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Default Apr 05, 2021 at 05:42 PM
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Oh, the mention of smoke. Everyone smoked except my mum. There were table top ashtrays, car ashtrays, elevated ashtrays on a pole, glass ashtrays, metal ashtrays, big ones tiny ones, elaborate artistic ones and simple. Functional one. And all of them needed to be cleaned! Ugh. People smoked everywhere, in elevators, planes, hospitals, homes. The smoke covered everything and left a yellow cast on all surfaces. There were candy cigarettes for us younger set.

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For those of you who lived through duck and cover, did you ever wonder how kneeling down and covering your head was going to protect you from a nuke? Oh yes, and girls were supposed to kneel because if we sat cross legged like the boys somebody might see our undies! I wondered about that too. If we were turned to a pile of radioactive ash what difference did it make? In some ways I was a contrary little beast.
I did, I thought it was ridiculous. There were pictures of Japan after the bombs and they were devastating. I couldn’t figure out how my desk was supposed to protect me when building s were flattened.

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For those of you who lived through duck and cover, did you ever wonder how kneeling down and covering your head was going to protect you from a nuke? Oh yes, and girls were supposed to kneel because if we sat cross legged like the boys somebody might see our undies! I wondered about that too. If we were turned to a pile of radioactive ash what difference did it make? In some ways I was a contrary little beast.
We were actually never taught to duck and cover. Especially not under the desks at school. I was really surprised to hear that it was a common instruction here. Maybe people were taught that in previous generations? I was both in the 60s but started school in the 70s, maybe by then people figured it out that it’s dumb.

Well a lot of tornado, active shooter, fire and other drills we have are really dumb too. Most won’t work in actual emergency. I think schools just felt they had to teach something
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Default Apr 06, 2021 at 03:35 AM
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The clothing really, the way we treated one another, not being addicted to social media that much, the photography of that times, the colours... The prices... Everything being more simple and basic and more friendly.
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My dad having long side burns, crimplene dresses, I had one I remember vividly how it looked and my mom had crimplene dress and pants too, weird hair dos on both men and women, Cold War, we had bunkers type of things where people supposed to hide and there was a training in school what to do in case of nuclear attack, (lol I was on the other side of iron curtain but boy it was the same nonsense), summer cottage and summer camps, dinky cars-don’t recall what kind we had, rotary phones, phone booth, telegraph station where you could send telegrams from, people smoking on the airplanes and on trains, black and white tv with bunny ears antenna, I remember when we got color tv and it was weird to see things in color, black and white photography! I was born in the 60s.
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Wow. It was probably different from your perspective growing up 'behind the iron curtain' (I think it was Churchill who coined that term) but what an interesting time. Which is your home country, divine? Obviously part of the Soviet bloc back then.

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Hi @divine1966

Wow. It was probably different from your perspective growing up 'behind the iron curtain' (I think it was Churchill who coined that term) but what an interesting time. Which is your home country, divine? Obviously part of the Soviet bloc back then.
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It’s not even that different. Just the opposite side of the same crazy thing. Oh yeah what’s that curse “may you live in interesting times”

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For those of you who lived through duck and cover, did you ever wonder how kneeling down and covering your head was going to protect you from a nuke? Oh yes, and girls were supposed to kneel because if we sat cross legged like the boys somebody might see our undies! I wondered about that too. If we were turned to a pile of radioactive ash what difference did it make? In some ways I was a contrary little beast.

I never did wonder about hiding under our desks. I thought that if the teacher told us to do it, she must know (oh, dear!). But we also hid under our desks during earthquake drills, as "The Big One" was always due to hit at any moment

I grew up during the '70's. It was certainly an enigmatic era. I remember so much, but the first 2 memories that pop into my mind are the incredible music and using a hem ripper to pick out the hems of our flared jeans so they'd drag on the floor and get all raggy. And that makes me remember wearing Candies with Levis. Candies looked like this...the wood was not exactly comfortable.

What do you remember most about the era you grew up in?

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Default Apr 06, 2021 at 03:24 PM
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Never wore candies, my shoe was usually unsoled moccasins, the two button kind and burkinstocks.

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Never wore candies, my shoe was usually unsoled moccasins, the two button kind and burkinstocks.

Moccasins were so cute. When I wasn't wearing Candies I was wearing my precious Birkenstocks. Get this: I purchased my first pair of Birks at a health food store in 1976 for $19!!

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Default Apr 14, 2021 at 03:12 AM
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Actually, the feeling of being free Especially, on summer breaks . See we had alleys and dirt bikes ; Which to race others that came along. Still living in the same neighborhood now and a totally different vibe and feel. It actually is a bit surprising to see kids playing in the street. I see them and always look back at how fun and reckless. We were back in the day, up to no good in a breaking out a window with my first sling shot kinda way!

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Default Apr 19, 2021 at 11:54 AM
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I was a teenager in the 80's. I remember the music. I still love that music. Walkman's were cool. So were the boom boxes.

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Being a "latch-key" kid. There were no daycares or afterschool programs. If parents were at work, we'd make our own breakfasts and school lunches, lock up and walk ourselves to school, come home to an empty house until dinner time, and were expected to have chores finished and dinner started.
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Being forced to take pink fluoride pills as part of school practices. This was in the 80s and was eventually faded out.
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I have zero memories of having to do any fire drills and earthquake drills like schools are required to do now.
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Default Apr 21, 2021 at 05:36 PM
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70s kid. I remember having more freedom than subsequent generations, playing out being the norm (actually all I wanted to do was stay in and draw!)

TV at the time was already retro with Happy Days, Mork and Mindy. Everything was so bright back then!

No whiteboards or laptops, we had chalk boards and there was a big puff of chalk dust came from the dusters.

10p mix ups at the corner shop, penny chews, football chews, fruit salad and blackjack chews.

Evil Kneival toys, dinky cars, Sindy dolls, tiny tears. Chopper bikes and Grifters, moving on into BMX.
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I was a baby then kid in the 1970s. Teen in mid to late 1980s. It was a time of freedom where kids weren't automatically taught to fear. I think it is a tragedy how much kids fear. This is especially the case in the US. Not so much where I live now, in Europe.
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I was. Born in the late 50’s and was a kid during the 60’s. Lots of dangerous unsupervised toys in that era. Moms were mostly at home and we had party lines. I lived on a rural route close to a village. All the moms knew each other and if you did something bad it was reported via telephone so mum’s knew before you got home what you’d been up to. Mum’s crashed kids out the door after breakfast had soup and sandwiches for lunch then you were expected to go out til dinner. Ball games were entirely spontaneous and rarely had an adult. In winter a few dads would make a ice skating ring. Again few adults ever intervened.

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Default May 09, 2021 at 09:02 AM
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What don’t I remember about the ‘90s? Lip Smackers, dialup, jamming out to Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys, watching Austin Powers, wearing socks with beads on them, etc.

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I remember the old days [1980s] growing up around here. Going to school cycling or walking rambling about on the way home. Watching cartoons on TV [Tom and Gerry, the Roadrunner show] 80's music, and all the woodland about a mile from my home where I would spend weekends with my brother. Sadly my brother and the woodlands have now gone. The area has not changed too much apart from all the new houses that have been built. The local shops that we used to have are also now gone. I do miss those days as these days it is all hustle and bustle.

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I grew up in the 60's/70's.

What I remember most is life used to be logical, unlike today, when irrationality rules the country.

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