Why being a Child in the 60's was the best

[Chief Longwind Of The North]

Why being a child in he 60's was the best:

• Balsa wood gliders for 15 cents
• Fizzies
• 12 0z. pop for a dime. Smaller bottles for a nickel
• Big C 3/4 lb. burger 40 99 cents.
• All you could eat fries, plus gravy, at KFC for a dime.
• KFC original was the Colonel's original recipe
• DQ cones were a dime per scoop, with coating
• PDQ chocolate or eggnog milk flavoring
• A&W root beer floats made from A&W draft root beer, in frosted mug
• baseball bubblegum balls in long strings
• Hunting with bow, or shotgun allowed with adult tat age 12
• Hunting with rifle at age 14, with an adult
• No fishing license required until age 16
• Rode bike 5, 10 miles from home without parents worrying about crazy people
• West Pier Drive In cold cut subs
• Hard ice cream at 5 cents a scoop, any flavor they had
• Paul Bunyan 1/2 lb. burger at Antler's bar & grill
• Rosni's Pizza
• Fishing off of the front yard for pike, salmon, perch, and walleye
• Swimming off of the East side of the front yard.
• Playing baseball in an empty area of the cemetery
• Repairing and owning my own snowmobile by age 12
• My first motorcycle by age12
• My first bow with real arrows by age 7
• First bb gun by age 7
• Lots of boys in the neighborhood, 17 in the subdivision where my Dad lived.
• No parental chaperone needed when trick or treating
• No video games.
• Tree forts built wat too high in very tall trees
• Boy Scouts was very popular, and we had both an amazing scoutmaster, and assistant scoutmaster.
• Wilderness campouts, crossing a river every bit as big as the Mississippi River, in a canoe, making a makeshift camp out of tarps, stones for a fire ring, a hand dug latrine, and fishing off of the shore that would have made Huck Finn proud.
• Amazing, trustworthy friends
• I still believed in heroes, and was un-jaded, and innocent.

Oh, and I almost forgot, climbing to the top of a tall red pine, at age 7, and swaying with the tree in the wind.

To quote a lyric from a Julie Andrews song, "These are a few of my favorite things"

And so, which were/are your best childhood years, and what made them special?

Seeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North

 

[Silversage]

LOL Chief! Your 1960s recollections are very different from mine!

"If you remember the 60s, you werren't really there." - Comedian Charlie Fleischer

 

[Sir_Loin_of_Beef]

LOL Chief! Your 1960s recollections are very different from mine!

"If you remember the 60s, you weren't really there." - Comedian Charlie Fleischer

That's why famous people of that era had to have ghost writers for their memoirs.

 

[Lee Vining]

Free TV
Free music on the radio.

 

[taxlady]

Free TV
Free music on the radio.

Only sort of free. We paid with commercials. I will admit that there were fewer commercials back then.

 

[caseydog]

Only sort of free. We paid with commercials. I will admit that there were fewer commercials back then.

But, the TV commercials promoted the benefits of cigarettes.

CD

 

[Andy M.]

Only sort of free. We paid with commercials. I will admit that there were fewer commercials back then.

Without a doubt. With network TV shows the content is less every year. You're lucky to get 20 minutes of content with a 30 minute slot. An hour show is now down to near 40 minutes of content.

So then you pay for a streaming service and there are ads there too! Of course, you can go ad free for an added charge.

 

[Lee Vining]

My morning serial was shot from cannons.

 

[Lee Vining]

Laying here in bed, 9 weeks to go until my bones are healed, big screen TV,, Starlink,, You Tube Premium, Roku - the world is my window.

Beats the 6 black and white broadcast channels showing Godzilla Staring Raymond Burr, Lucy reruns and Earl Scheib commercials of my childhood.

 

[pacanis]

You had Earl Scheib, too?
I didn't realize it was nationwide.

 

[Andy M.]

I've seen an Earl Scheib $29.00 paint job. Not sure it was worth the money.

 

[pacanis]

I can't imagine why not.

 

[Kathleen]

Laying here in bed, 9 weeks to go until my bones are healed, big screen TV,, Starlink,, You Tube Premium, Roku - the world is my window.

Beats the 6 black and white broadcast channels showing Godzilla Staring Raymond Burr, Lucy reruns and Earl Scheib commercials of my childhood.

Gunsmoke. StarTrek. The Twilight Zone. Dark Shadows.

 

[caseydog]

I've seen an Earl Scheib $29.00 paint job. Not sure it was worth the money.

The original paint coming from the factories wasn't very good, either. When you look at a restored classic car today, the paint and the body alignment is WAY better than the day the car was new.

I don't have all the warm and fuzzies for the 60s that a lot of people have. I had a lot more fun in the 70s.

CD

 

[Andy M.]

. . . I don't have all the warm and fuzzies for the 60s that a lot of people have. I had a lot more fun in the 70s.

CD

Some of that is probably age related. I'm not always in the mainstream. For example, I am really fond of the pre-'63 Corvettes. I still dislike the Stingray.

Same for music. The best rock and roll came from the 50s and 60s. The later stuff was OK.

 

[caseydog]

Some of that is probably age related. I'm not always in the mainstream. For example, I am really fond of the pre-'63 Corvettes. I still dislike the Stingray.

Same for music. The best rock and roll came from the 50s and 60s. The later stuff was OK.

I am technically a Boomer, but I relate more to Gen X. However, I've photographed and driven every generation of Corvette up until C6. I like C1 corvettes from 56 to 62, C2 from 63-67, and I like the new C8s.

CD

 

[taxlady]

Laying here in bed, 9 weeks to go until my bones are healed, big screen TV,, Starlink,, You Tube Premium, Roku - the world is my window.

Beats the 6 black and white broadcast channels showing Godzilla Staring Raymond Burr, Lucy reruns and Earl Scheib commercials of my childhood.

You only had 6 TV channels.? Los Angeles had 7 regular VHF channels in the 1950s. I don't remember most of the call signs, but we got 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13. I think 5 was KTLA.

 

[pictonguy]

Not a fat of corvettes in general except the 63-67 and the 68-69 except when you get inside and that's when it all falls to pieces, just terribly designed and cheap looking. I prefer the more European designs.

This was me driving a friends 23 I think at Mossport Park a few hours east of Toronto.
This era of corvettes is in my opinion on a different level than all previous corvettes and this has lasting power, more sophisticated and a higher level of craftmanship with the interiors having a similar feel, I really liked it. Nice job. Still wouldn't buy one, even if i could afford it, lol.

 

[Lee Vining]

You only had 6 TV channels.? Los Angeles had 7 regular VHF channels in the 1950s. I don't remember most of the call signs, but we got 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13. I think 5 was KTLA.

Depends where you lived if our rabbit ear TV antenna would pick up the stations signal.

 

[Lee Vining]

Walking down to A&W for a really good burger and RootBeer.

KFC was different way back when. Pieces were bigger and it really had all the spices.
Tasted like Mrs Knotts that had even bigger pieces of chicken.