Community Chat

[MyGirlsMom]

One HUGE difference from the "good old days" and the present is our access to round the clock news - on television - radio-internet -twitter - you name it.  Once upon a time, the media switched off at night, that's no longer so.  We can see wars and crime in "real time."

The good old days had its share of problem's, we just didn't hear about them.  Unless it was something of a horrific nature, people in Pennsylvania didn't hear about what was going on in say, Oregon.

[willdob3]

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@Noel7 wrote:

Re: Crime is worse these days...

US Population in 1960:  180.7 million (1960)

US Population in 2016   322 million    (2016)

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A lot worse! More people, more criminals. And more types of crimes. 

[goldensrbest]

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@Noel7 wrote:

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@goldensrbest wrote:

First of all we were kids, not adults,so the things you mentioned  were not what we were thinking of, families lived close by,we saw each other alot,my family could not afford to do alot of things that cost money,the first vacation we had i was in the 6th grade,we drove from Indiana to Tennessee, i thought i was in a different world,our day to day lives were better.

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@goldensrbest

I  don't think anyone said we were kids, but maybe I missed that.

What would kids have been doing walking the streets alone at night?  Shame on their parents if they were.

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We were kids in the 60's, i said that, because we were!! We did not think as adults, all that did go on back then,was not in our minds much ,because we were kids.

[MyGirlsMom]

 When I was a kid:

I remember the Viet Nam war

Riots in big cities

Sit in's

Woman's Lib

School segregation in Boston

Drug related deaths of singers

Heroin epidemic

Disco

Son of Sam murders

Manson murders

Mandatory seatbealts

Swine flu

Hong Kong flu

China trip

Watergate hearings

[Noel7]

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@willdob3 wrote:

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@Noel7 wrote:

Re: Crime is worse these days...

US Population in 1960:  180.7 million (1960)

US Population in 2016   322 million    (2016)

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A lot worse! More people, more criminals. And more types of crimes. 

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@willdob3

Well, yes.  That was my point.

More types?  Yes to that, also.  There was no proliferation of assault guns back in the day.

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[Noel7]

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@goldensrbest wrote:

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@Noel7 wrote:

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@goldensrbest wrote:

First of all we were kids, not adults,so the things you mentioned  were not what we were thinking of, families lived close by,we saw each other alot,my family could not afford to do alot of things that cost money,the first vacation we had i was in the 6th grade,we drove from Indiana to Tennessee, i thought i was in a different world,our day to day lives were better.

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@goldensrbest

I  don't think anyone said we were kids, but maybe I missed that.

What would kids have been doing walking the streets alone at night?  Shame on their parents if they were.

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We were kids in the 60's, i said that, because we were!! We did not think as adults, all that did go on back then,was not in our minds much ,because we were kids.

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@goldensrbest

You said "we."

The OP has said she is in her 70s at this point in time.  She and some others here were not children in the 60s and 70s.

[willdob3]

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@Noel7 wrote:

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@willdob3 wrote:

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@Noel7 wrote:

Re: Crime is worse these days...

US Population in 1960:  180.7 million (1960)

US Population in 2016   322 million    (2016)

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A lot worse! More people, more criminals. And more types of crimes. 

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@willdob3

Well, yes.  That was my point.

More types?  Yes to that, also.  There was no proliferation of assault guns back in the day.

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You'd think mankind would get better, wiser, kinder over time, wouldn't you?  It is sad.

[Noel7]

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@willdob3 wrote:

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@Noel7 wrote:

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@willdob3 wrote:

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@Noel7 wrote:

Re: Crime is worse these days...

US Population in 1960:  180.7 million (1960)

US Population in 2016   322 million    (2016)

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A lot worse! More people, more criminals. And more types of crimes. 

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@willdob3

Well, yes.  That was my point.

More types?  Yes to that, also.  There was no proliferation of assault guns back in the day.

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You'd think mankind would get better, wiser, kinder over time, wouldn't you?  It is sad.

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It is sad @willdob3

[lulu2]

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@SeaMaiden wrote:

I never even thought about danger growing up. I walked everywhere, at night as well.  It just was not something to worry about. Guess I was lucky. 

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We did too. We rode our bikes and often times in the summer it was dark. Our bikes had a front headlight that usually didn't work.

I grew up in a small town in NJ.

When people talk about the good old days I think they refer to a time when during summer vacation, we left our houses after breakfast to play outside with no supervision. We rode our bikes for miles,  often times it would have been impossible to communicate with help.

We did not have play dates.  You played with anyone who was around. We didn't have bottles of water with us so we could stay hydrated. If we were lucky the water fountain at the playground was working.

I still walk alone here (a residential Jersey shore town) and in the city.