Author Topic: Wanna Know Why We're All Here? (Read 1388 times)

airspro · « **Reply #60 on:** February 10, 2001, 12:57:00 AM »

Remember "Supercar" , they were puppets in the show . The damn title song keeps poping up in my head all the time

Can't remember all the words anymore

it's the marvel of the age , Supercar , Supercar .

Yep 12 o'clock high . Combat , yep .

Sea Hunt ?? hehe , my Dad hated it I guess , called it bubbles , lol .

Used to make "airplanes" with my tinkertoys and "fly" them in the living room on the end of a string

AH much better

but costs alot more , hehe .

Nice post Ice , yep know why I am still here . Flying with my buddies , like I used to hang out with my friends when growing up . Differant but the same thing , u know ?

cheers spro

texace · « **Reply #61 on:** February 10, 2001, 01:28:00 AM »

I remember my dad tellin me how he and his brother would play war games in the frames of new houses. The fact is that those new houses are now my neighborhood. Dad said he had set off a tennis ball full of Black Cats (back when they were REAL firecrackers) in this very room. If you can't tell, my little town (Lake Worth, Texas for you old people) has been around a LONG time, since Carswell AFB (Fort Worth NAS now)was opened. In fact, my dad and granddad both graduated from my high school. I love this place, history in the making.

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Ice · « **Reply #62 on:** February 10, 2001, 06:57:00 AM »

I loved living in Texas...great people...I miss it

Wanker · « **Reply #63 on:** February 10, 2001, 08:29:00 AM »

How could you all forget G.I. Joe with Kung-Fu grip! Hehe, I had a bunch of G.I. Joe stuff, like his submarine & scuba gear.

I remember building model airplanes, then stuffing them with firecrackers, lighting them, then throwing the plane up in the air....POW! Also built model ships, and set them afloat in our part of our yard that flooded every spring. Would sink them with my BB-gun.

Anyone ever build Lincoln Log forts and stock them with Army men? Then try to destroy your friend's forts with little rubber super balls?

How about colored toothpick races down any little stream of water?

Anyone remember Marathon bars? Those chocolate candy bars that were shaped like an elongated pretzel?

Real Cherry Cokes, made with Coke and cherry juice, bought from the local drugstore.

Hehe, or how about holding a model airplane in each hand, having a fierce combat by you making airplane & machine gun noises, waving your arms furiously to simulate the swirling fight. Hehe, all that because HITECH & PYRO were still goofing off as kids!

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Ice. To be sure, we only seem to remember the good stuff about the "good old days", but for the sake of this thread, we'll not talk about the bad things about those times. At least not in this thread.

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Jimdandy · « **Reply #64 on:** February 10, 2001, 09:06:00 AM »

Oh definitely G.I. Joe'. Had a ton of stuff for them. Someone mentioned him above, Matt Matson the astronaut. How about the Evil Kanevil dolls with the motorcycle and the crew truck. Or Big Jim dolls. I had a Lone Ranger doll.

I didn't build many model planes. Never had the patents to put the whole thing together.

Yes I did the Lincoln Log thing with the army men.

We had irrigation ditches so the boats got pretty elaborate at times.

Yep Marathon bars that stuck to your teeth like glue. Loved them.

Yep had a little drugstore with a little soda fountain.

As I said I didn't build them much. I bought those Matchbox WWII die cast metal ones. I put the fire crackers under my green army men.

I bet if you went in the office of Hi Tech and caught them off guard they are running chasing each other around with model airplanes making machine gun noises. LOL!

I'm in hear because every time I go run around the front yard with my Bf109F-4 model and make machine gun noises they put me in this very uncomfortable jacket.

mrfish · « **Reply #65 on:** February 10, 2001, 05:06:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Jimdandy:
Wild. Where did you get that mrfish.

in south lake tahoe, ca ironically. the nephew of one of the victims - actually i think his aunt and grandma lived together and were both victims in some place in the san gabriel valley - anyway, he inhereted the couch, some front room lamps and an old crysler boat of a car- i dont remember the model.

we worked for a non-profit agency that was doing volunteer work one weekend - this was a few months after he got transfered up there from l.a. - on this weekend people had free access to the city dump so were helping old people toss their unwanted stuff - when he showed up he had the couch with him, figuring he'd use the time to get rid of some of his own stuff.

his 1yr old had lost all kinds of uno cards and popscicle sticks down the sides and its really tacky but i told him not to dump it i would take it. he wanted to just trash it because it obviously had bad memories and his wife has looked at me funny since - dont guess she saw the value in it - they only took the stuff in the first place because they were dirt poor i guess - but anyway here it sits. my wife wants to trash it too - its reallt ugly and she could care less who got slaughtered near it - to me it is an historical item -

lanced · « **Reply #66 on:** February 10, 2001, 11:36:00 PM »

Ice, I HAVE lived!!

I remember all of those plus saturday afternoon matinees with 20 cartoons, a serialized program, and at least one western and maybe something with WWII fighters or bombers. Many saturdays on the way home from the movies I was a B17 or one of many fighters and always won the battles. Then there was my Tom Mix Decoder Ring that glowed in the dark. We used to get a secret message from his radio program that we could decode and boy was that amazing. Seeing service men & women in uniform was the norm and boy did they get a lot of respect. A much simpler time where the values were easily accepted an taken for granted.

lazs · « **Reply #67 on:** February 11, 2001, 11:01:00 AM »

What i recall is.. like jim, hunting ground squirrels with a 22 rifle with your "gang"... everyone had a gun and kept em in their closet (possibly loaded, better check eh?)... We would see the "new kids" across the way in our turf. taunts would ensue till finally the only action left to you was to fight..

We were scared witless to fight some stranger but more scared to be a coward so.... We put down our rifles and a short fight would ensue with maybe a bloody nose, torn shirt or a lumpy face.... The strangers weren't strangers anymore and everyone was relieved that they hadn't made a fool of themself. New friends were made.

For some strange reason it never occured to us that we could simply shoot the other guy. What's changed?
lazs

wolf37 · « **Reply #68 on:** February 11, 2001, 06:10:00 PM »

hello all:

this is a great thread ice, glad you started it.

Hangtime, thanks for the story.

Jedi, now you know where my squad got it's name from.

and I cant beleive nobody has mentioned that great time of getting all the neighbouhood kids together and playing war.

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Ketil · « **Reply #69 on:** February 12, 2001, 01:34:00 PM »

Heh, my brother and I recently had a conversation bout playing war as kids. We lived in the DC suburbs at the time and our neighborhood had lots of kids our age. We used to have "block battles" in the woods around the jr high school. One blocks kids against another. We sometimes had 30-40 kids in the woods running around like crazy. Using soda cans full of dirt with a stick in them as potatoe mashers. Some had walkie talkies that never really worked too well. One kid actually had an italian bolt action rifle that had been demilled, he was the envy of us all

Not being satisfied with the storebought guns I cut the stock off a capgun musket and attached a black taped broomstick and some other wooden bits to make my own MG42

Buggin our parents to buy us helmets at the local surplus store.
This eventually turned into bb gun fights, then paintball, then the army (eek!) and of course reenacting.
We also had cavalry battles with sticks on bikes....this was where most of us got our "dueling scars" lol.
Ket

wolf37 · « **Reply #70 on:** February 12, 2001, 03:04:00 PM »

hi all:

I bought a WWII canadain helmet at a garage sale, and a gas mask. they are both around here someplace.

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NHFoxtro · « **Reply #71 on:** February 12, 2001, 03:06:00 PM »

There are alot of us here in the same age group, I miss those days of not having to pay bills and sleep for hours on the weekend, and try and sneak that extra half hour after curfew. Then I look at my son and don't mind that its his turn now to enjoy all those great times.

It felt good, to read this and bring back those memories I haven't thought of for a long time.

Jimdandy · « **Reply #72 on:** February 12, 2001, 03:24:00 PM »

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Originally posted by mrfish:
in south lake tahoe, ca ironically...-

Far out story. Here's an it's a small world one for you. A good friend of aunts and I think a college roommate was Sharon Tate of Charles Manson fame. She was from Richland, WA.

Jimdandy · « **Reply #73 on:** February 12, 2001, 03:36:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Ketil:
Heh, my brother and I recently had a conversation bout playing war as kids. We lived in the DC suburbs at the time and our neighborhood had lots of kids our age. We used to have "block battles" in the woods around the jr high school. One blocks kids against another. We sometimes had 30-40 kids in the woods running around like crazy. Using soda cans full of dirt with a stick in them as potatoe mashers. Some had walkie talkies that never really worked too well. One kid actually had an italian bolt action rifle that had been demilled, he was the envy of us all
Not being satisfied with the storebought guns I cut the stock off a capgun musket and attached a black taped broomstick and some other wooden bits to make my own MG42
Buggin our parents to buy us helmets at the local surplus store.
This eventually turned into bb gun fights, then paintball, then the army (eek!) and of course reenacting.
We also had cavalry battles with sticks on bikes....this was where most of us got our "dueling scars" lol.
Ket

Oh YEAH! We did that too. As we got older and stupider we tried BB guns. LOL! Yes there was a kid that had a disfunctional Springfield bolt action and something else I can't remember. My uncle kept saying he would get me one and never did damn it! I'm still pissed at him for that and not trading my little brother for his German Shepard. LOL! Remember how the plastic guns looked real. I wonder do they still make them that way or have all the toy companies Barneyed out?
Yep I did the gun customizations too. How about the real cool cap guns with the red plastic ring caps for the revolvers. You were really styling if you had an old army helmet or jacket.

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texace · « **Reply #74 on:** February 12, 2001, 03:43:00 PM »

Oh yeah the plastic guns look real nowadays. Have a kid across the street who has a cap gun that looks extreamly similar to a Desert Eagle. Better not have it out in public.

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