Congratulations all who were born in the 1940s 50s, 60s, 70s

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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 6:13 am

I turned 42 today, and still alive! Our mother used to make us a drink named "sputnick", made of a softdrink which later god banned by the authorities, coffee creamer, and sugar, which made it foaming. Then we drank it with a straw. We made bow and arrows ourselves, and used 5cm nails as a point, and shoot the arrows straight up to see which one could shoot the highest. On the streets! Shocked

and nobody told us it was unsafe. The playground had unsafe climbing racks with concrete pavement slabs under them, but we survived! We were told to whatch out for cars when we went playing outside (for the one or two cars that were passing our street) and had lots of space to play as there were not many cars parked there. Some families didn't have a car back then! My father traded in his moped for a car in the early seventies, and yes, no seatbelts, but we survived. When there was snow, the neighbourhood kids all came together for making a long slide in the middle of the street! Back then nobody was even thinking of going out with the car. When snowing, one stayed at home! (especially with the blizzard of '79) We had real butter and fat where the sliced potatoes were baked in. We went to the dairy farm at the end of the street to get two liter of milk, straight out of the cows! We had only two channels, and a black and white tv, and watched Pipo de clown, Paulus de boskabouter, and Beertje Collargol, simple entertainment for kids. And only on wednesday afternoons, or saturdays. My father had to listen to the radio for sports, the sports programme on tv was only on sundays!
Those were the days.....

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:12 pm

^^Congrats, vampy!

I barely qualify for this age list but the main difference I can see between me and today´s teenagers here is, they don´t spend any money on CDs. Instead, it´s smartphone contracts Laughing

And school is getting more and more regular in the afternoons here. I pity them.
Both together means "less freedom" and "More supervision" Sad

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:53 pm

Until 1951 we did not have tv. When we got the tv (a blonde wood one on a swivel stand) I wanted to watch Howdy Dowdy but mom said we could only turn it on to watch the (baseball) World Series.

So when we went to the grocery store there was an area roped off for children to sit and watch tv whilst our mums shopped. I would get to watch Howdy Dowdy there. Today havoc would break loose if children were to sit in an area like that at a store with no supervision.

In the evenings we listened to the radio:

Hopalong Cassidy
The Lone Ranger
Amos n Andy
Fibber McGee and Molly
Dragnet
Jack Benny
A Date With Judy
Arthur Godfrey and the Talent Show
Gene Autry
Buck Rogers
The Breakfast Club
Big John and Sparky (on Sat. mornings)
Ethel and Albert
One Man's Family
Avenger
Death Valley Days

and always

The Six O'Clock News

The Lone Ranger was always on at supper time and to this day when eating mashed potatoes I remember the Silver Bullet and "Who was that masked man?"

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 5:45 am

I have introduced my kids to Jack Benny (TV), they think he is funnier than the shows today. Very Happy

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 3:01 am

Geez, you all is old! Laughing

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 3:45 pm

^^^I didn't expect to be told we are all old by some 21 year old sweetheart.
Does that mean we should all retire to our rocking chairs by the fire. Wink

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 5:08 pm

^^^
Just not too close to the fire. You know how long it takes us "old people" to get up out of our chairs and move around these days... Very Happy

All you young whippersnappers - Get off my lawn!!! Laughing

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 5:20 pm

^^^ Not only that but since we have trouble getting out of those rockers if we are too close to the fire we could accidentally fall into the fire getting up.

Corona For Christmas, could we have some knitting needles, Sea Bond denture creme, Depends, a few canes and walkers, support hose, batteries for our hearing aids, etc?

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:03 pm

I think that instead of doing our scambaiters conference in Las Vegas we should go to Florida

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:23 pm

^^^ Good idea Jim, the "snowbirds" from the Land of the Chosen Frozen will be down there, as well as the Gray Haired Mafia! And the olders must remember to hit the sidewalk curbs when driving in Florida (if they still have a driver's license! Wink

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