Fun pub discussion last night - things your kids will never know or experience

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192. +1 10-mile bike rides, on our own, to a local lake. day-long wanderings through the local woods.

as pre-teens. no helmets.

bunches of kids riding in the back of open pickups. going to the drive-in in the back of a pick-up and watching the show covered with blankets. making our own skateboards from random pieces of wood & skate wheels and being pulled on the things from the back of a car. everybody walking several miles to school, through residential housing and a utility pipeline at a time when *no one's* parents drove them to school, and going to high school at a time when few to no kids had cars.

using a crank phone at summer camp, the only communication with the outside world -- it went to the ranger station. going to a camp that you had to hike into. using a party line.

the mass culture experience, where everyone gets the same news, watches the same tv shows, has the same cultural references. living in a working class neighborhood where almost all the parents work for the same company.

the experience of rising prosperity and seemingly wide-open futures that was the space age.