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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Ice on February 08, 2001, 06:24:00 PM
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I am convinced, that at some level, all of us might like to be a kid again...I know that's why I fly the virtual skies (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Enjoy the following, as I did.
Those Were the Days!
Back When:
Close your eyes...And go back in time....
Before the Internet or the MAC, before semi automatics and crack
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
Way back...
I'm talkin' bout hide and go seek at dusk. Sittin' on theporch. Hot bread and butter. The Good Humor man. Red light, Green
light. Chocolate milk. Lunch tickets. Penny candy in a brown paper bag.
Playin' Pinball in the corner store. Hopscotch, butterscotch, double-dutch Jacks, kickball, dodge ball. Mother May I? Red Rover and Roly Poly Hula Hoops and sunflower seeds, Jolly Ranchers, banana splits, wax lips and mustaches.
Running through the sprinkler. The smell of the sun and lickin' salty lips.... Watchin' Saturday morning cartoons: Fat Albert, Road
Runner, He-Man, The Three Stooges, and Bugs; or back further, listening to Superman on theradio, catchin' lightening bugs in a jar, playin' sling shot.
When around the corner seemed far away, and going downtown seemed like going somewhere. Bedtime, climbing trees, an ice cream cone on a warm summer night: chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe butter pecan. A lemon coke from the fountain at the corner drug store.
A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers. Cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians. Sittin' on the curb. Jumpin' down the steps. Jumpin' on the bed. Pillow fights. Runnin' till you were out of breath. Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt. Being tired from playin'.... Remember that? I ain't finished just yet... Remember when..... Eating Kool-aid powder with sugar. When there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Flyers) and the only time you wore them at school, was for "gym." When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up, if you even had one.
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there. When nobody owned a purebred dog.When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a miracle.
When milk went up one cent and everyone talked about it for weeks. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then. When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.
When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done, everyday.
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, for free, every time. And, you didn't pay for
air. And, you got trading stamps to boot!
When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
at a real restaurant with your parents.
When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed..and did! When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! And some of us are still afraid of 'em!!!
I want to go back to the time when............ Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo." Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!" "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly." Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends. "Being old" referred to anyone over 20. The net on a tennis court was the perfect height to play volleyball and rules didn't matter. The worst
thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb. It was unbelievable that dodge ball wasn't an Olympic event.
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
Nobody was prettier than Mom. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better. It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the amusement park. Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true. Abilities were discovered because of a double-dog-dare."
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures. No shopping trip was complete unless a new toy was brought home."Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense. Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles. The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. War was a card game.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
Ice cream was considered a basic food group. Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!!
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huh?
i cant remember anything before ronald reagan.. i havent lived?
dont get your point
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Hmmm Ice you got to be very close to my age. Fat Albert gave you away. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) Hay Hay Hay! It's Fat Albert!
Here's one...
<The crash of thunder> There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!
When criminals in this world appear and break the laws that they should fear and frighten all who see or hear the cry goes up both far and near for Underdog Underdog...
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Go Go Gofers watch 'um go go..
or
Tennessee Tuxedo and Chumly
or
The Groovy Ghoulies
maybe
Scooby Scooby Doo where are you we need some help from you now...
or
My My My Delilah...
and
She's a lady whoa whoa whoa shes a lady...
LOL I could go on and on and on... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Yep I'm here because when I run around the yard with my Bf 109 model and make airplane noises They put me in this weird jacket. LOL.
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Ahh...Saturday morning cartoons. Now, you can watch crappy cartoons 24 hours a day. Back then, Saturday morning was an event.
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Salute those times! It is my sole purpose in life to give them to my own children. Thank you for reminding us what it is really all about.
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Zig...
Big suprise here...this post is not about you...it's about something cool that many of us lived.
13th TAS must have killed ya tonight and your mad at me again (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Dudley Do Right
Sherman and Peabody
Of course Rocky and Bullwinkle
Fractured Fairy Tails
The Wild Wild West (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Bonanza
I shook hands with Fess Parker when I was 6! Man that was a big deal! Daniel Boone was a man he was a big man... He threw the axe and split the tree.. COOL!
Gun Smoke
Davey Crocket
The REAL Wonderful World of Disney
Oh and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom! Jim's over there now wrestling that Anaconda. LOL!
The Virginian
Lancer
Branded
And then came Bronson
Run for your life with Ben Gazarra
The Sixth Sense (not the movie but the TV show)
Rod Sterling's Night Gallery
Iron Side
The Night Stalker
Kung Fu
Hogan's Hero's
Adam 12
Squad 51
Star Trek (the original)
Evil Kanevil
The Bad News Bears
I'm getting tiered. Someone else pick up from here. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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I MISS The Nightstalker! Wish they showed re-runs of it!
LLB OUT!!!!!!!!
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Sky King (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Hop-a-long-Cassidy (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
The Lone Ranger (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Jet Jackson (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Wink-e-Dink (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Riding a bike 20 miles from Fairmont Mn to Armstrong Ia just to swim in a pool!!(Parents didn't have to worry even though we camped out on the border of MN and IA)
Ya, youth is wasted on the young!!!!
Small towns rule!! Great places to spend ones youth (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
The county fair
The national guard camped overnite in Fairmont on their way up north for 2 weeks. All the kids went to "help". Meet alot of nice citizen soldiers.
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Ice, You forgot having 30 cents to go to the movies on Saturday afternoon. I would stay and watch the the movies twice. Then walk 4 miles back home, uphill...in the snow! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
Yeah, hair is turning gray too. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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WHAT? no Clutch cargo? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
NUTTZ
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I remember a day.. a day beyond all others. The day my Unca Stu showed up in a cab early ona a spring saturday; ruining my plans to fly a new freeflight glow model I'd just finished. He told my dad.. 'I'll bring him back alive' and said to me "Get a coat kid, we're gonna go fying." We went to VanNuys airport. Hung on the gate was a big banner..
"AIRSHOW"
The smells.. the sounds.. the planes. WARBIRDS. And lots of 'em! ..oh man.. I was about nine, nuts about planes and this guy I've seen maybe 5 times my whole life is walking around, takling to pilots; shaking hands.. first names.. wow. Oh wow. He knows guys that FLY.
We watch the air parade; low passes by all kinds of old iorn... and the Mustangs. Gawd they were awsome up close.. nothin sounded like 'em.. one time, 4 went by low and fast, 7000 horespower loud, I can still FEEL that thunder.. MERLINS. oh, man.. oh man..
Lunch and then we strolled the flight line.. touching them.. Unca Stu put me in a pony cockpit, and while he chatted with the pilot just as natural as if the guy lived next door I sat there inside that big huge cockpit and stared up at that panel, then straining up to try and see over the top.. then trying to reach my feet towards the pedals and then I grabbed that stick... "wrrrrrooooooommm wroooooooommm... Raatattattattattat!!"
What a day.. afterwards I crawled thru a B17 and an A26,, yep I can still remember what they were too. Finally, we wound up on the general aviation ramp, walking the tie-downs, past shiny new cessnas and warriors and right up to a J3 Cub. Into the Cub! Up FRONT! UP IN THE CUB...oh, man.. I'm FLYING! oh mannn my UNCA STU CAN FLY!.. oh man..
Was a day beyond all days...
I sadly never did get to spend much time with my unca Stu.. I saw him too few times; got to know him not nearly well enuff; and when he passed away he went without me knowing for a long time.
I do know something tho; knew it all along from that day to this.. he's my hero; and I'm still that kid in that pony cocpit tryin to see over the dash and get to the pedals even now.
"Rattattattat! Die; you scurvy rooks!"
<S!> Unca Stu.
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Hang
1st/AG "Bishlanders" << Recruiting!!
"Turn to kill, not to engage."
Commander 'Willie' Driscoll, USNR
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You need to come visit, Ice. Hot summers here see frequent trips to the swimming hole, fishing trips, hikes through Devils Den, Softball, fire flies, and all the watermelon you can handle. And that's a day when nobody feels like doing much! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
City living is having its toll on you!
Voss
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Originally posted by Jimdandy:
The Night Stalker
i have a green pleather couch that belonged to one of ramirez' victims - no kidding - it is getting ratty but i keep it for morbid reasons
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nice stroll down memory lane. Wish today was as simple as then was, that's fer sure.
Nice list JimDandy, but I can't believe noone's mentioned Battlestar Galactica and Black Sheep Squadron yet. Used to pitch an outright fit if I had to miss one of those.
And the unspoken rule about the kids 0wning the TV on Saturday mornings (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Closest thing we've got now is ABC's 'One Saturday Morning'. My little girl lays on the floor, on a blanket, infront of the TV like I used to Sat mornings. And when mom isn't yelling too much about this'n'that needs to be down I'll lay down next to'er and drift back to those golden days (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) Different 'toons, but the same principle (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Originally posted by llbm_MOL:
I MISS The Nightstalker! Wish they showed re-runs of it!
LLB OUT!!!!!!!!
Remember how SCARRY it was when the intro music started. Oooo. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) I loved that show.
I really liked Ku Fu. My mom had to keep me away from the big pot of boiling stew on the stove. I kept trying to lift it with my bare forearms. Only in the winter of course so you can run out and throw you arms in the snow. LOL! Really I loved trying to walk to around in the sand and not leave foot prints like he did on the rice paper. LOL!
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Anybody else remember 12 o'clock High (a Quinn Martin production)? Not the movie, the TV series.
That's what bit me way back when.
Who used to watch the Johnny Quest cartoon?
Remember when Race Bannon had to duel that crazy German Baron von Fruelich in his WWI planes?
How about Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea?
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Originally posted by mrfish:
i have a green pleather couch that belonged to one of ramirez' victims - no kidding - it is getting ratty but i keep it for morbid reasons
Wild. Where did you get that mrfish.
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Great story Hangtime. I'm sure your uncle accomplished exactly what he wanted to. He loved planes and he saw that you liked them to. After that air show you were hooked for good. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) I went to some air shows as a kid but what started my interest was models and the movies Battle of Britain, TORA, TORA, TORA, and Midway. Then the TV show Baa Baa Black sheep. There really wasn't anyone in my family that was into planes at all.
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Originally posted by oboe:
Anybody else remember 12 o'clock High (a Quinn Martin production)? Not the movie, the TV series.
That's what bit me way back when.
Who used to watch the Johnny Quest cartoon?
Remember when Race Bannon had to duel that crazy German Baron von Fruelich in his WWI planes?
How about Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea?
I don't remember 12'oclock high. Some of these shows are starting to be before my time. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) I do remember Johnny Quest. I forgot to put that in the list. That was one of my favorites. They came out with a new version about 10 years ago that was actually very good and kept the feel of the original. I was very surprised because the original was pretty violent by todays standards. I don't know when Johnny Quest came out. It my have been in reruns in the late 60's and early 70's when I watched it. I miss the original Bugs Bunny cartoons with all of the original violence. There so chopped up now they don't really make sense. I watched a show that interviewed some of the original cartoonists and Mel Blank of course. They said that they really made the cartoons to entertain themselves'. They were for adults. If I remember right I read some place that the Flintstones and I think the Jetsons came out in prime time at first. They were the Simpson's of the 60's.
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Let me add to da list. Sorry if I duplicate some. Some of my favorites from back then:
The Green Hornet
Daniel Boone
The Big Valley
Get Smart
High Chaparral
The Addams Family
I Dream of Jeannie
The Avengers
Bewitched
Lost in Space
Petticoat Junction
Dark Shadows
Gilligan's Island
Man, this takes me back (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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What a great topic. <S> Ice, you're so right.
-Westy
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Oh man Get Smart. That was the greatest! High Chaparral, I Dream of Jeannie (oh man I want one of those bottles (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) ), Daniel Boone he was my hero. Like I said I got to shake hands with Fess Parker. We were in a rodeo arena in Eugene Oregon. There were 50 kids mashing each other against the hand rail trying to see him and shake his hand. He was on the back of a horse and he made it look small. He rode straight over to me and shook my hand. None of the other kids just me. Then he rode way. I felt like that kid on the movie Shane. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Kinda funny how we can spend our youth wantin to be older, then once there, wish we were young.
Just like losing our health trying to make money, then when we've made the money, we spend it trying to save our health.
Crazy trip, but a good one at that! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Salute to all of you!
Ice
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The Green Hornet~~LOVED this program, couldn't get enough!
Daniel Boone~~So-so
The Big Valley~~Great Western..I now own property where parts of The Big Valley was filmed!~
Get Smart~~So stupid it was funny.
High Chaparral~~Bored me.
The Addams Family~~So studid it was funny.
I Dream of Jeannie~~Worshiped B.E. and wrote letters to her!
The Avengers~~Boring English, great looking lead lady!
Bewitched~~Another "Samantha Fan"..in love with her too!
Lost in Space~~Loved it!
Petticoat Junction~~Slap stick comedy
Dark Shadows~~My introduction (and departure) from daytime soap opera's with a twist of horror!
Gilligan's Island~~Mindless comedy good for eating a big bowl of cereal after school!
Anyone remember seeing the Beatles or Elvis live on the Ed Sullivan show? Watched the Rolling stones as well, had two older sisters crazy about the above.
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thanks for the flashback Ice (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Johny Quest, Combat, McKale's Navy, Rat Patrol ....
Eagler
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Great topic Ice (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) Haven't seen anyone mention The Outer Limits...
"Do not try to adjust your set.. "
Have to say though I'm still a kid. I get up every saturday and watch the cartoons with them and probably enjoy them more than they do. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) For those of us old enough to remember some of those older cartoons some cable companies have a channel called Boomerang which show a few of them. Like Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi Bear, Penelope pitstop and so on.
Battlestar Galactica was the coolest and I always thought the young blond on Bonanza was pretty hot (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Remember when my mom took me to the naval base to get my dad when he finally got back from Vietnam... He would drive me arond on his Norton motorcycle or His 65 Mustang which he painted at least 5 times lol.
Anyone remember those Shogun Warrior toys? I had one that would shoot missles from his fingers and there was one the would shoot something from the stomach. My little sister was terrified of the thing and I'd spend hours chasin her around the house with it.
Man those were the days.
Bane
13th TAS
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Flash, Dale, and Ming the Merciless (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Very nice piece of work ICE... very nice indeed. <S>
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GOSH!!! Leave it to Beaver, My Three Sons, The Donna Reed Show, My Little Margie, The NFL in Black And White, Friday Night Fights, Family Ties and Barney Miller, The Twilight Zone and One Step Beyond, Have Gun Will Travel and Bat Masterson.
A sad day when the academy award winner for best picture is a remake of a 50's "B" movie so weak it was not even a Feature film (It was better the first time around also).
As a side note Dale Evens died yesterday, Happy trails to you Dale.
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OhNooo
smile awhile
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Originally posted by BaneX:
Great topic Ice (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) Haven't seen anyone mention The Outer Limits...
"Do not try to adjust your set.. "
It was a cool show alright.
...For those of us old enough to remember some of those older cartoons...
...Like Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi Bear, Penelope pitstop and so on...
Those were some of my favorites along with Wally Gator, Magilla Gorilla, George of the Jungle,and The Beatles cartoon. Anyone remember that. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Battlestar Galactica was the coolest and I always thought the young blond on Bonanza was pretty hot (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Loved it and Bonanza.
...Norton motorcycle or His 65 Mustang which he painted at least 5 times lol...
May dad built a Honda we used to go ride. I went out just after I got over the chicken pox. Man was I in pain with that shirt slapping my back. Man I wanted to go though. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) They bought a 64 1/2 Mustang coupe for there first car. My uncle had a 67 Shelby GT 350 that was SO cool to ride in strapped in the harnesses.
Anyone remember those Shogun Warrior toys?...
My little brother had them. I was just old enough when they came out to want to by it but felt silly doing it. I just played with my brothers. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
...My little sister was terrified of the thing and I'd spend hours chasin her around the house with it.
Oh the joys of being the oldest. The fond memories of the things I used to put my little brother thru. It didn't effect him that much. He's been out of the mental hospital for a couple years now. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) LOL!!!!
Man those were the days.
Bane
13th TAS
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The Three Stooges, Captain America, Ironman, Spiderman, Aquaman - watched these before grade school back in the late 60's, early 70's...
Eagler
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Ew, what I remember best are the Bike rides on week ends, we would 't go further than 10 miles, but it seemed like continents, LOL!
Yeah ! "Seaman and the Seamonster", err, wait, i was only 7 back then (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Ahhh...Rat Patrol (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) Used to love that show. Always amazed me how 4 guys in a couple of jeeps could take on the entire Afrika Korps (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) I guess they were the prototype for the A-Team.
(can't believe no one mentioned Buck Rogers)
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Originally posted by Apache:
Let me add to da list. Sorry if I duplicate some. Some of my favorites from back then:
The Avengers <<<<
Man, this takes me back (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
One of my favorites! There's nothing I looked forward to more, as a teen, than watching Emma Peel!
Another good one (I don't think it has been mentioned) is "The Prisoner".
I remember 12 o'clock high (the series) well. I think Robert Stack was in it. Great aerial footage.
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Holy mackeral,I didn't realize how young you guys in AH are.I remember the radio programs,Sky King,The Lone Ranger,The Green Hornet.They were on from 5 to 6 every weekday and you just had to be home to hear them.At night there was Inner Sanctum,The FBI and the comedys.Bob Hope.Fibber McGee and Molly,Ozzie and Harriet and many others.In the late 40s TV came out and 20-30 kids would gather around the only set in the neighborhood which had a 9 inch screen.I remember the first World Series that was televised.It was amazing.I remember Uncle Miltie and the Ed Sullivan show.I also remember the first pong game on computer an how great that was.I bought the earliest version of Pacman for my kids and they loved it.I also remember the Spruce Goose and the first jet planes and when the headlines reported bouncing a radio signal off the moon for the first time.I only wish I could be twenty again because this century is going to have the greatest advances in technology than most of us can not even imagine.
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thanks for raising the bar (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Eagler
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Originally posted by Biggles:
...Another good one (I don't think it has been mentioned) is "The Prisoner"...
Oh yah I forgot about The Prisoner.
How about The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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The carnival in the vacant lot down the street.
Playin in the creek behind the house.
Mavrick.
The drive-in.
Fishing at the pond and catching bull frogs.
Building Forts out of sand and blowing them up with fireworks.
Mowing lawns to have enough money to by the fireworks.
Peeing on the neighbors doberman from the saftey of the cedar tree (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif).
Ahhh 1962....those were the days.
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"Little boy blue....cause he needed the money".....owwwww
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Oh, almost forgot, great post ICE! It was like I was there yesterday! Our creator can take away our youth, but our memory serves us long thereafter!
Gonna go home today and 'do' some of those fun things with my boys!
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Makes you wonder why the hell we sit and play AH instead of going fishing.
Great post Ice<S>
sax***13th tas***
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BB gun fights. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Making boat to float in the irrigation ditch.
Swimming in the irrigation ditch.
Finally getting to drive the tractor!
Gofer hunting with your .22.
Underground forts.
Sling shot wars.
Green army men.
Smash Up Derby Cars
Your 1st Lionel train!
Slot cars (The big ones with the brass brushes).
Model Rockets.
Balsa wood planes with the rubber band prop.
Lincoln Logs.
The first time I could through a 80lb bail of hay on the wagon.
My aunts and uncles growing 'weeds' on the island in the river. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
The 200 Harleys lined up in front of the Palm tavern every summer. (The boys are back in town LOL).
Riding in my uncles GT350.
Driving my other uncles 340 4bbl Cuda. Purple and white. Cool!
My 1st mini bike a Honda Mr 50. I was styling. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
My first major stitches after wrecking on the Mr 50. LOL!
Hippys camping in our front yard.
How 'natural' hippys smelled. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
The kids today really want to be a true hippy they can't take a bath more than once a month. LOL!
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remember that very early full sized arcade game.......the one where they projected film clips of a6M's diving at you and you had to shoot them with a mock up .50 cal mg? that game kicked arse!
it was like $2 lasted 8 seconds and had choppy film and terrible reality probs - was fun as all git out though
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Oh yeah mrfish I do. It was cool.
I forgot to add to my last list:
Rowen and Martins Laugh In Ummm Goldie Hawn
The Flip Wilson Show
Sunny and and and and CHER. Oh my, Cher. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Merv Griffon.
Mike Douglas
The Dean Martin Show
All in the Family
The Waltons (Night John Boy...)
SWAT That was a cool show
Hawaii Five O Very cool. I have a Ventures CD with the theme song on it. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) (Book 'um Dano)
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Gotta luv it , thats why I am here, lots of people with the same intrests and experiences as me. Does anyone remeber Shazaam? I hated it.What made alot of those shows popular was nothing else was on...
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Originally posted by Uvvall:
...Does anyone remeber Shazaam? I hated it.What made alot of those shows popular was nothing else was on...
But I liked that show. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) LOL
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Oh my gwod! No one but NO ONE could forget the man that tied generations of news watchers together... Walter Conkite. (I'm sure I hammed up his name. Sorry Walter. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) ) Walter was the KING! And that's the way it was on this day... I watched his last news cast. I still miss Walter on the news. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Hawaii Five O Very cool. I have a Ventures CD with the theme song on it. (Book 'um Dano)
You had a Ventures album too?! Man I loved them. They were great. You are the first person I have seen mention them or even know who they were in the past, oh 30 years or so. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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How long does one of your flashbacks usually last? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
just joking - great thread, many memories..
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Originally posted by Apache:
You had a Ventures album too?! Man I loved them. They were great. You are the first person I have seen mention them or even know who they were in the past, oh 30 years or so. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Well ah Apache I have there CD. 30 years ago I was 5. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) I like there music. You will be so jealous when I tell you this. I saw them last summer at the opening of EMP in Seattle. I got me a Ventures T-shirt I where and I get reactions ranging from who the hell are they to WOW I seen them in the 60's there still around? Yes they are and they sound better in person than they do on their CD! Their drummer did the most awesome drum solo! He did a drum solo on the base players guitar strings! The bass player played the cords and he pounded out a beat on the cords. His hands were moving so fast you could hardly see them move! They are all in their 60's and older and they ROCK! I mean it. They play like machines. They never miss a beat. They are perfect. I guess that's what 40 years of playing together will do. They were so cool! Oh Paul Revere and the Raiders were there and they were FANTASTIC! They sound better in person than on the radio. Paul Revere turned 63 this year and he still rock's. Everyone in the band is in there 50's and they rock. I shows me what I've know all along, age doesn't matter much. It's your attitude.
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Oh man!! Jimdandy you lucky bastidge! My 19 year old uncle who was leaving for 'Nam in 1968 gave me his Ventures albums. I was 10. He never made it back but I have kept em for him just the same. You wouldn't beleive the jump in my heart when I saw the name The Ventures in oyour post. <S>
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How about Josey and the popsiclecats!!! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Meow Baby! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Baseball Cards and that rock hard bubble gum (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Matt Mason
Hotwheels and Sizzlers
Klackers
M 80's and Cherry Bombs (real ones)
Johnny Quest was my favorite btw (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
My first WristRocket
That Honda 50cc 3 speed auto!
Scat Cat mini bikes
Swimmin in Gravel Pits dodgin Water Moccasins
Bomb Pops in the summer
I don't know about you guys, but I gotta stop thinkin about this stuff before I quit my job (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Cyas Up!
Ice
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Oh yeah. Josey and the popsiclecats. Hot teenage cartoon women in cat outfits. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) LOL!
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Fun thread ice! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Johnny Quest was a huge favorite of mine also! You all have mentioned many that I have enjoyed over time!
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BONG....
Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of men??
The SHADOW knows....
sigh.
damn fine thread..
here's some more..
Howdy doody, claribell, betty boob, mighty mouse, sky king, rin tin tin, buttermilk and trigger, (god speed Dale)
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Commander, "B" Flight, Aces High
Senior Staff Council
"The Skeleton Crew"
"Fly with Honor"[/i]
"Keepin' the Faith"
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ICE Thanks you for opening this thread.It is nice to go back in time and remember all the good stuff that has happened along the way.Roy and Dale and Trigger and Gene Autry and Champion.Bob Steele and Smiley Burdett and all the others.And the shadow.Lamont Cranston.And when Kato was a pal of the Green Hornet and not O.J.
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"What ever happened to Randolph Scott riding alone on the range. What ever happened to Gene and Tex and Roy and Rex and the Darango Kid and..."
I think it's a song by the Statler Brothers ET that talks about the same thing. The good old movies where the good guys had white hats and the bad guys black ones and the good guys win. I'm not near old enough to have watched any of them at the movies but I seen them all on the Saturday afternoon Westerns on cable TV as a kid. Love those old westerns. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Fun topic! <S>
Hehe I believe it's "Jonny" Quest, actually (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif) Saw the first episode, the first NIGHT (that's right, it was on at night) it was on. '64 or '65 I think.
How bout...
Fireball XL5
Thunderbirds (are Go!)
Spaaaaaace Ghoooooost
Fantastic Four (the Silver Surfer was definitely the coolest cartoon character ever)...
Roger Ramjet and Speed Racer (hated those two, watched em anyway...)
UFO and Space 1999
Watched 12 O'clock High a buncha times, and "Combat" (With Vic....(kaboom!) Morrow and Rick....(kaboom!) Jason!)
Was there a cooler ship than the original Romulan Warbird with its BFG(its Captain was cooler too...)? OK, the Flying Sub was pretty cool too... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Man From U.N.C.L.E. was on too late for me to watch it! But (yuck!) GIRL from UNCLE was on earlier (big whoop!)
When I think of what my old G.I. Joes would be worth now if I had kept 'em (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif) (Four words: SEA SLED, and MERCURY CAPSULE, baby) (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif) But as Ice notes, that was a different time, when an 11-year-old would give his whole collection of GI Joes he'd "grown out of" to a little boy whose dad was killed in Vietnam, while his own dad was still fighting there, and then feel happy he'd done it...
You can't go back home again, I guess, but thanks for reminding me. I smiled a lot reading this (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Oh yeah UFO and Space 1999. I loved those shows. LOL 2001 and no space odyssey yet? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) BTW weren't The Flinstones and The Jetsons on at night when they first came out?
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Excellent thread. Im a little choked up. Its odd to think that someday some of us might remember staying up all night playing Aces High...thinking "sigh..those were the days" Remembering people that we never actually met. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) We will be amazed at how we were entertained by such simple pleasures. Hard to imagine what the future might bring.
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Remember "Supercar" , they were puppets in the show . The damn title song keeps poping up in my head all the time (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Can't remember all the words anymore (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) 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 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) AH much better (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) 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
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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. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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"Fait Accompli"
In arena: semperfi
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I loved living in Texas...great people...I miss it (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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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! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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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. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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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 -
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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. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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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
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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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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 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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
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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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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. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
It felt good, to read this and bring back those memories I haven't thought of for a long time. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Originally posted by mrfish:
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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.
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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 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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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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. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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Lt. Col. Aaron "txace-" Giles of the 457th BG
"Fait Accompli"
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sniff <<<< i remember it all>>>>sniff... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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DRILL CO 457TH