For all those who born before 1980

[[^LDS Member 2004^]]

Born April 26,1971

[Bads]

I remember many of these things

Born in 1965 and I have a 20 old years son

[just_do_IT]

Wow... been busy with stuff and finally got through reading that post. I remember the bionic man "Steve Austin," The FONZ, and pinball machines... if you were good you could play for a VERY long time for a quarter. And you could get free games too via high score and the infamous match!

I remember the first vid game in the arcade I ever played, Lunar Lander. Only about 5 minutes for a quarter, and I remember all my friends saying those video games were such a rip off; they would never fly.

I remember walking to school in grade one with friends - today one of my kids is in grade three and no faqqin way I would let her walk alone. And with the world seeming more scarey everyday, I worry about what we will leave for my three little girls.

Amazing how things change - btw born in 1967

[Seducer]

Its nice to remember those days...I walk 4 km from our house to school just to take my class, playing with those wood guns. but kids right now...they cant even walk for a kilometer.

been born in 1970.

[James55]

Born sept 21 1947 and yep I remember we did all those things and survived. The kids these days play with real guns alot. Good post thanks for the memories.

[Jarod888]

ok so i was born in 1980.. but i do remember walkin a 1/2 mile to my families small bar-be-que business and working at the cash register from the time I was about 6 or 7. I learned alot at that small business...I also remember that we had a small creek on the property, and we, my brother and I, and a few of our friends would catch fish and stuff.. I remember riding my bike all over our small town. One time I rode up all the way to this old in that nearly burned down in the 30's to make some ceramic gifts for my mom. It was nearly 3 miles.
I remember one summer I hiked to the top of Angel Fire Ski area, my grandpa was real worried, but i always wore a neon yellow hat, he spotted me with the binoculars. that was a 8 hour 6 mile hike. I hiked up and down the lift line looking for tresures lost by skiers of the past winter, but mostly all i ever found was junk trinkets and a small amount of change. But where we would really make money was in the early spring, when we would crawl under the decks of the ski resort, people dropped so much change under there. this one year my brother rode from Eagle Nest to Angle Fire, about 13 miles each way. We figured out he was missing after about three hours he had gotten all the way to Angel Fire and 1/2 way back, his excuse he though we lost a receipt from Wal-Mart... the real reason, he needed a screw driver!!
One summer back in Eagle Nest we had a skunk problem, so we divised a trap, we had these huge 55 gallon trash containers. So we put some hot chop beef in a paper tray at the back of the bin and we faced it out towards the creek. We would wait till a skunk would climb in the bin and then we would sneak up tip it up and cover it with a cutting block. then we would load it up carefully into the back of my grandpa's Mazda and head up the road towards Red River. my brother and i in the back holdin on to the trash bin and my uncle and grandpa driving up the road.... we would get about 5 miles from the Bar-Be-Que and they would slow down and my brother and i would remove the lid, we would each grab on to the sides of the Trash bin, we had modified it with handles on each side, my grandpa and uncle would speed up to about 35, and my brother and i would swing in unsison the trash bin, back and forth... after 3 or four swings we would suddenly stop it far out side the truck, the force of inertia tossing the skunk out of the bin when we suddenly stopped it!! they would roll into the grass on the shoulder of the road and we would head for home. There was a whole family living there, we had a few nights of the skunk run.. One night we had caught a baby skunk, up the road we headed, took the lid off and proceeded to tos him out, we raised the back end of the trash bin to high on one of our back swings and out he rolled into the back of the pick up, my brother and i bailed out!! the skunk was so daised he never even spayed he kind of wondered around the back of the pick up. They stopped we snuck up, lowered the tailgate and swushed him out with a broom as we were driving down the shoulder of the road!!! he rolled for 25 or 20 feet got up and walked around in a circle for a few minutes then headed off into the cow pasture. After the last skunk was gone we never had a problem with them again!!
We dug holes and i road my bike till the bearings broke apart and fell out!!

Times were fun.