Maybe they can go to the malt shop later? And then the sock hop?
We have a teen center where I live currently.
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Same, although they call it a Youth Center. Publicly funded spot where I guess things happen although I've only ever been there to unvote.
I graduated in 2013 and we had a teen center, it's still a thing. I assume as long as theirs teens there will be adults wanting to get them off the streets
Sorry to burst your bubble but Teen Centers are a thing since always. My high school had one until someone burned it down in 2015.
Keep going on about how these evil grownups just don't understand you though, commenters. CRAWLING IN MY SKIIIIN
They CAN be, depending on the area. My local neighborhood doesn't have one, and there isn't anything like that within the area of the city I'm in. "Third places" where you can just hang out with no expectations on you to purchase things or otherwise interact with that place's services are rapidly disappearing in the US.
The economy demands that we consume and spend money.
With children going back to work, watch as playgrounds start to disappear. Those children have money and can spend it to further the all consuming economy.
Were where teen centers in the 50s and were they called that? I feel like that's a 70s and later thing.
Ignorant man doesn't understand the world. No. It must be the world that is ignorant and from the 1950s.
To be fair, most high schook text books are clones of previous edition, they just update pieces to be relevant with the current era.
That sounds real nifty. I do so enjoy a good sock hop. I just hope they don't play any of that devilish rock music.
went to teen center in the 80's. Its not that old. I bet they are more prevalent in cities.
Maybe. In the late 00s-early 10s we had places like that in the suburbs I grew up in, but there was no appeal to them. Mind you my friends were stoners. We were all more of the discussing life and ideas in a public park sort. What I really wanted was a park that didn’t kick you out at night. We still went, but if you’re already hiding from the cops why not bring a beer.
oh yeah loads of teens did not go to the teen center in my day. It was a loser place but me and my friends were the uncool types that went there. free pool, arcade game or two, some other stuff. not like we went every weekend though.
Yeah we weren’t cool either, but we were the kind of uncool that doesn’t go to such places. I guess we were a little cool, considering we were the kids who’d have bonfires and shit and stay up all night
I would say staying up with bonfires probably put you pretty high on the cool meter. What was the percent participation with academic or fine arts clubs within your group? That was a pretty good gauge of uncoolness in my time.
Marching band for two years before I quit to get an internship at an engineering firm. The real problem was I was socially awkward and weird and spent the first half of the time weird looking.
oh yeah. marching band definitely qualifies.
A small city close to me has one, it looks like it's relatively successful too. They have an active Instagram and are open after school pretty much every day.
wow. im not sure if the one when I was young was open every day. it might have been but I think we only went on weekends by and large. they had a pool table (other things but this was the draw for me and my friends).
40 years
yeah its been awhile since I was a teen. Another bloke said one existed for him 2010 though so we are down to a decade or so depending on location.
My home town had one, last I was there. So for sure 2010.
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