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Upthevibe

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7. debm55.....

Thu Jun 22, 2023, 11:56 AM

Jun 2023

Back in my day, we would be outside on our bicycles all day with no one knowing where the Hell we were (including us sometimes). As long as we were home before it was really, really dark we were okay.

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Complete "Back in my day, we----------. Walked to school. spent the summer outside, etc. Can you [View all] debm55 Jun 2023 OP

Back in my day kids rode in the car's front seat without seat belts. sinkingfeeling Jun 2023 #1

I remember that and little kids had no car seats. Thank you sinkingfeeling. debm55 Jun 2023 #33

Could buy cigarettes at the filling station at 11 years old... mymomwasright Jun 2023 #2

Remember getting cigs for my mom at the corner grocery debm55 Jun 2023 #34

Back in the day, we rode in station wagons with rear facing seats in the back end of the car Siwsan Jun 2023 #3

The wayback, right? yorkster Jun 2023 #19

My aunt had one. I would always get car sick sitting that way. debm55 Jun 2023 #35

Back in my day we drank Bosco without milk. GreenWave Jun 2023 #4

Never had bosco. Love your post, GreenWave. debm55 Jun 2023 #36

Great Post! ProfessorGAC Jun 2023 #63

Back in the day we grew up in a cloud of cigarette smoke and no one thought anything of it. Chainfire Jun 2023 #5

So right--homes,dinners.stores. Back in the day, since I lived in a Steel Mill town, white cars had debm55 Jun 2023 #38

Back in my day, we would have newspaper delivery routes to earn money h2ebits Jun 2023 #6

I remember that. When you paid you got these stubs. Papers were wrapped in a plastic bag and put on debm55 Jun 2023 #39

We Didn't Need The Plastic Bags ProfessorGAC Jun 2023 #64

That sounds a great place to deliver papers. You made a killing on tips, I bet. debm55 Jun 2023 #67

For The Day, Yeah! ProfessorGAC Jun 2023 #73

Were you allowed to spend it? debm55 Jun 2023 #79

It Was Our Money ProfessorGAC Jun 2023 #81

I had a Pinto also. Was very scared everytime I got in. debm55 Jun 2023 #84

debm55..... Upthevibe Jun 2023 #7

Totally! (nt) Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2023 #10

Yes, indeed we did! h2ebits Jun 2023 #11

I remember that too. Would check the position of the sun to tell me when it was noon(lunch) and 6:00 debm55 Jun 2023 #40

Yes, I remember that and have a bike with foot brakes instead of the hand brakes. debm55 Jun 2023 #51

stayed out until the street lights came on yellowdogintexas Jun 2023 #8

We would catch lightning bugs, but them in our palms and watch them glow. Then we would let them go. debm55 Jun 2023 #42

we put them in jars with holes punched in the lid & made lanterns nt yellowdogintexas Jun 2023 #87

We came home from playing when the streetlights started coming on (nt) Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2023 #9

Back in my day, louslobbs Jun 2023 #12

You are so right. I do remember air raid drills, and sirens going off so everyone got off their debm55 Jun 2023 #43

...there was a smoking section in the back of all airplanes. EOM consider_this Jun 2023 #13

Never went in a plane until I was 53. But I have seen movies of that happening. debm55 Jun 2023 #44

Back in my day rownesheck Jun 2023 #14

LOL you are right. There was stupid people back then, just didn't know about them. debm55 Jun 2023 #45

I would also like to think this is STILL my day! ;-) consider_this Jun 2023 #15

Good! debm55 Jun 2023 #46

Ditto wendyb-NC Jun 2023 #16

Yep, never stayed in the house, unless a thunderstorm( I was afraid) but in the summer we still debm55 Jun 2023 #47

When my sister and I were about 9-10 years old .. Jrose Jun 2023 #17

We had the Ice Cream man. I just read the other day that Good Humor is calling it quits. I liked the debm55 Jun 2023 #48

We ate dinner as a family at the kitchen table and talked to each other Raven123 Jun 2023 #18

Yes, You don't see that anymore. Even when we go out people don't talk to each other. They are using debm55 Jun 2023 #69

Back in my day we booted up computers by entering binary instructions on the front panel switches. hunter Jun 2023 #20

hunter, did you go into the computer field when you got older? debm55 Jun 2023 #49

I changed my major from engineering to environmental/evolutionary biology after my second year. hunter Jun 2023 #82

Back in the 1970s, as a secretary... Jrose Jun 2023 #21

And created "master" documents for ones to be used repeatedly. wnylib Jun 2023 #37

I didn't know that about the "a" and "s" What I hated was pre White out you would have to use this debm55 Jun 2023 #53

I prided myself on being an "expert" at wnylib Jun 2023 #56

One of my work study programs for Penn State was a secretary. Electric typewriter--I had a Royal debm55 Jun 2023 #50

Oh dear, I also remember the White-out and lift- off-typo tape. Jrose Jun 2023 #60

We used to catch salmon in the San Lorenzo river. They're all gone Bobstandard Jun 2023 #22

Did they drain the salmon out or add chemicals to the water? That's sad. debm55 Jun 2023 #55

Back in my day we flipped baseball cards closest to the curb cachukis Jun 2023 #23

At recess, we would flip cards against the school building. Yes, I am a girl, but I loved baseball, debm55 Jun 2023 #57

Neato. cachukis Jun 2023 #58

Back in the mid-1970s moose65 Jun 2023 #24

I remember those days. I hate to say this, but I liked Roller Derby. Wasn't carried on the 4 locals. debm55 Jun 2023 #59

...had a kid in the class crippled from polio Effete Snob Jun 2023 #25

A college classmate had had polio as a kid, still walked with a brace on his leg, Ocelot II Jun 2023 #28

Effete, when I was young my cousin got polio in his legs, his dad, my uncle got in on his face. To debm55 Jun 2023 #61

We had over the shoe roller skates - key on a string around your neck. yorkster Jun 2023 #26

I had the white high top shoes with the skates attached. There was this ball like thing on the toe debm55 Jun 2023 #62

This was sidewalk skating in my childhood. I did go to yorkster Jun 2023 #77

I used my outside--wonder why my wheels always woobled debm55 Jun 2023 #80

We played outside in the summer until suppertime, went back out until sundown. Ocelot II Jun 2023 #27

Very similiar to my stories. Tell you a secret--we used to put small rocks in our hand and shake debm55 Jun 2023 #65

We didn't have a grill to throw caps in, but we'd kneel on the driveway Ocelot II Jun 2023 #71

I used to use a rock to hit them, until a spark hit me in the eye. That ended that. debm55 Jun 2023 #75

Back in the day, we would go along the city streets, and gather up the glass coke bottles and SWBTATTReg Jun 2023 #29

Hey we only got 2 cents for the coke and 5 cents for the bigger bottles like Dad's root beer and debm55 Jun 2023 #66

Never wore a helmet when bicycling. Golden Raisin Jun 2023 #30

Or knee pads or elbow pads. I remember getting my bike at Sears--$25 debm55 Jun 2023 #70

Walked uphill both ways to get to school jmowreader Jun 2023 #31

What a great post! At first I thought you were pulling my leg. debm55 Jun 2023 #72

We wanted to get sick Mr.Bill Jun 2023 #32

Our parents wanted us to get sick wnylib Jun 2023 #41

But chicken pox increases your chance of getting Shingles. Yep, no vaccines at the time. debm55 Jun 2023 #52

True about the shingles, but everyone wnylib Jun 2023 #54

Agree. But because it was a neighborhood school, the teacher would get someone to bring your debm55 Jun 2023 #74

Now that's just evil, right there. Mr.Bill Jun 2023 #76

I remember the 'Seltzer Man' Jrose Jun 2023 #68

Didn't Seltzer have a bland taste. We had Mogan David wine--very bitter. debm55 Jun 2023 #78

Back in my day... Scottie Mom Jun 2023 #83

HAHA--We had a telephone desk that you put the rotary phone on. There was a shelf for the regular debm55 Jun 2023 #86

Back in my day, 56k internet was considered "fast." sakabatou Jun 2023 #85