70’s and 80’s was a great time to be a kid.
Had great parents/family, nice home, good food, electric heat and lived in the greatest nation on earth. What more could you ask for.

Same experience during the same timeframe...except we had wood heat.

God rescue America from the left.

Same. I was a first-grader in 1976 and grew up believing in the USA and everything red white and blue. It was a positive and powerful influence on me and I wouldn't change it.

Same for me growing up on the Sacramento Delta in Norcal 60's - 80's. Sad to see...

Chair's getting close to the wall

+1!!!

I’d dial it back to the 50’s-65’ish if I was Dr. Strange.

I grew up in the 70's and 80's too. We had wood heat growing up. Later my Mother got an electric heat pump with a/c. Lots better than what the kids have to look forward to now.

I find myself reminiscing more & more. Some of those times were hard, but yet seemed better.

Some of us are lucky we grew up in the greatest time in history .

Its really almost mind boggling how much the world has changed since the 70's-80's.

Wood heat.
Folks worked us all the time.
For us, it wasn't always great, the early 70's were tragic.
The late 70's early 80's were lean times. Lotta people struggling.
I well remember the frequent fear mongering about nuclear war.
And global cooling and the coming ice age. Overpopulation...

But we lived in the best nation, had enough, and I don't think our parents
were as gloomy about our future as I am for my kids.

God was still important, leaders professed faith. Even if it was BS.
Right was Right, Wrong was Wrong, even most Democrats agreed.

I'll borrow from Jerry Clower, "All For America, Stand Up, Up and Holler!

+ 1000

Funny that the OP’s topic came up today.

I was just talking to my sister and BIL about an hour ago, and we all said the same thing. They were born in the mid 1950’s, while I was born in the early 1960’s.

I remember my Dad saying the same thing to us growing up. He said he felt sorry that we didn’t have it is good as he did growing up. He was born in 1929.

I therefore see a trend: every generation had it better than the later generation.

Sad.

Reagan won the Cold War and ended our fear of nuclear destruction with one speech. Brought down a superpower with four little words.
Hard to forget the images of the Berlin Wall coming down. We were the greatest civilization that ever existed on this rock.

I took my wife to the Dr. a few years ago and can remember this old lady talking to another older lady. She was talking about when she was a kid. she said her father worked on their farm and their mother was home all day too. She said when she wasn't in school, she saw them all the time. Her point was kids today don't have that option. Most of the time both parents work and are gone most of the day. It changes everything and everybody.

I do too jack, I do too.

Me too. None of the kids I knew were confused about their gender and we all knew what bathroom to use

I was born in 56. In the third grade we said the pledge of allegiance and sang “ Swing low sweet chariot “ before we ever opened a book. Try that today.

JFK backed Khrushchev down. The world respected and feared us.
We were Americans and had reason to be proud of it.

I hear ya! I wish things could go back like it was 60' - 80's would give up my cell phone and computer to get those days back.

Kids got their asses whipped. Everything started going down hill when parents quit whipping kids bare asses. My mom was an all-star MVP ass whipper. I appreciate every one of them now.

Thing is, work to make the country great again!

Born just a handful of years after you. Said the Pledge of Allegiance standing in class every day before lessons started..
Went to church once a week with the rest of the class until the end of 11th grade..
Everyone spoke English. People looked good. Finding a creek full of fish or an open place to camp or functional wilderness was so easy..

Oddly, The soundtrack hasn't changed very much.. same music that came out in the '60s and '70s I still hear every day in every store I go to.

Great cars, great music, open beaches, a largely homogeneous culture, etc... I miss all of it.

Someone talked us into believing that having "more stuff" would make us happier, but never mentioned the price of all that stuff would be our human connections and relationships. I saw the late 50s and remember the general feel of the times, and was fully cognizant through the 60s. I'd take the 50s given the choice.

When there is a big important movement, I will do my best. I know a lot of people that are ready for the word "go".

It's about the same here.

Work isn’t going to do it any longer Wabi.
Time to stack bodies like cordwood. Gotta cut out the cancer and destroy it. If we’re going to save the country we’re going to have to let blood run in the gutters.

You fucgkin millenial!

Those of us in the boomer crowd had more opportunity and less stress than just about any generation, before or since. It's too bad so many of us turned out so horribly wrong. My great grandmother experienced the atrocities of the union army occupation of Nashville, my grandparents and their children survived two world wars and a depression, and my new great granddaugter will face a world I shudder to think of.

I can agree but one thing a lot of people don't realize through a lot of the '80s farms were pretty much as bad as shape as they were during the Great depression. I still would not change my childhood for anything. The times of the great farming problems I was a bigger teen

Feel bad for the kids growing up now. No fishing, no hunting, no diving, no swimming, no walking, no trespassing, Do not touch. The uncertain future of our country, indoctrination, forced socialism, gender confusion. And they don't understand us when we talk to them about these things.

The problems were caused by govt regulation, greedy bankers and corporate America. Usury.

Can't disagree with that one bit still didn't make it any less tough and painful at the time.

They can’t even buy cigarettes at 14. WTF Is wrong with this world….

It is. Remember how important busting yer azzz in school was and the importance of academics GPA and SAT and ACT scores were? making varsity football, wrestling, baseball consumed our other energies. It was considered extremely harmful to bring bad information on your family. There was no shame in attending votech

None of my friends were committing suicide on social media.Independent thinking was a trait to be proud of. If a close friend or girlfriend had an issue they had support and we worked it out. If a friend had a bad home situation they were welcome to live at your home until their situation was settled.

Friendship was not based on race or social structure. All based on character like MLK


Everything was based on hard work and merit


Hard work, intellectual pursuit, obtaining marketable skills and merit is a white pejorative sin now

Yeah.....but I am an early millennial and I was raised by the Silent Generation and the Greatest Generation....in a fugging time warp. No shìt.


The only thing that has changed here is electricity and indoor plumbing.

Not at all. In some ways it’s what opened up the eyes of a lot of hard working Americans to what’s going on. It fanned he flames of the militia and anti govt movements.

You still my favorite snowflake.

I will be 75 in April and I think you guys are full of it. I am still working (part time) and I work with a lot of young people in their 20s and 30s. They are happy with their lives and are a lot more together than we were at their age. The one thing that constantly changes is change.
Most of you guys need to get out of the way.

Jim gets it.

You’re an idiot.

Much of that is attributed to Moore’s Law, ongoing.

Biden voters are as demented as Biden himself.

and you continue to praise communism and pedophilia. Do you understand that sex with children is wrong? I used to not understand pure evil , now I do

Born in ‘50, but ‘55-‘65 or so were great times to be a kid or young teenager. The whole neighborhood was our playground with dozens of kids to play sports or cowboys and Indians.

We had the fastest cars, prettiest girls and the best music.

Ok boomer. Thanks for not voting for Trump.

He's a pedophile, so of course he hates Trump

Was born in 57. Times were better then. Maybe not easier but better. The ruling class has proved we can't save our republic with the ballot box, so whats left? I believe jack is correct. As far as waiting for the word go i wonder how many really will. Our government is a cespool that needs to be flushed. Not one party, ALL of them. I just don't believe in my high school locker room shower 50% of those people were gay like i'm supposed to believe now. Our country has gone infuckingsane.

I won’t argue that, but our generation was the first that the chicks shaved the bush.

LMAO! Is that Conrad?!

He’s not Italian.

They previously used Neet.

Born in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern CA. In the 60s my family befriended and older German gentleman. He would come to dinner from time to time. He was a small fella, considerably older, But in fantastic shape. Wherever you would drive you would see Fritz walking.. Temple City, Pasadena, Arcadia.. there's Fritz!
He told us one night at dinner that when he was younger you could stand in the San Gabriel mountains and see oranges all the way to the ocean, And in the ocean you would see Catalina Island just about any day. He used to fish for trout in the San Gabriel River.

Here's the San Gabriel River now...

TAB soda. Orange Julius at the mall. Pony tennis shoes.
Anyone actually own a Yugo?

Yep an Italian playing Injun, really gets your heart.

Sister & hubby had a yugo ... POS ....LMAO

Sicilian.

Hey man, I tear up watching society take a nose dive since I was a kid.

Plus I’ve got Indian blood

My tribe? Probably the most populous in America.

The Iwannabangahoe tribe.

Remember the advertising for them, “You can’t stop a Yugo”.

They actually had acceleration and brake problems.

Same as their boat sank and they got stranded on an island. Born in 50, and yes I earned my share of ass whippings. I passed a few on to my kids! I hate breaking tradition!

I was 12, we were wrecking forms at the Presbyterian Church downtown in our little spot in West TN, I failed to pull a 16 and just tossed the stake in the pile. Pop backed up and caught it right through his right instep. I can still see him reach over and put his left foot on it and pull that right foot off. I drove him to the local ER and Dr. Jim wrapped a piece of gauze around a probe soaked in mercurochrome and rant it trough the hole. Gave him a tetanus shot and I drove him back to the Church. When he got done all he had left of that stake was what he had in his hand. I never to this day, pulled another stake and failed to get the nails out, and did not blame him for the beating. I got several in my youth, but never for the same thing twice.

At 16 I had a '66 Chevelle I paid for with cash from the concrete business, bought my own gas and tires, paid for my insurance. Kept my Browning 12 gauge in my car for duck hunting before school, ran my traps in the afternoon after football.

It was a great life, kids today have no idea.

Always has been, it's what TDS does to a person..

About that time, an environmentalist said, "Nothing ever really goes away." He is right.

Lots of problems , I couldn't imagine the thing and truly hilly and mountainous areas it had problems going when it was right. And it was very seldom right. Now remember the old joke the new yugo station wagon wego. They would have to do something different for a power plant to pull a full station wagon of people that's for sure

The chair is through the wall.

God kept vengeance for Himself but expected us to administer justice in our communities. We have abdicated that role to men lesser than ourselves, and gotten the current situation as a reward for our apathy and self-centeredness.

Translation:
I was a chitshow when I was younger too.

I'm going to quote SamO's sig line, "these are the good old days."

That said...

Summer time making hay and little league games with one of these in tote..

Laughing!
Good one.

Fuggin morons.

Yep... This country's Fuqked!.. Quality of life is down the schitter compared to when i was a kid in the 70's/80's...

Wife was filling out the census and asked what kind of Indian I was.


Well...I was probably drunk and said...instead of Eskimo....that I was [bleep] Tribe.


I was certain she knew I was joking. I was wrong.

Hopefully someone gets a kick out of that in 70 years when the records are unsealed.

Should add the 60's as well.

1970's rock & roll , muscle cars , pre-aids , few rules...... yep , kids today have no clue...

you had a good father

Hell yeah

We ate dirt, peanut butter, mrs grissolm’s chicken salad, got stung by bees everyday

And no one needed an epi pen

Glad to see you back phuu.ucker!

Don't get on much right now, new house about to be underway and my mind is elsewhere.

Never give up.

When knowing how to cook meant fried baloney sandwiches.

Nutterbutters, Jello Pudding Pops, and generic black cherry soda.

honey bees no pen,, a nest of ground hornets meant emergency room visit lol. but we lived fine. I forgot my personal pronoun

I need my beauty sleep men, I'll leave Y'all with this.

"May your troubles all be small ones."

Trucker hats, dingo boots, and Jeans Jackets

Half right

Yes

Which half?

LOL

If your still working at 75 you should have made better choices

Until you sucked down a bee ain the spout

cherry soda?


pfffft. Mountain Dew in a bottle or tang

Tractors without cabs and pickup trucks with back seats...

Crystal Light Iced Tea

Never had pudding pops or nutterbutters. Black cherry soda was around

Pickups without air conditioning

We would sometimes get root beer in a packet like Kool Aid.


It was better than nothing.

When water sports involved truck and tractor intertubes.

Square bailers, mowwing square bales

Dads truck never had A\C or an FM radio or 4WD.

Mom's car had an FM radio before it had A/C.

Square bailers without kickers and hay wagons without racks.

Easy enough. I am bringing up my kids the same way I was brought up.


If anything....a little tougher.

UglyStiks and Rooster Tails.

no scxhit. long days

You got a Tupperware Lady?

Uhhh....you dont still use those?

You nailed it. I grew up with a lot of African Americans that had proper families that ended up exceeding well in life just as I did.

Still bugs me that you have to go to a "party" and cant just buy from the company.

We didn't go to the last party she had. Try and get the good stuff from the second hand store. There is fierce competition.

I wish.

😀

Mitchell 300s, Stren line, Rapalas, Mepps,









and size 18 gold trebble hooks and velveta cheese for trout

We were over at a friends house the other day ad they had a whole set of these.

Cane poles and worms, crickets or minnows depending on what you were going after.

In this day and age fishing for trout with cheese will get you canceled!

lol

Oh yes. CorningWare is the best.


I have some and mom has a set. In fact, she bought me a nice casserole dish a while back for Christmas.


Used of course.


I am always looking for that big CorningWare lasagna pan. Rare!

Yeah, I sure miss having the hair pulled out my head, or my head slammed into the wall or up against my brother's head. I think I still remember the sound.

Woopin's with the belt were easy.

Damn glad my nieces and nephews didn't have to deal with that from my siblings, and they all seem to be doing fairly well. 3 graduated from college and working, one attending an ag school, the last one just got awards for a 3.5 GPA and All Star in sports.

Guess they didn't need the ass whoopins.

Canned Peaches

Well, I do have a fly rod that gets used on occasion.

But if I have to eat, I'll break out the 300s and some Pautzke's eggs, or a mini marshmallow and nightcrawler combo.

If it's Zombie Pocalips time, i'd not be adverse to chumming some canned corn to get the bite started.

"Go get the wooden spoon."


LOL

Revere Ware is pretty decent stuff but I enjoy my cast iron better.

Not much Corning Ware here, just some decent Pyrex. Still made in the USA last I looked.

I'll keep my eyes peeled.

Pretty sure I broke one of Mom's over my head. Well, she did actually, my head was just the instrument of its destruction.

Rulers and pointers across the knuckles from the nuns too.

If it taught me anything, it's that I'd hate go back to that life knowing what I know now.

I know you had a 3 Wheeler.

Cast iron grill tops on concrete and rock Forest Service stoves in every campsite for free too.

Hahaha! I had an ATC 110 with electric start.


It was grandpa's.


They had a goofy ON/OFF lever on the fuel cap that would turn off the gas. I assume it closed the vent so you couldn't draw any more fuel.

Probably because they were upside down all the time and it would be handy to be able to reach up and stop the fuel from leaking on you while you yelled for help.


Anyway....my sister used the 3 wheeler to go get the mail one time. Mail box was 3 miles away or so. I made sure to turn the lever to OFF.


It quit her and she had to walk home.


I got a spanking.

the three donuts of death!! those things were dangerous!

My cousins had one of those.

I had a UNION five prong pitchfork.

Ours was a more austere enterprise.

At their pinnacle when they had full suspensions and went like hell, it seemed like everyone who had one got broken before the machine.

I had a Suzuki 230 4 Wheeler for a short while, but it always broken.

You must have confessed!

Big Red 250

Never owned one of the three wheeled machines of doom but rode some that friends' owned.

This was a good one:

"Did you hear about the jogger who got hit by a Yugo? The jogger ran off, didn't stop to help the guy in the Yugo."

I miss the place I grew up in, that's gone too. So built up now it's unrecognizable.

I had one of these for a few months. The cast aluminum rear axle housing kept breaking. That was then end of that. No more four wheelers. LOL
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Today every Karen has a kid that’s allergic to something food related. And nobody can say peanut butter around their kid for fear of a bad reaction of hives.

Suck a dick, Karen and stfu !

The 80’s were awesome. I plowed fields of bush.

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truest statement on here

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You’re an idiot. [/quote]
you should stop looking in the mirror and quit arguing with the voices in your head its not good for your health

I think the 60's, 70's, 80's were the best of times in Australia, and the town I grew up in, where the population has now quadrupled, suburbs where there were farms, farms where there was bushland.

Don't forget about the gas tank in the cab, behind the bench seat,
and an FM converter connected to the AM radio.

Yessir, we all grew up in a better place than we have today.
Why is it, so many demorats want to destroy this great country?

Both sides of the isle can use a bunch of improvements.

We need pride in ownership. Neighbor helping neighbor helping neighbor.

I pray for this country; I hope you pray too.

same here Dan.... and we're also fellow Military Dependents...

I use to have a lot of love for my country, especially living in Europe for 3 years from 1963 to 1966....
"
I was proud to be an American.... now in 2022, I am ashamed to be an American, with what this nation has become per the "liberal" lefties...

I am 17th generation in this nation.... the first of my ancestors got off the boat in 1607 at Jamestowne ...


Now I just want to turn to dust and blow away, like Yoda did on Star War's Movie when he passed...

actually I want to see a revolt against the liberal left in this nation.. but I fear that will never happen....we are slowly turning communists in this country....

Good for you Jim.

It's not about 4.0 GPAs
It's about being a good, honest person,
tough enough to take lifes blows, and keep standing.
Getting back up, on the rare occasion some SOB can knock you down.



So many today raise their kids to have every advantage.
But no steel in their backbone.

I just watched a good video about the generational differences . Sorta like the “ if you remember “ milk delivery with glass bottles and paper tops.....

My point is , the younger generations that have had an indoctrination not education, cannot relate to the loss we feel. This is their normal. And in my opinion, all by design. That’s why 1/2 of the younger generations want socialism. They had to dumb kids down to sell them . That’s why America is past the point of return.

I agree. The folks in the 70s used to say the same thing as well. That's why that show about the Waltons was so popular.

Teach your children the value of honesty, integrity and hard work and teach them independence. Do this by example, at all times. After that they’ll get the rest.

And Andy Griffith.

No coming back from this. If Trump was re-elected there was a real chance. We lost everything that night the powers conspired to steal an election.

yes the good old days.....bob

I remember all my Grandma Friends.. They were all from Lower Missouri , Arkansas around 11 am they would all come down to her House and have their version of the “ View” ..
Everyone of those women had a Brass Spittoon and chewed the Blackest Tobacco..
Sitting around Lying their Heads Off and Spit’n their Cud ..
Them Gal’s told some real Whooper’s ..
It was all Harmless not like today ..
Everytime I see Joyless Bahar I think back to those Ladies ..
They’d kicked Her Ass for the things that Cum’s out of Her Mouth..

“I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.”
— John Adams

Get the DVD set "John Adams" sometime. It is remarkable.

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His grand children may have studied painting, poetry and other fine things...

BUT

His great great great grand children study video games... eating Tide pods and banding their own nuts.

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PAIN is required for a rich and full life... to deny that pain... is to deny the depth and breadth of a FULL LIFE.

I agree...

The ease of modern day divorce however... CAN causes much conflicting messaging.

Children of broken homes require unique attentions...

Ex-wives and ex-husbands that fail to grasp unified values for their children's betterment... are destined to experience severe pain themselves.

Edit:

NOT directed at you JM... The respect and honor you convey toward your bride has been well noted.

At 60 years old I look back allot and wish for some of those days again. My friends that have been with me all these years tell me they always thought we as a family had it rough. I never felt that way even though in many cases they were right. I remember learning about working and getting paid at about 11 years old and fell in love with the concept. We hunted and fished at will anywhere withing walking distance of home and would be gone all day. The biggest fear the adults had for us was that we might drown, that was well founded as we saw a bank full creek from a flood as a great place to play.

I got a glimpse of something the other day that made my day. We raised 2 grandkids for about 4 years. Now they live with their dad. They stayed with us for a few days last week and the granddaughter was talking about their school and that she missed saying the Pledge of Allegiance every day. When they were with us the school they attended did that. I never thought she cared, until now. We may be old my friends but these kids need us.

Same. It's gone. An enemy has done this.

Yes, an enemy called the DNC. Demonic National Commies

Hes coming back. The pukes are going to jail. It had to be done this way to make them pay. He has said so.

It goes far deeper than that.

When they took dimmer switches off the floor everything went to hell.

Best quote I’ve read in an awful long time.
I had the greatest parents a kid could hope for, and the time and place I grew up in, I wouldn’t trade for the life of a prince.
Growing up in an auto salvage meant some hard work, but it had some great benefits, and I didn’t have to make hay all the time! Making hay in the ‘70s was hard, dirty and hot work. I road enough hay wagons to know, and appreciate that.
Instead, I was usually turning wrenches, helping The Old Man take parts off for sale, pulling engines and transmissions, stuff like that.
On Thursday he’d go to the auction, which left me in charge. I usually had some stuff to do, but nothing major.
On my days off, .22s cost around a penny apiece. I had an old Glenfield/Marlin bolt (still got it), and I burned up a lot of shells, 50 or 100 at a time on blackbirds, starlings and pop bottles.
When I got my first rifle, I started hand loading. Powder teaspooned out of a cup to a Lyman balance scale! ( 40 some years later, I’m a little more sophisticated now)
I always did, and still believe, that I was one very lucky kid!
7mm

Left Maine July 11, 1983.

"Shawshank redemption"
Released back into Society 1 sept 2008.


Talk about leaving 1 nation and getting released back into a total schitt show.
Served 8 yrs under Billy boy.
Many of us knew schit was going wrong big time when the country elected a scumball like him x 2.
🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️😠😠😠

Got a taste of how fuucked up the country was from 98 to 01 as a recruiter in the same station I joined the Army from in Bangor Maine in 83.
Welfare was my biggest competition in cracker azz yankee maine....

I was born in 1949 and enjoyed growing up in the 50's and 60's, the country started a downward spiral after JFK was assassinated.

Sounds about right.

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

I do too. I thank God that I grew up without the internet and without cellphones. If "smart" phones and 24/7 social media never happened we would be so much better off.

Well good folks, I don't really think it's that bad today.

I agree...

The America of the 70s and 80s that is being reflected upon is parallel with a gallon of premium paint (as an analogy).

If you add 2 gallons of "watering down" to that paint... it is no longer useful paint... it is trash.

Trumps was a tire chock keeping bus from going off the cliff.

That tire chock is now gone.

We are exactly where the majority (allegedly) of people want us to be.

There is NO reset button on a bus going over a cliff.

So be it.

Money and location will not save you.

I always wonder why the Democrats don't just move to one of those [bleep] countries already run by socialists or communists like they think are so great. Why trash this one?

Their purpose is to make sure there are no counter examples to their system in existence in the world, so that wouldn't serve that purpose.

Born in '52. Great time to be a kid in the U.S. Six kids... five boys. We had five single beds lined up like a barracks. We were always cutting up at bedtime and Mom would come down and start whipping us one at a time. I had the last bed and she was pretty tired by the time she got to me.

I want that America back so bad.

We all shot .22 lr single shots at 10 years old and hunting by 12. There was never any thought of a kid doing anything violent with a firearm. Church was a must. Worked after school to make spending money. Only two fuzzy channels on TV. Listened to the radio a lot. Proud to be an American was the mindset and nobody thought otherwise.

Communism has seeped in over all these years and now it has become a major movement. Dad always told us to not ever underestimate the stupidity of people.

Jackmountain: I was born in 1947 and remember the 1950's and 1960's as wonderful times to be a child and then a young man. I enjoyed/loved my education and my community - I knew that at the time. But I did NOT know how BAD things would become in my home area of rural Seattle and where many (most) of my relatives lived in their home area of Portland, Oregon.
Now those two communities/areas have turned into hate filled, crime ridden, drug ridden, welfare rat ridden, expensive, highly taxed, ghettos.
I would NOT live in either area now for love nor money!
The area/community/county I now live in here in SW Montana reminds me so much of the "places" I grew up in.
I truly fear that someday this place will suffer the same fate as MUCH of my beloved country has!
I have said it a thousand times here and other places - the ruination of this country was/is being caused by liberals, demonrats, socialists, anti-Americans, guilt ridden whites and rino's!
They put into office, teaching positions and judgeships other liberals, demonrats, socialists, anti-Americans, guilt ridden whites and rino's!
Sad fact - but that is what is causing the ruination of our once great country.
And I have "missed it" probably more than most - simply because I am older and remember more of the "good times".
I'll say this AGAIN - I fear for the future of our country (and our people).
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

They are parasites.... they cannot leave, because they would starve.

I hate the thought of it, but America as we knew it is gone forever. There would need to be a hell of a lot of purging to fix this mess.

If you did not live it you would not believe what has been lost.

Because the mission is complete in those countries.
They have traded life for death.
Liberty for enslavement.
Happiness for depression.
Peace for war.
And prosperity for poverty.
I had never encountered a person who admitted to be a liberal socialist democrat until the last couple years, both young men. They both exhibited a dangerously delusional world view.

1964 is my "red line" when the country started downward. I don't know WTF you guys are talking about but by the mid-60s and certainly the 70s-80s, the place was already awash in the drug culture, affirmative action bullshit,femenism, queers, AIDS, etc. There were TWO seminal events in 64: Civil Rights Act and the proscribing of prayer in the schools. And BTW, I am not a religious person by a long shot.

It is still out there. Just hard to find.

As kids that schidt didn't matter[had little to no affect on us until we were older].

Whole neighborhood[kids] kick the can games, pick-up football games in the flattest yard etc

Yep. No helmets for bike riders, no "T-ball" no non-smoking areas. Somehow we survived but half the stuff we did would get you arrested today.

All the neighborhood kids would pile in the bed of my dad's pickup and he'd drive us to the 7-11 for a slurpy.

And then later when we were teenagers and wanted beer, we'd go to that same 7-11 and ask total strangers to buy us a couple six packs. Can't remember anyone turning us down.

None of that can happen today.

That's good.

Hey Jim,

Do you have a Schwan's Man out there?

I hear ya, but I even fully miss the '50s-'60s...

I often wonder what us "Boomers" could have done differently to avoid this intentional destruction of the greatest country on earth.

Can't come up with a definitive answer. Death by a thousand cuts I suppose. The internet didn't help. Deep state assassinating a president began the slide of governmental corruption and there is no stopping it without blood in the streets. I fear for my grandchildren's future.

Looks like my childhood in the 1960s. A typical neighborhood scene.

Yes. There is a Schwan's man but he doesn't make rounds anymore.

You have to order in advance then he brings it to you.

Used to be they would show up and peddle stuff.

We don't buy it any more. Too expensive.

Between our house, the house next door and two houses catty corner to the left and right across the street, there were 13 kids and scenes like that one every day.

LOL, Jim do you mean it's good that none of that can happen today, or it's good that we were once free to do it?

I'm a boomer, in some ways. One thing we did was to elect Ronald Reagan. Then when Trump came along we gave more allegiance to him than we ever had any other president, for me even Reagan. So we got a couple of things right. So what could we have done different? I don't know for sure. It was before my time, as far as an adult but to have fought Roe v Wade to the death would be at the top of the list. I remember hating it when they gave us the state sponsored lottery. Now we have so called river boats where retirees go and waste an entire social security check on gambling. One of my older friends called it taxing the poor man.

One of the big things has been the attack on the family unit. I grew up in a time when it was time for supper the whole family ate together. It's still that way in my home. Even the younger kids love it. Families need plenty of glue to keep them grounded and many times it's the small things that do the most good. The family is the bedrock of any society and we have a government hell bent on destroying it. Just look at the black community and the ill they suffer from the lack of an intact family unit. It wasn't always that way for them. One big thing I notice though is that few expect much out of family, friends or even our little community here.

We can still do it....still doesn't make it a good idea!


I try to walk the line between Overbearing and Careless.

I thought this would be a good fit for this thread. Listen closely starting at the 3:40 mark.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...5064A83E017EC134637F5064A8&FORM=VIRE

Yeah, riding in the bed of a pickup ain't the greatest idea. But getting strangers to buy you beer when you're 15 is a great idea.

You guys were doing it wrong.


It was best to have regular buyers that you trusted. Strangers were too risky.

This was right near an Army base, they were all GIs.

That sucks.


We had semi homeless alcoholics that would buy beer for a ride to the store and a hoagie.

"...a hoagie."

LMAO!

That's awesome.

Weird you bring this up I had my daughter and my son over to the place ,we were down in the shop (there 35 and 36 )and I'll be damned if they didn't want to just drink beer and hash out me and Mom and growing up back in the day that's all we did for 4/5 hours, I had it good growing up on the farm etc, got lots of free time now in comparison. Never did I have to explain what a guy and a girl was or is...not like today.

Corningware I still have some good stuff

And here's what caused the change: Link

We had an old "hobo" that lived under a little bridge that would buy as beer and jugs of wine if we'd get him a $0.69 pint of Gallo white port. He was pretty regular. And some had older siblings that could buy for us.

Yet somehow the kids that rode in the back of the pickup trucks and drank beer at 15 seem to have turned out pretty good. The ones 30 years later that were coddled all through life and told that beer was bad/pot was good are now train wrecks.

The good thing is, we're all still here.

Our country and culture has seen the high water mark. There are still remnants of our former great culture in pockets around the country (mostly rural areas) but the cancer is spreading.

I feel that there were more good honest citizens.. The politicians were still liars and crooks, but day to day you dealt with more God-fearin' Americans back then.

Your parents ruined you. (As a group, I don't know you.)
They lived through a depression and a war.
Wanted you to have it better, and could make that happen.
The tough times/tough men thing.
Those men raised you in easier times.

Born in 69, I think they call us GenX. (Not big on the naming things)

But this area was harder than many. My parents grew up poor and working.
They passed it on. We aren't doing as well. The kids know how to work,
and know unfilled wants. But there just isn't enough real work on a 1 acre lot to
teach them the right way.

Do all you can to keep/make this still great country for our children, and grandchildren.

I hate Lee Harvey Oswald.

Kennedy certainly had issues, but LBJ wrecked America. Godalmighty, what an idiot.

The good guys did nothing but watch. Now blood is required to bring back America to GOD.

man has it gone to crap in a hurry!!!

He was a Patsy.