Remember when?

[HMFIC]

For those small town Oklahoma kids of the 70's like me:


Remember those days when it was all simpler...
living in the house that seemed huge then and tiny now
with the floor furnace that popped and hissed
and the window unit that fed the flower bed
while it shook the sill as it started

Remember that neighborhood, it was only a block
but there were miles and miles of friends and all were known
the back alleys were the highways for our bikes
with the dogs and the gardens and the other side of people
the only danger around was the occasional goat-head sticker

We rode on freedom with a banana seat
we rode for thousands of miles within that block
ramps of wood and bricks transformed us into Evil Knievel
yards full of sprinklers, clotheslines, trees and imagination
paving 1:64 scale roads in the dirt and and being the Dukes

School was bike rack, a tetherball, and H-O-R-S-E
walking there and running home to catch Batman
paper mache sculptures and Christmas plates
we learned the new metric system of the future
and found a million uses for red rubber balls

Remember cap guns, parachute soldiers and water rockets
riding in the back of the truck with the wood bed
remember those days when it was all simpler
living in the house with the brittle paint and the creaking floors
time moved slower back then

 

[mhphoto]

I grew up in the 90's and remember some of those thing, heh heh.

 

[HMFIC]

I grew up in the 90's and remember some of those thing, heh heh.

lol well I guess it could hold true for many generations. you whippersnapper.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

I remember all of that. When we lived in Denver, there were miles and miles of trails and junk between our houses... 100+ kids within 5 years of age in our little five block area. Sledding when it snowed in September, ski trips in June, 30 degree camping in July/August... Them were the days, back before everybody went insane with housing and Denver became a liberal haven.

I do still like going to Boulder to hit the micro-brews and hipster watch.

 

[OutdoorTulsa]

Yup was 8 in 1970 so every bit rings home, nice... Far, far different than today, for sure... Thanks +1

Now git off my lawn!!!

 

[Lurker66]

I remember filling up the water cooler. Lived so far out in the country, even bicycles sucked. Only friends visiting was cousins and that was on weekends.

If it wasnt for goathead stickers, we wouldnt of had grass. Ridin in the back of the truck was mandatory, besides it was hotter in the cab. Unless it was winter, then we fought over who got the warm spot over the exhaust.

I heard about the metric system but had a hard enough time understanding the American system.

I also remember patches of wood flooring showing thru the spots of worn out linolium. Im sure that crumbling paint was lead based but that couldnt be any worse than skiming a film of oil off the well water.

Yep, the slower days of my youth wont be missed.

 

[RickN]

I remember a friends father watching all 7 of us while my step mom was in the hospital one evening and offering us a quarter for every frog we could catch.
I remember his wife screaming when she found over 150 frogs in her bathtub.

 

[jrguns]

I too can remember all that. You left out wagons, cap guns and forts.

 

[been]

I grew up in the late 90's early 2000's......dont remember allot of that stuff.

 

[Onslow]

Back when a kid could have fun!