We picked up empty coke or beer bottles on a vacant lot to get the 2cent deposit money for penny candy--or sometimes a 12cent loaf of bread for lunches. And our first tv screen was so small my aunt said ""if a fly landed on the screen, you missed the show".
(Funny how now there are huge screens, and over 100 channels and nothing worth watching most of the time!)
Summertimes all us kids were told to be home when the street lights came on. And then we would play tag in the front yards till the mosquitoes drove us in.
And we zoomed up and down the sidewalk on roller skates, worn with saddle shoes, with the key on a knotted piece of string around our neck, and had scabs on our knees all summer from falling on the sidewalk.