LW888, I think I came along right after you but I remember Dad bringing home a Zenith B&W portable tv and watching all weekend when Pres Kennedy was assassinated. We used to walk everywhere, no parents driving us around but of course, most everything was within walking distance. We had brick streets..loved the sound made when a car would go by. Loved the ball-bearing wheeled roller skates that you wore with your shoes on; kept the key on a ribbon around my neck. Playing outside all the time; ollie, ollie, oxen free(sp?), especially after dark. A special treat for me was taking the electric trolley bus downtown with my Mom to go to Rike's Dept Store & then have a hamburger & fries across the st at Frisch's--I can still remember how good it smelled when we walked in. I loved my blue Princess phone, wish I would have kept it but back then they belonged to the phone company. I feel sorry for kids today but I guess each generation feels that way about the younger ones.