Check this video for some nice memories of back in the day.....
Check this video for some nice memories of back in the day.....
Haaaaaaaaaaa,hey marv i took some of those stamps in and they gave me a[rubber]basketball...rubber!
Don't know that one, but I remember two favorites were "Dodge Ball" and then "Battle Ball" which was a more brutal version of Dodge Ball where the opposing team would line up against a wall [[usually brick or cement block) and the other team would throw one of those rubber balls the size of a basketball or a soccer ball as hard as they could to hit you.
I had forgotten about Battle Ball. That was harsh as hell. We also played Smear the Queer, which was a version of Rugby that pitted one guy against as many as ten other kids. And don't forget 21 [[we called it Chicago), a form of basketball where you had to score a basket, follow it up with three free throws, and then try to score again. Every brother in America played that.
Hey,did you guys take a stick,throw a rock up and it hit,like baseball?
Yep! We use to also beg the Ice Cream boy [[the ones that rode around on a bike with a cooler attached to the front) for dry ice. We would put it our mouths and pretended we were smoking. Also put it in cups of water and it was our monster potion smoking out the top. LOL! I accidently swallowed a piece when I was 7 and had to go to the hospital.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,hey marv i think we spent some time in the children's psych ward together as kids.
Did anybody else spend time in the library, lunch room, or study hall playing penny hockey, quarter basketball, or paper football? We didn't need a lot to have fun at my schools.
You had a school library??
LOL. Yes, we did. At least in junior high school.
Do kids play Tag, Mother May I, I Spy, Duck Duck Goose, Hide & Go Seek, or Musical Chairs anymore?
Of course not! Not even in Ohio and definitely not in New York. LOL! The disappearance of these games and activities are like a loss of the culture of the 20th Century thanks to technology, video games, smart phones and other electronic gadgets, kids rarely even talk to each other anymore.
Those games were a way to socialize children and encourage them to bond with others in their peer group besides their close friends. Hopefully, something has replaced that function.
I'd still have contact with my best friends from growing up in the 1950s, if they hadn't passed away. You can make deep, lasting friendships at a very young age, if you stay in the same house or neighbourhood throughout your childhood. People didn't move as much back then as they do nowadays.
I know what you mean Robb. I've lost some of my Grade School buddies and more than a few from my High School days, but whenever I run into some of the kids from the neighborhood we just pick up like it was way back then. Some, like myself have moved quite a distance from where we grew up.
MOST OF MY FRIENDS FROM BACK THEN ARE-DEAD-CRAZY[they were a little nuts back then]OR AVOIDING ME CAUSE THEY STILL OWE ME MONEY...[what is the interest on a loan of fifty cents from-1964???]
I really miss the friends I made in the various cities I've lived in and the ones in Canada. I can't get back to all the places it seems these days.
The sad thing is that some of those place no longer exist...sigh!!
Hey guys, here is a real Memory Booster! Be sure to scroll down the page to the bottom. So much is here:
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They're happy because they eat LARD!
Remember the game "I Spy"? Being from the Detroit area we made up a game called "That's my car"! LOL
We used to have clipboards and keep a running tally of out-of-province/state license plates on cars [[Canadian Provinces, US States, Mexican States) when driving across Canada and The USA. We would bet on which out-of-area state or province would have the most by the end of the day. We did the same with foreign car makes. During the early '50s there were a LOT fewer foreign cars on the road in Canada and USA. Some British, French, German, Swedish, and a few Japanese was all. So, there were few enough to tally all of them. Each person would choose a foreign make to end up with the highest count. It was never sure which one it would be in those ancient days.
We also used to play "The License Plate Initials Game" - using 2 letters as the initials of famous people. The easiest was ANY celebrity/famous person being eligible. Harder games were only one category, such as actors, singers, sports players, or even individual sports [[e.g. only hockey or only baseball players, or only fictional characters). Naturally, pairs with an "X", "Z", or "Q" were quite difficult. You had to know your Xaviers, Zenons, Quinlans, etc. to be able to compete.
We played a version of the states license plates game on our yearly trips to Virginia. We also played the Alphabet Game at family parties, where we'd come up with a category and name something starting with A and going as far as we could before nobody could remember all of the words or names. For example: Girls' names.
The first person would say Alicia. The next night day "Alicia, Bernice". Then, "Alicia, Bernice, Charlotte". We would get at least up to U or V before the last person would bow out.
I seriously doubt I would last very long if I was playing today. I've got too many things on my mind to focus, even when I'm trying to relax and have a good time.
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