Times Were Certainly Different...

Ok Buckaroos....how many get those emails about a long time ago.

You know when times were better and easier..
when our Hero's were cowboys....

Do you remember the times when you were just a youngster with
dreams of Hoppy....thats Hoppalong Cassidy--i had a Hoppy bike with
2 holsters and chrome cap pistols.
and ...the Cisco Kid...Poncho..
Dale...Roy...and Gene...you get the picture.

Well, here is a rootin, tootin cowboy...Just give him a name...
I'll give you one guess who it is....don't you see those blue eyes....

Yes, its big Jim when I was little Jimmy.

Times were so different. The photo was taken near 2000 W. Rice st, Chicago IL....a long time ago.

Its just not the numbers that make it so long ago but what do you see.

A pony on the sidewalks of Chicago. A highly congested residential neighborhood.

Try that today in 2008. What agent of the government would start drooling at their mouth.

First, no helmet on the kid, no safety seat...where were his parents...child endangerment.... you get the picture and if you don't...there is no hope for you.

Government involved in everything and civil suits that have taken the fun out of our lives.

Life was simpler then....our kids won't have the memories...but we do. I am so glad I still enjoy and remember those simpler times.