I am interested to know what life was like from the words of people who were still children then or they were from 16-30 years old.

  • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I miss the non chain coffee shops that were open 24/7, I miss the non chain stores that were still around, I miss the mall parking lot improvised car shows.

    I enjoyed being able to safely ride my bike the 8 miles to school, I enjoyed our little party island, I miss having hundreds of miles of canals to run my little boat on.

    I do also remember the race fights in the middle of school during the Rodney King trials, I remember the AIDS scare where we stopped using water fountains just in case.

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      17 hours ago

      I enjoyed being able to safely ride my bike the 8 miles to school

      Aside from the risk of the authorities treating it as child neglect, do you believe this would be less safe to do now? If so, why?

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        10 hours ago

        When I was a kid there was a trail off road that ran all the way to school so I didn’t have to deal with trqffic, its now fully developed so that trail is gone