Yeah, our bikes weighted 50 lbs. and no one ever heard of a bicycle helmet. Our skates had steel wheels and 25 feet on the rough street could cost you a few fillings from your teeth. Every one knew how to "bump" start a dead battery, bubble up was the 1st 16 oz pop bottle, and the 12 oz coke/nehi was 10 cents on the west coast, 5 cents in the heartland, oh and a 2 cent deposit that could make your day after searching construction sites, that were never fenced. We had actual creeks, with dirt bottoms and banks, no concrete liners. The traffic lights had no signals for peds, you had to be sharp crossing streets, and peds didn't have the right of way as they do now. Gas was 21.9, 24.9 at the big brand stations, and we washed the windows, checked tires and under the hood...........There were no malls, or strip malls. There were a few shopping centers, usually anchored by a grocery store, and 15-20 $$ would feed a family of 4 for a week, and of course we had to be home before the street lights went on!!!!!!!! But somehow we made it???? MP