Are you a child of the 70s? If so, how are you still alive?
Lifestyle :
It’s crazy to think about it, but children who grew up during the 1970s endured dangers that no adult or legal system would dare allow today. For example, children would frequently hop on their bikes at noon and not be seen by their parents until sundown. No one knew (or cared) where they’d been. When the streetlights came on, that was the universal signal for all kids to go home.
However, there were plenty of dangers during the childhoods of generations gone by. Let’s take a walk down memory lane and look at some of the crazy adventures of the 1970s.
THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY!
OK WASSUP! discusses Lifestyle:
Are you a child of the 70s?
Lol…Okay DJ, now some of this spilled over to the 80s as well. But I agree with you on most of it being “Crazy”! And none of it would be considered “Safe” today.
Now I will say this – kids being able to go outside and play as long as we were home in the evening when the street lights came on are the days many of Us wish kids could experience today. Back then parents really didn’t have to worry a lot about the safety of their children because, in general, it was a much different time, a much Safer time.
People looked out for each other and they especially looked out for the kids!
Re: the Evel Kienevel bike jump…lol
My brother (who was younger than I) and his little crew were dare-devils on bikes. And they had some really nice bikes! 🙂
But they didn’t do the Kienevel jump. They peddled as fast as they could and then stood up on the bike-seat, with both arms stretched out like they were flying…smh!
My mom nearly had a stroke when she looked out the front door one sunny afternoon and saw my brother doing that dangerous trick! Suffice it to say, that was the last time he “got caught” doing it!…Lol
This brings back memories from the seventies and eighties. I rode that same merry go round getting dizzy and almost falling off a lot of times. We also did the jump on our bikes. We would be gone all day on our bikes but we better be home when the street lights came on. Those were good times back then.
Some of this is crazy. Did they really dope up a lion so some white kids could take a picture with it? Then that ski lift picture with the man holding a baby and nobody is strapped in. What kind of silliness was this? Black people did not do any of this to my knowledge.