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From drinking straight out of a garden hose on a July afternoon to riding in the open bed of a pickup truck doing sixty on a county road, the rules of a 1970s childhood would send a modern parent straight to a panic attack. But for millions of kids who grew up in that decade, these weren't rebellious choices. They were just Tuesday. So how did an entire generation survive a childhood that today's kids wouldn't last a week in? These are thirty rules every seventies child followed without anyone ever writing them down.