I am also a child of the 60's and 70's. I graduated from high school in 1977. We use to go to the corner store with our allowance (25 cents a week) and come home with a weeks worth of penny Candy. Back then penny Candy meant you got 2 pieces for a penny or 3 for a penny! Bread was only 10 cents a loaf but you never bought it that often because it was always being baked at home!

We use to collect pop (soda) bottles and get the refund. We held carnivals every summer with all the neighborhood kids manning a booths for charity. Kids from neighborhoods as far away as two miles or more would come!

Never listened to FM radio. We only got AM. We never went to a swimming pool. Our pool was the creek with a swing hanging from a tree limb over the deep part! You could find the whole neighborhood there all day long!

We walked almost a mile to elementary school (it was uphill both ways) in the rain and snow and sunshine. We never were told not to talk to strangers. In fact it was just the opposite - we were told to be polite to everyone!

I could go on and on but all I can really say is life was simpler then and I feel bad that the kids of today will never know the innocence of those days! Technology has it advantages but it also has it draw backs.