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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Jan 11, 2019 9:15:57 GMT
I was born in 1953 and President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and the world was never the same for me after that. Before that tragedy, my family would go camping and canoeing, we had a back yard vegetable garden and my Dad made hand-churned ice cream. Our dog went on all our camping trips. My Dad taught me carpentry, and how to use a wood lathe. We made lots of broom handles and then, of course, brooms. Life was simpler then. I didn't experience anything on your list, but yes, it was a simpler time. It actually might be the best time to be a kid. And I had a HORRIBLE 1950s I'm sorry. My late husband was born in 1943, raised in Newark, N.J. and Paterson, and had a horrible childhood, period. It's a wonder he survived it, but he did. As an adult, we vacationed frequently at a guest ranch in Colorado, where he got to belatedly play at being a cowboy, and it was the closest I ever saw him to being carefree and having fun. Not all childhoods nor families were happy, sadly.
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Post by ant-mac on Jan 11, 2019 12:24:00 GMT
I enjoyed being a kid in the 1970s.
I didn't enjoy school, but I enjoyed most of the other aspects of childhood.
I turned 12 in 1980, the same year as my father died. After that, life was never the same again.
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Post by theshape25 on Jan 11, 2019 13:56:03 GMT
90% of people will say whatever decade they happen to have been a kid in, regardless of what decade it was. This. For me it was the 80s. The toys were awesome. Star Wars figures and ships, GI Joe toys, MASK, Transformers, GoBots, He Man figures, and Volton. After school cartoons were great, Voltron, GIJoe, Transformers, He Man. The movies were larger than life. Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Back to the Future, The Goonies, The Indiana Jones Films, ET. We spent most of our time outdoors playing and when we did come inside we had a pretty good videogame system with the NES.
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Post by sjg on Jan 11, 2019 14:03:40 GMT
Early 80's for sure. Loads of cool toys (Lego, Star Wars figures and ships), Atari consoles. Cool bikes and playing out and about from dawn 'til dusk in all weathers. School was shit but the holidays seemed to last forever back then. Health and safety these days is killing the good times for kids.
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Post by James on Jan 11, 2019 19:01:08 GMT
Well it’s hard for me to say since I’m a 2000s kid. However, if I had the option to live in any decade before, probably the 90s.
Rental video stores were popular at the time and the awesome game consoles were on the horizon.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 11, 2019 19:31:44 GMT
In the 1950's, I grew up with baseball cards, pogo sticks, yoyos and penny candy.
In the 1960's I was drafted during the Vietnam war.
In the 1970's, I owned a powder blue leisure suit and got married.
In the 1980's, I got divorced.
In the 1990's I lost my job.
Today, I occasionally post on various forums for a good laugh...
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Jan 11, 2019 19:36:57 GMT
In the 1950's, I grew up with baseball cards, pogo sticks, yoyos and penny candy. In the 1960's I was drafted during the Vietnam war. In the 1970's, I owned a powder blue leisure suit and got married. In the 1980's, I got divorced. In the 1990's I lost my job. Today, I occasionally post on various forums for a good laugh... Well don't leave us hanging. There is 2000's and 2010's. Something must have happened to you. At the very least you can say "got an internet connection" or "signed up for IMDb 2".
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Jan 11, 2019 19:52:02 GMT
What was the best decade to be a little kid? Whichever you were born in.
I was born and raised in an inner city during which time it was known for being particularly crime ridden. I was fine. It's only now as an adult that I look back and cringe a little. lol
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Post by vegalyra on Jan 11, 2019 22:06:52 GMT
In the 1950's, I grew up with baseball cards, pogo sticks, yoyos and penny candy. In the 1960's I was drafted during the Vietnam war. In the 1970's, I owned a powder blue leisure suit and got married. In the 1980's, I got divorced. In the 1990's I lost my job. Today, I occasionally post on various forums for a good laugh... I'd love to hear more of your story. Fill in the gaps. My Uncle grew up around the same period and would tell me a lot of stuff he'd do like power shift his '60 Chevy Impala down the Baytown Tunnel (a fairly large one) with glass packs just to hear it roar. He was shipped off to Vietnam as well. He had a bit of mechanical aptitude (from messing with cars and motorcycles) so he was sent off to school to work on helicopters and spent quite a bit of time "in country."
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 12, 2019 1:25:11 GMT
OK, here goes:
I was a loner in the 1960's. I used to zero in on bullies and pound the crap out of them. I attended the Dem National Convention in 1968 and thankfully, I was a fast runner. Those cops beat the crap out of anyone within their reach. In the late 60's, I was drafted into the US Army and spent 19 months overseas. IMHO, veterans are an overlooked minority in the US. Us Vietnam vets were despised upon our return home. I saw the Doors, Jeff Airplane, the Moody Blues, Alvin Lee & 10 Years After, John Mayall, Muddy Waters, Janis Joplin & Big Brother and the Holding Company, Frank Zappa and many others live during the 60's.
The only muscle car I ever owned was a 1975 Monte Carlo 350 w/posi traction. I rode motorcycles from the 1960's through the 1990s. A Triumph, a Harley, a Yamaha, and a Hondas CB1100F.
I am a collector. Have been since I was a kid. I have been an avid photographer (thanks to my dad who was a professional) since the 1960's. I currently own 14 cameras...2 Leica's, an Olympus OM2 System (8 lenses) a Rolleiflex 2 & 1/4 square and a myriad of antique cameras, all of them film cameras. A favorite of mine is the Rollei 35, which is the smallest fully functional 35mmm camera ever produced.
I have only scratched the surface here. And as an avid letter writer, I have been published about 250 times in various periodicals generally voicing my opinion on the state of American politics.
In the 90's and into the 2000, I worked for Big Blue. The biggest hoax pulled upon the American people was the myth called Y2K. It was a non event, and in 2008, I retired from Big Blue and have been as happy as can be ever since.
CIAO !!!
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Post by Archelaus on Jan 12, 2019 2:25:29 GMT
the 1980s
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Post by marianne48 on Jan 12, 2019 4:51:03 GMT
Disclaimer: The following pertains primarily to middle-class and lower-middle working-class families of suburbia.
Probably the 1950s. In the first decade of the Baby Boom, there were a lot more young children around. In many families, there were a couple of siblings, plus there were a lot of kids in the neighborhood to play with. Because of the larger number of siblings in families, kids learned to share, cooperate, communicate, and get along with each other. As a result, they had more empathy towards others and were less self-centered and dissatisfied. After the Depression and WWII years, parents were more likely to spoil their kids with as many advantages as they could afford. Chapters of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts proliferated in a lot of towns, and the Scouts were involved in many more activities (camping, etc.) instead of mainly focusing on selling cookies and popcorn. Little Leagues also were a big thing (before they became corrupted by sports-obsessed parents). Before the standardized Disney Worlds, Six Flags, and cruise ships, kids went on road trips with their families and got to see all those weird roadside attractions and billboards.
Kids had the freedom to go out of their houses and explore and play with their gang of friends, sometimes for hours until dinnertime. This gave them the chance to use their imaginations to create their own games and adventures. They played jump rope games, made treasure maps, explored the woods, learned about nature and the world of animals (real animals, not Pixar ones), learned to swim and ride bikes and build go-carts and models, made up secret codes and nonsense languages, and could even occupy themselves for long periods of time by playing with a tied-up piece of string (cat's cradle and other shapes).
Kids were more likely to have an extended family fairly close by them. In addition to at least one sibling, kids often had more access to grandparents (as additional relatives, not as surrogate parents for kids abandoned by their biological ones), as well as other relatives. Divorce was much less common, so more kids were used to some kind of intact family circle.
Kids' media consisted of radio shows, movies at the theater, and TV. There were no mind-numbing video games, no internet, no cell phones, no wireless headphones perpetually hanging out of their ears, no Fitbits (why do kids even have these?) to keep them perpetually "wired" and ADHD-prone.
Kids had more faith in society around them. They knew who their neighbors were, and assumed most people were good and trustworthy. Their president was a kindly old guy who'd once been a war hero and whose picture hung on the walls of their classroom. They hadn't yet lived through an assassination or some big scandal involving a U.S. president. They were too young to remember WWII and the Korean War, so they weren't familiar with those images. They had to deal with civil defense drills, but the concept of nuclear war was probably not too clear to them (unlike the concept of mass school shootings, which were virtually unimaginable to kids of that era but with which today's kids are all too familiar, and for which they practice drills on a regular basis).
The "kid world" of the 1950s was not overtaken by adults. Halloween was for children; adults only dressed up for the occasional costume party. Make-believe characters such as princesses and superheroes were the realm of children's fantasy worlds, not a lifestyle choice for adults. There were no adult-oriented movies based on comic book heroes. Kids dressed in shorts and baseball caps; adults dressed as grown-ups. Sugary snack foods were a treat for kids; adults did not eat Lucky Charms for dinner. Baseball cards, comic books, dolls, and stuffed animals were playthings for kids, not investment opportunities for adults. Kids were sometimes allowed to eat with their fingers, but grown-ups used forks.
There was a feeling of optimism for the future, that science and technology would improve everyone's lives and possibly even eradicate war, poverty, etc. This feeling was captured perfectly in the Donald Fagen song "I.G.Y."
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Post by QueenB on Jan 17, 2019 2:05:52 GMT
80s
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Post by flabob257 on Jan 17, 2019 13:56:42 GMT
1975 TO 1985 definitely. After then comes marriage, divorce, judge, loose your manhood...lol.
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Post by kevin on Jan 17, 2019 14:04:54 GMT
I think a lot of people will answer with the decade they grew up in. So I'll say the 2000s. I was just before the phone technology craze when people already had phones in primary school so I still had a lot of 'playing outside' and I was around for the popularization of smartphones during high school. 60s - 80s also sound like a very interesting period to grow up in.
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Post by Lucy on Jan 17, 2019 17:16:11 GMT
I was born in '88, but I would absolutely say 80s and 90s! Love the TV shows, cartoons, movies, toys, and music that came out from those eras.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jan 17, 2019 18:07:03 GMT
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