Generation Gap

[Grandpa Troll]

I remember growing upin the woods of Northern Maine, back in maybe 1971 or so, on AM no less, late at night, I could pick up WPTR...1540 AM Albany New York..and listen to Wolfman jack

I also listened to Buffalo Sabres Games and an occassional Toronto maple leafs game on this staion, IIRC...

Our local station WQDY went off the air, at 10:00 p m

Kasey Kasem..America's Top 40..how many remember this?

My Dad and Mom grew up listening to stories on am..years before...


I wonder what kids would do today, if at night, the familes gathered after school work, after baths, and sat around a Radio and listened to a story?

[GePap]

One time last year I had to interview a complainant and when I went into the room I saw this kid, and I was sure he had to be a minor - he showed me his ID and his birthyear was 1989 - it took me a second to realize then that he was 18. That depressed me some.

I am sure none of the kids today would know all the cartoons I used to watch as a kid, like the Thundercats, Snorks, Voltron (both versions), and Robotech. Also, there isn;t a Nick at Nite anymore, so kids today have little if any exposure to old 1950's and 60's sitcoms and TV shows like I did. I mean, I know who Ralph Cramden is, have watched episodes of I Love Lucy, Mr. Ed, Dragnet, The Dick Van **** Show, and so forth.

[Tuberski]

I Love Lucy is still on TVLand.

ACK!

[Jon Miller]

I got carded like 3 times last night, so...

JM
(the guys I were with were a few years younger but didn't get carded once.)

[GePap]

How many kids watch TVLand? To me that is a nostalgia channel. I mean, Nick at Nite showed those shows out of economic necessity, which is the only reason I really got to see them.

I just remmebred Ren and Stimpy. I doubt many high schoolers today would recognize "Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy."

[Tuberski]

They still have Nick at Night, it's just 90's shows now.

ACK!

[Seedle]

Everyone is whining about kids born in the '90's being legal. That isn't depressing. Depressing is that we are/are almost thirty.

[rah]

ARG nick at night.
Growing up there was no cable and we were the remote control.
THANKS, now I feel much older.

I feel the gap whenever my daughter (who claims all our music sucks) points out how all her generation's music is much better, while talking about songs that are remakes from my generation.

[Lorizael]

I don't think this is evidence of a generation gap so much as it is evidence of stupid people. I'm only 23 and I've caught every reference in this thread. I'm sure Kuci would get most if not all of them, too.

[rah]

And the classic generation piece that us old farts pass around in emails....

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!


First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.


They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.


Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.


We had no child proof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.


As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats,booster seats, seat belts or air bags.


Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.


We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.


We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NOONE actually died from this.


We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because,

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!


We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.


No one was able to reach us all day.And we were OK.


We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ridedown the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.


We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all,no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chatrooms.......

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!


We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.


We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.


We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.



We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!



Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!


The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!



These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

[GePap]

You and Kuci are atypical.

[Kuciwalker]

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
I can't remember what occasioned the conversation, but my daughter told me recently that she had never -- and she really meant never -- listened to the radio on her own; the only time she'd ever heard a radio broadcast was in someone else's car or at work.

I felt old.

Wait, why would you listen to your radio somewhere else? Like, I can see if you were jogging or something...

[snoopy369]

Back in the day, people actually listened to the radio for the purpose of listening to music...

[Krill]

Some of us still do if we want to look for new music we like...