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Motown Girl - that sounds just like me!! :-D :-D
We had an old style Morris 8, with mudguards which had the lights on top of them and a gap between the mudguard and the bonnet. If my father was in a good mood we used to be allowed to ride on the mudguards, holding on to the lights. Our friends would be on the running boards!!
I think my father only drove a short distance and VERY slowly, but we loved it. :-D :-D
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I can tell you what I survived.............................permanent scabs on my elbows and knees!
Skipping in the playground, at least 20 jumping the rope together. Someone was bound to fall, and then we all went like skittles.
Leapfrog, someone always stood up as you jumped.
Go-carts, the wheel always came off, and you ended up in the gutter.
Climbing trees, as the branch gave way.
The playgrounds were always tarmac, and the equipment was lethal. The horse, the umbrella, the slide with no rails, the ram. Not to mention the monkey bars!
Yep, I was always wearing a plaster somewhere...........and I am a girl!
:-( :-( :-(
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No Rollo, May 1959 Ford Consul, first of the lowline, I put on a few extras
and trimmings, bought new £828. Spent all my money after 10 years in the MN.
Happy days.!!!!!
:-D :-D :-D F.
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(for Frederick)
nice motor, Chevy ?
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Too true Staffs Col, Am a early Thirties boy,
was at sea in the Fifties, so must have missed the Planet that Rollo was on. !!!!!!!
:-S :-S :-S F.
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I lived on a farm and remember riding on the mud guard of the tractor around the village not allowed to do that today also harvest time my friend and me where allowed to go out to the field and ride back on top of the bales of hay sometimes six high great fun. Best time of my life.
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Speak for yourself. Others had very different childhoods in the 1950s.
First, you survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
My mother never drank in her life and did not smoke during pregnancy. She was a hospital matron.
They took aspirin, no
ate blue cheese dressing never
tuna from a tin never
and didn't get tested for diabetes never
baby cots were covered with bright
colored lead-based paints. never
You had no childproof lids on
medicine bottles, doors or cabinets wrong
rode your bikes, you had no helmets, correct
not to mention hitchhiking never
cars with no seat belts invented abt 1961 father always used in front
air bags not invented
Riding in the back of a van never too obviously stupid
drank water from the garden
hosepipe and NOT from a bottle never too obviously stupid
You shared one soft drink
with four friends, from one bottle
and NO ONE actually died from this. never - we could all afford our own
You ate cakes home made never "shop bought"
white bread no, brown wholemeal or continental black
real butter sparingly
drank pop with sugar in it hated "pop" all my life"
but you weren't overweight true
YOU WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE
PLAYING!! no, preferred music while my father locked up the playstreet kids dads and elder siblings
You would leave home in the
morning and play all day hardly I was away at school
as long as we were back when
the streetlights came on. no
No one was able to reach you all
day. no
And you were OK. sure I was
You would spend hours building
your go-carts made model areoplanes which flew
out of scraps and then ride
down the hill, only to find out you
forgot the brakes. After running into
the bushes a few times, you learned
to solve the problem . I used to larf
As for the other stuff .... an unknown planet to me.
I was happy.
:-D
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....1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!! First, you survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, your baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when you rode your bikes, you had no helmets, not to mention, the risks you took hitchhiking. As children, you would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun.
You drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle. You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. You ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but you weren't overweight because...... YOU WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
You would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach you all day. And you were OK. You would spend hours building your go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out you forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, you learned to solve the problem .
You did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........
YOU HAD FRIENDS and you went outside and found them! You fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents you played with worms(well most boys did) and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. You made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although you were told it would happen, you did not poke out any eyes. You rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing you out if you broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and you learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them! .
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