"jmcquown" wrote in message ...

On 11/21/2018 9:36 AM, wrote:
> In the '40s kids could play in the streets unsupervised... a whole
> summer's entertainment cost a 25¢ Spalding and a broomstick... no one
> idled away their lives in front of a screen.

That's because most homes didn't *have* a screen in the 1940's. I'm
talking about television.

I played outside in the neighborhood unsupervised in the 1960's. When
the street lights came on we went home. That's when the mothers in the
neighborhood called us to come inside.

We played tag. Sometimes we were allowed out after dark to play
flashlight tag. We played games like hide and seek or swing the
statue. We rode bicycles and roller skates.

On rainy days we sometimes splashed around in the puddles, wearing
galoshes. We built miniature dams and floated paper boats on the water
running along the curb. Or, if it was too darn wet, we stayed inside
and played board games or with Lincoln Logs or Tinkertoys. Or read books.

Jill

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Sounds pretty much the way it was for us