Congrats to those born in the 1930's 40's 50's 60's and early 70's

vonny


Joined: 25/06/2009
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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 19:07

First we survived being born to mothers who smoked/drank while carrying us and lived in houses made of asbestos. They took aspirin,ate blue cheese,raw egg products,loads of bacon and processed meat and didnt get tested for diabetes or cervial cancer.Our baby cots were painted with bright coloured lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets or shoes,not to mention the risks we took hitch hiking. As kids, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags. We drank water from the hosepipe not from a bottle. Take away food was limited to fish & chips, no pizza shops McDonalds, KFC Subway or Nandos. Even though all the shops closed at 6pm and didnt open on Sundays, we didnt starve. We shared one soft drink with 4 friends from 1 bottle and no one actually died from this.We would collect old drink bottles and cash them in the corner shop & buy toffees, gobstoppers,bubble gum and some bangers to blow up frogs-

aussiejock



Joined: 06/10/2010
Posts: 350

Message Posted:
10/10/2010 19:19

yes those were the days, we have a very popular beach near Fremantle in Western Australia where the council wants to bring in 140 new bylaws, ie, no digging holes in the beach, no running around, no large umbrellas, no playing, no kites, it just goes on and on, well everyone's up in arms over this, it's H/S gone mad,

vonny


Joined: 25/06/2009
Posts: 476

Message Posted:
10/10/2010 19:21

cont

with. We ate cup cakes,white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, BUT we werent overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING. We would go out in the morning and play all day,as long as we were back when the street lights came on. We spent hours building our go-carts out of old prams then ride them down the hill,only to find we forgot the brakes.We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds. We didnt have Play stations,Nintendo,Wii,Xboxes, no video games at all. No 999 channels on Sky,no video/dvd films, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no internet or internet chat rooms...WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them. We fell out of trees got cut,broke bones and teeth and there were no law suits from these accidents. Only girls had pierced ears. We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt and the worms did not live in us forever.You could only buy easter eggs & hot cross buns at easter time. We were given air guns & catapults for--

rocking


Joined: 05/11/2008
Posts: 421

Message Posted:
10/10/2010 19:21

No duvets - coats thrown on bed. No carpets - sacking with pieces of old cloth pulled through to make rugs. Did not see a banana until I was 11. Had a TV in our house when I was seventeen - did not know anybody who owned a car until was about 19. Parents thrilled when I passed 11 plus - cannot remember them buying me a great present, just know they were very proud. No maternity leave, 2 children and each time was at work and left for the hospital - delivered, then home after 10 days back to work within 2 weeks. I never feel I missed out on anything - what a great life. Our playground was what we called 'bombed sites'. Great.

vonny


Joined: 25/06/2009
Posts: 476

Message Posted:
10/10/2010 19:29

cont

our 10th birthday. Our teachers use to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bullys ruled the playground. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. our parents didnt invent stupid names for their kids like Kiora,Blade, Ridge & Vinilla. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL.

I thought id share this with those who had the luck to grow up as kids & maybe if your kids read this they will see how brave their parents actually were

Sorry it took to long,

vonny


Joined: 25/06/2009
Posts: 476

Message Posted:
10/10/2010 19:38

Aussiejock, next they will be banning people fro the beach.

Rocking,i think most of us can look back and think Them were the days.

Just wondering what the next generation of kids will be like

And lol ive become my mother, going on about generations

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
10/10/2010 19:41

Was this era before condoms and the pill? No wonder the World is in a mess!



Richard

vonny


Joined: 25/06/2009
Posts: 476

Message Posted:
10/10/2010 19:53

HA ha, but how many 13 year olds fell pregnant in those days

PaulW



Joined: 20/07/2009
Posts: 651

Message Posted:
10/10/2010 20:19

Best form of birth control........... scared of their mothers reaction!

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
11/10/2010 07:02

Back then 13 year olds were still children enjoying play not thinking about boys and sex.Or they were working to help thier families and were too tired to go out.

zookeeper


Joined: 17/03/2010
Posts: 168

Message Posted:
11/10/2010 08:35

Ah nostalgia ain't what it used to be.



Zookeepers husband

pc4854


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 243

Message Posted:
11/10/2010 08:48

There were two fantastic inventions in this era, two inventions that would change the world we live in and they were both very, very small, took up hardly any room at all. Can you guess what they were 'cause they certainly did change the world we live in and as this thread suggests, not necessarily for the better!





















Answer. One was "The Pill" the other was the microchip. Was that where it all started to go wrong?

Troodo


Joined: 12/06/2008
Posts: 1002

Message Posted:
11/10/2010 10:05

yony. And more of us are reaching one hundred - we must have been doing something right.

twinky


Joined: 10/08/2008
Posts: 74

Message Posted:
11/10/2010 15:26

Vendy,

that was brillant, so so so true, would you mind if copied and paste it and send it on

vonny


Joined: 25/06/2009
Posts: 476

Message Posted:
11/10/2010 16:49

Twinky please feel free to copy & paste and send it on.

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
11/10/2010 17:00

erm...i was born in the late 60's...grew up in the 80's...and i can honestly say, that life wasn't so great then at all! There was bullying, there was alcohol, there was drugs, (predominantly glue sniffing) there were tough times just like there are today, just a different sort...but it really doesn't matter what sort of hard time you got, or when...every difficult time is punctuated by your era...it's just what you are used to....so saying people had it easier or more fun way back when...is all a matter of relativity...as i'm sure your grandmothers and fathers will agree!





DD

branwell



Joined: 09/08/2010
Posts: 141

Message Posted:
11/10/2010 17:18

Bring back diptheria, eh?

barnaclebill


Joined: 12/12/2008
Posts: 303

Message Posted:
11/10/2010 17:45

Brilliant post yonny.Hope yor not offended if I add on a few of my childhood memories to your post.



Wearing wellies in the summer and sandals in the winter because they were cheaper to buy



lying in the steps in the dam and letting the sea salmon slide up your belly on the way to their spawning grounds



Been pushed in a cart with a bin lid as yor shield and clothes prop as your lance copying Sir Lancelot and the knights of the round table



Using a bit of conveyor belt as a sledge and sliding down the slag heaps



Finish school at 4 ,home ,tea walk/run to the beach and play in the sand dunes/swim till it got dark



Going to see the flying scotsman as it passed on its way south



And best of all getting the brown jelly on a Monday from the drippin jar in the pantry on hot toast that had just

been done on the open fire

Priceless

halffull


Joined: 26/01/2009
Posts: 571

Message Posted:
11/10/2010 17:45

Tights were the other invention that ruined the world!!!!!!!!! I remember my first attempts at "courting" and that was before tights got in the way:=)

vonny


Joined: 25/06/2009
Posts: 476

Message Posted:
12/10/2010 00:15

Barnaclebill: not offended at all sounds like you have some happy memories.



Didnt the women use to drew a line on the back of their stockings at one time? or did they drew the line on the back of their legs, i think it was in the 1940.s,, just something i heard. maybe a few women on C44 did it.

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
12/10/2010 00:20

Not that I was around at the time vonny but I believe the story goes that the ladies would use an eyebrow pencil to draw a line down the back of their legs to make it look like the seem stitch from the stockings of the era as this would make it look like they were slightly better off or so my granny told me

vonny


Joined: 25/06/2009
Posts: 476

Message Posted:
12/10/2010 00:26

An eyebrow pencil,thats right. you.ve jogged my memory. Its waaay before my time too

Blackbird



Joined: 11/08/2009
Posts: 1432

Message Posted:
12/10/2010 00:29

I can just still just remember rationing for meat and chocolate.

Re Message 19 yes I also remember tights that got in the way............it made her toes go up and down!

branwell



Joined: 09/08/2010
Posts: 141

Message Posted:
12/10/2010 00:41

...yes, things were much better before they got better ....

shrimp


Joined: 01/09/2010
Posts: 939

Message Posted:
12/10/2010 00:47

Mmmm, spangles, sherbut fountains with liquorish, jamboree bags.....threepenny pieces, and half crowns......

Blackbird



Joined: 11/08/2009
Posts: 1432

Message Posted:
12/10/2010 00:54

..................and Wagon Wheels that where huge...................

apc2010


Joined: 28/07/2010
Posts: 1689

Message Posted:
12/10/2010 03:49

vonny , and people respected other peoples rights.............

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
12/10/2010 11:43

In each successive generation people believe that THEIR formative years, lifestyle and music, were the best!



Why?



Because it's impossible to make comparison if one is not actually living in and experiencing an era.

aussiejock



Joined: 06/10/2010
Posts: 350

Message Posted:
12/10/2010 18:31

the 60s and 70s nothing can compare, the pill, free love, best music ever, not a care in the world, the free lifesyle, and you could go to any part of the world and never feel in any danger, there wasn't the nutter's around then, life was so simple, work was plentifull, time and a half and double time when you worked a Sat or Sun, a week in Blackpool or butlins, or heaven forbid a holiday in Spain, I do miss my early years and my great mates who I also went to school with, and even after all these years I still communicate with. but as you say life goes on and we can't live in the past, but we still have the memories



Robert

branwell



Joined: 09/08/2010
Posts: 141

Message Posted:
12/10/2010 22:08

..the 70s..wasn't that when Peter Sutliffe was doing the rounds?

aussiejock



Joined: 06/10/2010
Posts: 350

Message Posted:
13/10/2010 06:06

No Peter Sutliffe The Yorkshire Ripper was doing his rounds during 1981 it all started to go pearshaped after the 80s



Robert

branwell



Joined: 09/08/2010
Posts: 141

Message Posted:
13/10/2010 08:46

No, Peter Sutcliffe was CONVICTED in 1981 ...his murders started in 1975 (with other non-fatal attacks before that) ....women in Yorkshire /Lancashire in particular lived in fear for a very large part of the 1970s...not such a golden age.

aussiejock



Joined: 06/10/2010
Posts: 350

Message Posted:
13/10/2010 10:27

no you are right started in 1975, got the date from memory, but one guy and the British Isles cowers in fear, I don't think so, Oz has had some of the most Horrendous serial killers in the world, but life goes on, doesn't make Oz unlivable, they are still great places to live, and the 60s and 70s had that bit of magic, that will never come back.





Robert

TopTen


Joined: 15/04/2009
Posts: 1246

Message Posted:
13/10/2010 11:18

Vonny wonderful days when as a kid you could play from dusk to dawn without your parents fearing you would be molested or abducted. When the games were not electronic but playing kiss catch and kick can and rusty bum bum took up all your play time. Days of rag and bone men chimney sweeps fruit and veg sold off a horse drawn carts, woderful.

TopTen


Joined: 15/04/2009
Posts: 1246

Message Posted:
13/10/2010 11:19

oops typo last word should read wonderful

branwell



Joined: 09/08/2010
Posts: 141

Message Posted:
13/10/2010 13:55

1960s ..kids could play all day without fear of being molested? Moors Murderers spring to mind!

aussiejock



Joined: 06/10/2010
Posts: 350

Message Posted:
13/10/2010 16:20

Re Message 36 branwell



god you are a morbid sod, whats with all the negativity, I and proberly every person on this forum have never been in contact with serial killers, or murderers, it's all about life in the 60s and how we lived our lives and how the world has changed, but you seem to be so negative about life,











Robert

halffull


Joined: 26/01/2009
Posts: 571

Message Posted:
13/10/2010 18:06

Going to the shops with a farthing!!! for sweats

aussiejock



Joined: 06/10/2010
Posts: 350

Message Posted:
13/10/2010 18:17

halffull a farthing, you really lived the lifesyle, I remember one Christmas I got a silver sixpence, was over the moon, lasted me for weeks on sweats, I remember going to the pictures and getting in for two jam jars, they would put you in the flee pit to watch the movie,







Robert

branwell



Joined: 09/08/2010
Posts: 141

Message Posted:
13/10/2010 20:55

No, not morbid at all, it's just that 'the good old days' is such a lazy perspective on history...do you think that the people who were our age now in the 60s/70s thought it was great? No, they looked back to the 30s/40s as a time of innocence etc. etc. etc. ....it's to do with YOUR age not THE age .

shrimp


Joined: 01/09/2010
Posts: 939

Message Posted:
13/10/2010 21:11

Brandwell..............But they didnt have the choice of music that came with the 60's........that is when it all changed with the arrival of the fab 4.....up to then you just had the likes of the ink spots!!! (I believe!!!!)

Smity



Joined: 14/09/2009
Posts: 826

Message Posted:
13/10/2010 21:23

Well done vonny just relived my adolesance thanks (born 1955)

Great times

vonny


Joined: 25/06/2009
Posts: 476

Message Posted:
13/10/2010 21:32

I think what we're trying to say Brandwell,is kids had much more freedom to play outside. If anyone misbehaved an adult could tell you off or go and speak to your parents and you knew you were in trouble.Do that today and that kid will tell you where to go! We didnt need expensive toys to keep us amused,we made up our own games. and yes, murderers and abusers have gone on for centuries but it does seem like its increased. My dad was in the police in the 60.s so he knew what was going on at the time but it was still safe for us to play out. My kids were never allowed to play out in the 80's-90's. now they have their own little ones who'll never get to play out.

BUT i will say,Here in Cyprus the kids are much more safer, and its lovely to see them out enjoying themselves i only wished id brought mine over 20yrs ago

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
13/10/2010 22:49

I lived in the 50's. We played top & whip, hop scotch, skipping, all on the main road through the village, hardly any traffic, a bus every 2 hours to the nearest town. One general shop and bakehouse, one chip shop, 3 public houses and 3 churches, 2 Schools. The doctor's surgery was in the back room of someones house, no chemist, we had to walk 1/2 mile every morning before school to the farm to get milk and eggs. Our door was never locked my parents went out to work but the door was left unlocked for me & my brother to get in after school. I suppose it depends on where you live whether children can play out my grandchildren of 10, 11, 13 go out to play locally but do have mobile phones with them.

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
13/10/2010 23:25

I am a child of the sixties and I could tell you stories but we all have our own, my opinion and not one that I am looking to dispute anybody about is that technology and drughs are to blame for what is essentially a much less safe society. Now I love new technology and I think that what I have witnessed in my 40 odd years has to be the most accelerated advancement in life ever seen but it has made everything too easy and high paced.

The other thing is the high rates of crime which I believe is highly motivated by drugs and the prices you have to pay, the police have a nightmare trying to cope with everything that they are up against and again the technology comes in and helps the criminals beat the system.

I loved my childhood and felt safe as houses because if my parents weren't there to protect me the neighbourhood was and not the watch, just the neighbours. Nowadays there is no trust ad I can understand why but what can we do to get back what seemed like a much better lifestyle?

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
14/10/2010 00:10

i wish those days were back with us, i agree with most comments. i was old in the 60 ts well 16 when it all started. i remember before that when we drew the markings for hopscotch, then we had the hula hoop, god was i good at that. we saw the innoncene in everything because we could. no hoodies, we would have thought they were boggey men. those were the days my friends. Now a 13 year old can be a dad, proger sums it up better than i can

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
14/10/2010 00:24

Those days are actually still here, it is just illegal to show them or people are too scared.

For example, even on this forum people think it is a better idea to just ignore the bullies and they will give up and go away.

Speaking from experience of bullying people, we don't care if you ignore us, it means the same as argueing, we still made you do something without having to change our own stance therefore we have all ready won. Now in my day, all abully worried about was being caught by whatever authorities there were or someone who stood up to us whether it be a target, a protector or another even bigger bully.

Nowadays as it is on this forum, people won't threaten back because it is against the law (political correctness, pah) or because they are frightened of what others might think of them. It is the same in life, if somone slapped me round the head the police would thank them not arrest them and neighbours would support them not shun them.

IMO, that is why we survived IT ALL

Blackbird



Joined: 11/08/2009
Posts: 1432

Message Posted:
14/10/2010 00:42

I grew up in the 60's - it was great - nights out without trouble - very innocent compared to nights out today?

branwell



Joined: 09/08/2010
Posts: 141

Message Posted:
14/10/2010 15:32

My final word on 60s/70s music (and believe me, I was there) ...the last number 1 of the 60s and the first number 1 of the 70s was -'Two Little Boys' (Rolf Harris) -'nuff said!

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
14/10/2010 16:06

RE msg 1, vonny.

RE msg 14, twinky: (...) that was brillant, so so so true, would you mind if copied and paste it and send it on (...)

RE msg 15, vonny: (...) Twinky please feel free to copy & paste and send it on. (...)

=> This is also a very funny story: http://is.gd/g1DaW (btw just one of 16 versions on the 'Net)

vonny


Joined: 25/06/2009
Posts: 476

Message Posted:
14/10/2010 16:41

Thanks for that link Dutch

thats a longer version that i havent seen before,i got mine from an e mail which i thought many people could relate too, hence the reason why i wanted to share it

BeeKeeper


Joined: 29/09/2009
Posts: 137

Message Posted:
14/10/2010 17:00

What's wrong with names like Kiora, Blade, Ridge & Vinilla?

branwell



Joined: 09/08/2010
Posts: 141

Message Posted:
14/10/2010 21:45

They're 'scrabble names'....parents pick the letters out of a bag!