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In the 60s/70s, we used to have a 'Block Party'. We'd pass the hat to pay for a permit and block off both ends of the street for a few hours on a Saturday. Set
by 11thEarlOfMar 9y ago
In the 60s/70s, we used to have a 'Block Party'. We'd pass the hat to pay for a permit and block off both ends of the street for a few hours on a Saturday. Set up picnic tables, play games, pot luck, talk politics and religion and basically call time out on our otherwise busy or boring lives.
- closeparen 9y agoThe suburb I grew up in still has several of these every summer.
- nealdt 9y agoThere was a movement in the UK that did exactly this (reclaim the streets, I think). They got infiltrated by the police!!