@theplatinumrose: Growing up in New York in the ’70s wasn’t childhood — it was training for the apocalypse. #WeDoNotCare #WDNCClub Forget helicopter parenting — our parents were like, “Don’t die.” #It#ItsAHardKnockLiferowingUpInThe70s #GrowingUpInThe70svorEra #Ol#OldSchoolNYa#BackInMyDaye#GenXChroniclese#LeadWaterLegendse#TetanusPlaygroundsi#FireHydrantBabiesi#DiscoAndDangerr#UrbanUpbringinge#BeforeTheInterneto#NoSeatbeltsNoProblema#RaisedByTheStreetsowAndLaterWarrior
35 cents? Who paid that . We rode on the back of buses to get everywhere.
2025-07-23 00:25:26
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George Burrus :
Loved that fire Hydrant!! They’re two, that had the coldest water. One on Bristol, the other on Livonia. Good times back then 😎😎💯💯
2025-07-22 21:45:24
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JohnnyRamosTV :
It’s 10 PM. Do you know where your children are? Or in the summertime WBLS 107.5 with Frankie Crocker “There I go, there I go, there I go…” sweet memories
2025-07-21 17:49:41
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…Just a Dog trainer 🐾 :
You’re probably not GenX if you’ve never gotten stitches, a third degree burn or a broken bone 😎🗽❤️
2025-07-22 22:58:23
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Joe Eskimo from Pango Pango :
We swung on metal swings and even stood up on them to get even higher
2025-07-24 12:37:47
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Richard Noel588 :
Aww the good old days when as a eight year old I went to the bodega with a note to get a pack of Marlboroughs, a six pack of beer and a big red for my grandmother playing the numbers 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
2025-07-25 00:20:56
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big_daug_basketball_mmxxI :
Buying salems for my moms in the 80's😅
2025-07-21 18:21:34
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jefferykincaid :
true story the good old days but like you said we survived thank God but what a Time and the food taste different everything is diluted and watered down these days but you were 100% right
2025-07-22 23:41:29
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Arnold Fox278 :
And through it all we was well protected by the neighborhood….our village..dope fiends and all …I love me and how I was raised
2025-07-21 18:21:43
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RISING TRUTH ☀ :
aint nothing like the OLD SCHOOL
2025-07-22 20:55:16
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PUZLARGE :
We were all skinny with six pack abs and we ran everywhere before forest gump did. We taught ourselves how to ride a bike. Played with rocks on some empty lot. Sometimes alone. Late 70s early 80s. 👑🇵🇷🔥❤️👑🇵🇷🔥❤️👑🇵🇷🔥❤️👑🇵🇷🔥❤️
2025-07-22 16:47:53
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ngraham819 :
F yeah! I was there and you ain’t never lie! Oh you forgot the marvelous food from highly questionable stores!
2025-07-22 08:32:02
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Godloves777 :
NY was everything before the influencers & social media. Miss the old NY with FBAs vibes
2025-07-22 21:14:52
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AnimHeru :
That's why you had commercials in the 80's that asked parents, "It's 10pm, do you know where your children are?"
2025-07-22 23:50:20
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lisacardosanto :
You are telling the truth 🤣🤣🤣
2025-07-22 14:59:20
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jmlove :
Those were the good old days!
2025-07-22 14:28:22
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Maria :
I remember getting someone to open the hydrant in the summer and then we’d run when the cops came 😆😆
2025-07-21 23:00:15
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TCK :
I live in the Atlanta area for the past 24 years and was just telling some of my co-workers that's what we used to do in NYC in the 70's. Told them that fire hydrant was the best water ever!
2025-07-21 03:36:48
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tabell23 :
Those were the best days and I have stitches in left my knee to prove it. 😂
2025-07-23 18:13:56
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Lucylui23 :
Yep growing up in the 1970s a teenager in the 80s surviving New York the Bronx. Well, some families went to Florida on the summer. We spent it in the hydrant. We got sun on tar beach. Lived on pizza, crazy neighbors and mind. Your business was just something you knew.
2025-07-23 14:50:30
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sirnyc1 :
I survived it
2025-07-22 23:05:11
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Brooklyn Raised :
Use to be called the GG that’s how old I am
2025-07-22 11:40:10
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moemoe :
I grew up in the 70’s also I knew what your talking about
2025-07-21 02:24:23
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karensmalls0 :
omg, so true
good old days
2025-07-24 21:46:42
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