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When I was a kid, I belly flopped in the driveway. Scraped my knees and hands. But mostly I was crying cause the Super Grover cape my mom made for Halloween didn’t work. 🙁
We made a really big set of wings to try to fly 🤣
We made a giant slingshot out of a bike tire tube and stretched it between tree branches up in our tree fort firing horse chestnuts at the invading forces of other neighborhood kids and threw tree branch speers at each other in battle.
Open carried a 4 inch folding Buck knife in a sheath on my belt everyday on the school bus and in high school and a rifle and/or shotgun and sometimes a six pack of beer behind the seat or in the window rack of my pickup everywhere I went and even in the high school parking lot my senior year.
I should have been locked up for half the crap I can’t even mention and did as a youte
When my mom was growing up poor in LA in the 30’s she used to pretend their dirt front yard was a swimming pool. She’d jump off the porch and walk around waving her arms like she was swimming. Neighbor kid asked what she was doing and could he play? She said sure and the kid DOVE off the porch and splatted in the dirt then ran home crying.
We still use that great Tupperware container for carrying water when we go out with our dog. Great size, great handle, still seals in the water. Good products are classics because they last.
Some of the women in our suburb would have Tupperware parties to sell those wares …
Wife’s friend sold it. We have a lot from the 80s and it’s all still great.
My carpentry set was real. Maybe kids like me are the reason they started making those saws out of plastic?
Yup, I had a set. Hammer , pliers, real saw etc. Handy Andy brand. I think I got it when I was around 5.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/163618851063
Can’t post a pic but the link shows it
At 6 got a BB gun and at 7 a BB pistol.
Maybe that’s why they call you “lefty.”
Who remembers knee-high socks?
Dick Levine
susan dey?? a cutie…
Susan Dey was cute, but Heather Thomas was unbelievably smokin hot.
The toe tappers in each year’s top ten are Maybellene and Hot Rod Lincoln.
Did Cheap Trick really cover a Pat Boone song?
In other memories. Mary Janes, Squirrels and Slo Pokes…
Have been viciously removing loose fillings and teeth from the mouths of sweet tooths for decades.
Oh, yeah. Then the exposed nerve endings were soooo damn sensitive. Akin to constantly banging your funny bone in the elbow joint.
Nails on a chalkboard.
Aahhhhhh!
I think Pat Boone and Cheap Trick covered a song that was written by Fats Domino and David Bartholomew in 1955.
The original ‘Adventures of Superman’ TV series began September, 1952 … and ushered in an era of unparalleled prosperity for Emergency Rooms across the United States as thousands of young boys donned ‘capes’ made out of sheets, towels — anything — and climbed trees or to the roofs of garages and houses — and jumped off.
The statistics for broken ankles and broken wrists still haven’t been equalled …
When I was about nine or so, I made a parachute out of a white bed sheet. Fastened rope all around it for the lines and tied them together at the bottom to hang onto. Climbed to the top of our house and jumped off while my buddy watched from below. That was 70 years ago. I still recall the horrible pain when hitting the ground. That was the first and last jump I ever attempted.
lol, older brother and I did the same exact thing! We only had a one story rambler, so only about a 9 foot drop. We thought it “worked” and did it multiple times…
It’s called ‘deceleration trauma’ … part of the package of stuff to educate us as children on the inner, secret workings of that magical part of the Universe — gravity …
My neighbor figured out the secret: you gotta spin real fast before leaping into the air. I was just cruel enough back then to watch him demonstrate. After all, it was a landing on soft grass. Heh.
My dad carved us whistles out of finger sized willow branches. He also carved us pistols and added a clothes pin above the grip that would hold a rubber band stretched up to the barrel. We spent hours sneaking up on our sisters to pop em with a rubber band.
recorded in 1972 by Arlo Guthrie
We used to turn our bikes upside down, spin the pedals until the wheel was flying and then sharpen popsicle sticks on the tread.
Not sure what we were trying to do but it was fun.
Yup. For a motorboat sound effect, we would inflate an oblong balloon, then tie both ends to one of the front wheel forks, then ease it past the front inside gap of the fork, slowly past the spokes.
Get on, and ride like a bat out of hell until friction and heat eventually popped the balloon, and the motorboat sound ceased.
Memories.
This one hit a bit too close to home for me.
My 62 year old sister just told me last week that she just realized that the album cover for Boston was upside down guitars. I’m still shaking my head.
Yeah, and Paul is dead.
That’s how the aliens came to earth….in guitars.
“Now they only eat guitars!” Blondie
What if ……
Auntie remembers that bicycles used to have a generator/dynamo set on the frame that one could lock inplace to rub onto the rear wheel and have front and rear lighting for riding in the dark.
Hardly see anyone riding a bike at night anymore and the (clean) technology for the generators and lights, well, like NASA forgetting how to get to the Moon, has been lost somewhere at the Dept of Energy.
Had those for my paper routes.
Anybody remember rubbing peach pits on the sidewalk and sanding them down into rings?
Still ride my bike, no lights no reflectors no brakes. I did add a bell. Obviously I don’t wear a helmet, I post here.
Thank you Avalon and Admin. Oh the memories. My sister did a look, no hands on her bike. She ended up with 50 stitches in her chin. She was back to no hands a short time later.