Kennywood Park

Looking like the youth of today are even worse than we were as kids and now Kennywood Park is mandating that anyone under 15 must be accompanied by a parent or other adult 21 and older and must show a valid government photo ID (well that right there is going to cause endless protests). This is in response to the current "flash mob" mindset sweeping the world via social media and targeting amusement parks all around. This is such a shame remembering how many exciting summer trips we made to Kennywood and West View with other friends and siblings WITHOUT an adult. We used to get free Kennywood tickets at the end of the school year for Scouts, Altar Boys and Patrol Boys back when there was no admission cost, just a ticket or 2 per ride and cheap fast food. Bummer in the summer.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/1...S&cvid=6a2c39ac6d5b47ea90edf608f57ecc62&ei=55

 

We didn't have as mentality challenged teens back then. LoL

 

My local Boardwalk has implemented some changes like this due to unruly punk kids. I agree with them 100%. Boardwalk is 2.2 miles* long with at least 50 entrances so can't do the photo ID thing but so happy we got tough on the punk kids from Philly who have zero respect for our area. I do remember getting free Kennywood tickets from my Pittsburgh Press paperboy job. Also won Steeler tickets twice for getting new subscribers. (thanks family members)

*Wife and I have been walking it for years. We can still walk it back and forth but our times have increased with age. Used to do it in under an hour, sadly those days are long gone. We use to get a large amount of tourist from Pittsburgh and I loved seeing the black and gold among the sea of Philly green and red.

 

I have a few thoughts from my neighborhood

On guy we all called KO because the other missing link said he wasn’t ok

What we didn’t have was cell phones

 

A Kennywood story

I met my wife in Chicago and we moved to Pittsburgh. She started here as a traveling nurse and the area had a total lack of road signage and it was before gps Garmin etc.

One evening having spent the day lost she came home mad as a hornet. “There aren’t any street signs around here but you can be 30 miles out in the middle of nowhere and there is one of those yellow ****ing arrows pointing to Kennywood”

 

Yes we were all dumb, and know it alls at that time, but we didn't carry knowledge in our phones, we actually had to remember, and know things.
In one way every generation is a little smarter, and another,way dumber.

 

We were definitely dumber when it came to baseball cards - we flipped them against brick walls, stuck our used bubble gum on them overnight and put them in our bicycle spokes to make cool noises and never thought they could be a means to a financial investment and an early retirement plan. Hell I have an early Mickey Mantle card with staples through his head where I secured him to my scrapbook rendering him worthless.

 

You are about 20 years late to the Party. If you have any baseball card that are worth any value today, sell them immediately, today's generation does not collect baseball cards, and once your generation dies, they won't be worth the bubble gum inside.

Baseball cars quickly becoming worthless, while the price of LEGOS are going through the roof. My nephews all want LEGO sets that cost $100+ WTF.

 

I did the cards on the spikes, but I used playing cards, they lasted longer

 

Friends father collected stamps. He thought he had a gold mine on his hand. The people who might of had a interest are long gone. They are useless unless you love looking at old stamps. Kids today won't even use stamps. Hell, we stopped using them about a year ago. His father use to tell us he'd get 50-60 thousand for them. He finally found a buyer in frigging Europe for the grand sum of 1500.00.

 

At least my comic books are still legit.