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Originally Posted by Rick V
Chill Sid, no one mentioned you or anybody by name, just sayin, the generation before ya didn't have too much to do inside so we were always out, always moving.
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Yep.
Sid imagine a time in the olden days of the 60s and 70s. Only the government had computers. Every single telephone was owned by AT&T. Everyone rented their telephone, you could not own one. Long distance calls were very expensive. I remember getting my first portable FM radio that was three times bigger than your i-phone. The only way to play your own music collection was a record player, plugged into the wall. TV was black and white and had three stations. My first tape recorder was a reel to reel!
A bicycle that weighed thirty pounds and had 3 speeds and was state of the art. I did not live in a house with air conditioning until the late 70s. Not one school I ever attended had air conditioning.
In high school a lot of kids brought their hunting riles to school. I carried a pocket knife to school from the ninth grade on.
There was not much to do inside so we were outside playing. It is just amazing how much things have changed in just my lifetime.