Thread: Born in the 50's, 60, 70's...stuff we grew up with!

I haven't noticed whether or not anyone has mentioned lead paint.

John

My Dad explained to me why all the house painters were drunks. Seems the lead paints were toxic and the painters drank to reduce the pain of the horrible headaches they all had after a few years in the business. A neighbor's father was a paint chemist and his son and I would go into the basement lab he had an pour latex liquid into Tetraetyl lead liquid to make out own rubber which we played with. There may be some reason for my weirdites after all.
I think worse was how we played with little balls of mercury we got from electricians and found mercury vapor lamps and thermostats.

It really surprises me how we survived sometimes. Some kids did not. There were many bad things in the environment back then. Reading Henley's Formulas of just twenty some years before, I have the idea we were well protected!
Henley's Formulas. PDF

We knew what the Skull and bones meant and parents locked away the bad stuff from children too young to understand.

We all carried knives then and knew how to use them and not cut ourselves too often!

I am more worried about the oncoming generations who have all the pundits saying that all the laws are making the world a safer place for children. In some ways they are..but... in many ways the children have no sense of staying safe in their environment and protecting themselves. I taught a shop course for an art department at the university level. Those kids were mostly clueless about the dangers of power tools when mishandled. We didn't lose a one. That was power wood and metal working tools. And, the pity is they were almost the only ones in the University other than one shop that actually used tools. All the rest of the future teachers got...demonstrations by the instructors. The guy that had the Machine repair shop at the college retired when he found that the instructors were breaking more machines than the kids.

'scuse the rant, thanks for bringing up the subject of toxics.

~Richard

Actually.I remember making copper pennys silver with Mercury,The truth is elemental mercury is not a poison unless you vaporize it by burning.
read about the mad hatters.
We had a patient that actually injected 10ccs of raw mercury into his femoral artery trying to commit suicide,It all ended up in his lungs, but he did not die.
Lead paint? very toxic,if you eat it.

Geez - just found this, talk about a blast from the past, I remember each and every one of these....

Hmmmmmmmm...

So, is anyone else thinking of searching the bay for a vintage NOS bottle of High Karate now, or is it just me?

Originally Posted by crouton976

Hmmmmmmmm...

So, is anyone else thinking of searching the bay for a vintage NOS bottle of High Karate now, or is it just me?

There's lots of it there...just really expensive...funny though, I've heard on the forums here that the stuff is really quite nice!!!

Originally Posted by crouton976

Hmmmmmmmm...

So, is anyone else thinking of searching the bay for a vintage NOS bottle of High Karate now, or is it just me?

I have seen a couple posts where the old bottles had gone sour. However one of my antique dealer friends is constantly on the lookout for it. It is all that she lets her husband wear! Usually, old men's fragrances do not go bad.

~Richard

Originally Posted by Phrank

Geez - just found this, talk about a blast from the past, I remember each and every one of these....

I remember reading an article about the actor who played the Native American in these commercials. He's actually not Native American at
all, but of Italian decent. He took on the life of a Native American on and off the screen.

John

Now I was born in the 70s. The past few weeks I've been thinking to myself -- "Why don't I remember ticks being picked off me at all when I was a child?"

I asked my brother the same thing. We're about 18mo. apart and the entire outdoor world was our daycare. He was equally stumped.

Nowadays, I'm constantly picking ticks up while in the woods, sometime even with that dang deet or permethrin. And picking them off my daughter.

Anybody with an answer? I'd love to hear even wild speculation.

I was born in 1967.
I remember we got our first tv-set in the early seventies.
One whole channel was all we had for years, completely free of ads.
Not that we needed more, nobody stayed indoors anyway.

Playing Cowboys and Indians, going on afternoon fishing trips, nicking apples from our neighbors trees, skiing, biking, playing football and building cabins in the woods was way more fun than tv