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Things '60s Kids Did That Would Horrify Us Now
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Mine too. Those were the days!
And that is probably why kids are not as bright today. The days of natural selection are gone from our childhood
No, it was totally disgusting. I remember how it was before those indoor smoking bans. Being in the nosebleed seats at an arena might've suffocated you with all the damn smoke going up to the ceiling in a haze. And who wants to smell cig smoke when you're trying to eat? Eww.
You can still do most of those things you mentioned, anyway.
Most of the things mentioned in this thread still happen. Kids still go and play and get banged up, and do stupid reckless things. Wow, do none of you know kids in your lives?
The merry-go-round disappeared from playgrounds while I was a child. There were a few lawsuits about children getting hurt, and that caused everyone to remove the merry go rounds from their parks. That was terrible.
The merry-go-round is a large horizontal wheel with iron bars to hold onto. Its on a bearing and can spin and can hold up to 20 children at its edges. You sit or step on the edge push the ground with your feet to make the wheel turn (faster and faster), making it spin until you're thrown off. It easily gets difficult to hold on, so you are often thrown clear of the wheel. This was the best playground equipment which disappeared in the late 70's and early 80's.
The merry-go-round is a large horizontal wheel with iron bars to hold onto. Its on a bearing and can spin and can hold up to 20 children at its edges. You sit or step on the edge push the ground with your feet to make the wheel turn (faster and faster), making it spin until you're thrown off. It easily gets difficult to hold on, so you are often thrown clear of the wheel. This was the best playground equipment which disappeared in the late 70's and early 80's.
We used to have some really amazing parks locally. One was themed around Cinderella, and had huge concrete mice in cages, pumpkins to crawl through, a coach to ride on, a grandfather clock swing... That was a favorite. There was a ghost town park with large wooden cutouts of Western style buildings in another. We had a park based of of Robinson Crusoe, though the floods wiped that one out. Most were taken out because they were 'unsafe' and replaced with plastic junk(that one could still hurt themselves on if not careful). We do still have a fort town park that's fully intact, and a circus park that's partially intact, but there were a lot of really neat ones that are no more.
I played on merry go rounds as a kid in the '90s. I remember the one in Golden Gate Park in SF. They had a huge concrete slide that you would go down on a piece of cardboard, too.
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No seat belts, riding in the back of a truck, drinking from a hose, the street lights coming on told us it was time to go home, etc etc. The list goes on and on.
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I remember taking a whole roll of caps, placing it in concrete, hitting it with a hammer to get one big bang lol
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Funny but true
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We'd shoot street lights out with bb/pellet rifles.
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I never did that. It seemed to be pointless destructiveness.
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Welcome to Louisville, welcome to Louisville.
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I grew up in a town with a population of 2600. We had dirt roads to drive, girls to chase, spotlighting to do, hay to haul, etc. We had plenty other things to do.Welcome to Louisville, welcome to Louisville.
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Treasure hunting. I almost forgot. Hours in junkyards. When they let us roam around in the wreaks looking for loot.Playing on the railroad tracks is a big one.
When we were kids, We probably spent at least as much time on the railroad tracks as we did at the parks.
The tracks were a shortcut, a playground, a hunting ground, a quick way to ditch the cops
We would put pennies on the tracks and collect them after they got smashed flat; we'd see how far we could get walking on a rail without falling; we walked the tracks the two and a half miles to the Forest preserve, or if we got lucky we'd hop a freight train the whole way.
In most places there was a good 20 yards or more of forest on either side of the rails, even in the middle of the city, so the railroad tracks were full of rabbits, raccoons, skunks, possums. A few of us went up there to practice with our bow and arrows, some kids actually hunt ed the small game.
Another fun thing to do was to dig around in the dirt looking for old glass electrical transformers, railroad spikes, and old bottles. Some of the stuff that we found had to be from the previous century.
I've noticed that playgrounds for kids have noticeably changed since when I was a kid. We used to have an asphalt playground where kids would play on the monkey bars or the jungle gym, made of metal - and nothing to cushion anyone's fall. Nowadays, they have sand or wood chips at playgrounds I've seen, with plastic equipment instead of metal.
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I didn't live around RR tracks but anytime I got around them, like most kids, I had to put a penny, nickle, etc on the track just to see what it would do to it, then sometimes spend an hour trying to find it lolPlaying on the railroad tracks is a big one.
When we were kids, We probably spent at least as much time on the railroad tracks as we did at the parks.
The tracks were a shortcut, a playground, a hunting ground, a quick way to ditch the cops
We would put pennies on the tracks and collect them after they got smashed flat; we'd see how far we could get walking on a rail without falling; we walked the tracks the two and a half miles to the Forest preserve, or if we got lucky we'd hop a freight train the whole way.
In most places there was a good 20 yards or more of forest on either side of the rails, even in the middle of the city, so the railroad tracks were full of rabbits, raccoons, skunks, possums. A few of us went up there to practice with our bow and arrows, some kids actually hunt ed the small game.
Another fun thing to do was to dig around in the dirt looking for old glass electrical transformers, railroad spikes, and old bottles. Some of the stuff that we found had to be from the previous century.