DubCoffman62
Lazy Slob
I lived in a cul de sac until I was 10 in Torrance CA. Every house had a family with kids, there was about 15 of us altogether. Every night after dinner we'd be playing hide and seek, whiffle ball, football, catch... whatever while the adult watered their yard of just chilled in the street in a little sewing circle with their evening cocktails. Three different families had pools and most weekends in the summertime there was a pool/block party, hi-fi blaring Frampton Comes Alive or whatever other record was hip at the time. There was a big dirt lot behind as gas station on 182nd and Crenshaw that dirt hills, a little swamp with lilly pads and frogs, lizards, snakes, a bunch of different bugs and it was the hang out for all the kids in the general vicinity. The older kids went there to smoke weed and drink beer, have a small bon fire at night. We moved in 1979 and there was never another place like that for me. Special days, gone forever but I'm glad I lived it. For whatever reason the families have left the cities, at least the middle class and in most places it's not safe for kids to go out like they used or maybe it is but they just don't do it. Oh well, times change.Wasn't sure where to post this, but we all remember where we grew up. Friends we've kept, and neighbors we've never seen again.
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