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I lived though it as a kid in the 80's. By the 90's it was all but gone. Bigger roads were being built for more neighborhood and malls. Cable TV and Blockbuster were in their heyday. CNN was now reporting 24/7, and people were becoming a lot more aware of threats like kidnappings, pedophiles, and serial killers. Video games were all improving and becoming more widespread, and the world wide web was just around the corner...
I was born in 1980. We rode bikes across town, the only rule was be home before the street lights come on. At 12 my dad and I would go to the lake where he'd drop me off at some random area with a high powered rifle before sunrise. He'd come back and pick me up near dark expecting me to have a field dressed deer.
I live in the midwest so it stuck around for a little longer but by the mid 90's it was pretty much gone.