12 Dangers Young People Ignored in the 1950s
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- The 1950s is often romanticized as the golden age of America. For many, it was full of adventures that included lots of fun, but it all came with some level of risk. So, let’s take a look back at all the dangers that young people ignored in the 1950s, that made childhood so memorable.
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What were some of the dangerous things you got yourself into during the 1950s?
I wasn’t born in the 1950s.
Although, I was not alive during the 1950s, many Children and Teenagers would ride through DDT clouds and that was very dangerous, but the general public did not know that DDT causes Cancer in people.
Born in 1962, I did many of the things in this video. It was just normal back then! A trip in the back of the family station wagon was THE BEST!!!
my neighbor accidentally put the runner from a snow sled thru his eye
Tree tag, friend broke his leg. Slay riding broken arm when his sled flipped by friend. B.B gun fight one lost eye. Riding in the back of pickup truck and jumping the truck over the R.R. crossing, get thrown out of truck. Going down steep hill with no brake on bicycle and putting your foot on the front tire behind the top of the fork to slow down. Playing mumbly peg with knife, seeing how close you could put it in the ground next to your friends foot by throwing it. I could go on but at 76 I am still here.
I grew up in those days, we lived through it, and doggone we had fun!
OH HELL YEAH,,, Kids today couldn't do what we did back in the seventies and eighties..
Thank god our parents weren't helicopters.
@@clooaan
My mother definitely wasn't.
Her rule: Be Home Before Dark !
The best time ever to grow up
And yet, we're still here. Retired and reminiscing.
Yeah rub it in..... lol those were the days! Most of us were poor and didn't ever know it!
hé oui malgré mes 74 printemps ...
And I never met a person with a "peanut allergy" during my entire school career. Amazing.
@SSN515 Me neither, what happened?
@ Dunno. SSRI's? 79 vaccinations by age 10? Excessive diagnoses for medical profits? Helicopter parents?
Kids today fall apart when their phone quits working. We had asbestos insulation, chewed on lead painted radioactive toys, played with gobs of mercury, played with 400 degree toys, had parents that smoked a pack a day each and rode without seat belts somehow managed to live well into retirement age and we still won world wars, sent men to the moon and created an amazing high tech society. We are SURVIVORS!
Amazing life! 😊
Moonlanding was a hoax.
Hear, hear!!!!
I still have Uranium 235 in my room. In case the grid goes down 😎
My grandfather gave me mercury to play with. Age 77. ❤❤
"Safety" doesn't exist. It's a catch-all term for people that can't think. You can only learn two ways. You listen to others or by practical experience. Your kid gets burned on a hot stove. So what? Now she knows. "There's no lesson to be learned the second time you slam your finger in the car door".
One thing this video proves is even kids were smarter then. They didn't eat lead paint or get run over or worry about hyped up dangers that didn't exist. Pass the water hose I'm thirsty.
The dangers he mentions were real. It isn’t that kids ate paint from the walls, the dust was inhaled. My own son had to be treated for lead in the 1990s after we had our house painted and the old paint dust was on the ground.
All true, and I am glad to have experienced those times.
I have always considered myself fortunate growing up in the 50s-60s. The best of times!
@@markkaminski2416 I was 9 years old in 1950. Great times.
I was a child of the 60’s we did most of this. Red Rover was a staple of our day. There were at least ten kids on each side of all ages boys and girls. It was the best childhood! ❤😊
Same, I was born in 1961 and enjoyed every moment of it. If I could go back and leave behind today's world, I would in a heartbeat.
Me too, Tony. In a heartbeat 💓
I HATED Red Rover! The boys would always try to breaks through me because I'm small! Never broke any bones though.
I was in high school in the mid 1970s and parked my pickup in the school parking lot with a hunting rifle and/or shotgun in the gunrack behind the seat.
No warning labels and we lived!
Did that in the early 60's, too, but you needed to have tags.
we took our guns to school for hunters safety! took them on the bus too! funny how society then had a sense of responsibly and respect from others.
My high school had (and still has) its own private gun range. We'd go fire off a few rounds at lunch. The only rule was no photorealistic targets of people.
Back in the day, we all played in the street. It was actually a PRACTICAL gathering site. If one or two kids went out, everyone else could see them from their homes. And before long, we'd have a large group. Street hockey and kickball were popular games. Most families had only one car, so there was little traffic. And the drivers were decades away from the distraction of cell phones!
le meilleur tel c’était celui relié a un fil lol 😊
Your video reminded me of living in the 1960s as a school kid. We breathe a full of leaded gas atmosphere. All gas stations sold regular leaded gas for our cars. There were no seat belts or air conditioning on cars unless paid more for extra luxurious items of a new car. We had an AM/FM radio with an antenna in the vehicle. In supermarkets, there was no diet food such as sugar-free and low-fat supplements on food. Grocery workers carried our grocery food bags and put them in my parent's car. There were a lot of hitchhikers on the roads who were picked up by drivers. I worked for four years as a delivery boy, delivering newspapers to customers' homes and collecting money for newspapers from them every month. There was a gun club in my high school in the 1970s, and I even enrolled in a gun shooting class at the university in the early 1980s, but it was the last gun shooting class before the university banned it. People were thinner, healthy, obeyed, and primarily honest due to high morality and Christian values. Women wore skirts in the 1960s and even mini-skirts with pantyhose in the 1970s. The TV news was basically non-biased - no tabloids. We had three TV channels (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and one more TV channel for the independent channel. The TV shows ended at 12 midnight and started at 5 am. There were no closed captions or subtitles, except for foreign films. There were no video recorders until the 1980s when VCR became affordable, but we had movie projectors, 8mm movie cameras, and Polaroid cameras. The booming of pornography films in a movie theatre was at its zenith in the 1970s. I worked in a fast food restaurant in the 1970s, and there were no gloves and hairnets on the job, but we washed our hands when preparing food. We were industrious people in those days and played outside most of the activities. There were no video games, computers, or the Internet in those days of the 1960s and 1970s. We played board and card games such as Monopoly and Twisters. People read books and watched TV in those days. We used rotary phones at home, and there were payphone booths in shopping malls, gas stations, etc. The majority of the society were families. It is an entirely different world from today, but I like their times better because we were more productive, intelligent, and active, which made life more enjoyable.
I remember back to 1960. I got my first pocket knife probably in first grade, and still carry one. I finally wore my first helmet when I bought a motorcycle years later. My buddies and I played army with BB guns. And on a typical day I might ride my bike to see friends who lived 5 to 10 miles away, or walk the local railroad tracks hunting snakes.. I don't know if I ever knew a kid who'd never had a broken arm or leg.
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW A KID WITH A CAST ? TELLS YOU HOW WIMPY THEY ARE NOW. HARD TO BREAK A BONE WITH A CELL PHONE IN YOUR HAND, AND NEVER SEEING THE SUN SHINING.
@@meauxjeaux431 You just blew my mind with that comment !!! You are absolutely right. In elementary school, we used our felt pens to sign more casts than we did school art work!
In high school most of the guys carried a Buck knife, or some sort of multi-tool.
I have done everything you said was dangerous in this video, and guess what. I am 77 and still going strong, you did learn respect for weapons, guns , knives, flippers, and cars. And you learned respect for others too. It wasn’t a bad time to grow up, freedom and fun was everything to us then.
The best of days, so glad I grew up then!
Recollection Road .... The year ... 2080. Children in the early 2000s became addicted to their cellphones and lost the art of one on one communication and their learning skills disappeared and couldn't work because one hand was always in one position from holding on to their cellphone. Babies were even being born with cellphones already in their hands.
Can you emagine the antiques they come across in 2080, plastic and so mass produced. But since everything is made to throw away only the holders will have the user hand in the business lol
@pattycake8272it’s sad isn’t it
.....ces maudits tel....
72 and Canadian . Children now are a different species lacking even eye contact from an older person . Thanks Zuck you cash hungry freak .
On the upside: those of us who lived through all of the "HORRORS" of the fifties weren't glued to the computer or phone monitors 24/7, none of us were obese, we played all day, outside, with tons of other kids IN PERSON and developed social skills and we weren't a bunch of wussies afraid of our own shadows! I had a GREAT TIME growing up!
I recently watched an episode of Father Knows Best and there is one scene where Bud is stirring a can of paint in the kitchen and he says to his mother," Mother, does paint have lead in it? And Mother says," Certainly it does." and then Bud says," I better stop, I think I'm getting lead poisoning." The episode was made in 1954. So it looks like they DID know the dangers of lead back then. I guess they knew it was bad but didn't realize how bad. Kinda like smoking
Wow!
You could play in the streets back then with no worries because drivers actually WATCHED where they were going and what was happening around them, not like today when there's too many idiot devices distracting drivers all the time. From complex control panels in cars to their cell phone and entertainment systems. Back in my day, even an AM radio in a car was an option and was not standard equipment.
What about the bike ramps we’d make with cinder blocks and old boards? We would see how steep we could make them to get the maximum height on our bikes.
And the gravel that would be embedded in the palms of your hands when you crashed ..OUCH ! Haha..We are a different breed for sure ..
My school’s playground was built in the 1950s which was metal and it remained til the 1980s when the school went through a renovation, they got a colored plastic playground with cushion floors! Even our local park has got a new playground with more safety features!
My elementary school was built in the 70s. the merry-go-round was quite rusted out and had sharp edges. we'd try to push kids we didn't like into these jagged metal edges.
@ you’re lucky that your school even had a merry go round! We never had it, but I do remember a park did have it, but it moved slow to prevent injuries.
@@grayrabbit2211too funny!
Grew up Upper West Side Manhattan. 71st B'way. 60's. Played in the street with the other kids all the time. Great memories.
I was born in Brooklyn NY (Flatbush) in 1961, and I know what you mean.
They used to spray the trees and swamps with DDT from tank trucks while we were playing outdoors, too. Had a open sewage cesspool behind our development.
Not in the 1950's but, in the 1960's I went around barefoot during the summer. No helmets or pads were worn during biking, skating and skateboarding. Going Trick-or-treating in strange neighborhoods without parental supervision. Both my older brothers carried pocket knives.
"Still. these playgrounds were epic for fun and courage, not fear!"👍
We went carol singing Christmas Eve on the back of our local hardware truck because someone in the church worked there. Even fitted a small pump organ on it. Fun going around the hairpin bends on the way!! Loved it!
They had soo much more fun and freedom back then, it's practically communism everywhere now. I grew up in the 1990s and still did things like jumping off swings, playing on tall monkey bars, and playing Red Rover. I even took rides in the back of an open pickup truck bed. I would have loved to have had the atomic energy lab as a kid. My grandfather was a nuclear engineer in World War II and the textbook he wrote for those aspiring in nuclear energy courses is on display at the Las Vegas Atomic Energy Museum. Cool stuff.
All those negativities, while some happened, were so RARE as to not be of much concern. People are just paranoid today.
I wonder how many people do not know this.
And back then few kids were sick or fat. Now 60+% are. But they won’t get a bump on the playground 🥴
car only had lap belts if even that, played in the street, rode in the back of pickups, no helmets on bikes, drank water through a hose, stayed out till dark, roamed the neighborhood, and yet survived.
Lived in the city. Used to play on railroad box cars on spur tracks. Climb them and walked on top. Always walked the rails because shortest way to get to other places. Fun days.
I went to a friend's barbecue on Memorial Day out in the country in the 70's, and a woman took charge of a series of games, finishing with Red Rover, which we loved so incredibly much, as we did each other playing - so good that we remember and shall remember that dusk for the rest of our lives.
We played red rover in the 80s. In fact, at my church the kids play that game during VBS to this day.
@@jenniferhansen3622 Yes!
yes, there was a high degree of innocence and ignorance during that time.But here wee are and the majority of us are fine.
Thank you !
Another thing was hand me down clothes including being patched.... sibling to sibling cousins u name it!
Can't imagine the response today to wearing used clothes!
@@Ned-r4t we never got anything new. Except the first day of school we got new dress and shoes. I have three older sisters it was all hand me downs. Or my mother made us clothes. We didn’t know any better. 😊
I always carried a pocket knife when I was in grade school in the 50s and till I graduated from school in 1970 . Great pencil sharpener.
I did all those things and lived. Kids were tougher then, and if you got a scrape or cut you’d just clean it off with the hose and go on your way because if you came running to mom she’d probably make you come inside. We never wore shoes in the summer and walked through sticker patches and hot sidewalks. One time my brother and two sisters were at a playground and the youngest sister who was about 5 at the time wanted to go home. They put her on a bicycle and sent her off. The problem was, she didn’t know how to stop and had to cross a couple of busy roads. Thank goodness she made it home, but my mother was not pleased and let the older two have it. They were 7 & 8 at the time. Today, my mom would be arrested for child neglect for letting the three of them go off alone, but that was the norm in the 50’s.
Remember yelling "car car car" when playing n the street when a car was coming. Then, they slowed down, now they speed up!
Now, they speed up??? What an asinine comment. Another grumpy old person yelling at clouds
In the 70’s we had a cul de sac to play in. Not much traffic with only three houses on it. Set up our Basketball net down there.
@@gustavsorensen9301It's more like you not having a sense of humor. 😮
@@samanthab1923 I live on one now, people often miss the dead end and almost seem angry and speed back up to leave.
we used to play in the road while waiting for the school bus. same with the "car, car, car!" That road now is a 4-lane divided highway with 60mph speed limit. It was a lowly 2 lane road in my day.
Red Rover is the only game I know of that is filled with intense competition right up until the very end, and at that very end everyone is on the winning team.
We rode in back windows of cars, played on jungle jims, rode bikes without helmets, played stickball in streets, climbed trees and built forts in them, drank from garden hoses, jumped our bikes over homemade plywood ramps. Yup. Terrible times 😉
When I jumped off the swing, I was "bailing out" of my jet fighter!
Interesting and cool video
Children playing in the street didn't have to worry about drivers being distracted on their phones
Asbestos wont hurt unless you breathe the dust in daily.
Also as a girl I had pocketknife.
@@juneyshu6197 That's true. It's only bad if you disturb it.
It was the golden age, 60s were great too. I knew no kids who ate lead paint. We were closely watched.
And still we survived
A lot of these school yard games/playground equipment were still used until the 80's!
Farm kids would ride on the fender or on the hitch of the tractor. We never thought we could fall and get run over by the equipment being towed.
My favorite piece of playground was the 15' high slide. The only thing to keep from falling off the steps was the rail on the side and a 4" side on the slide itself. Of course, the merry-go-round was great place to push it so fast that we flew off onto the hard ground.
I was raised on a farm too. Rode on all kinds of equipment. Swinging on the ropes where the hay was kept. Using axes, pitch forks, hatchets, saws, etc. Around calves, cows, bulls, pigs, snakes, snapping turtles, electric and barbed wire fences, wood chucks and whatever else crossed ones path. All kinds of spinning open shafts and uncovered belts. Non- grounded metal housed electric drills. Savor those memories now.
PARENTS ignored danger not children
Dodgeball was another violent schoolyard game that schools readily allowed. We had some kids with some serious throwing arms.
I was born in 66, and we had and did a lot of this in the 70s, which was a much better decade and the 80s, also at least in my opinion
1970 here, and we definitely did these things. The 70s and 80s were great times!
@AllDayEloquence yes they were my brother was born 1970. I would go back to these decades in a nano second!!❤️❤️😊😊
We were pulled behind my Dad’s Jeep in the snow. Usually got thrown off on road corners. We took old car hoods from neighbors trashed cars to sled down big hills. We lived in the country.
We also played with drops of liquid mercury. It would fall out of broken thermometers.
Oh yes in the 60s I remember my knees red with blood then with mercurochrome 😂❤
Thanks for letting us know this was over at 7:07
Much appreciated!
This narrator never lived in the 1950s, Kids weren't stupid enough to chase a ball into the street without looking both ways.
They are now days. 😢
You can't be serious. 🙄
Can’t say I agree with that. Just because kids you knew didn’t do it, doesn’t mean that some kids somewhere do. You can’t speak for every kid in America unless you have personally spoken to each one. My husband is one you’d miss since he died 3 years ago.
It's not a person, it's AI.
"Safety" doesn't exist. It's a catch-all term for people that can't think. You can only learn two ways. You listen to others or by practical experience. Your kid gets burned on a hot stove. So what? Now she knows. "There's no lesson to be learned the second time you slam your finger in the car door".
i remember those days now i have 3 heads and 6 legs lmao. it's amazing i lived through my youth lol.
Great time to grow up....
Why would anybody wear "protective gear" on a bike?
I was born in 1954. My mom would send me to the store to buy some needed supplies, well before I started school at age 6. She would also hand me sharp shears and send me to the garden to cut asparagus or some other produce for dinner. My sibs and friends and I roamed the neighborhood, sometimes riding our bikes for miles. When I turned six, I started first grade at a public school I walked to. When there was an opening in the Catholic school, my mother took me out of the public. She pointed out the front window of our home, to show me the corner where I would catch the bus to my new school. She then told that when I got there, I should ask someone where to go, and that is what I did. We learned responsibility at a young age back then, and gained independence more quickly than kids do now.
Don't forget that gasoline had lead in it. So, all the car and truck exhaust had lead vapors. Everyone breathed in the lead when there was automobile and truck exhaust around. Someone might wonder now, that if kids today would chew on lead paint or breathe in some lead vapor, would their reading and math scores go up.
Drivers were indeed much slower and more cautious. The car seats are great tho.
In Heber springs Arkansas in the early '70s, opening season for deer was sacred and all the young boys brought their rifles to school because they were leaving as soon as the Bell rang, so they were picked up by their dad's or uncles and nobody got shot up
Carried my Winchester 22 long rifle bolt action rifle to rifle club and practices in its case every Tuesday to high school ….!!!!
We are nuts now !!!!
Barlow 2 blade was my first knife.
A Gilbert science kit was an achievement if you got one. It wasn't the jungle gym that we broke bones on; it was the monkey bars. Dumb boys would say, "teacher teacher I declare, I can see your underwear" cause girls only wore skirts or dresses at the time.
*”I see England, I see France, I see Suzie’s underpants!!!”* 😂
We always wore shorts underneath
@@Lili-xq9sn We did, too, but that didn't stop the boys from chanting, just because they could. ; )
@@Paladin70 True! I'd forgotten that one!
I grew up in the 70s and early 80s. They still taught gun safety and archery in high school here in Texas. From the time I was 12 until I graduated, I carried a pocket knife to school and everywhere else I went. We also still had real playgrounds instead of these modern namby-pamby ones they have now. If you didn't want to get hurt, you learned to be careful. Kids also learned how to be tough instead of wusses like nowadays.
I remember when high school guys had rifles in their trucks.
No one thought anything about it.
Yes about the lead.
Back then people new how to drive and respected each other.
Passing some one on a bike, you would slow down and move over for them and the biker would stay close to the curb.
But we are today way to protective. You do not need all that stuff to ride a bikecycle
I used to stalk around the woods with a .22 all the time...but this was in the 80s and early 90s.
I was born in the 80's raised in the 90's and grew up in a century old brownstone. Our house was painted in lead base paint and I remember playing with the paint chips.
How many kids played with mercury, I know I did and still are alive today.
That was fun times
Twisted ankles and scraped knees weren't seen as part of the experience ... lol.. but they sure were a learning experience.
I was pushed down a metal playground slide . It ruined my jeans and cut my leg to bleeding. I was at school recess at the time.
Apparently as a toddler I used to chew on lead paint in the early 1970's .. !??
Thank you.
Wow! Thanks for the memories! I am a 1957 model and grew up in rural San Diego. I did all of the usual stuff and we had horses we rode all over the boonies. As long as we were home by dark! There weren’t any streetlights! We lived on a street that ran up between two sets of hills and ended at a cattle ranch that we could ride for miles. And we lived to tell the tales! And I have the scars to show for it! Now the hills and the ranch are covered with houses, but I did notice (thank you Google Earth) that the 8’x8’ playhouse my father built for us in 1964 is actually still standing! Yes, it was that well built! I wish I could bring it home for my grandkids, no wait, I guess I mean GREAT grandkids! Life is good!! Thanks Mom and Dad! It was a great childhood!
part of the goal on those swing sets was to try to get to such momentum you looped around the top even though it was not a possible feat. also, we used to put waxed paper under our bums to go even faster down those mammoth slides!
We also rubbed soap on sled runners to make it go faster.
You've turned into over protective nannies..
Actually walked to school and to stores. Tools, stoves, sewing machines with real needles were used and learned how to do real world things in school. Even took archery and shooting classes. Oh the horror 😂😂😂😂
I was born in 1960 and loved playing outside, all day long til the sun went down. I`m so glad I lived in those days, kids now wouldn`t survive a day doing all the things we use to, they are to busy playing on their screens.
Remember a cartoon in MAD magazine of a kid creating a nuclear monster with lab toy & escaping thru the walls! 😁😋Hilarious!!😂😂
I was born in 1971 when the San Fernando valley Los Angeles I'm almost all the things you mentioned applied to stuff we did. Except for the guns. We had guns but we weren't bringing them to school. I would have gotten big trouble.😅 As far as being on the street playing in the street everyone knew enough to slow down. It was implied and hardly enforced. You came near any of the kids in the street too fast you wouldn't rage a bunch of world war II vets Korean war vets or Vietnam that's everyone in my neighborhood served. Those are the good times if you had a problem all the sudden everyone would come out of their houses hey Fred what's the problem. Real community not like we have today. I remember block parties where we block the end of the street off barbecues in the middle of the street fireworks picnic tables good times🎉🎉
Young adults dropped dead of heart attacks back then and a cancer diagnosis was a death sentence. At least with today’s medical technology, we have a better chance of living a longer, healthy life.
To us, cuts, broken things, black eyes, broke noses, and other things were like having badges.
For me it was a vig nothing.
Riding on the package shelf under the back window was a ttreat!
The 50's . . . God or the Fates placed me at the start-line for that remarkable decade to grow up in. Have that mind-moment as mom washed dishes in the kitchen and the radio 'said 'Davy Crockett' had been killed . . . that and the movie evoked a life-long passion for history, impossible to quell.
It also gave me an an appetite for canoeing & forest exploring & hiking and finally meeting bears & Woverines in the Rockes near Banff and doing many things that should have killed or badly hurt me . . . but didn't except for the time I discovered dropping stones on compressed air capsules made a great sound exploding. Ca 10th time, the glass tip part became a bullet, deeply grazed the side of my head above the ear closely out. Ran home to mom with blood squirting horozontally (my 2 younger sisters said). Mom instantly threw her eash rag round my head, threw me in her 'Nash' car and raced to the hospital 3/4 miles away. She'd only had her drivers licence for a week !
God or the Fates were kind. They still are so far . . .
Firearm Handeling and Respect needs to be taught in schools again. Maybe not on school grounds but it needs to come back to schhol. Social Studies, Government, American History, and Home Economics also needs to be taught; just like it was taought all the way through the 80's. I think we would have a lot more knowledgable and responsible people/society.
The advantage of lead paint we didn't have to worry about raido active fallout 🤔, and on the slides we took wax paper and slid down to make them slicker and faster
We played Red Rover in the 70's
Those were the days... So innocent. We were so stupid, but it was fun.
My parents told us to go and play in the street.
''Threats'' became a staple of our media during the Cold War and that had a lot to do with our over- reaction to dangers, so here we are . Kids don't have much of a free range experience, if any at all.
And no one talks about the Boy Scouts Nuclear Energy Program or the Backpack Tactical Nukes!
Although a few of the things you mentioned were needed for keeping kids healthy , the rest taught kids responsible and how to learn from their mistakes.
I was never allowed to have a BB gun but I did have a bow and arrow set with the arrow tips made out of metal and coming to a sharp point. Of course, that would be a big no no today.
In high school we used to have archery classes in physed. I could never even get the arrow to get anywhere near the target let alone get a bullseye. I would get gutter balls when I tried bowling. When it came to golf,I’d hit the ground and not the ball. 😢 I was a class joke and I was being picked on most of the time. I was glad to get out of school when my senior year ended.
@@glennso47Yea , I was bullied throughout school as I went to around 5 different schools because my parents moved. But at 65 Im still lifting weights hard and most of those bullies are most likely overweight and out of shape. So I look at it like I won. 😊
My dad grew up on a farm in the 1940s and 50s in Ocean County, NJ. He was an only child, and went to a small school. I don't think he ever talked much about the things mentioned in this video.
I was in the Wolf and Bear programs in the Cub Scouts, which would have been 1970-72, and had that same knife, the top one at 6:03. I still have it. I also have a Swiss Army knife. One day in maybe 3rd or 4th grade I took both knives to school, hanging on my belt. I just did it to be cool. I was sent to the principal's office, and he took them from me and held them for the day. But he and the teacher were very nice about it. I didn't get in any trouble.
Bumper riding unsuspecting cars in the winter when they had bumpers.
I was a kid in the 60s, and those parks were great. It taught us to take risks and be brave. It gave us courage and self-confidence. And, if we got hurt, we took the pain and got stronger. These generations definitely lost a few things. I blame the internet. It helped to erode families and communities.
I lived in a NYC suburb in the
1950's and we went to county
run rifle range to fire our 22
cal rifles, and I took with some
friends a Hunter Safety course
in NY State in 1960 at age 16.
We also had pea shooters and
Cap pistols back then. 😊.
Those were mild. What was terrifying was Polio. Closing schools , pools, and churches. No one knew how it worked and because of fear if you got sick you're a pariah. My mother and uncles told about this with still some fear in their voices.
Eye injuries were not so common.