I may be showing my age here but I remember my first "new" bicycle. Single speed, riding with my friends 15-20 miles out of town with fishing rods and baskets on a Saturday. No parental guidance necessary. Just a bunch of boys having fun and relaxing on a sunny day by the pond. Lots of fresh air and exercise. No cell phones or texting or video games or any technology. Not a care in the world.
I remember them days well myself, had me a bike almost like that but mine was bright pink with a yellow banana seat....lol. I do remember my first pair of roller skates, known more today as roller blades.
Another memory as a youngster growing up in western Canada, playing hockey on a frozen pond with the mountains in the back drop. Many a weekend spent from 9 AM until it started getting dark in the late afternoon. Man, if I could have bottled up that energy and saved a little for now. There was a lot more snow when I was a kid.
Oh now that brings back some good memories as well im from Halifax. We would skate for hours on the lakes, kids today sit with phone or control in hand.
I remember having to use the end of a pencil to wind the cassettes! Or sitting by the radio to hit record when the song comes on for the mix tape. Riding a bike without a helmet. Pepsi clear was the best!! Pogs were "tubular"
"Back in my day.." When you hit in the head you got up and kept playing. No CTE here...wait, where am I? Riding bikes until street lights came on, actually walking to school, card catalogues, encyclopedia, Oregon trail
Jiggling the tv antenna cause the reception was horrid and cable wasn't an option at the time, eating a twinkie watching saturday morning cartoons on local tv.
console tv's...cars without seatbelts..country stores ..candy for a penny...gas for 87 cents a gallon..sat morning cartoons..first music videos on mtv....satellite dishes bigger then cars in your yard for tv.....wooden boats ...when there was no Walmart just hometown main streets
making your own toys, kites, billy carts, forts Getting smacked by parents for misbehaving Writing on a slate at school Desks with ink-wells the spring butterfly swarm
