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AquarianMale53 -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/24/2008 4:53:37 AM)

hey...don't forget being made to go out and get a switch off the tree yourself so your parents could beat your ass with it.  Glad that didn't turn me into a masochist ... laffs.



suzybeth -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/24/2008 5:20:42 AM)

LOL, speaking of seatbelts and safety seats, my dad had a '70 mustang and built a wooden cage type device and padded it to keep me secure in the back of the car. My mother described it as a playpen of sorts.



christine1 -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/24/2008 5:22:45 AM)

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ORIGINAL: AquarianMale53

hey...don't forget being made to go out and get a switch off the tree yourself so your parents could beat your ass with it.  Glad that didn't turn me into a masochist ... laffs.


rofl....we had to go get a pussy willow switch, and i always got the thinnest one i could find thinking it would hurt less.  geesh, no wonder i hate single tails now.



DiurnalVampire -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/24/2008 5:32:19 AM)

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ORIGINAL: BlackPhx

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.


I was talking to Fox about this yesterday. My mom smoked regularly while she was pregnant with me and my brother. While I hardly advocate it, or smoking in general, we both survived. She was told she was running a serious risk of low birthweight children, and stunting our growth when we  got older.
I was born at 9lb 2oz, my brother was 10lbs1oz. Good thing we were low birthweight!
And at 6'3 1/2 my brother is sure happy he was stunted too... imagine how hard it would be to find clothes that fit if he hadnt been?

Reminds me of playing kicball out on the street in front of my house (we were the lucky kids we lived on a dead end so everyone came to play by us) where you drew your bases on the blacktop with chalk so you didnt have to run and grab them every time a car came through. You knocked on the neighbors dors and asked them if they wanted to move their cars out of your way becasue you werer playing, and usualy they did. Stealing a base by coming back to a different one after a car passed was against the rules. Parents and little brothers and sisters were not allowed to keep score, they were prejudiced. They could cheer for you though. And Moms kept a steady supply of lemonade handy.
By the end of the double or triple header (depending on how long Mom made you go home for lunch) you were so dead tired that you went home, had dinner and passed out for the night. And the next morning... you did it ALL again.

DV



winterlight -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/24/2008 2:36:08 PM)

I think physically we did more when we were younger. WE played harder and had more fun. Now it is sitting in front of a computer and not enjoying life.

They were the good old days. Days that will never be repeated for the next generation. Wonder how they will be when they get older??



winterlight -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/24/2008 2:41:49 PM)

My parents both smoked a lot. I hated to come home from school cos i about wanted to lose my stomach coming into the house. The smell was so bad.
I was an early baby i was under 2 lbs. That's pretty amazing for a 1950's baby. To survive. Things just were much simpler then. News was the news we didn't have all this cutsey stuff that is on the news now. WE worried more about what WE did and what OUR parents would say if we did something WRONG. We had more fun and more friends i think compared to today. More innocence than today. I shudder at what our kids today know compared to us.

What happens next is anybodys guess. It will be interesting to see how the next generation turns out.



Emperor1956 -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/24/2008 2:49:17 PM)

FR:  A bit of a different take.

Remember the good old days?   Back when:

1.  Our fathers, uncles and brothers died younger and harder, of blocked arteries, preventable heart attacks, and strokes?

2.  Our mothers, aunts and sisters died younger and horribly, of detectable breast cancer, stroke and heart disease?

3.  We didn't need seat belts!   Or crash-resistant cars!   Our friends happily died or suffered brain injuries from stupid low-speed car crashes.  And hey....drinking and driving was SO cool, right?

4.  Oh, yah..the ones that didn't die?   They suffered from depression, anxiety, unwanted pregnancies.  Oh, and of course if they were gay or somehow "different", we stoned them -- literally is some cases, socially in most.

5.  HEY...remember polio?  Now that was a fun disease?

Need I go on?  Behind these "oh gee things were so good back then" is a huge amount of sadness, hate, sickness and disease.   I understand that "simpler times" had some appeal.  But this unthinking longing for a past that never was is reactionary.  By the way...did you know both Hitler and Stalin manipulated their populations by harking back to a better, simpler past?

I'm just sayin....

E.



hizgeorgiapeach -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/24/2008 4:12:15 PM)

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ORIGINAL: sambamanslilgirl

something else to add:

if we did something wrong and a neighbor saw, our parents knew it BEFORE we got home.

neighborhoods were actually neighborhoods where everyone knew everyone and their kids.


Before we got home, hell - we'd get our lil asses beat by the neighbor (in loco parentis) and then Again when we got home, since they'd called mom AFTER whoopin our butts!
 
Get in trouble at school - same thing.  Get yer ass busted by the teacher or principal (depending on the seriousness of the infraction - usually in front of the rest of the class - then get a note sent home that HAD to be SIGNED by mom or dad, who would read it, sign it, then promptly bust our ass again, punish us by sending us to our room (where there were no phones, cell or otherwise.. no friends, cause they were all outside playing.. no tv or video games... just four walls to stare at) without supper.  And yeah, for me it was a switch from the Peach tree (if I was at granny's) or from a Scrub Oak if I was at home.  Learned early on to grab one a lil bigger around than my thumb, cause it hurt less - worked at home, didn't at granny's - she'd always send us back out for a Thin one the sadistic old bat.
 
quote:

I was talking to Fox about this yesterday. My mom smoked regularly while she was pregnant with me and my brother. While I hardly advocate it, or smoking in general, we both survived. She was told she was running a serious risk of low birthweight children, and stunting our growth when we  got older.
I was born at 9lb 2oz, my brother was 10lbs1oz. Good thing we were low birthweight!
And at 6'3 1/2 my brother is sure happy he was stunted too... imagine how hard it would be to find clothes that fit if he hadnt been?

 
Funny, my mom smoked - my brother and I were 8lbs7oz and 9lbs12oz respective.  I smoked during both my pregnancies, hearing all the dire warnings about low birth weight and how I was evil and attempting to kill my children - they were 7bs14oz (at a month early) and 8lbs7oz (at a month early).. the younger one, in fact, I was told if I had Not delivered early that I probably would have had no choice but C-section, since she would likely have been in excess of 10lbs of birth weight by that point.
 
Road trips?  Oooh yeah - homemade 'tator salad & baked beans, either a package of hotdogs and buns or some hamburger patties ready to grill when we got to a reststop or some fried chicken - and none of it made us sick unless we were gluttons during that specific meal.  Hmm.. speaking of homemade mustard potatoe salad, baked beans, and grilled burgers and dogs.. this Is a holiday weekend... think I'll go in the kitchen and then out to the lake for a few hours...



LostLittleSoul2 -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/24/2008 4:41:49 PM)

yes and guarantee of snow every winter...skiing every weekend just 30-60mins drive away from home and using the hill next to the school for using the sled down the huge slope...this guarantee stopped when i was aged 12......18 years ago....was nice [:D] at least for the ones who did not get off the right track ending up in one of the trees....[:D]



Hanable -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/25/2008 6:22:51 PM)

i was born 1988... a bit late.. i was born during ther time where all this stuff was being turned from not so good for the kids/ppl to horrible and deadly for any and everyone involved.. i wouldnt mind having some of the morals and values from then... it jsut all seams so much simpler.

H >:)



lalbobbilynn -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/25/2008 6:37:20 PM)

Excellent List!!
i think i will go outside and climb a tree to the top, get stuck for an hour; call my brother to help me, then spit on his head when he tells me what a baby i am; finally finding my way down on my own! Then i will wander off to the empty school playground and do a penny drop from the monkey bars ........ errrr, will probably drop like a lead weight now, but hey!! [:D]
b.~ 



persephonee -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/26/2008 6:12:50 AM)

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ORIGINAL: BlackPhx

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

With all this protection in place can you really prove that you should not be dead ? I can.

T


And if you total a Checker Marathon (try getting one these days) you REALLY did something wrong.

poenkitten (who always wanted one)


OMG..my grandmother special ordered her Marathon Checkers fresh off the line...i just loved the jumpseats in the back. Every summer she would come and rescue me from my family and we would drive across country...all 4'7 of her behind that behemouth wheel...her view was literally crescent shaped...thru the top half of the steering wheel. She also had a habit of stopping dead in her tracks on the interstate if the billboard she was reading was too complex to take in at 60 mph...i would turn and watch the semi's barrelling closer and closer to her ass end...dont remember ever ever being afraid. (never was all that bright tho.)
Everything worth knowing i learned from my Grams. "Sex is something you should do very very well...." "Dont listen too closely to your mom...shes wound too tight"
"You are neither sugar nor salt...but goose shit will dissolve..so take an umbrella"
God i miss my Grams...thanks for the car reference...made my day.



MasterNick47 -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/26/2008 6:42:25 AM)

whatever happened to a good old fashion game of hide an seek we used to play that in the (gasp) dark an had a propain tank for the home base which we used to play horse an all sorts of games on. Yet we all survived



Termyn8or -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/26/2008 7:01:05 AM)

goose shit ?

T



westtxsub -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/26/2008 7:09:52 AM)

something else to add:

if we did something wrong and a neighbor saw, our parents knew it BEFORE we got home.

neighborhoods were actually neighborhoods where everyone knew everyone and their kids.



As i was sitting her reading the post on this not only did memories flood back about being outside and hearing my WHOLE name but if i did something wrong not only did the neighbor punish us for the wrong doing we got it again when we got home.



BBWnNC72 -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/26/2008 9:07:01 AM)

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ORIGINAL: AquarianMale53

hey...don't forget being made to go out and get a switch off the tree yourself so your parents could beat your ass with it.  Glad that didn't turn me into a masochist ... laffs.


OMG, i so hated that. one day i thought i was being smart and brought in the stick that was all flakey, thinking "yea, this will fall apart" lol, that sucker was the hardest stick inside that flakey i have ever felt.

i had the streetlight rule. during the summer, it was great.  i remember being gone all day with my friends, playing cowboys and indians. of course us girls were always in distress and needed rescuing. [:D]
Oh, and skinny dipping in the neighbors pool, all of us, boys and girls.



persephonee -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/26/2008 9:27:26 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

goose shit ?

T


Well, Grams was not very ladylike in general, but all woman.....she was like a really short Mae West dressed in polyester....but i loved her all the same...and she used to make switches for the grandkids too....out of bundles of stalky grass/wheat looking things...very stingy...she was the best but strict. Went thru 2 husbands and only one died outside the home....hmmm she was little but a handful.



Fishseilsel -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/26/2008 10:48:47 AM)

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Thanks for the memories - we did have a good time growing up without helmets, banging and scrapping our knees and coming home when the lights came on - I do miss those days of innocence - where you didn't have to worry if you didn't hear from your child all day long in fact you expected it.
Wishing we could go back and enjoy,



Horacehood -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/26/2008 3:47:38 PM)

Back when everyone drank pregnant the autism rate was much lower.  Makes you think, doesn't it?



Saratov -> RE: Those Born 1920-1979 (5/26/2008 8:26:14 PM)

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ORIGINAL: lalbobbilynn

Excellent List!!
i think i will go outside and climb a tree to the top, get stuck for an hour; call my brother to help me, then spit on his head when he tells me what a baby i am; finally finding my way down on my own! Then i will wander off to the empty school playground and do a penny drop from the monkey bars ........ errrr, will probably drop like a lead weight now, but hey!! [:D]
b.~ 


Don't forget your helmet, knee pads, elbow pads and be sure your lawyer is on speed dial in case you get hurt.  So you can sue someone for your accident/carelessness.



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