I was in grade 4 primary school in 68 so around 9 years old, things were great in them days, was about the time I got my first push bike a Hoffy Dragster with speckle yellow banana seat, wide angle bars and a 3 speed gear shift on top of the frame, before that I got around on a scooter with big pump up wheels not like the scooters they have these days, clocked up a lot of miles on that scooter following the neighbor's girl who was 2 years old than me on her push bike we went everywhere together.
In them days not many fat kids around as everyone spent time outside doing things, only a black and white TV, family times where great, but mum and dad worked hard to just survive, times where harder but so much simpler meals were fried in dripping/fat and veges were boiled till all the goodness was boiled out of them, so in a way great things like cooking changed, but I still have my old fashion ways, motorcycles were never in my mine till I was about 14 when my mum past away and I sort of lost my way and started to get a bit of rebel in me and over come my shyness, then my first motorcycle at 15 was the best thing that has happened to me and changed my life forever, I still live a simple life and live my old fashion ways but that's the way I like it and always paid cash for most things, was never rich but rich in life, I don't want to keep up with the times as I am to set in my old ways and now my girls have grown up and gone their own ways and starting to realize they had it pretty good set in my old ways as we did things together.
Lots of changes back in the 60s as well a lot of conflick's around the world but really what has changed from that side of things, here in Aus the big change was going from pound to $&C and slowly to the metric system, was a big change when you were a kid, learn one way then change altogether, not all new things are bad but I still miss the old days.
Ashley