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When I was a kid, we went out to play in the morning, and were gone all day. We'd go home when the street lights came on, or we heard our Moms yelling for us. If we had a football, we were all set. Baseball was harder, needed equipment and enough people. But we played with sticks and clothespins and rubber bands.
I'm sure it happened, but I can not remember anyone I know who only had one parent, or who were divorced.
There was the Vietnam war and the campus protests/riots on the news at night, but the worse I can remember is we couldn't go trick or treating one Halloween because the Zodiac killer was out and about somewhere.
We'd collect bottles and cash them in and get some candy. We'd stand on 2 sides of a street with a short piece of rope, and pull on them like we had a rope strung across the road when a car would come.
Big fights were on TV. Ali/Frazier, etc.
We'd go to the movies, and they'd show at least 3 movies, and always some Road Runner or Bugs Bunny cartoons. We'd go to the Ben Franklins before and buy Twizzle sticks, and candy necklaces and Milk Duds.
It does seem like simpler times. Were we safer, or were the bad things just less reported? We cartainly didn't have the media like it is now.
I grew up on the San Francisco Bay Area peninsula (still live there now), and there were hippies in the Haight Ashbury, protests in Beserkly (Berkley).
Drive in theaters, Roller rinks, miniature golf, Cruising, Playland at the Beach.
Looking back, we had it good, and we had fun. Again, better? I don't know, but sure seems so to me. A Guy