It used to be that...

[Whisky]

We used to play mumblety-peg in my front yard.

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Can you imagine parents allowing this today? The other parents would be suing before the blood had dried.

I was just explaining Mumblety-peg to my son the other day.

 

[Hms123]

I was just explaining Mumblety-peg to my son the other day.

I hope his mom wasn’t around.

 

[pierrelortie44]

It used to be that the ancient Greeks 2500 years ago complained about “kids these days, not like in our time”.

 

[Alum Ladd]

My dad (pilot) is the one standing in the middle.

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Isn't that a B-26 Marauder?

A plane that needed a good pilot.

Congratulations on having had such a Father and having such a wonderful photo!

 

[Hms123]

Isn't that a B-26 Marauder?

A plane that needed a good pilot.

Congratulations on having had such a Father and having such a wonderful photo!

I think that’s right. He also flew B-17s earlier in the war.

 

[Ankerwycke]

In 1900 there were 102,000 pubs in England and Wales, there’s less than 40,000 now.

 

[Feldgrun]

My brother & I would ride our bikes nearly a mile away from home to pick blackberries. My mom wasn't worried about us. We were 6 & 8 years old.

 

[musicman1951]

When I was born we still had segregated water fountains in the South. Women made 64 cents to every dollar made by a man and 34.3 % of Americans were high school graduates. There were some lovely things about the good old days, but not everything was rosy.

 

[Rusty Blade]

When we were kids our lives seemed to focus on the outdoor life, baseball , road hockey, building tree forts, and of course our bikes were everything to us. Pre-internet life as a kid was pretty rich. Growing up back in the 60s was a tech free existence. All we had was B&W TV and phone that hung on the wall in the kitchen.