I can’t believe we made it (video)

June 14, 2013 | Steve McGough | | ,

Jim sent me a text a few minutes ago asking me to post this video. Then my brother texted me about a minute later … “Come on Steve… get that video up for Jim.”  Now the phone is ringing…

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Steve McGough

Steve's a part-time conservative blogger. Steve grew up in Connecticut and has lived in Washington, D.C. and the Bahamas. He resides in Connecticut, where he’s comfortable six months of the year.

12 Comments

  1. Anne-EH on June 14, 2013 at 12:01 pm

    I remember a number of those things growing up. NOW I am starting to feel my age.?



  2. kateinmaine on June 14, 2013 at 12:03 pm

    been there, done that, lived to tell.? thanks, steve!



  3. Murphy on June 14, 2013 at 12:25 pm

    ???????? Ah, I miss the days standing on my flexible flyer sledding down the hill racing my buddies. Have they outlawed toboggans yet? I remember five of us heading straight for a tree and someone yelling turn! No Dump no steering.? Those were the days my friends…….



  4. Vizionmusic on June 14, 2013 at 8:42 pm

    Ahhhhh…the GOOD old days of sanity and dare I say it? Normality….



  5. Lynn on June 14, 2013 at 9:02 pm

    I remember walking a mile to the ” Downtown ” alone and my parents never worried I’d be accosted or robbed. People just looked out for each other.



  6. kanestian on June 15, 2013 at 6:10 am

    Having spent childhood in the 40s and 50s in a small Western NY village, everything in the video was exactly as things were – with a single exception. ?I never hit a ball off a tee and never played in a little league. ?There was none. ?We all just gathered at the “Rotary Field”, chose up teams and played. ?There were no adults to bother us and we learned how to play sports mostly by watching and modeling the older guys on the high school teams.



  7. Gary J on June 15, 2013 at 10:42 am

    @11 I walked downtown to pay my newspaper route bill. <Back in the day kids delivered newspapers that existed> today they have adults driving down? the wrong side of the road doing it.? those adults were brought up bu the left <rules are for everyone else but them>



  8. Plainvillian on June 15, 2013 at 2:58 pm

    NEWS FLASH:? It was even better and more free in the 1950s and 1960s…. before Tort suits were a huge industry.



  9. winnie on June 16, 2013 at 12:42 pm

    I’m so glad I grew up then…lots of happy memories surrounding my daily survival in the dark ages!
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    Btw, hello again, everyone!? 🙂



    • Lynn on June 16, 2013 at 4:51 pm

      Hey Winnie, Hi great to hear from you.



  10. SeeingRed on June 17, 2013 at 8:59 am

    I absolutely love this – like watching a quick clip from ‘Wonder Years’.



  11. theignorantfisherman on June 17, 2013 at 5:26 pm

    This was awesome! What a flashback!Is it not so TRUE! We are truly a band of brothers! Man… I loved me some hose water back in the day!!
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