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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940'S, 50'S, 60'S AND 70'S !! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun. We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight Hi jet-set I well remember it, as well as playing in the coal bunker, Jacko roller skates, refreshers that fizzed in your mouth (they're like chalk now), belly ache from too many acid drops, being able to get the train go swimming and have sweets for half a crown or less, smoking behind the bike sheds,psychopathic teachers, Knock down ginger,truth kiss or dare, hopping barge, blind mans buff, offground touch. Party games where there were winners and losers, cowboys and indians wasn't racist,catching tadpoles and newts in the local pond, Mothers that cooked real food, fathers that went to work, parents that GAVE YOU THEIR LOVE AND TIME as well as a lift under the ear if you were cheeky. Hand me downs,tin baths in front of the fire, WALKING to school, fair fights between 2 kids without weapons,saturday morning pictures, sunday school, cold winters, rainy springs, hot summers, days out at southend with a bucket and spade. Money back on lemonade bottles, no packaging, jamboree bags, the cubs, dutch arrows. Watch with mother, Ivor the engine, Noggin the nog, Torchy, all watched on a black & white tv with a screen no bigger than a piece of A4 paper. The nit nurse, nothing open on sunday,never having heard of paedophiles, front door keys on string behind the letter box, routmaster busses. I could go on but you obviously know all this too. I'm a 50's kid and it may not have been a better time, but at least you were free unlike todays kids, I pity them really. They don't know they're born. Very true that A 60s kid YES. I was born in 1947, and survived hippiedom also, graduating from high school in 1965. Life sure has changed. Thanks for sharing. i feel ill lol (60 s) great days ( dont forget no heat just the one fire in the living room if there was any coal left(or old shoes), no hot water unless you could pay for the immersion heater lol) Those were the day's! 70's child |
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