And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, October 14, 2024
Details From The Boomer Generation Kids Today Will Never Understand!
i'm glad to be old enough to remember all of this except the milkman. he may have come after we went to school, HAHA. saturday morning cartoons till 10 then outside who knows where till dark, come home skinnint up and with enough dirt on us to plant a garden, if you missed growing up back then. then you have truly missed out on a lot of fun and a real world education. it was good to me. i seldom if ever see kids outside playing now, it's sad what they are missing.
Yes, I collected stamps. It is a dead hobby now and if you have any mint stamps they didn't appreciate one cent. I pulled out my box some years back and am using them for postage now. You can even buy them on-line at something like 1/2 of face value and do so.
At Darius Rucker's "Riverfront Revival" (2 day concert in Charleston this past weekend), the VIP Tito's booth would take photos of you with a Tito's cardboard bottle using a new & Improved Polaroid® for $5
young people today have no idea what it was like. Back in 1953 my dad updated us to a color tv with a piece of plastic that was blue on top and green on the bottem, put in on the front of the tv and you now have color tv.
Ahh the good old days!! Back in the day we lived right on the edge of the Everglades on a lake where tarpon would come up through the flood canals following the mullet schools! We would use saltwater rod and reels with 60pound test line! Many times that line busted while fighting those monsters! Also, we swam with sea cows (Manatees) as they would swim under us and roll us off their backs! Dad would drop off on Tamiami trail on Friday afternoon and pick us up on Sunday! We would camp on the old Tamiami road and fish and explore to our hearts content! No cell phones no way to contact anyone and we didn't worry too much about gators! Now most of what we did then is Illegal now!
I remember very early in my youth our home had an icebox, not a fridge, and the iceman periodically making deliveries. When I was a little older I used to prowl the back alleys of inner-city Toronto with a pellet pistol to shoot at birds, and nobody batted an eyelash.
BigNasty: Glad to see someone else remembers the old Tamiami Trail road. Not many of us left. Lived half a block East of where the city ended. Watched them build what is now 826 Palmetto Expressway. Back then that space was a ditch that separated Miami from the Everglades. What a time to be alive. Stay Safe.
Early sixties when I was 10 and my brother was 8, mom would give us a dollar and we would take the bus downtown to the theater for a Saturday afternoon matinee. We'd get an orangeade and watch Westerns and maybe a Sinbad movie, then take the bus back home. Being a free-range kid was great.
I was born in 64, grew up in rural Appalachia, so we were probably 10 years behind the rest of the world, had a huuuuge TV antenna with the electric rotator, to get TWO channels.
we lived 4 miles from the nearest paved road, I remember being 5 or 6 and my mom would kick all three of us out of the house, I had a brother 3 years older and a brother 2 years younger, she'd kick us all out and lock the door. unless someone was bleeding, you didnt get back in till lunch.
25- In the olden days, you could mail ode a fieam and have itt shipped to you home withou
ReplyDeleteSorry about that. I don't know what I did to post that prematurely.
DeleteI was saying:
25- In the olden days, you could mail order a firearm and have it shipped to your home without filling out a Form 4473. No fuss, no muss.
You could buy a .22 at the corner hardware store.
Deletei'm glad to be old enough to remember all of this except the milkman. he may have come after we went to school, HAHA.
ReplyDeletesaturday morning cartoons till 10 then outside who knows where till dark, come home skinnint up and with enough dirt on us to plant a garden,
if you missed growing up back then. then you have truly missed out on a lot of fun and a real world education. it was good to me. i seldom if ever see kids outside playing now, it's sad what they are missing.
Anyone remember ordering stamps for your collection on "approval"?
ReplyDeleteHere's a company still in existance I bought stamps from in the 1950s.
https://www.mysticstamp.com/
Then there were the Gilbert chemistry sets that had chemicals that would be banned today
Yes, I collected stamps. It is a dead hobby now and if you have any mint stamps they didn't appreciate one cent. I pulled out my box some years back and am using them for postage now. You can even buy them on-line at something like 1/2 of face value and do so.
DeleteAt Darius Rucker's "Riverfront Revival" (2 day concert in Charleston this past weekend), the VIP Tito's booth would take photos of you with a Tito's cardboard bottle using a new & Improved Polaroid® for $5
ReplyDeleteyoung people today have no idea what it was like. Back in 1953 my dad updated us to a color tv with a piece of plastic that was blue on top and green on the bottem, put in on the front of the tv and you now have color tv.
ReplyDelete"young people today have no idea what it was like"
DeleteI remember my parents saying the exact same thing.
Ahh the good old days!!
ReplyDeleteBack in the day we lived right on the edge of the Everglades on a lake where tarpon would come up through the flood canals following the mullet schools! We would use saltwater rod and reels with 60pound test line! Many times that line busted while fighting those monsters! Also, we swam with sea cows (Manatees) as they would swim under us and roll us off their backs!
Dad would drop off on Tamiami trail on Friday afternoon and pick us up on Sunday! We would camp on the old Tamiami road and fish and explore to our hearts content! No cell phones no way to contact anyone and we didn't worry too much about gators! Now most of what we did then is Illegal now!
I can't watch such hearty memories; my heart is already broken from
ReplyDeletewhat we've lost.
I remember very early in my youth our home had an icebox, not a fridge, and the iceman periodically making deliveries.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a little older I used to prowl the back alleys of inner-city Toronto with a pellet pistol to shoot at birds, and nobody batted an eyelash.
BigNasty: Glad to see someone else remembers the old Tamiami Trail road. Not many of us left. Lived half a block East of where the city ended. Watched them build what is now 826 Palmetto Expressway. Back then that space was a ditch that separated Miami from the Everglades. What a time to be alive. Stay Safe.
ReplyDeleteEarly sixties when I was 10 and my brother was 8, mom would give us a dollar and we would take the bus downtown to the theater for a Saturday afternoon matinee. We'd get an orangeade and watch Westerns and maybe a Sinbad movie, then take the bus back home. Being a free-range kid was great.
ReplyDeletelove how the guy that made the video used Polaroid cameras while talking about dropping off film to be developed.
ReplyDeleteI was born in 64, grew up in rural Appalachia, so we were probably 10 years behind the rest of the world, had a huuuuge TV antenna with the electric rotator, to get TWO channels.
ReplyDeletewe lived 4 miles from the nearest paved road, I remember being 5 or 6 and my mom would kick all three of us out of the house, I had a brother 3 years older and a brother 2 years younger, she'd kick us all out and lock the door.
unless someone was bleeding, you didnt get back in till lunch.