Things We All Remember About Old School 4th of July Celebrations

If you were a kid on the 4th of July in the 1960s, there were no tablets, no gaming consoles, no screens of any kind. You were the entertainment. You ran through sprinklers, balanced eggs on spoons, and entered three-legged races with a cousin you barely knew.

Parents tossed you sparklers and expected you to come up with something fun (and not life-threatening). You caught fireflies in jars and climbed trees until someone called you in for Jell-O. It was chaotic, unregulated joy. Nobody asked if you were bored. You didn’t even know that was an option. You just… played.