Mom With Sons in Back of Pick-Up Truck in the 1980s<\/span><\/p> You can’t open social media today without stumbling across a meme that says, “We didn’t come inside until the street lights came on…” and ’80s kids who grew up in the country laugh hardest of all. Street lights? What street lights?<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0Photos Show Life in Small-Town America During the ’70s<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n There was no internet. No cell phones. No AOL chatrooms. A pair of rabbit ears that only picked up the local PBS station, and a transistor radio, if you were lucky. If you grew up on or near a farm in the ’80s, your world was often as big as your property line, the route your school bus took, or however far you were brave enough to bike after dark \u2014 without hitting a rogue cow. It happened.<\/p>\n Keep scrolling for a look at what growing up in the country in the ’80s was really all about.<\/p>\n From back-of-the-truck rides into town to learning that cute things can become dinner, ’80s country kids were a unique generation that the internet will never fully understand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Stephen Lenz<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLOOK: 29 Things That Will Make ’80s Country Kids Say, “Yep, That Was Me!”<\/h2>\n