Under 65...

[CanadianPoncho]

Remember all the kids on the block playing hide go seek until it was too dark to see? I remember us having slingshots and building "forts" from tractor tire inner-tubes and shooting berries from our mountain ash tree at each other. Remember all your buddies coming over with their Hot Wheels or Matchbox cases and picking our "rides" and driving them on dirt roads made in the garden? Ahh-those were the days..
Todd

[Mr70]

Ha!...we too played in the dirt with our HotWheels,so much so that our friends Moms would not allow us to enter their yards carrying the lil 4 wheeled gofers,as one Mom put it.
I grew up down the street from the Ovaltine factory.
Thir 6 O'clock whistle was our sign to go home & eat during the spring/summer months.
When we realized we could get a nickel for one bottle,we scoured for every Bubble Up bottle we could find,right after watching the Banana Splits of course.
After 1968,we saw the Chicago police in a whole new light too.
"Roll up the windows & obey everrrry traffic light",my Dad would say.

[Chateau Slate 66]

I had a great collection of Matchbox cars until I had the idea to play "car crusher" with my Dad's bench vice. It was fun to watch the windows pop out and watch them crush like the big machines at the salvage yard.

What an idiot...

[P.J.]

are we better off today??
PJ

[427.060]

Don't forget about the bb gun fights. My brother still has a scar between his eyes from a bb.
James

[L72COPO]

I have it better than my parents had it and my kids have it better than I did. And that is the way it is suppose to be. I vividly remember and have done everthing mentioned in this thread and miss and yearn for it all. If nothing had changed I don't think we would have progressed to where we are today. Are we better off today, materially yes. Ethically,emotionally and morally no way.

I'm also under 65 but not by much.

Don