Pictured: Schoolkids celebrate the open-air
in historic photography series started in
the 1930s and recreated through the
decades in Missouri
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Josh Saunders
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/17/2019 5:21:05 AM
A historic photography series from Missouri showcases the fun children had in open-air spaces before the days of video games, smart phones and computers.A safe distance away from cars and other traffic, the kids relished their summer activities from baseball and volleyball to nearly 30 kids of all ages lining-up to pose on a slide. There were 63 of the open-air spaces when the photo-series began where events, sports and activities were put on for the children. It quickly became a hit with the children, who relished spending time in the outdoors.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/17/2019 6:24:01 AM (No. 125937)
Back in the 50’s, a rainy Saturday was looked upon as a kid’s death sentence. Nowadays about the only time I see kids outside is right after a hurricane when the power is still out and they are forced to leave the house.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jinx 7/17/2019 7:11:19 AM (No. 125965)
Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end...' I grew up near a city park. We played tennis, skated, and played on swings that could carry you to the top of the world. In the Park House, the woman who worked there taught us to play ping pong, chess, checkers and to do art projects when it rained. Everyone in the neighborhood gathered there and talked and played till dark. What a wonderful way to grow up without worrying about being kidnapped or molested, etc. Our parents knew where we were but did not have to stay with us to protect us. It was wonderful.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
privateer 7/17/2019 7:26:43 AM (No. 125972)
The Left is turning our kids into Eloi; raising them up for the harvest. Keep them bored, disconnected and physically weak. They'll be easier to take.
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NancyD 7/17/2019 7:29:24 AM (No. 125974)
Its a shame that kids these days aren't able to be kids. Everything is planned, organized, supervised, rigid, etc.. We grew up in a middle class neighborhood, with a baseball diamond at the end of the street that the kids made out of empty field. We had a tree house that we made using scrap wood and nailed 2 x 4's into the tree as steps, a frog pond that we used to go to daily to watch the tadpoles swim and eventually grow legs, we'd get so excited! We'd be outside morning til the streetlights came on, only came home to eat. It was like this during the winter too. Snowmen and snow forts, ice skating playing crack the whip. I remember all of us girls locking arms and singing the Monkey's song "here we come, walking down the street" and clanging pots and pans at 8pm at night New years eve. Ha! Great life.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 7/17/2019 7:47:39 AM (No. 125985)
When I looked for a house as a newly single mother of two, I wanted a family oriented neighborhood. Out of 30 odd house on our long dead end street I was the only mom that worked. Made good friends there but most importantly, my kids made lifelong friends and those stay at home moms made sure their kids spent plenty of time outside. When my ex remarried, they bought a house in an upscale suburb. I asked my son if he’d made any friends over there. He said kinda, but all they want to do is play video games.
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Rather Read 7/17/2019 8:38:26 AM (No. 126040)
I grew up in the late 50's and early 60's. My mother didn't drive so if we wanted to go anywhere, we had to ride our bikes and we were free to do so, as long as we told her where we were going and were back for lunch and dinner. We went to our friend's houses, played with the dog, explored the neigborhoods and yes, we had a pond too. We'd watch the frogs and tadpoles, look for dragonfly nymphs and other insects. One day, I spent several hours watching a cicada climb out of the ground, shed its nymphal skin and become a full grown imago. Oh the freedom we had!
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chumley 7/17/2019 8:45:23 AM (No. 126054)
We used to play baseball in the street. Somehow never broke a window. It would get Old Murphy, the block drunk, all stirred up but that was part of the fun. Sometimes we would run the city park a few blocks away. We knew every back trail and obstacle. There was a small street gang that ran the same park but they didn't bother anyone but each other. We rode our bikes, got into fights and made friends. We almost never saw out parents during the day and that seemed quite natural.
Then one day in 1973 while I was delivering my Sunday papers at 3 am, a pervert drove up and tried to get me into his car. I carried an axe handle or hunting knife everywhere after that. Now I carry a gun.
With my own kids 15 years later, we had to watch them all the time because of all the pervs. Now my grandkids have to have everything planned out and guarded by an adult (often armed) because of all the pervs and drug heads. This is not the same world we grew up in.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
privateer 7/17/2019 8:49:17 AM (No. 126066)
Here is why the Left abhors the type of childhood previous posters describe: The Freedom! Such childhood years develop a love of Freedom which will be most inconvenient in adult serfs. Also keep them focused inward on electronic media. That way, troublesome facts of the real world past are easily pushed down the memory hole.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 7/17/2019 10:25:22 AM (No. 126210)
In 1962 I won the Yo-Yo champion award at a summer program in Anaheim.
It was the high point of my life.
It's been downhill into adulthood ever since.
The beach house and the Ferrari just can never compare to the overwhelming pride of that FIRST award.
I can still do a "Rock the Cradle".......sorta......for a couple seconds.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
fayebeck 7/17/2019 11:38:31 AM (No. 126279)
I have always been amazed that when a subject like this, folks say that "when I was a kid", and then go on to lament that those wonderful days outside on bikes, playing ball and making lifelong friends, and so on and so forth...then why in hell did America became a nation of wussies and girlie men? Why have people accepted the lie that on every street there is a MALE child predator? Why do parents continue to buy cell phones for their precious kids? I know. It's to know "where they are" all the time. No matter what people say about the good ole days, most bought into the "men are predators" bs and it's too hot outside and on and on.
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