We had something like that but with a different name. Very very not good.
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And I know everybody enjoyed Goober, even though it was not in the proper proportion for a really good PB&J sandwich.
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Speaking of straws and flavored powder, I know you remember Pixie Stix. I was addicted to these.
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Remember these? I was just explaining to my nephew [[who is now 33 years old!)what these were and that they were our favorites when I was a kid:
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Remember the "Presidential Physical Fitness award"? You could earn one by the number of push ups, sit ups, chin ups,etc you could do. LOL!
I remember that. Do you remember your teacher rubbing something on your arm to see if you had Tuberculosis? I never saw what happened to somebody who was positive because nobody in my class ever had it. I recall at least two and possibly three different grades where they did that.
I don't remember that. I do remember in 1966, my first grade teacher Mrs. Harste making me go to the front of the class and stay there until I figured out how to tie my shoe! LOL! See, my Dad always tied my shoes up in mornings before I left for school, so I hadn't learned how by that point. During the day my laces came a loose, so my teacher made me keep trying to tie them until I got them to at least look like they were tied up LOL!
Did anyone have a wooden sled?
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I had a wood Flexie Flyer back in the 1950s.
Does anyone remember drinking something in grade school that was supposed to replace the polio shot? It was just a quick swallow but i don't think it lasted too long,a faint memory!
I remember sledding in the park as a kid on a wooden sled. In the summer time, we'd take big pieces of cardboard to the top of a hill near the railroad tracks and slide down on the dirt, gravel and grass. The hill was about 35 feet high and had about a 45 degree angle. We called it Kill Hill.
Kids don't need a whole lot to have fun.
Or the one in gym class, where you had to climb to the roof on an itchy humungous rope! Torture. Not kid-friendly.
I remember that test! If they saw the little bumps within a circle - TB! Flop sweat time!!
Anyone remember the pre-inline skates? The ones with the steel wheels? You could adjust them with a metal key.
G.I. Joe with the Kung-Fu Grip?
Water guns [[with out the water tank on your back/hose/attachments; setting that could put a hold on concrete) had a small stopper, you had crazy fun for hours!
Play doh?
Checkers? Backgammon? Operation? Connect Four?
A water hose? Water balloons?
Tag? Green Light? Anything sandlot?
10- speed? Frisbee? Holla-hoop? Army men? [[Toy Story)
I loved Play Doh. It had this neat [[unusal) smell. It also tasted very
salty....OK...what kid never tasted Play Doh!
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I'm too old for in-line skates...but, as a little kid I remember these metal skates you'd
clamp onto your shoes. They'd easily come off and you'd damn near break your neck!
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You got that right. Kids, THEN didn't need a whole lot to have fun. I remember as a kid, my buddies Mark, Rich and Jack after a good rain, would sit on the curb on our street and race popsicle sticks down the gutter, in the rain water to see which once would get to the sewer first and fall in! LOL! We were real creative kids back then. Mark has passed away, I haven't seen Jack in well over 15 years and I see Rich from time to time at the park for school reunions.
I remember them from before the ice cream trucks became the standard. I remember "The Popsicle Boy". These were older kids that road through the neighborhoods on bikes with this refrigerated box attached to the front and bells on the handle bar to let you know they were coming. LOL! They really weren't refrigerated. They use to pack the box with dry ice that we would beg them to let us have pieces to "smoke".
This will give you an idea of what I am talking about, except in my town the boxes were light aqua blue in color. Look closely and you will notice the bells on the bar....
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I used to prefer ice cream sandwiches. Especially when the cookies were crisp and cold enough that they broke when you bite them. I didn't like Bomb Pops.
BTW: Remember when you didn't blow your top when you heard the ice cream truck playing one of the most racist songs in American history? Sometimes, knowledge can do that to you.
Tetherball? That could be a professional sport that I'd pay to see.
Two square or four square? Also could be a professional sport.
Hop scotch. Curb ball. Jacks. Duck-duck-goose. Musical chairs. Hide and go seek. Of course, tag and Olly, Olly In Free [[Olly Olly Oxen Free in other places).
And then there were the dangerous games: Smear the Queer [[Rugby, where one kid would face off against up to 10 others). Bebogees [[where you'd get punched in the chest every time you said a word beginning with "B"). Hot hands [[holding hands on a friends hands and seeing if he could move his fast enough to smack yours before you moved them). Knuckles [[pulling back a pencil and letting it go so it smacked your buddy's knuckles; this went back and forth until somebody gave up or the pencil broke). Indian burns [[rubbing your hand across somebody's wrist to create a burning sensation). Dodge ball [[no explanation needed). And Frog [[punching somebody in his Bicep with a knuckle or raised finger hard enough to see the muscle 'jump' involuntarily). I'm sure there were more. LOL. Boys are weird.
LOL. We played freeze tag and I spy too. Kill the Man With the Ball sounds like Smear the Queer. Somebody would throw a ball in the air and whoever caught it better run for the end zone or he'd get crushed. If he got tackled, he had to throw the ball up in the air and it would go the other way. Sometimes, a dozen boys would be playing and it was brutal. But that's really just Rugby with one guy going against a bunch of others.
I forgot to mention H-O-R-S-E, Make 'Em, Take 'Em, Chicago and Any Bounce Or Fly. Man, we had a bunch of games to play!
Oh, and about that ice cream song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97nqGtuNJmw
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswi...t-news-for-you
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The ice cream cart's song isn't racist. BOTH That AND the racist song were just borrowing the tune from the old American folk song, "Turkey In The Straw".
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Yes, indeedy!