Dangerous Things Kids Used To Do
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- Some of the activities that we used to do and believed were perfectly fine are now considered dangerous by many people. Some of the new parents today would flip out if their kids tried just a fraction of these. In this video we will have a look back at some of the dangerous things kids used to do.
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I once lived in a foster home out in the country. They would let us kids innertube miles down the local river into town, where they'd pick up us after doing their shopping. We kids would hop in the back of the pickup, unsecured, and ride back home. When I told my mom about this many years later, she was astonished. But we kids had had the time of our lives! 😂
I wish the foster homes I lived in had had that, lol. Sounded like fun. I was born in 1961 in Brooklyn NY.
I loved tubing down the creek with my brother and neighbor kids!
Sounds like a blast. We did something similar only we rode bikes from one end of town to the other. We too got a ride back home bikes and all, piled into the station wagon. Life was great.☺️
@@CulturalProspect And this was without any life vests or adult supervision... yikes!
I remember almost all this....wow life sounds awful for todays kids
Thank you for watching topofthepalm!
It is. It sucks being a kid today.
If you have a pocket knife now you could be arrested.
They have no idea. We were the last generation of kids to grow up without the internet and it was great.
I'm so glad I was a kid in the 70's and 80's!!! Fun times
I don't want to get CPS called on my parents but they used to make us play outside 😂
Haha! Yep! All parents were like that then. At least the ones I knew. Thank you for watching!
😂 yeah, even when I was 3. I had to play outside by myself.
Saturday morning we were told "go outside and play" and Mom locked the doors so she could do housework.
I don't think I saw my parents from the time I was 12 until sometime after high school. Haha
@@jasonwebb5964Yep, except being in the bleachers to watch us play.
I remember these fun times. We scraped our knees, fell out of trees, drank from the hose, and definitely riding in the back of our truck or station wagon. Today's kids have no idea what they missed. Now our phones run their lives, there are no social interactions face to face and when today's youth do get together, they play on their phones. We, the generations gone by, turned out okay. Thank you my friend 😊
@leesashriber5097 Agreed. Know what else I miss? Not having to be available to people 24/7 just because I carry a portable, wireless telephone and message device everywhere I go. I also miss landlines.
@@stanford-nf4jk , agreed!¡! 😊
Remember running with scissors? Drinking from the garden hose? Eating fruit straight off the trees? Going swimming right after eating?
In my countrie Germany this is stil normal these days, im glad in so many towns parents go play with they kids even today or kids meet they friends but yes lot of adult just look on the Phone or give the kid tec items
I bent the frame on a week old bike by jumping it and landing on its side 😂. I got in trouble not because I was hurt, but because I ruined a new bike..lol. I loved playing with the magnifying glass and remember building "forts" in the woods. Kids think they have it good today, but man did they really miss out!
I agree! Thats crazy you bent a frame in one week's time. I know they were frustrated but what a memory. Thank you for watching Mark!
Mark, I had a Huffy Thunder Road BMX Bicycle back in the early 1970's. Close to the house there was an old foundry/ quarry that kids turned into bike trails. One part was always a test for the new kids. Go down the trail and it made a sudden left and a big vine hung at about chest height. On the left was a pond and the bank sloped down toward the pond at about a 45 degree angle. So you had to make a left turn, dodge/duck the vine without sliding into the pond.
But there was another part that provided the humor for cousin and me one time. The set up was a trail that went straight but at one point you could turn and go down a hill or continue straight. At the bottom of the hill we had a hard packed dirt ramp and past that is was sandy. So the challenge was to get going fast, make that turn, hit the ramp and see who could go the furthest and not wreck on landing.
So one day my cousin, brother and myself was hitting the ramp, cousin went first, I was second and brother was last. Cousin and I stood to the side at the bottom as brother gathered speed, made the turn and hit the ramp. We watched as mid air he decided to push the bike away from him and then bring it back. The bike went solo through the air and brother dropped like a rock to the ground from about 10 feet up. Yes, when he brought the bike back up, he smashed his jewels between the seat and himself.
So there's cousin and myself watching this, brother land on the ground in the fetal position holding his jewels and moaning in agony. All cousin and I could do was laugh at the sight. After brother was able to walk and talk but still in pain he said " It's not funny". All cousin and I could say was that it was from where we were standing. Brothers bike did sail through the air and landed further than cousin and I did. Brother " Does that count?" The look of defeat when told he had to land on the bike as he was told before.
I watched the luge in the Olympics on our new color TV and decided to make a luge skateboard. Take one orange crate end, hammer on a crossbar for my hands to steer, and nail on halves of a metal-wheeled skate to the front and rear. I beat every other person down our hill. Later, after our sisters got together to play Nurses on the front lawns where everyone was crashing, we ran up over the smoothly rounded curbs onto the lawns and did crash and burns in front of them. What a hoot that was!
We also chased after the DDT fogger truck for a block when he came by to spray for mosquitoes. Oh, I almost forgot. There was a lake on the Air Force Base where we lived and we went down by the outflow, where the ground remained soft and wet. The trees there were very springy, so we'd climb all the way up until they bent over. Once we could touch the ground, we'd push off and spring up 30' until we came down on the other side. We could keep that up for five or ten minutes when our hands got tired, then we let go once we hit the ground. That was and =extremely= thrilling ride.
The whole point of my boyhood was to risk my life without knowing. I came in dirty, bruised, bleeding, limping, and groaning EVERYDAY including winter months.
😂 I remember thinking I'd know I'd grown up when I didn't have skinned knees and elbows.
My Dad used to be the parent I went to. He would also fix me up and not tell mom. I laugh now about all the mischief I got into.
If you didn't come home dirty, you must have been up to no good. My mom used to hose us off before letting us in the house sometimes.
As a kid from the 50s/60s I can tell you that parents only seemed to be worried about 3 things. They were usually shouted out the window by mom (dad never did this) and were:
1. Stop that or you will put an eye out.
2. Keep that up and you're going to break your neck.
3. You're going to catch your death of pneumonia.
I guess everything else was okay, just don't suffer one of those 3. Any time a kid in the group got injured bad enough that crying ensued, all the other kids would scatter like roaches when you turned the lights on because none of them wanted to get blamed for causing the injury.
I would purposely drive to different parks before great swings and slides were removed by over protective parents! Moms called me wreckless allowing kids to run amok, I'd say if I don't think they'll have to go to the hospital 🏥 I'll let them decide.., Who are we to tell a kid they can or can't do something? As young teenagers working odd hrs and no bus they'd walk to work and back home here in Quebec in the winter during the wee hrs!
'50s*/'60s* The apostrophe comes before the decade, not the "s."
We were feral children and it was awesome.
Yes we were. Thank you for watching 48mastadon!
An excellent description. I resemble that remark.
I may be getting older, but I REFUSE to grow up.
When I lived in Southern California in the early 1960s, we kids would walk everywhere barefoot.
Walking barefoot ,man where I grew up in north east Ohio that wasn't a wise decision especially in the winter
Yep I also grew up in so cal. Calluses on our feet would get so thick that stickers would barely poke through
@@Joe-Skier "They" now say this helped us build our immune systems -- stepping on all that stuff.
I was born in 1961, being a kid in the 60s and 70s was really GREAT! I miss those times, time machine anyone? :)
We did too in New England. I got a nail through my foot one time, had to go to the hospital. It hurts a lot more coming out that going in. My father read my beads all the way to the hospital.
Today these things might be called dangerous but as kids we called it fun.
Exactly
I was a kid in the 70s. My friends and I would leave our houses early and come back when the streetlights came on. We didn't necessarily have a plan and that was part of the fun. Every minute doesn't have to be planned or filled. Most of that adventurous spontaneity leaves when you're an adult, but I still try to keep to it on my staycations.
@waynev.8200 “Here’s two dollars for an egg cream and a ham & cheese sandwich at the pharmacy for lunch. Don’t forget to check the garden hose opening for snails before getting a drink. I don’t want you home until 8:30 (summer sunset time).
-Words from my mother
@@stanford-nf4jk😊
Same here. We didn't even have a landline phone, let alone a mobile. I roamed the woods and the riverbank freely with my friends or with my dog and was on the streets biking from dawn to dusk. When lunch was ready my mother just stood out in the front porch and screamed my name, her voice carried well enough that we could hear it from a couple of streets away 😂😂.
From the second we woke up until supper time we were gone! My mom never knew where we were or worried if we were okay. It was a completely different world back then.
The 1980's were no different. We did go home to grab a sandwich and drink most days, then right back out!
The Good Ol' Days😃I miss those times😫Thank you Rhetty for HistoryROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
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I remember once skidding on some gravel in our driveway and cutting my elbow. Went inside blubbering. Granddad put some iodine on it with a big Band-Aid. Shooed me back outside and I played till dinner. It was a pretty gnarly cut, and my mom was about to lose it, but he never said a word. Just bandaged it up and closed the door behind me as I went back out.
😅😅😅😅😅sounds about right...but that iodine or lucifers spit was worse... i remember trying to HIDE injuries to avoid that iodibe treatment. My mother said either this or amputation...i said amputation amputation would be less painful...i thought it serious grow back like a lizard... lol😂😂😂😂😂
@@Keonny77 Oh, I HATED that crap. But this one wasn't gonna be hidden. I still have the scar, too. Even today when I have to dab alcohol on a cut, I think back to those times.
My grandparents had a ranch.
My grandpa had a large square piece of flat metal that he welded wheels on all 4 corners.
All 4 of us grandkids would drag it up to the top of a hill where there house was and we’d push that metal down the hill, jump on and ride it to the bottom.
We didn’t have helmets, knee pads, shoulder pads, nothing. We literally flew by the seats of our pants and had a blast, until one of the wheels snapped off and off the driveway we went, down the rocky hill.
That was over 50 years ago and we still laugh about it today and how much fun we had
Great story..
Note the lack of overweight kids and people from pics and film before 1980.
We are now a nation of frightened overweight children who can't figure out simple problems or interpersonal conflicts.
Mom: "Don't do that, you'll get hurt".
Me: *does it anyway *
Me: *cries to Mom*
Mom: "Did it hurt?"
Me: "Ya"
Mom: "Good, maybe you learned something".
Followed by a spanking which also hurt, but mother did warn you. My grandfather used to get a kick out my injuries. I found out when I was a little older, that I was just like my father. He enjoyed seeing his kid going through what he went through. Boys are stupid is what my older sister used to say all the time. We aren't, we just learn differently.
I think this is one of my favorite videos that you have done. I think between my brothers and I we did just about everything that you covered. We had an adventurous childhood even tho we were not well off. Our imaginations where we found the activities we did. I loved climbing trees and riding in the back of a pickup truck. Thanks, Rhett, for another fun video.
A friend of mine and I was just talking about this topic last night! These modern kids just don't know. 😢
So true its so different for them today wish they could experience what we had
As my nephew and a good friend used to say, "we're lucky to have lived through and survived the 70s as kids!" 🤣😂😆❤
All these things I remember. Thank you so much for a ride down memory lane
You're welcome and thank you for watching Angelina!
I can 't imagin that kids today have more fun than we had
Oh my gosh, I and all my buddies did pretty much everything in this video and then some. I was a kid in the 60s, and we were definitely "free range." I used to climb trees so high that the top would sway under my weight. We used to play in half-built houses that were just 2x4 framing, like they were giant jungle-gyms, even climbing up into the roof joists. We used to regularly raid the house construction sites for lumber to build our tree houses, and nobody batted an eye. We used to dam up the creek and make little lakes to wade in during the summer. We considered the street that comprised our block our own personal bike racing course, and dodging the cars was just part of the fun. Gosh, I wish I appreciated my adventurous childhood more at the time, but it just seemed normal back then. Today's kids wouldn't last a day in our environment because they'd go home running in fear the first danger they faced. It's sad really.
I grew up on a farm. Even more dangerous. I did everything in the video even though I was a girl. Good times. So many things we did our grandkids aren't allowed to do.
You said it, buddy. Born in '73, I lived it. How I wish I could take a one way trip back to those times and just stay there. Today's ultra-safe environment of paranoia just isn't my world in the US anymore. At least some of it still exists in other countries. I'm in the Philippines at the moment, and kids, especially in the rural provinces, still do much of these daring things that we did.
I'm '73 too mate in Australia. It was a time I think about more as I get older, especially when younger guys ask me about how awesome it was growing up in the 70'-90's. Everyone I knew was happy, you could be yourself, going out was fun, even the workplace was way more fun. I'd go back to those decades anytime.
I moved from Sydney a few years ago to Cairns in Far North Queensland and I was surprised to see that kids up here do all the things we used to do, including when it's raining. And they're happy and friendly and will actually say hello to you!!It's still kicking on in small pockets which makes me smile.🍻
Childhood injuries have been greatly reduced and we are a much weaker society for it.
Thank you Rhetty for History for all the trips down memory lane that you provide. I'm 74 yo and I wonder what kind of fond memories today's youth will have. I am truly thankful for your channel that reminds us of such wonderful and simple times.
You are so right about kids watching carpenters. I did that back in the 60's. I learned how to cope a joint before I could read. They were so kind to us kids. And how come kids don't sword fight anymore? This was a great topic. Thanks very much.
“Cope a joint…” that meant something else when I was a kid, where I grew up. 😉🤣
Thats pretty good.@@princessmarlena1359
Oh yeah, did all that. I've been "driving" since at about 4yrs old, one of the times was from eastern Washington all the way back home to the westside. Buying fireworks at the local corner store every year. Climbing trees and building forts, surely a different time.
It’s honestly amazing that so many of us made it out of childhood alive. Our parents were clueless!😂
Not true, we made it out of childhood just fine.
Not true at all our parents raised us way better than kids are raised today we were taught manners and respect
Lol lot of kids today doing illegal and Dangerous stuff and this is recording by Smartphones. Look all the Million of videos, kids and teens land on the face for a social media challenge or break bones during some stuff for the Internet.
Wrong. Our parents were great. Parents now are clueless drips.
@@markrichards6863 nowadays we have Lot of yelling karens in the USA
You could disappear for hours at a time and your parents didn't care where you were, as long as you were
home when the streetlights came on.
We'd go miles away and never thought to say anything about it.
I remember fun times sad it cant still be the same way for kids today
@@Lili-xq9sn yeah very different time for sure
I'm a 90's kid and remembered doing at least half of these things, probably because I came from parents who came from a pretty traditional and rural background. I actually had a lot of fun doing these things, they were the days I could socialize with people who weren't behind a screen too.
I love this channel!!❤
Another awesome episode as usual Rhetty.
I used to climb this huge tree in our front yard and sway back and forth at the top and the neighbors would freak out calling for my mom to get me down. She'd say "Shannon's ok she's just a little monkey."
And when I was 8 I carved my name (with my grandpa's pocket knife) on a plank of wood and climbed up that same tree and nailed it to it to claim that tree as mine. That plank of wood is probably still there.🤣
51yr old Gen X from '72 here.
I remember riding in the back of My Dad's Company Station wagon many times, fun.
When I see someone say they are in there 50's, my first thought is that is getting old, but then I realize Im that old😳😜I saw a shirt the other day that said, "It's weird being the same age as old people" lol so true.. Gen X-er 1973 We used to ride in the back on my dads truck and do most of whats on this video too.
Oh the good old days!😊
Thank you for watching burbie1342!
Back in 1977, my brother, sister and I were 9, 11 & 12 years-old and our parents let us take the bus downtown to see Star Wars by ourselves, multiple times. We walked 6 blocks past bums & winos and never had a problem. This was Seattle, and not always safe (but much safer than today). It was always a fun adventure and made us feel 'adult'. Can you imagine any parent letting their kids do that nowadays in a big city!?
Good Morning Rhett 🙋🏽. Those were the best times in My life. Thank You for inviting me to watch your video 👍🏽😃
Good morning Carole and thank you for watching!
Paused the video because something that happened to me when I was 8 years old, came immediately to mind when I saw the title. I was at my grandmother's for the summer. We went to her neighbor's house who had a swing set in the backyard. That thing was rusty and (what today would be called) unsafe. Not fully anchored in the ground too! Anyway, I got cut on a piece of the rusty metal. My grandmother got some iodine, poured it on the cut, and said, "Now get back outside"🤣🤣🤣 Oh, I still have the scar 51 years later! Thank you, Rhetty for the memories!
We had a swing set like that, rusty and no longer anchored, we were swinging over the creek below. Amazed the whole thing never fell down the steep back into the creek.
@@Lili-xq9sn 😄
I remember my Girl Scout group being cramped in the back of a station wagon just like in this video! It was all fun and games until Katie threw up on all of us 😂😩
Good Times...😂
A pocket knife by age 10? I already had my first gun by that age, a single shot .22. But you forgot one other thing we use to do, BB gun fights. The only rule was you could not shoot at the face. Otherwise it was running around the woods looking for and popping" the enemy.
Friends and I used to climb on top of abandoned buildings. There was an old 1 storie school in our area that we climbed on top of. One time we jumped off the lowest point of the top and I was the only one that hurt my ankle. Going inside abandoned building used to be our adventures. Born in 87 so I did some of these things.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Nathan!
There were a lot of new houses being built in my neighborhood growing up.
There was no better playground.
My friends were farm kids and we would play in the hayloft of their barn. It was fun to play hide and seek behind stacks of baled hay and straw.
Ha!!! Good times! Were we crazy or what? At least we were not over protected and covered in bubble wrap.
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My dad was a mechanic and he would let me be in the service area and watch him fix cars, and the dealership didn’t even mind. OSHA would not let it happen now.
Same except my dad was a semi mechanic
I grew up in the 80s & early 90s. I totally remember playing on metal slides, and rough wooden playground equipment. No A/C cars and no booster sits in cars.
Never wore knee pads or helmets.
Same here!
We used to slide down a steep dirt hill when someone found a refrigerator box
RE: Jack Knives .....when I was young seemed like every kid had a jack knife and a white rabbits foot chained to the front belt loop on their jeans. Also Every kid had ironed on patches on the knees of their jeans.
Yep I did most of these things growing up, as did most of us growing up back then. Me made it through perfectly fine, maybe a few scars, but at least we lived and enjoyed our childhoods. Something kids today are unable to do.
In the rural area where I grew up I was able to ride in a flat bed wagon towed by a farm tractor. Sometimes I even got a drive that tractor.
This one of my favorite channels hands down. Nostalgia overload every video. The train tracks sparked a second comment. My friend had some running literally right behind his house and we'd hang out on them often. One time we chased after it to jump on the back. I was the only that made it. It was exhilarating for about a half mile then I thought...How the hell am I getting off?
Lol I still hate wearing a helmet when I ride my bike. We never wore those in our day and we did all kinds of stunts, ramps, riding on trails, hopping your bike onto a bench or high curb. Everything we did was dangerous but we had a great time! Great video
This is all true 👍 I'm 64 and remember doing all of this 😊
Excellent commentary at the end! It’s not more dangerous now. Really brings me back. Great video 👍
@waynev.8200 You should see how the gangs have overtaken my little Orange County, California hometown.
It seems we were much braver than kids today. Used to run through sewer pipes for hours.
I am so thankful for every scar that I have from doing stupid stuff as a kid!
Being the youngest of 4 boys. My oldest brother would take us on adventures including going through storm drains that would end up at the ocean. If only Mom knew that LOL
The banana boat bike seats 😄
I dunno about you but I stuck my arm out the window to arm wrestle the wind..
Dogs still stick their heads out of the car window.
I was a tree climbing phenom growing up!!! We had some good ones near my house. I remember getting my 1st pocketknife as soon as I became a Cub Scout.
My parents taught me early on basic cooking skills (scrambled eggs, bacon, and/or sausage). They also taught me how to iron my clothing, split logs for firewood, and what routes to take to walk home from the library and park. I also used to play neighborhood hide and seek. We had permission from most neighbors to cut through their yards, jump over walls and fences so long as we didn’t trample garden or flower beds, as well as drink water from their garden hoses that would sometimes just be laying there on their grass or dirt. I can’t speak for everyone, but nor I nor my brother ever got sick doing that.
“Cut through their yards” I haven’t heard nor uttered that phrase in over 40 years… as a kid in the 70’s that phrase was spoken daily…
Thanks for the recollection…
I would jump of my roof, catch a tree branch and swing to the ground like Tarzan. Jumping bikes off of anything and everything was the norm. All of our schools playground equipment was on concrete i.e., swings, jungle gym, slide, etc... No one wore any protective equipment.
That's right Rhett, these kids will never know. We did not have an app for that 😂
Yep....spent hours outside. Grew up surrounded by farms and orange groves. And of course going to the beach and surfing.. You are correct bout today...here is your Ipad kid. I retired from a big box store. Never forget when a guy in his 20s asked me how does he install a light bulb. Yep. Almost forgot..we had wood shop class in 7th grade. 👍
I'm amazed at some of the things that some younger folks can't do. They seem so simple. For those that can do them and are eager to make a buck it's a great opportunity for them. Thank you for watching RedProg!
I'm was born and raised small town farm country in the Midwest. We also had wood shop and kids would bring in rifles and shotguns to make new stocks for a grade. If walked out in the parking lot there was pickup trucks with gun racks in the rear window and shotguns or rifles for hunting after school. If you did have a fight with another boy, you met after school, off school grounds and fought it out bare handed, no weapons. No matter who won, most of the time you became best friends with the other guy. The younger generations are too quick to pull the trigger over the most minor things.
Riding a wheelie on a bike....holding a glass pop bottles out a car window listening to it whistle. I did almost all those dangerous things in this video plus some. I got injured ( minor)sometimes, but that's how you learned.
I grew up in the late '60s and '70s.
I was born in the 90s so i missed out on all this, im jealous of everyone that had this kind of childhood
I was born in 63. As a kid I loved playground toys that were fun, like a really tall slide and tall swing sets.
In the 70s we lived in the western N.C. Mountains. In elementary school, I tried riding a bicycle but the hills were too step. The bicycle was a Sears banana seat, and i broke the frame jumping it off a ramp. That was VERY PAINFUL.
I did ride a pinto horse to elementary school and friends houses.
In 77 (13 years old) we lived near Homestead FL. I got a work permanent and had a job as a grocery store bag boy. I bought a Sears 10 speed and rode it to school (9th grade) 6 miles and to work 9 miles and part was on US 1.
I also got a motorcycle, a Harley 125cc. It was fun riding it with the girl next door. We would ride to a country store. That was until she moved away and I lost all interest in the motorcycle.
As a teen there was something special about riding in the back bed of a pickup truck with a girl and no one else.
Car and truck tires had tubes.The tubes were great for floating down a river.
In 72, my dad bought me a battery powered cassette player. It was cool walking listen to my music. In high school, I would take the player to school and push play, set it down and grab the nearest girl and dance, when the song was over, I would pickup the tape player and walk off.
The 60s and 70s were an out of world time.
@cyclenut My grandma would have me pour her a scotch & soda or bourbon neat and light her cigarettes for her after placing one between her lips. She quit but died of a stroke one year ago this month.
Riding in the back of my Dads pick up and there were no consequences and pretending to be monster trucks with BMX bikes.....DAMIT! Good times🤙
I missed most of this growing up in the 80's and 90's, but I do remember climbing up the TV antenna onto the roof of my neighbor's house. My friends were jumping off the roof onto the trampoline, but they wouldn't let me do it. I also remember exploring a construction site with my mom in the 90's. I never did it, but younger brother and his friends used to walk home from school on the railroad tracks.
We used to jump off the roof of a two story house into the the deep end of a pool. Also, you couldn’t see the pool as you ran hard to clear the cement patio! That one still gives me the shivers when I think about it!!
You forgot smoking!! It was socially acceptable for young teens to smoke cigarettes & in some cases even marijuana at home.We had a smoking section outside at high school technically for seniors but no one said a word if you were younger. Up until the early 1990's, you could smoke in restaurants like MacDonalds & bowling alleys... 🚬
I cleared out my house one time trying to make matches with my chemistry, set @ 10yo. My parents thought we had a gas leak, sulfur doesn’t smell so good.
My mother's rules in the 1950's and 60's:
1.) Don't be late for dinner!
2.) Don't bleed on the carpet!
In the 90s, my brother's built ramps and them and I didn't wear our bike helmets all the time either. Also I lived in an apartment complex when I was little, so sometimes my dad let us on his lap to steer when we pulled into the complex.
Playing Evel Knievel, having the wind knocked out of you, having speed wobbles at 50 mph on my skateboard etc was a right of passage for us youngsters back in the day .All the adventure without being glued to social media. It was never a dull moment. Love your videos Rhetty.
The great outdoors with friends is now like kids on their cell phones, missing out on adventures and imagination. We created our own games and didn't mind getting banged around back then, haha!! Thanks, Rhett. Love the memories. 💜
😊 I was just remembering how black and bruised my knees always were, I hang out with my older brother, way more fun than my older sis who'se now a coke head, in the winter my bro had me jumping off the roof into the snow, once I missed and fell on the path (oww) and he immediately worried I'd tell mom, said I wouldn't and didn't!
Living in Florida, those stainless steel slides were hotter than hades from Feb thru Nov 😂
I remember in the mid 70s a kid's rear "bike seat" on your parent's bike was just a cushion and tiny seatback, no provision for safety. I paid the price when I got my foot caught in the rear spokes and tore up the top of one of my feet. Peeling that ginormous scab off the top of my foot a couple of weeks later I suppose was it's own learning experience.
One thing that we did that was incredibly dangerous that is never seen today is skitching off the rear of cars on icy roads in the winter. Back in the 70’s most cars had those big chrome bumpers you could grab onto and see how far you could go. Yes it was dangerous but we did it anyway. Today’s cars barely have a bumper or they’re plastic.
Good memories.
I think you just explained one of the big problems with kids now days
My parents remember me sticking in a screwdriver in an electrical socket.Only did it once
Diary key for me...only did it once
Absolutely I've done all of these! I used to drive by standing up in the back of the car and reaching over the driver's shoulders. Heck the police back in the day would wave and smile. Remember stick ball? Tackle football with no gear and concrete separated the neighborhood front lawns, drive - by water gun fights, and to me one of the things i was guaranteed to get hurt, the poorly made slip n slide.
There's a trend. I'm a kid from the 70s and made it just fine. Nowadays you have these parents along with the government trying to "protect" us. Rules ans laws are made now because they think people are not smart enough to make wise decisions. Seat belts are fine but I should have the right to wear one or not along with many other things.
My brother & I would walk the rails! When our mom found out she called us a name not so nice! LOL!
I was the kid who couldn't climb the rope😢😂😂 but, I could climb all over the slaughter bar at my grandparents farm😂😂
I do remember some not being able to but I don't think we ever made fun of anyone. It was definitely a race and competition among those that could though. Thank you for watching Tammie!
Yep, we grew up not wearing seat belts and I still don't bother. Been pulled over once and told to put it on. I looked right at the cop and told him point blank, "Why bother, I'm just going to take it right back off as soon as I'm out of your line of sight". He rolled his eyes because he realized at my age there's no chance I'm going to start now.
Grew up in the 60's and 70's and did all of the things mentioned in the video and more. We were always building something, exploring something, riding our bikes somewhere and playing outside. SOOO glad I grew up when I did. Modern kids have no idea how much freedom they don't have.
My cousin one day asked me if life was that different or were our parents irresponsible. Probably some of both. Loved riding in the back of a pickup. We used to live in a small development which had no outlets for through traffic. The main road in had a long hill. We used to ride our wagon down the hill. So fun until on his way home from work my dad caught us. That ended the fun. Sometimes I'm amazed more of us didn't die😂
Me too. Its a wonder most of us survived.
ANOTHER FABULOUS video Rhett!!! Thank you!! 🙂 Your commentary is always so RIGHT ON TARGET!!!
Kids were more physically active back then. Today, all they exercise is their mouth and their texting skills !
Your channel brings much joy of the care free world we lived in back then. But also kind of a sadness too that those happy days are long gone. Keep up the great work and I'll keep watching.
Having survive all these dangerous activities, and then many of us we're sent off to Vietnam. ( Perhaps our dangerous childhood was preparation? ) Another excellent video my friend!
Camping in the woods, cliff climbing, riding on the disc while my dad plowed the garden. My brothers and friends even talked about not living to be as old as 50 because of the dumb stuff we did. LOL! good times
Awesome video, as always! Thanks 4 sharing! Luv the live action intermingled with stills!!!❤😎👍
As a kid I remember doing stick fights, tobogganing down ski hills, throwing random stuff into a campfire, popping bubble wrap with a pair of scissors, jumping off boulders, underwater breath holding contests
“So here’s your iPod kid” 😂
This is a great video, thanks for sharing all our childhood memories!
We not only climbed up onto the roof of the house and garage....we Jumped off onto the lawn 😂 We built tree forts from the scrap lumber and nails the guys building new houses in the area gave us. Thanks for the memories !!!!
Yep, we wore towels tied to our necks and jumped off like superman 😃
God I miss the 60s and 70s!
Thanks for watching Kurt!
Your channel is so underrated. This is a good form of therapy during these difficult times. Thank you for bringing me back to the good ole days.
Did everything mentioned to some degree or other. Was all fun along with some amount of danger and safety precautions, such as they were, needing to be taken.
Great video!!! Your humorous narration was a much-appreciated touch. Thank you very much!
I remember all of these i loved all of them. I refused to wear a seatbelt until after it became mandatory and i got enough tickets that the judge warned me 1 more and it would move to misdemeanor. I didn't want jail time. I argued that the mandatory seatbelt law was Unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment and the Virginia Constitution, i lost.
I used to go to a local swimming hole a lot. I miss those days.
I learned real construction skills from my Dad, yes i hit the wrong nail a few times.
Oh I got my first pocket knife at 8, a hand me down from a Uncle who had been a Boy Scout in the late 40s and early 50s