Keith
2011-01-16 17:50:10
Definitely a bit of nostalgic memories. I was born in 1951, and as kids we did a lot of things (even in a city environment) that I don’t think today’s kids ever experienced. We were outdoors most of the year, no grown ups watching over us. We played football in the street and learned to get out of the way of cars, played on the “Vacant Lot” (capitals intended, that was the way we referred to it)down the street and even trespassed on federal property in the woods. We hunted rats at the dump with single shot .22s and climbed over wrecked aircraft in a dump at the South end of Bolling Field (when it was still active). We had a lot of fun and didn’t realize that we were not well off.
