets to ride a bicycle wasn’t even heard of. Romper Room was a show on TV especially for kids. I forgot all about that. Miss Nancy would acted like she looked in a mirror and could see the kids. “I see Bobby, Billy, Cindy.” We hoped she would see us and call out our name. LoL, what a trip.
Helmets were for babies or sissies.
As a proud Gen x’r. She nailed it.
My dad had an old Plymouth Valiant with no seatbelts, and a hole in the floor of the back seat on the driver’s side. 😂 And I think younger people think we’re kidding about being locked out of the house until the streetlights came on, but that’s the absolute truth.
I'm a 70's kid. Born in 68. Romper Room was a televised Kindergarten classroom. At the end of each show the teacher Miss. Nancy would hold up a mirror frame and look in the camera and say the names of the kids that she could see at home.
She never said my name. 😢
"Romper bomper stomper boo....I see billy and kelly and mary and...." hahahaha
She never said my name either!
100% true. Seat belts were not mandatory. We used to drive from Long Island where we lived to Florida where my grandparents lived in our station wagon. My brother and I used to fold the back seats down so it was completely flat in the back, and we would put our sleeping bags out and we had tonnes of room. We loved it.
I remember our first car that I remember riding in didn't have seat belts. So, my parents ordered a kid size set of seat belts that they had installed on the passenger seat. Before that I was riding around without a seat belt. Took mom awhile to stop putting her arm out even with the belt on me.
My family drove from PA across Canada to Detroit in the mid-60's, no seat belts and since I was the youngest I got to sit on the hump in the back seat.
Those were the days! I'm a 70's kids! It was the best time ever! The best music came from the 70's too!
I was born in 1962 . I've had😮 9 NDEs,18 concussions, fell from a 3 story building, went through the windshield...twice, and never broke a single bone.
Very proud Gen X. We grew up in a generation that made us tough. It was a time to hang out with friends, loving the outdoors, riding in the back of trucks, coconut oil tans and loving life.
Generation Jones refers to the second half of the baby boom. The first half of the baby boom entered the workforce during really prosperous times. The second half entered during the high inflation,high interest, high unemployment years of the mid 70s to mid 80s. So they struggled to "keep up with the Joneses".
Thank you for that explanation. I thought "Jones" was a reference to Jim Jones. I guess it could have been Shirley Jones and her Partridge Family. Keeping up with the Jones' was more of an 80's thing, wasn't it?
@@cariwaldick4898Yes it was. And I unfortunately, was part of that sad situation.
70's Free range kid , Born in 64. Parents didn't much care what we did as long as we didn't do it in the house.
Free range! LMAO 😂
Ha! Free range! Perfect term! 😂
This brings back so many memories!!! She is right on!!!!
Generation Jones was born from 1954 to 1965. I was born in 1957, so I was a teenager/young adult during the 1970s.
Karen Morgan nailed our experience. So much truth! So much wonderful freedom!
I was born in 65, the 70s had 1 child safety law. If your child dies you might be arrested.....free range kids are tough
When I was a kid, in the 60's, I'd ride in the back window.
Amen !
Oh, yes, me too. Loved the view back there, especially at night. That was back when the stars were still visible, remember? I also used to like to ride lying on my back on the floor in front of the front passenger seat, with my head up under the dashboard, my legs up on the seat, and the side vent open. Made me feel like an astronaut.
I loved sleeping in the back window on long road trips! Good times. :)
Being born in 66 and growing up in the 70s. I agree 100% and have been through all of that plus lawn darts.
Yes. Let’s talk about some lawn darts. We used to try throwing them over the roof of the house between the front and back yard
@brettv5967 never did that. Would over a pool or drop them from the roof to scare people. I am so happy I grew up when I did. Even without today's technology which is a giant reason kids today can't cope.
In the summer, I wasn't allowed to come in the house until dinner. The screen door was locked, and there was Kool-Aid, lays chips, and ham sandwiches on the porch.
Britt, thank you for this! I grew up in the 60's & 70's and Karen Morgan was spot on. My family lived in a village, about 3 blocks from a lake. Our only rules in the summer was that if we were going swimming, we had to tell an adult we were going (not necessarily your parent, any parent would do) you had to have a buddy with you and, of course, you had to come home when the street lights came on. We would leave our house early in the morning and not come back until evening. We rode bikes, climbed trees, drank from garden hoses, got dirty and then swam until our skin was wrinkled, etc., etc. I certainly have a full respect for the introduction of seat belts and other safety measures today, but there was something to be said for the freedom we had in those times. It allowed us to explore, be inquisitive and adventurous, and we learned how to be independent. Not everyone would approve or understand how we grew up, but I have the best memories and I wouldn't change it for the world.
I'm an Australian 70s kid. Not only is everything she said is true but we also had to survive our animals too.
I was born in '52, survived running all over the place alone, in the woods, through the pastures, all over town. No one ever worried about the girls not being safe. We drank water from the springs and creeks in the woods too. Had my son in '75 and he had one of those car seats that look like a carnival ride. Everything changed in the '80's. No computers, no phone that you have to drag everywhere, no internet, and we didn't need it.
Born in 53 kid of the 60s teen of the 70s had the best of it all
I was born in 55, teenager of the 70’s. My son swears he is surprised he survived growing up!! No seat belt, no helmets, no life vests, on and on! Lol
A child of the 70s here. What a generation.there were no seatbelts and yes we were always in the front seat. I was by myself after school and before school at 6 years old.
I'm a late boomer too. I started driving the truck on the farm (age 9) at my summer job because I was too small to pick up the hay bales and throw them on the back of the truck. Just had to drive in a straight line, one of the big guys would turn it around to start the next row. All the cars had the bench seats in the front so I would sit in the middle of the back seat with my arms folded over the front seat so I could see out the wind shield.
Born in 64
For myself and three brothers the only child safety in our car was the back of Mom's hand, you could be in the back window and she could smack you without looking, while driving, and smoking a Pall Mall.😊 Those were the good old days.
Times were definitely different then than now. I'm 60 now, when I was raising my kids I went out of my way to push them to go explore. Now I wasn't crazy, but I wanted them to skin their knees every once in a while then brush themselves off and keep playing.
I'm a boomer and the 60's and 70's were incredible. Would not change a thing.
Born in 64, survived so far.
Gen Xer, born in "73, in the 80's we used to ride in the back of my dads pickup truck, lol. Singing the Beastie Boys Paul Revere going to my uncles camp, great times! Loved Romper Room! LMAO!
Born in 73 2. Proud Gen X! Our music and TV was so much fun better. This was so right on and funny
As a Gen-Der, she is absolutely correct 😁
Also there was no car or child safety, we stood in the boot...
It was survival of the fittest
Born late 50s, grew up in the 60s, high school early/mid 70s. We were born and raised tougher, attempted "dangerous" stuff, wetent afraid of things, lived in great solid neighborhoods, and lived to be productive.
We used to have army battles at the end of the street. The dirt clods were our grenades. The only rule was that the clod could not have a rock in it. They also made a "snowball bat." It looked like a bat, but the fat end was cupped. You would pack the snow in the cup of the bat by tapping the bat into the snow. Once it was good and packed, you swung the bat, and the snowball would go flying. The only problem was that the snowball got really hard packed and would do serious damage to anything it hit. They quickly took it out of circulation.
I still have a scar on the side of my knee from a dirt clod that did have a rock. We played "chase" in the trees and leapt from limb to limb or climbed to the top and swung back and forth until you could reach out and grab the next tree. Our parents had a police whistle that they blew at dinner time. You had better be close enough to hear it, and you did NOT make them blow it more than twice (if you were going inside someone's house or going further afield you had their Mom call and report in where you were).
We used to have army battles in a granite rock quarry behind our neighborhood. Granite rock is hard lol.
Born in 66 one of my first memories is standing in the back seat during a traffic accident and getting tossed thru the windshield and landing on the hood....good times:)
I was born in 64. This was quite a walk down memory lane. She forgot a few things though... metal tipped lawn darts (Jarts -we lost a lot of kids with those), Chemistry Kits (some with a blow torch, radioactive uranium core, iodine etc), Easy Bake Oven, Klakers (those really hurt) and lets not forget Super Slider Snow Skates. What a time to be alive! Annnndddd.... we didnt eat no Tide Pods!!!
Aw, you know we would have eaten those pods if we'd had them. Probably as a double dog dare. And Mom would have tanned our hides for doing it, since they're expensive!
Big Wheels were great. Go as fast as you could then pull that brake to do spinning power slides. It was sometimes in the mid to late 80s when they started chirping about seatbelts..
When I was little, my mom drove a 1968 Dodge Charger. I sat on the front bench seat between my mom and dad when I was too short to see over the dashboard. Mom's arm was my seat belt. She always had a cigarette lit and if it was winter, she didn't even crack the window. We didn't have health insurance because my dad was a coal miner, so when I needed stitches, Mom did it. When I went with my dad, I rode in the bed of the 1979 Ford F-150 with the dog. My lunch box definitely had rust. I once had my nose broken by a tetherball at recess. We owned and used lawn jarts. I have a scar on my chin from a heavy seesaw board when my friend jumped off and I hit that board with my face at 40 mph. And it was the best time to be a kid!
I was born in ‘69 and I never even saw any kind of child safety seats or anything. Anywhere. Not until I was probably in middle school.
I was born in the early 60s. Seatbelts weren't used. I remember riding past a gas station where they used to tow cars that had been in accidents with holes in the windshields where the passenger's head went through. I knew because my mother would mention it anytime there was one parked there like that. There were no car seats. In 1983 when my daughter was born, she had a car seat because the law in my state had just been passed requiring car seats for children.
70's kid here, summers were great we woke up ate breakfast with the family, kissed mom on the cheek as we ran out the door mom saying lunch will be in the fridge and to be home for supper when the church bells rang 5 times. We had the whole day to ourselves and we would often go swimming in the irrigation pond a couple miles outside town no life guards or adults sometimes the older teens would be there and after supper we ran outside mom saying be in when the street lights come on and you could hear every mom saying this, great times. I'm 58 as of the past 18th and I wish I could do it all over again nothing changed. Wow wrote a whole page lol
Born in 72 and I'm just glad all my crazy childhood was not caught on camera like now. Lol. No seat belts, riding bikes till the street lights come on , and no seat belts
We had INREDIBLE EDIBLE MACHINES which were hot plate contraptions that cooked stuff you squeezed out of a tube (into an aluminum mold) that tasted like recycled bicycle tires and various toxic chemicals. We had POPPER-KNOCKERS/KLACKERS that were entertaining toys used to develop hand-to-eye coordination, annoy the hell out of adults within earshot, and also doubled as great weapons on the playground against bullies and aggressive dogs. Best of all, we had real LAWN DARTS, the kind with weighted metal spikes on the end. We had cap guns that fired rolled paper filled with gunpowder. And yes, sitting in the back seat of the family station wagon so you could wave continuously at the folks in the vehicle behind you -- even though they had already waved back at you -- was such a blast. Anyone ever ride lying down in the very back of the car with your cheek against the rear windshield because the glass was nice and cool? Yeah, we '70s kids had it made. All we needed was air in our bicycle tires, a baloney sandwich, and a bottle of "monkey blood" (Mercurachrome) for skinned knees and elbows. It was a special time and we were blessed to have been born when we were.
We rode in the back of a pick up truck bed sitting on the edge of the bed, on the highway to go to town for ice cream We survived, no seatbelts in the bed of a Pick Em Up Truck!!!😅😅😅😅glory days😂i😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤
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1969 here. 😊 We didn’t have car seats and rarely wore seat belts. We put our heads out the windows to feel the wind sometimes!
All us teens from the village used to go to concerts with 15 people in the back of a transit van
We would load up about 20 of us in my brother’s van and head to the drive in movies.
Born in 62. Everything she said was spot on. Playing outside till the streetlights came on and rushing home to get permission to play under the street lights in the middle of the road. Parents didn't care lol.
I was born in 1970. Elementary school in the 70s, junior and high school on the 80s, graduated from college in the early 90s.
What were seat belts? Our Moms arm! We didn't know about real seat belts until until we were getting our drivers licenses in the 80s when we were getting our licenses when we were 16.
We still rode on the back of pickup trucks and our parents' station wagons surg our legs hanging out of the back window!
I miss those 20 hour trips from Pennsylvania to Florida to see my grandparents and go to DisneyWorld every year.
We're all still alive and grandparents now! ❤️❤️ Our kids and grandchildren are treated like we were. Everyone is great!!!
Please don't get blood on our new carpet, and it's only an issue if a bone is sticking out of your skin. Otherwise, we were always good, no matter the injury, a band aid would take care of it, and it did.
We're doing great in our 50s, and you trust us with your children - our grandchildren! 🤪
I'm a 70s kid and absolutely loved it! Us kids were in the backseat without seat belts. We would play by running from one side to the other. If your parents needed to break in a hurry, we got thrown into front seat. Yes, those were the days. Loved every minute!
I'm a Boomer and we TAUGHT GEN X how to be like that !!
By leaving us unsupervised. 😅
Born in 1965 as well, and this lady is batting a 1000. I've seen, heard and done almost everything she has said. And l'm proud to say kids are as tough as their allowed to be, you have to know what Hurt is to know your okay. Same way having nothing lets you know when you got it good.
She hit the nail on the head. My wife used baby oil and iodine and had sunbed on the roof. A seatbelt was my mother's arm when she slammed on the breaks on our pinto her arm was all the way across the seat .😮😂😂 . In the early 70s my dad would give me 2$ to go to stop n go to get him a pack of cigarettes a Budweiser and a quart of milk and I could keep the change for now n laters. I to was born in 65 the year of the wood Dragon but it changed to the year of the snake in late February. Just so happens we just went into the year of the wood Dragon.
In the 70s on a grade school play ground, they had a large steel pole with 2 swings on opposite sides attached to a cross pole at the top. They spun around. Little kids would sit in one while an older kid would put the other swing around their chest like a harness. Then they ran as fast as you could. The little kid would fly out super fast. It was a blast. UNTIL one time the older kid stopped suddenly. I swung all the way out and then straight back at the steel pole. To this day, I've never been hit as hard as I was that day.
We use to throw our pet rocks at each other 😂..
Rode our bikes 🚲 with out helmets.... ✌️🤠
I’m a 70s kid, today I rode my bike 82 miles, listened to the Ojays, my parents had a ford falcon, we were poor, we survived. It was tough, we had the cheese line, they delivered milk to our door. I suffer from depression, no giving up
Our folks had a baby blue Ford falcon.
Born '64. Didn't know they were called rompers stompers or I forgot, BUT... at 10 yrs old I had a girl at summer camp push me off them into a metal corner breaking my collarbone. Told my mother it was broken, she didn't believe me. Had to keep pushing back into place myself. Can still see where it was broken
When I was 12 in 1979, it took me 48 hours to convince my parents I had a broken arm. I went to school 2 days with a broken arm, they didn't even notice......and I told them.
70s kid here, we just used common sense. romper room was a show for little kids
oh, you used common sense, why didnt i think of that?
Because you are too busy eating Tide Pods
I'm an “OG” Gen Xer, born in 65. Seat belts were never used, we used to ride around town standing up in the back of a pickup or sitting swinging our legs back and forth on a tailgate going down the road. My dad gave me my first rifle when I was 5, nobody died, he taught me to ride my first motorcycle when I was seven, in a pasture surrounded by 5 strands of barbed wire. I hit a fence post once and cried, he picked me up, put me back on the motorcycle and said you'll be ok but we're not going back to the house until you can ride this thing, and he wasn't lying. I'm still here. 😁
The speed limit was 75 mph in the 70s before the 'energy crisis' and Jimmy Carter instituted the 55 mph speed limit. People freakin flew. I remember as a kid when our car got a flat on the New Jersey Turnpike circa 1970s, it was terrifying. Sure people drive 70 now, but that was below the speed limit then.
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Born '71 and YES! Its a different world now. We raised ourselves and figured it out or got killed off lol! GenX is who will get you kids through the apocolypse. We already lived it! We know analog and digital. When your digital crap gets fried, we are hear to teach you old school.
Born in 68…here we’re all just fine the 70s was great freedom like you would never imagion today
Yes, the car seats for kids in the 70s were pretty scary by comparison to today’s. They were like a little chair sitting on the seat with a cheesy little seat belt and a metal or padded bar in front. Didn’t matter if it was too big for the child. 😂😂
I was boomer (born 1959) in the 70s, and graduated high school in 1977.
Everything you are saying is correct. It was a great time...We also had fantastic music.
I'm 65 and I still let my dog lick my cuts . LOL . Jim H. .
My first 120 mph ride in a car was with my dad, knees on the front seat, fingers pressed against the window, watching the world blur by. I was 5 and loved every second of it. My dad says to me "don't tell mom", it wouldn't be the last time I would hear it.
Oh my gosh, i love this!! The memories. I'm 65. And remember and lived through all of those things! 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤
Definitely true. I was born in '67,and remember sitting on my mothers lap in the front seat of the Vista Cruiser. When I got older it became a free for all in the back if the station wagon with my two older brothers. Great times
Romper Room was a TV show about young school children and a teacher. When she got pregnant, she was fired from the show. This was fuel for the Women's Rights movement of the 70's. Even the real roller-skates, with the built-on shoes had metal wheels. There was a key wrench, called a key, for adjusting the skates. Folk artist Melanie had a song called Brand New Key about having a roller skate key.
I also am from the 70's. Was just telling a friend, the we did not have computers or cell phones in our formative years, but when they came we were not too old to adapt to them, so it was kind of like the best of two worlds.
From 1979 to 1986, my mother drove a Datsun B-210 station wagon. The back seats folded down flat so you'd have more room in the hatchback trunk to put stuff. Nearly every summer the family would drive that car from either Kansas or Oklahoma to visit family in Michigan and/or Florida. My younger brother and I would pack a small box of toys (mainly Star Wars action figures and stuff) and play in the back of the Datsun (now known as Nissan) station wagon the whole trip. No seatbelts. No nothing.
Even with the seats up, we didn't wear seatbelts. Not until they started passing laws in the mid/late '80s. My family loved their Datsun B-210s. Before the wagon, we had a brown sedan, and my grandmother had a lemon yellow one. She got into more accidents with that thing. I was in the last one. A minor fender-bender, but I was just shy of 5 and had fallen asleep in the back of my grandmother's car. I woke up in the footwell between the front and back seats, being told to get out of the car because someone had backed their truck into her car. I had rolled into the footwell and didn't wake up until the guy started waking me up and pulling me out from between the seats. That was 1977.
On a weekend, or during the summer, on a clear day with no rain, we would leave the house after breakfast and not come back home for HOURS. Usually for a quick lunch and then disappear again until sundown.
We rode in the back of pickup trucks sitting on the edge of the bed. 😂 Born in 63! I miss the 70s.
I'm a bit older than your mom and I had stitches in my head 3 times when I was a kid. Dislocated my elbow when I fell off a fence, impaled a branch in my leg when I slipped climbing over a log, fell out of the car on the way to school one morning and much more. I had a stay at home mom too. She was the best.
We can adapt...and we don not fail...we may may not be perfect...but fail by choice never. And we do not give up. And we do not take shit when we do not want to. We work hard because we want the best for us and our family.
I've been watching her for over a year now. She is HILARIOUS!!!!! So many clips of her. The rabbit hole would go deep with her!!!!
Was born in the 60 and the 70s were exactly like she says and I miss it
I was born in 1967 and grew up in the 70s I loved it we were tuff kids back then !! And we had a station wagon that had a back facing set !! Rompers Room was a shop for kids and had metal roller skates with staps we just tuff !!!
i remember being in the 'way back' of our station wagon in the 60s.
Born in 1963, Loved my childhood. Used to drive 2 plus hours to Cape Cod Massachusetts with us kids in the back of a pick up truck.
I'm a child of the 70's and Loved those crazy years growing up!😊
I remember breaking my arm, and for a week, my dad would tell me to shake it off. His favorite saying when we got hurt. Finally, my mom made him take me to the doctor. That was just the 70's.
Very happy founding that young people listening the 70ths music! Hi from Brasil!
I was a teen of the 60's. No seat belts (let alone shoulder straps). My second car, as an adult, had seat belts. This was during the brief era when it tried to figure out whether you had fastened the belt after you sat down, and if not, the car wouldn't start. Sometimes it couldn't be convinced. I was an electrical engineer, so I figure out how to bypass that real fast.
Those roller skates used a thing called a skate key to adjust the width between the two clamps that grabbed the front of your shoe sole. (That way you could keep using the same skates with the new shoes when your foot grew. This also leads to the Melanie song "Brand New Key", 1971.) No elbow pads. No knee pads. Concrete sidewalks and asphalt streets were out skate parks.
Yeah, I'm fine, thanks for asking.
Romper Room was a little after my time. It was at the beginning of kiddie TV becoming "less violent" and more "educational". Give me Loony Toons, Captain Kangaroo, and Popeye on weekdays, and Sky King, Cisco Kid, Roy Rogers, Andy's Gang, and maybe Flash Gordon, Boston Blackie, or National Velvet on Saturdays. Sunday nights had Disney
It was a very magical time