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01-21-2016, 09:46 AM | #31 |
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Went down to the creek to catch crawdads
Played baseball (with ghost runners!) or 500 in the empty lot down the street Stayed out all day without our parents needing to know where we were at Played hide and seek at night. The whole neighborhood was fair game Stayed at home by ourselves during summer vacation while the parents were at work Rode our bikes all over town (no helmets)
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01-21-2016, 09:47 AM | #32 |
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Ride bikes along the major cruising drag and yell the most vulgar shit at the cool guys to get them to chase us.
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01-21-2016, 09:48 AM | #33 |
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In addition to playing outside for hours, we would wander a long ways from home and not be in communication with our parents for hours. They had no idea where we were. They watched us walk out the door and assumed we'd be back in time for dinner. If anyone was late, you'd hear (usually) a mother yell out to the neighborhood, "Jiiiiiiiiimy, diiiiiiner!" several times, until Jimmy would yell back, "Coooooooming!"
My friends and I would walk a mile from home, along a busy road with no sidewalk and a narrow shoulder, to the convenience store to buy candy, baseball cards, Wacky Packages, etc. I'd shit if my kids had done that when they were younger. Plus, starting when I was 8 and continuing until I was 14, my parents would put me on a plane, BY MYSELF, to fly to Missouri to spend summers with my grandparents. Granted, back then they were direct flights, no changing of planes. But I once mentioned possibly doing that with our kids when they were younger and my wife nearly flipped. "ARE YOU CRAZY?" |
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01-21-2016, 09:49 AM | #35 |
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I used to watch the Broncos always go the playoffs and sometimes go to the Super Bowl. Now I'm an adult and its about the same. But that whole time I've never seen the Chiefs go to the Super Bowl.
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01-21-2016, 09:50 AM | #36 |
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01-21-2016, 09:52 AM | #38 |
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Having to wait until Saturday to watch cartoons.
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01-21-2016, 09:55 AM | #39 |
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i'd spend the weekend w/my grandmother in stl where she lived about a quarter mile from a drive-in theater. after dark i'd climb to the top of a pine tree in her yard and watch the "r" rated movies.
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01-21-2016, 09:56 AM | #40 |
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I could watch Warner Bros and Looney Tunes cartoons before and after school on our independent station (folks, remember there used to be four TV stations: ABC, NBC, CBS and the independent UHF station).
BUT, with regard to Saturday cartoons, remember for awhile in the 70s on a Friday night in early September each network would have a show previewing that year's Saturday morning lineup that would premiere the next day. I remember one year Lee Majors hosted ABC's. |
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01-21-2016, 09:58 AM | #41 |
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Or how about watching sex scenes through a scrambled cable channel? It would occasionally freeze for one second, and you could see tit!
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01-21-2016, 10:00 AM | #42 |
Hey Loochy, I'm hooome!
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One time we convinced this girl from down the street to get inside of a tomato cage. Once she got in, we proceeded to throw rotten cherry tomatoes at her.
I have NO earthly idea why she did that.
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01-21-2016, 10:09 AM | #44 |
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