Random Thoughts on Society/Aging

[Capfab]

I remeber leaving the house at dawn and coming back at dark, with no way for my parents and loved ones to get ahold of me or find me.

Yet, when I got home there were no CPS case workers, freaked out family members or search teams readying the horses to come look for us. Its was just a typical day in the life of a kid.

Simpler times, less stuff to look at, and social media didnt have us all tied to a stupid smart phone all the time.

I truly miss my younger years...

So True!!! Once we had a bicycle, we didn't want to be at home!!!

My Dad:

It's raining boys, go out and play in it!
It's sunny boys, go out and play.
It's snowing boys, go out and enjoy it.
It's hot boys, ride to the creek and swim.

[Uncle Doug]

The good old days when corn was cheap and so were leases

[Dejashoot]

Metal wheel roller skates
My neighbor and I had walkie-talkies when we were kids so we could talk to each other when doing homework.
Riding on a mattress pulled behind a pickup on icy roads.

[dbaio1]

Friday's during the fall.
Football games Friday night, girl chasing and partying.
Everything closed at 2 am and then it was time to head to the camp.
5 am alarm comes and it's time to duck hunt
Eat and nap all day Saturday, hit the marsh ridge about 4pm and sit in a deer stand.
Saturday night comes around and it was time to fire up the iron pot or grill, get the whiskey flowing, party time at the camp was on again.....
Wake up 5 am Sunday, shake head a few times, hot cup of Community and Start all over again and head to the duck blind.
Repeat each and every week until the season was closed.

Those were the days

[wes122984]

funny...i remember doing all this growing up and i am only 29! not only have the times changed...but they changed rapid fast!

[Dale]

I didn't get my very own cell phone until about 6 years ago. Still have no desire for one of those new fangled smart phones.

Speaking of phones who remembers the rotary dial and party lines?

I am 44 and was thinking the other day that my children(oldest is 22) are the first generation that for their entire lives had ready access to a computer. My generation are the last to really remember what it was like before personal computers where common place.

[br549redneck]

Yeah I can remember all those things, and no shopping on Sunday stores were not open on Sunday.

[Capfab]

Yeah I can remember all those things, and no shopping on Sunday stores were not open on Sunday.

Oh Wow. Forgot about the Blue Law.

[Goldeneagle]

Yeah I can remember all those things, and no shopping on Sunday stores were not open on Sunday.

Oh yeah, the good ol Blue Law.

Did any of you ever make a parachute out of a bed sheet and jump off the house?

[Capfab]

I didn't get my very own cell phone until about 6 years ago. Still have no desire for one of those new fangled smart phones.

Speaking of phones who remembers the rotary dial and party lines?

I am 44 and was thinking the other day that my children(oldest is 22) are the first generation that for their entire lives had ready access to a computer. My generation are the last to really remember what it was like before personal computers where common place.

We rented rotary phones from the phone company. I have not seen a pay phone in ages! Use to be banks of them everywhere.

[AtTheWall]

I remember a time where High fences were initially used to help recover the Black Rhino and other endangered world-wide species, through out the Texas Hill Country. Tall fences in the brush country were very rare and unheard of.

I remember a time before electrical deer feeders, or a period where the only corn feeder available was simply something constructed of wood or tin by the landowner and or hunter for periodic feeds. Nothing was done year round outside of planting food plots with a majority of these food plots simply being oats.

I remember a time before the compound bow, where archery gear was strictly recurve or longbow.

24 cent a gallon gasoline, hot vinyl seats, vinyl roof (trim) for the deluxe model autos and 25 cent cigarettes. The majority of men smoked, pipe, cigars and or cigarettes and it wasn't uncommon for work breaks to be simply called "SMOKE BREAK."

No open container laws in Texas and drivers could roll the highway with a cold beer in their hand. Many trips made were measured by how many beers were consumed as they rolled the highway "Houston to Corpus was a six pack." Most who rolled with a cold beer, didn't hammer the beer...they sipped the beer so they could remain semi-sober LOL!

I remember the NASA Astronauts cruising I-45 south of Houston in black Corvette Stingrays with license plates that read ASTRO 1 through various numbers.

I still remember spotting Dodge Charger Daytona's and Plymouth Superbirds rolling the scenes west of Galveston Bay, between League City and Friendswood.....several Nasa engineers with coin to afford them.

I still remember the Dodge SCAT PACK option, two racing stripes with a Bumble Bee on the rear.....all had 440 and or the Hemi 426 big block V8s

I remember a time where a song like this was absolutely over the top, and the style, was the beginning of new things to come in the Country Music world! LOL!



I remember a time where a young teenage kid, could spend an entire weekend on a Public Fishing pier in Galveston Texas...without worry of a single freak, thug and or pedophile molesting and or robbing same.

I remember a time where the elder Outdoorsman were looked to for knowledge and experience...the ways of old, without electronics and or web based resources for this particular info.

I remember a time where every Outdoor periodical was read and discussed by the little group of Outdoor friends and family, openly and shared by those....including those who really were never interested in the Outdoors. There was never a period where a class of Outdoors types ever would be publically humilitated over their interest in the great outdoors! Those who chose to eat differently, or those who chose to not partake in hunting and or fishing never judged those that did.

I remember a time when news was reported with any bias....no matter what the Reporters politcal standing was. In those days, you never knew what side they preferred politically....it was neutral and negative free...just the facts.

I remember a time where multi-media had less bling and more dialog, movies and screenplays where the camera didn't flash off into another shot angle every 2-5 seconds.....a scene where the dialog and delivery was the substance and not the tricky flashy animations, shot angles that forever move around and no profanity and or sexual innuendos during the family prime time periods. For that, you either never saw it and or later in time, it was on after 11:00 pm or later.

I remember a time........

[cosmiccowboy]

I remember when there weren't any high fences or corn feeders in South Texas.

[Goldeneagle]

How about sticking 3 or 4 sets of forks together and turning your bike into a chopper?

[Tmag]

Clipping baseball cards on our bikes with a clothespin to make the coolest noise in the world. (I wonder how many Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays cards I ruined?)

Hunting all over town with a pellet gun and nobody cared. Lived on a dead end street with nothing but pasture between me and Deepwater, lots of hunting went on out there.

Riding bikes everywhere and staying gone all day with no one worried about you. Swimming pool and gymnasium at the school opened for the summer to all comers.

Gas wars between the Phillips 66 and Enco stations in Deer Park, I bought .10 cent gas for my yard mowing business.

Baseball everyday with all the guys, sandlot didn't have nothing on us.

Spending the night with buddies and running the streets all night when their parents went to bed. Police would drive right by you and not even slow down. I guess they just kept an eye on us that way.

[doghouse]

Four track tapes, dimmer switch in the floor, an old pu with the starter button in the floor, 3 speed on the column, no a/c, AM radio only, Bill Mack on the radio at night. The list goes on and on.