dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Born 1925 - 1955


The best years to be born in the history of Earth & we got to experience it all. Thank God for all the times, the adventures, wars won, technology developed. Generations after future generations will never experience what we did. What a generation we turned out to be.



It is a reminder of how lucky we are.



We walked to school !!!


We found empty bottles and bought them to the store for the deposit money and thought we were rich.



To all the kids who survived the 1930’s, 1940’s and 1950’s.


First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank - While they were pregnant

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then, after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright-colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets, and, when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps, not helmets, on our heads.

As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no airbags, bald tires, and sometimes no brakes.

Riding in the back of a pick-up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.

And we weren't overweight? Why?

Because we were always outside playing … that's why!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day and, we were OKAY.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find out that we forgot about brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have PlayStations, Nintendo and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVDs, no surround-sound or CDs, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet, and no chat rooms.

We had friends and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones, and lost teeth, And there were no lawsuits from those accidents.

We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand, and no one would call child services to report abuse.



We ate worms, and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, 22 rifles for our 12th, rode horses, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and although we were told it would happen - we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't have to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of … They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors ever.

The past 60 to 85 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success, and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

If you are one of those born between 1925 & 1955, congratulations!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward this to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.

It kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?


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The quote of the month
by Jay Leno:

"With hurricanes, tornadoes, fires out of control, mudslides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of Coronavirus, terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"

For those who prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this.

For the rest of us... please pass this on.

SWMBO

God is always watching us. He is all knowing, in all places at the same time and always will welcome us back to HIS loving arms. The only other thing that come close to that is a dog, which is why I love dogs so much. HE put them here to remind us of what innosense is and why we fall short

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Hence, DOG is GOD spelled backward.

LogicallyRight Loc: Chicago

We also learned to read cursive and write it. so we can now read the original Constitution.

We learned Math and memorized the multiplication tables to 12. 6 x 7 = 9 x 6 =

We learned to read and write. Geography, history.

We learned Civics in school.

We recited the Pledge of Allegiance every day.

We learned to play sports on our own without a dozen daddies trying to take the fun out of the game and make it about them.

When we got a nick name we didn't like, we learned to live with it. Right Stinky, Red, Tiny, Mugs.

When some one insulted us or called us a dirty name we shouted back, "Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will never hurt me."


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dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Bassman65

We built forts made our own fishing poles started early earning our own money cutting yards , raking leaves, shoveling snow, anything until we were old enough to get a regular job

son of witless

We also invented games. We went out and played with our friends all summer. We played stick ball, handball, spring, freedom, pompom pull away, river, buck buck, kick the can, touch football, dodge ball, and vampires.

The girls played hop scotch and double dutch jump rope. I haven't seen a girl do double dutch jump rope in 55 years.

Owl32 Loc: ARK

not much was passed over DT, I could not add to your post as it covered all the bases and I regret none of it. There as lot of things I wish I had done differently, I could of tried harder, not been a class clown but most of my male cohorts have already left the play ground of life, including my genius twin brother, Neal whom I dearly loved, when I fooled around, he studied then told me what I missed when I was cutting up. Still hanging around, the last two years have been squeakers but I am looking forward to tomorrow. God Bless All.

Wonttakeitanymore

Born in 1953! We had good parents that stayed together and raised us!

Wonttakeitanymore

We had real inoculations that prevented real diseases! Covid wouldn’t have had a chance with all the vitamin d we absorbed! We kept our weight off because we didn’t sit and watch Visio games and eat garbage! It was a treat to eat fast food because all our meals were homemade with lots of love as the ingredient! Even though some of our moms worked! Streets were safe to play in and even though we didn’t have cell phones our parents were informed of our whereabouts and knew how to find us!

Wonttakeitanymore

Amen! 50% of my family has gone on to be with the Lord but I have wonderful memories!!

Owl32 Loc: ARK

In 1939, we did not have TV/video games with luck we did have radio and in those it only reported the truth and the horror of WAR. When my Mother wash sheets in black pot in the back yard and hung them on clothes lines in yard to give us a path to wash tub on Saturday. Food was better, nothing had had gene changes yet, now it does not even taste the same. We were so tired by night time we just fell asleep and sleep all night. Those surely were the days to remember.

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

When I was in second grade I lived on one of the family ranches in Elsinore Valley. I walked to school each way and it was one mile. That was easy because it was downhill both ways.
We rode horses and didn't have helmets but one game was to get big sticks and try to knock each other off the horse.
Riding in the back of a pickup wasn't fun, it was just common place as there was only room for three in the cab. Everyone else rode in back. A treat to ride up front.
We never got a BB gun but we were shooting from about eight years old with the .22. Squirrels, rabbits, gophers, tin cans but never bottles.
If we got stopped by a local officer we were told to shape up or next time he would call our parents and that was generally worse.
By ten we were old enough to use machinery and were driving tractors and pickups on the ranch. Got in trouble if we got on the road. First time on the road when a neighbor had me drive his jeep while he drove his pickup. I was about 13.
Good memories, thanks.

EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

Yep. Hunting rabbits, squirrels, etc. First time I ever drove a car. Furnace ran out of kerosene and it was the source of heat for the 4 room house. My dad apparently got cold so gave me the keys to his 1948 Pontiac (stick of course) and ordered me to get some ..... kerosene. One little problem. A few inches of snow on the unplowed road.
Made it though could barely carry the 5 gallon can of kerosene. Refueled the furnace and lit it up. I was 13 or 14 at the time.
Oh yeah, the old days.

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

My brother and I drove tractors before we ever drove cars. He got a car before I did. A Model A. I got a '39 Plymouth for my first car. Neither one of our cars ran when we got them. Out dad said we could drive them when we got them running. I think the kids today miss out on knowing how an engine works from taking their first car apart and reassembling it to get it to run.
Good times but maybe only because there was little responsibility. Some because if an animal was harmed under our care we did get punished.