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Originally Posted by rblammon
I am wondering what you remember growing up that the children today will probably never hear or see. I am thinking the sound of the dinner bell to call us home for lunch, or eaves dropping on your neighbor on a rotary dial party line phone. What say you?
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I was raised in a small village of 600 people and have wonderful childhood memories. I remember calling the phone operator to ask for my girlfriend's number. And having the operator say "Anne isn't home, she is visiting Judy, do you want me to ring her there?"
At night we'd play outside games, like Red Light, Green Light, until it got dark and our mothers yelled for us to come home.
In the winter we'd get boxes from the local hardware store and use them to toboggan down the hills. Our noses would be running and our fingers would
be freezing, but we'd keep sliding down the hills until we were forced to go home.