[fintstone]

It was a great time...especially if your family was middle class. But times were pretty hard for a lot of folks during the 60s/70s. Some rural kids did not even have flush toilets and running water in their homes. Many never had a bike as a child, GI Joes, even phones or television sets. They worked when not is school and many left school when they met the minimum age (16) to help provide for their family. Most of those just don't post on a Porsche BBS. There was a very clear line drawn by socioeconomic status. Heaven help you if you were born on the wrong side of town or were a rural kid going to school in the suburbs (or worse yet, the city). You were treated like dirt and could not identify with the kids that seemed to have everything (and were often excluded or were relatively unwelcome in school activities or social activities of your peers).