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Originally Posted by MrLonzo
In my eighth decade on this planet, and I'm reminiscing about the ‘good old days’ growing up in a relatively uncomplicated world. Double-feature matinees, drive-in theaters, drinking an ice cold coke from a bottle for 10 cents, penny candy, hunting down a snow shoveling or lawn mowing job for an extra buck to buy some comic books, schools taught English, Science and Math, and there were boys and girls and nothing in between. It’s nearly an unrecognizable world today, for some of us.
What do you think today’s kids will remember as ‘the good old days’ from their youth when they’re in their 70s? I can’t even imagine.
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I have proof the good old days were not at we remember. We had a box full of 16mm movies. I'm not sure. I think the camera belonged to my grandfather who passed when I was like 4. The movies were typical family picnic kind of stuff. I had never seen them as we never had a 16mm projector. I had them transferred to disc. I recall getting scolded for littering. I projected the streets were cleaner in the good old days. Reality, the pictures showed plenty of trash blowing about. Pictures on a teeter totter. A handle made out of pipe right at face level. George Carlin has a great skit that we exposed to dirt had far greater immunity than kids today. I remember Baker's Park on one side we would watch raw sewage dumped into the water. On the other side guys jumping off the cliff for quarters tossed by people on the circle line boats.
We were poor. We would collect soda bottles two cents for the small and a nickle for the large ones. The cheap ball-pensy pinkey was fifteen cents and the Spalding was a quarter. Pizza you could get a slice and a small soda for a quarter. That is, was five big empty sodas. i had a great childhood. Oh when we got a TV, I was like 7 ish, you actually hand to get up to change the channel.