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<blockquote data-quote="J.Quondam" data-source="post: 8713479" data-attributes="member: 7030100"><p>Yeah, we, too, were "kids on bikes" in the in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lots of biking around town, across outlying farmland, and on woodsy trails; exploring nearby "caves" and construction sites; wandering along creeks and among abandoned buildings; and all that. Baseball fields, library, convenience stores, swimming pools, ice cream shop, strip malls. Tree houses, atari, homemade "boats", bb guns, bees and scorpions, stepping on rusty nails, dead things in the storm drains. We even often wandered around late at night with little issue: our few interactions with cops were pretty innocuous (even when we were, umm, guilty as charged).</p><p></p><p>Factions, too. I had a couple good friends who lived on my street. Also some friendly acquaintances who lived a few blocks farther out, but they were more closely tied into other gangs of kids. More importantly, there were several bully kids in the area from a few families, so we sometimes had "wars," too, often involving throwing pecans at each other.</p><p></p><p>One way I'd say my experience differs a bit from the OP is that not everyone had a stay at home parent. The 80s saw a steep rise in "<strong>latch-key kids</strong>," as divorce became more common. By the end of junior high/early high school, going to friends houses with no parents around wasn't unusual.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J.Quondam, post: 8713479, member: 7030100"] Yeah, we, too, were "kids on bikes" in the in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lots of biking around town, across outlying farmland, and on woodsy trails; exploring nearby "caves" and construction sites; wandering along creeks and among abandoned buildings; and all that. Baseball fields, library, convenience stores, swimming pools, ice cream shop, strip malls. Tree houses, atari, homemade "boats", bb guns, bees and scorpions, stepping on rusty nails, dead things in the storm drains. We even often wandered around late at night with little issue: our few interactions with cops were pretty innocuous (even when we were, umm, guilty as charged). Factions, too. I had a couple good friends who lived on my street. Also some friendly acquaintances who lived a few blocks farther out, but they were more closely tied into other gangs of kids. More importantly, there were several bully kids in the area from a few families, so we sometimes had "wars," too, often involving throwing pecans at each other. One way I'd say my experience differs a bit from the OP is that not everyone had a stay at home parent. The 80s saw a steep rise in "[B]latch-key kids[/B]," as divorce became more common. By the end of junior high/early high school, going to friends houses with no parents around wasn't unusual. [/QUOTE]
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