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Offline Shuckins

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The Joys of Childhood...
« on: September 28, 2008, 03:13:04 PM »
...as you remember them. 

Waxing a bit nostalgic lately....and being a bit maudlin as well.  I'm about to be hit by the big "Double-Nickle."  So...I spend more and more time dwelling on the past and it's simpler pleasures (Ahhhh!  The golden sixties!)

Name a couple of the things from your childhood that you remember the most fondly.

Grandparents

Red Ryder BB guns
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Offline Hangtime

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Re: The Joys of Childhood...
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2008, 03:21:54 PM »
Firefly hunts.

Playing 'kick the can' and '500' under the streetlights.

Drive-In's

...and the 1967 Schwinn Stingray ;)

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Re: The Joys of Childhood...
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2008, 03:24:59 PM »
A Schwinn....sigh.  Two wheeled nirvana.  Mine was red.....sigh.
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Re: The Joys of Childhood...
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2008, 03:26:49 PM »
My fondest memories being only 26 may be young to some chaps here, but try this for size:



Yep the radio flyer, passed down from my uncle to me, gave to my nephew, he gave to his brother.
Been in our family long time we just never had chance to throw it away lol.
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Re: The Joys of Childhood...
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2008, 03:28:35 PM »
I used to live in the woods, an untouched wilderness back behind a private lane suburbia.  I'm not talking about a group of trees that some "Environmentalist Soccer Mom" would call a Park.  It was serious untouched forest areas that would have taken 10x more effort to cultivate than the land was worth.



I could and often did wander into the woods and disappeared for hours, even days.

I sure miss it.
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Re: The Joys of Childhood...
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2008, 03:34:15 PM »




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Re: The Joys of Childhood...
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2008, 03:35:39 PM »
Me and my sis, Christmas ~1967

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Re: The Joys of Childhood...
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2008, 03:36:16 PM »
1969 electric football
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Re: The Joys of Childhood...
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2008, 09:02:28 PM »
Rainbow Brite
Heman and Shera
catching fireflys
and my old house
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Re: The Joys of Childhood...
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2008, 12:16:46 AM »
Quote from: BOXGIRL on September 28, 2008, 09:02:28 PM
Rainbow Brite
Heman and Shera
catching fireflys
and my old house
My favorite toy at age 4. :rofl


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Re: The Joys of Childhood...
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2008, 12:28:49 AM »
about this thread..

















i underestimated the creepiness factor.
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Re: The Joys of Childhood...
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2008, 06:42:58 AM »


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"Red Ryder carbine-action, two hundred shot Range Model air rifle BB gun with a compass in the stock and a thing which tells time",

Even though it was the early 80's and it was my father's, I remember spending hours out in the woods with it and some surplus helmets and other gear.  Great fun.
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Re: The Joys of Childhood...
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2008, 07:39:09 AM »
Quote from: Blooz on September 28, 2008, 03:34:15 PM




Your fond childhood memory is a life-sized blow-up Tom Selleck love doll?

 Tronsky
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Re: The Joys of Childhood...
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2008, 08:42:49 AM »
One of my fondest memories of youth is a visit to Kentucky, a tobacco drying barn and a set of girl identical twins.
`Nuff said.  :devil
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Re: The Joys of Childhood...
« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2008, 09:31:55 AM »
Quote from: Eagler on September 28, 2008, 03:36:16 PM
1969 electric football
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Electric football heh, we had that also.
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