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Got my suits at Robert Hall clothes store in Hempstead real cheap or a pair of paints at Greenburgs or Burnsteins on Glen St in Glen Cove ,the sales man/owner measured you with a tape measure and it was tailored and ready for you in an hour.
[quote=LIGuyandGal;28301773]What I miss from my childhood days on LI:
1. Going to the playground at the school or park and being able to play on the gyms whithout seeing a bunch of cigarette butts or beer cans buried in the sand. Also no worries of older kids coming around to start trouble.
The irony of that statement is that more people smoked back then.
Having my mother drop me off at the docks with a few chicken wings for bait, a crab trap, a snack, and leaving me there to have an afternoon of fun.
Biking through neighborhoods around where I lived on the evenings before garbage "junk day" looking for bike frames/parts that I could use to build a bike!
The most extreme example of today's hovering is the way children are escorted from the school bus to home. In my area, where the houses are sometimes 200 feet apart or more, the little darlings aren't deposited at a central drop-off. No, the bus stops at each individual home along the way. It's ridiculous. If you're going to shelter a child that much, why move to the suburbs?
I'm 35 and even I do remember the freedom we had. Played stickball all day in the summer outside and rode bikes with friends all over town on small streets where we could still easily get hit by a car (lots of elderly drivers). Don't see kids on bikes too much anymore and people blame video games and internet. As a parent now, I am hesitant to give my kids that much freedom outdoors. They are only 4 but maybe I'll let go at some point. My wife is extremely fearful of abductions and I guess it's rubbed off on me too - not sure if it happened as much in the past - maybe the media is making a bigger deal out of it now (and it is a big deal) and so we're more reserved. The amber alert system was definitely after my childhood. Just looked it up - 1996.
As a parent now, I am hesitant to give my kids that much freedom outdoors. They are only 4 but maybe I'll let go at some point. My wife is extremely fearful of abductions and I guess it's rubbed off on me too - not sure if it happened as much in the past - maybe the media is making a bigger deal out of it now (and it is a big deal) and so we're more reserved.
I'm in a similar boat as you are. I think the media and 24/7 news coverage are in large part responsible for the freedoms so many of us are remembering in this thread being lost in our society today.
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