A long time ago..
Posted 06-16-2008 at 02:01 PM by arguy1973
Feels funny for me to say along time ago to my kids. We live in such a different world now than we did when I was a kid back in the 70s. I stayed with my grandparents during the day while my parents worked. We only had three stations on the tv, one from Arkansas and the other two were from Memphis. One of us would go outside with a pipe wrench and turn the antenna while the other one would watch the screen and yell out the window that the picture was either good or bad. We didnt stay in the house much at all. If we did we got stuck doing "chores" like shelling green beans or shucking corn, so it was best to take off down the dirt road and get just out of earshot of anyone if you could.
I still go out to that old dirt road now and then, its like a long lost friend, if I look close enough I can still see my first gfs initials carved into an old tree way back from when I was in the 5th grade. I still remember that day, cold and muddy...
I still go out to that old dirt road now and then, its like a long lost friend, if I look close enough I can still see my first gfs initials carved into an old tree way back from when I was in the 5th grade. I still remember that day, cold and muddy...
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Arguy, I have always enjoyed your nostalgic posts about your childhood ..and your inspirational posts..I shall look forward to more
Posted 06-16-2008 at 05:42 PM by Miss Blue
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I was born in the 70s. Spent several years living in upstate NY, 3rd, 4th, 5th grade... I remember we were hardly ever inside. Ran around all over the neighborhood. The park, the "pit," the woods. Gone for hours with friends.
Too much playstation, tv, nintendo time, these days... But I think we are a little more nervous to let our kids out of our sight so much. I know I am...Posted 06-17-2008 at 07:28 PM by emeraldsky
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Great blog buddy! I too grew up in the 70s and it was so very different from today. As you, if we weren't outside, we were doin' chores. If we complained too much, we were sent to the garden to pick peas. Ugh, I hated picking peas!!Posted 06-17-2008 at 08:49 PM by Hoosier
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Ah, the freedom of our childhood. I also grew up in the '70s, but I was a city kid. We had the run of the neighborhood, as long as we came home before the streetlights turned on
Even then, we would be playing on our street, within earshot of home. Because when mom did call us in, you'd better be there in a hurry! Posted 06-17-2008 at 09:25 PM by mams1559
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Arguy, you took me down memory lane with your blog. thank you for the sweet memories of my childhood, which mimicked yours...must the the southern thing.
aiangelPosted 06-17-2008 at 10:08 PM by aiangel_writer
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arguy, I remember the days of using a wire coat hanger as an antenna, or balling up aluminum foil at the ends for better receiption on our black & white tv. If on a clear day, sometimes we could pick up a station from Canada.
I went to a yard sale yesterday and people were selling of boxes off 8-tracks, my son was standing there listening to his MP3 player.... that's a good perspective of how much change had happened. Has anyone ever had to explain to their kids what you mean by: "you sound like a broken record" ? (lol)
Without the internet or video games, we spent most of time hanging out at the Mall & going roller skating.
I love talking about the good ole days growing up through the 70's & 80's, thanks for opening it up in blog post.Posted 06-22-2008 at 10:19 AM by FedupWNY
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a life of game toys is`nt much of a memoryPosted 01-17-2009 at 11:07 PM by backstaber
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Very good post. If only we could have those days back......Posted 02-10-2009 at 02:59 PM by malfunction
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The day the world 'moved on'....
Reading the blogs from others raised in the 70s, I again wonder: "When did the world move on? Flip over? Change so dramatically" ? Every generation shakes their head at "what THIS generation has to go through..." but the changes from the 70s to now are like living on a different planet! I think it was 9 11, but others have a different time frame. All I know is, I am sad that my grand childeren will never run in the woods ALL DAY LONG, with wet socks ,and mittens on their hands that they borrowed from their friends little sister. Who EVER says "Come in when the street lights come on." I grieve for the children; for the loss of imagination and innovation; building forts, running all the time.... I had what some would call a tough childhood but it was filled with fresh air, activity, friends, laughter and play. (All my friends got whippins when they were bad, I didn't know it was child abuse!) I never remember being indoors watching TV in daylight hours. My friends and I walked everywhere, usually a mile or more 'walking them half way home.' How sad, that is lost. It is all lost and what I see in it's place is scary. (I live in So. Fl., and its a little more scary than, say, Vermont.)Posted 02-18-2009 at 12:29 PM by ddvandy
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charlie likes poached pears. >.<Posted 06-22-2009 at 07:24 AM by BerniceR92
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he doessssHE DOES!Posted 06-22-2009 at 07:25 AM by BerniceR92
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I'm still growing up.. I'm 13, But for me it's not that different... Sure the thing with the TV is foreign to me, but I spend most all of my time outside and i still go to my grandparents house a lot when my parents are out... but that's at home... School and out in public is very different.Posted 10-08-2009 at 04:36 PM by annakay
