Simple things you miss about summers....

[Spawn67]

Every year around this time I always reminice about summers as a kid. Here are some things I miss...
-Going to my grandparents on the weekend
-Going to our swim club which I spent pretty much all summer at from the years 77-89
-Waiting to take our family vacation in Ocean City, Maryland
-Catching lightningbugs in the early evening (where I live now I never see any)
-Going to the movies back then. Seems everything I saw back then became a classic and even the B movies were exciting to see.
-Our Ice Cream man going through our neighborhood at 630 pm sharp and not only getting candy but movie and sports cards as well (still have them may not be worth alot but the sendimental value is priceless)
-watching the Price is Right in the mornings as well as other game shows
-Riding my Bike though the neighboorhoods where I lived ...
And many more.
What are some of yours?...

[Mikey]

Seeing the girls in their sundresses

Even today, my favorite women's wear is a sundress

[Makernaut]

I moved to a new neighborhood in 4th Grade and I was so lucky that it was full of a bunch of other middle schoolers and junior high kids. There was always something going on every single day, all summer long.

bike riding (usually as a group ) to the swimming pool, library, Dairy Queen, quick stop to get comics or sports cards...always riding our bikes somewhere. One time, a group of us got up early in the morning to ride down to the fairgrounds to watch them set up a circus tent.

lots of sandlot baseball and pickup basketball

"camping out" in someone's backyard

lots of movies at the theater. Small town that had a great one screen theater and lots of 50 cent matinee movies for kids in the summer. Saw a lot of the Disney live-action stuff at that theater.

Boy Scout summer camp every year from 5th grade on. Back in the days when more kids did Scouting of some sort than didn't. We had a great Troop that was very active and lots of fun. Eventually got to do the High Adventure stuff like Philmont and Sea Base. Worked a summer in high school as an archery instructor at summer camp along with my two closest friends. Best summer job ever.

I feel pretty lucky to have been where I was during that time of my life because I was never bored in the summer, that's for sure.

[GlobalObserver]

I miss everything about the summers of my youth.

[palitoy]

i lived fairly rural and my parents would unplug and roll the tv into a corner every summer. You ended up swimming in creeks and doing weird stuff like breaking into abandoned houses, it was the wild west.

Sure we ended up in the emergency room, i knocked a kid's front teeth out and i can't tell you how many scars i got but i enjoyed myself.

I think part of the reason that i didn't give my kids that summer is i was in my mid 30s when i had kids, my parents were just out of high school and neither of them graduated.

[Nostalgiabuff]

my growing up years were much like yours Brian, creek swimming, rope swings into the creek, high jumps out of trees. yes, it was dangerous but we all survived unscathed(mostly). BMX bike riding was a given at that age. my father worked in NYC and did not get home until 7:30-8:00 and my mom just had no clue where we were. Good times! and yes, I am way stricter with my kids, LOL

[warlock664]

Just a few of the fun activities from youthful summers:

-building tree houses
-playing baseball at the corner lot
-riding bikes
-hide and seek after dark with flashlights
-sitting under a shady tree reading comic books
-walking to the library and browsing the books
-season pass at the swimming pool
-skateboarding

[Brown Bear]

I miss seeing parents outside playing with their kids instead of on their phones updating Facebook. Seriously.

[HardyGirl]

Ice-cream trucks
Day camp (and 1 summer camp for 2 weeks)
The big block party on my street in NYC at the end of the summer
The Disney Summer Hit Parade (one movie theatre in NYC would show Disney films all summer long!)
Italian Icees
Playing outside at night when someone's parents were on the stoop watching you while they talked.

And when I was 14, the best summer of my life was spent in So Ca. when I went to see my dad. I rode my bike, went swimming in the condo village pools, ate Thrifty's ice-cream, watched TV (cool 70s reruns like Wonder Woman, Charlie's Angels and Kung Fu) went to the beach, hung out w/ the neighborhood kids, and even had a "summer love". Best summer ever!

[TomStrong]

Riding my bike
Playing outside until the security light came on
Spending the night with my grandparents. They lived on the lake AND had satellite tv! We only had antenna in rural northwest Alabama. Swimming and fishing all day long was the best.

[EMCE Hammer]

Just a few of the fun activities from youthful summers:

-building tree houses
-playing baseball at the corner lot
-riding bikes
-hide and seek after dark with flashlights
-sitting under a shady tree reading comic books
-walking to the library and browsing the books
-season pass at the swimming pool
-skateboarding

Take out the skateboarding and my list is a lot like yours. Add flea markets with with my grandparents, and walking to a local market after church to buy coverless comics for pennies. We had one tree fort that we kept going for years.

[Mikey]

At night, putting glow sticks on string and swinging them around

----Didn't take much to entertain me

Also, flying my inflatable Puffer Kite.

That thing would fly crazy high --- one time I had it higher than a passing airplane (small Piper)

Used like 3 rolls of string tied together

[TrekStar]

Pool hopping, when you run around your neighborhood late at night and jump in other people's swimming pools, yell scream and splash around until the house lights come on.

Calling a taxi to a neighbor you don't like then hide and watch.

Ring people's doorbells at night and run, hide and watch them open the door.

Taking your tv remote and go to other people's houses at night and put the remote up to the window
and turn there TV sets on or off depending, it really did work.

Running around the local hotel causing mischief and turning over the do not disturb signs asking for the hotel room
to be cleaned, at the time when the cleaning people had room keys, before the door cards.

[warlock664]

Pool hopping, when you run around your neighborhood late at night and jump in other people's swimming pools, yell scream and splash around until the house lights come on.

Calling a taxi to a neighbor you don't like then hide and watch.

Ring people's doorbells at night and run, hide and watch them open the door.

Taking your tv remote and go to other people's houses at night and put the remote up to the window
and turn there TV sets on or off depending, it really did work.

Running around the local hotel causing mischief and turning over the do not disturb signs asking for the hotel room
to be cleaned, at the time when the cleaning people had room keys, before the door cards.

Wow, seems like you were quite the hooligan !

[LonnieFisher]

I miss the color of blue the sky used to be!