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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Shuckins on September 28, 2008, 03:13:04 PM
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...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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Firefly hunts.
Playing 'kick the can' and '500' under the streetlights.
Drive-In's
...and the 1967 Schwinn Stingray ;)
(http://johnsvintagebikes.com/stingrays/stingray_deluxe.JPG)
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A Schwinn....sigh. Two wheeled nirvana. Mine was red.....sigh.
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My fondest memories being only 26 may be young to some chaps here, but try this for size:
(http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/radioflyer/89.jpg)
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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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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(http://www.blackfive.net/main/images/2007/09/07/gijoe.jpg)
(http://touchedbythestars.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/matchbox_087.jpg)
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Me and my sis, Christmas ~1967
(http://hallbuzz.com/good_old_days/old_alaska/david_sheryl_christmas_1969.jpg)
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1969 electric football
(http://www.criticalgamers.com/archives/pictures/ElectricFootball.2.14.06.jpg)
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Rainbow Brite
Heman and Shera
catching fireflys
and my old house
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Rainbow Brite
Heman and Shera
catching fireflys
and my old house
My favorite toy at age 4. :rofl
(http://www.he-man.org/primary_sects/toys/images/collector_guides/motu_class/fig_shots/heman_a.jpg)
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about this thread..
i underestimated the creepiness factor.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fe/RedRBB90s.jpg/350px-RedRBB90s.jpg)
"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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(http://www.blackfive.net/main/images/2007/09/07/gijoe.jpg)
Your fond childhood memory is a life-sized blow-up Tom Selleck love doll?
Tronsky
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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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1969 electric football
(http://www.criticalgamers.com/archives/pictures/ElectricFootball.2.14.06.jpg)
Electric football heh, we had that also.
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(http://www.tablehockey.net/images/gamepic5.jpg)
Hours of fun
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Skateboards. The kind with metal wheels that drove the neighbors nuts.
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Ding dong ditching apartment complexes. Well, the neighbors met each other in odd fashions. :D
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My favorite toy at age 4. :rofl
(http://www.he-man.org/primary_sects/toys/images/collector_guides/motu_class/fig_shots/heman_a.jpg)
i had the dolls to lol...used to play them all the time. Man that pic brought back some memories.
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My own tool box, legos, hot wheels, being outdoors all day, no bills, fishing with my dad.
Fudge, I'm only almost 19. :(
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AFX Race tracks....
An Orange Schwin that I could ride wheelies on for blocks...
Honda XR75...Suzuki RM100...
Football...Baseball
Playland skating rink and "Contests" in the back corner....and a girl named Sherri....
Going steady with sisters....one one week the other the next and on and on for a summer... :eek:
Floating the Buffalo river with Renee...
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Legos. Lots and lots of Legos.
Also, building toy guns out of scrap PVC piping, broomstick handles, and finishing nails. Playing "war" around the house with the toy guns we made.
The kid down the street picking 50 almost-ripe oranges off of our only orange tree, and hitting all of them down the street with a baseball bat.
Riding my bike 20 miles to the beach.
Going to the pool nearly every day for 10 years, growing up surrounded by people my age wearing almost nothing, and later in life wondering why most of the country acts like a bunch of puritans when it comes to showing a little skin.
Joking around with the kid who got a speeding ticket at age 14... on a skateboard... in a 25mph zone.
Winning the school "bike rodeo" in 5th grade with a perfect 100% score, and getting an hour's ride-along in a real cop car for a prize. We didn't shoot any bad guys but man were we ready!
Not having enough money to stay in hotels on vacations, so twice a year we went camping for a week in one of our national forests. Wondering later in life why some people freak out when they're out in the woods, and teaching USAF survival school using things that I learned at age 8 during those family camping trips.
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60's...hmmm
When my parents "disappeared" and came back weeks later in '66 (honeymoon, they got married after I was born)
Me getting hooked on the beatles and playing vinil records in parties, that was cool.
Helping dad to wire the house he was building 67-68. (I was on the pulling end)
Being with dad when we had the first TV, in 1967 or 68. I think it was a cold day.
Going on trips with my carpenter granddad all over the area, measuring up things etc. Gravel roads and the car was a Ford Taunus.
Being eager about the moon landings. Did it last 4 days?
My first solo bus-trip. I was 4.
70's is much more, much worse. hehe.
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"But weren't the 70s a DRAG you know?" <John Lennon, in an interview shortly before his death>
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Shuckins, am 1 year older than you. I delete more posts on the BBS than I post. I think I'm at the age now that I just don't get it anymore. Am happy about that if "it" be what I see bandied about and especially "how" it be bandied about.
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My feeling for most of the 70's is that they sucked....
One 70's memory was going to the barber and seeing hippies waiting for a HAIRCUT...a proper one :D
Another one is that (as today) fashion had trousers wide at the bottom (what's the term in English?), and that meant serious trouble on my bicycle, since it would get jammed in the chain. My solution was strapping them together, so I had "leggings" made of a rubber band. Hehe. :devil