The Retro movement hits breakfast cereals

**Slater** · 09-27-20, 10:28

It's 1970. I'm 10 years old. Riding my bike without a helmet (and so did all the other kids. Did bike helmets even exist back then?). Nobody I knew had a peanut allergy, and fried foods were the norm (in the South, anyway). No Internet. No computers. No cell phones. TV had all of 6 channels. And nobody ever heard of gluten.

Of course, we all tend to remember the pleasant things. I'd rather go to the dentist in 2020 than 1970. And I had to suffer through chicken pox and the mumps as there were no vaccines at that time.

And who knew the muscle cars that I saw driving around all the time would be worth so much money today?

**Averageman** · 09-27-20, 10:45

Originally Posted by Slater

It's 1970. I'm 10 years old. Riding my bike without a helmet (and so did all the other kids. Did bike helmets even exist back then?). Nobody I knew had a peanut allergy, and fried foods were the norm (in the South, anyway). No Internet. No computers. No cell phones. TV had all of 6 channels. And nobody ever heard of gluten.

Of course, we all tend to remember the pleasant things. I'd rather go to the dentist in 2020 than 1970. And I had to suffer through chicken pox and the mumps as there were no vaccines at that time.

And who knew the muscle cars that I saw driving around all the time would be worth so much money today?

I would say we had similar Childhoods, However when they added the third trash can and raised the ramp about ten degrees, Well I wimped out and put on an old football helmet. \
Evil did it, so it isn't all bad.