Remember when?
I grew up with a wooden ice box, and no TV until I was 10, and that TV had a black & white picture, and 3 stations.
I lived in the city, and the "milkman" used to deliver our milk with a horse drawn wagon.
The ragman, an old Italian, used to come by the neighborhood about once a month with his horse drawn wagon, and ringing a bell while yelling out. "Ugh ragsa. Ugh ragsa." My mother would exchange her old, worn rags for new ones.
There were no fast food restaurants. We couldn't afford to go if there were. And we ate pasta 3 times a week, each time cooked differently. Yes, I'm Italian.
My breakfast was pablum. And we carried a lunch box to school.
We were never inside as kids. We had toy guns and played "cowboys & Indians" outdoors. Pickup games of baseball, basketball ball, and football. If the football games were touch fb, we played in the streets in between the traffic flow. If we played tackle fb, we did not wear any type of equipment. And we had some pretty intense tackling games. Broken collar bones, arms, legs, bruises on our heads were expected.
As a kid I would walk down the middle of main street carrying my 22 rifle on my shoulder to shoot rats at the dump.
Drag racing up and down main street in the evening was the norm. Hell, the police never stopped us. Swapping car engines was always part of growing up.
And oh yes. Stealing hubcaps and car fenders was pretty popular to.
I grew up with a wooden ice box, and no TV until I was 10, and that TV had a black & white picture, and 3 stations.
I lived in the city, and the "milkman" used to deliver our milk with a horse drawn wagon.
The ragman, an old Italian, used to come by the neighborhood about once a month with his horse drawn wagon, and ringing a bell while yelling out. "Ugh ragsa. Ugh ragsa." My mother would exchange her old, worn rags for new ones.
There were no fast food restaurants. We couldn't afford to go if there were. And we ate pasta 3 times a week, each time cooked differently. Yes, I'm Italian.
My breakfast was pablum. And we carried a lunch box to school.
We were never inside as kids. We had toy guns and played "cowboys & Indians" outdoors. Pickup games of baseball, basketball ball, and football. If the football games were touch fb, we played in the streets in between the traffic flow. If we played tackle fb, we did not wear any type of equipment. And we had some pretty intense tackling games. Broken collar bones, arms, legs, bruises on our heads were expected.
As a kid I would walk down the middle of main street carrying my 22 rifle on my shoulder to shoot rats at the dump.
Drag racing up and down main street in the evening was the norm. Hell, the police never stopped us. Swapping car engines was always part of growing up.
And oh yes. Stealing hubcaps and car fenders was pretty popular to.
