The way we used to be thread

[ChrisGeorge]

Great photographs, Gilly! Thanks!

Chris

[scouserdave]

First time the missus met the family in 1975. Notice how baby bruv Ken on the left is copping a feel? LOL! He's now a 6 foot streak of piss who's just retired from the RAF and living in Plymouth.

May have mentioned this before, but my Mum remarked to my Dad after we went back to London "He's going to marry that girl"

The second pic is on a camping holiday near Biarritz France in 1992. Missus was carrying our third lad Alex at the time.

[Ged]

Great pics Dave. On that first pic, where did you get those curtains. I'm not mistaking the ones behind you by the way, I mean the hair curtains ha ha.

[scouserdave]

Great pics Dave. On that first pic, where did you get those curtains. I'm not mistaking the ones behind you by the way, I mean the hair curtains ha ha.

Don't mock. It took a whole can of hairspray before I posed for this pic mate!

[Ged]

Cossack was it Dave, get your money back

I thought it was Cody Kasch (Zach Young) off Desperate Housewives when I first saw it mate.

[scouserdave]

Cossack hairspray! Jeez, how old are you? LOL!
Roger Clark's RS1800, 1976

[Ged]

No doubt a firm hold on the road Dave.

[Steven]

Don't mock. It took a whole can of hairspray before I posed for this pic mate!

Dog (Dawg) the Bounty Hunter Could use any hair-spray you have left.

[snoochie boochie]

Find me...


This is me now...

Gotcha! Bottom row, centre?

[Max]

If I ever get a scanner I might post old me pics.

[phredd]

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN 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 carried us.

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

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof

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 children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

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

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, 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 O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down 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 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound,no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........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 made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put 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 yelled for them!

Football teams had trials 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!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And ALL of you are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our
own good.


and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.


Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!


PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age

Thats where I got my signature line from

Phredd

[Ged]

Well done Phredd - seen it before but still very relevant.

[Max]

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN 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 carried us.

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

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof

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 children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

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

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, 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 O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down 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 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound,no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........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 made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put 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 yelled for them!

Football teams had trials 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!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And ALL of you are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our
own good.


and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.


Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!


PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age

Thats where I got my signature line from

Phredd

Technically you wern't brave because at the time none of you knew the risks of foods and lead paints.

I can be aruged the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's Generation could of been born with problems because of the past generations and stuff around them and what they did though so how exactly are they the best?

I still see most kids outside playing now, I occasionally did as a kid but I don't do well with other people so I was Indoor as well.

[Ged]

The 1980s.

http://pic7.piczo.com/inacityliving/?g=35123828

[lindylou]

ahhh, great photographs Ged. Thanks for letting us have a look