My brothers played "fast ball".
Tennis ball, hitter, pitcher, outfield.
Square chaulked on wall for the strike zone.
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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
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Tennis ball, hitter, pitcher, outfield.
Square chaulked on wall for the strike zone.
This would work as a couples Halloween costume! And Halloween's coming soon!
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Boy, the personal injury attorneys would have a field day with that thing today.
Check out these old child car seats. They look really safe too.
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Had the Mattel guns that went with these. A Colt pistol and a Winchester rifle.I had those way back in the day. Of course they were useless without these...
Great for shooting your little green army men and your cowboys and indians.
And you little brother when your parents weren't home.
These are what we used to shoot our army men....
Several of us neighborhood kids would get together on a rainy day and take hours to set up over a hundred army men in strategic places in the bedroom then we'd pull out our tracer disc shooters and try to pick em off. It was pure carnage fun!
Several of us neighborhood kids would get together on a rainy day and take hours to set up over a hundred army men in strategic places in the bedroom then we'd pull out our tracer disc shooters and try to pick em off. It was pure carnage fun!
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These are what we used to shoot our army men....
Several of us neighborhood kids would get together on a rainy day and take hours to set up over a hundred army men in strategic places in the bedroom then we'd pull out our tracer disc shooters and try to pick em off. It was pure carnage fun!
HAHA! Me and brothers used to try to knock each others eyes out with those guns. I punished a lot of times because of that thing. Thanks for the memories!
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And ya know, I gotta admit that it's a little sad that nowadays kids can't run around shooting each other with these things like we used to when we were kids. The world has changed SOOOO much in 40 years. We used to run all over the place, outside in the street, shooting each other with these exact guns. Could you imagine that, in NYC, in 2015. I could. It would be really ugly, too.
We used to make "firecrackers" with these rolls.HAHA! Me and brothers used to try to knock each others eyes out with those guns. I punished a lot of times because of that thing. Thanks for the memories!
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And used to hit the whole roll with a hammer on the sidewalk!
Black powder sold to kids!
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Not to show off, but I'll one up ya on that
. We used to take sample contact lens solution containers (my uncle was an optometrist) that looked kinda like this:Then get a bunch of packs of these:
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Open them up, collect the gun powder, pour all the gunpowder in the containers leaving a fuse sticking out (actually, like 4 fuses rolled together cuz we were chicken), then stuff the top of the bottle real tight with a little bit of this:
We'd then put a little hole in the cap, thread the fuse through (sometimes we put a hole in the side as opposed to the top), put the cap back on.... light fuse, AND GET AWAY!!!!!
And yes, of course sometimes we put one of these on top before lighting the fuse:
And the occasional one of these when we (or GI Joe) got lucky:
Good clean fun.
Blowing crap up. It's what kids are supposed to do. Now they either make believe, with video games, or blow real people up. What ever happened to this wonderful in-between
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That's exactly what we did with them! I had the cowboy gun they were meant for, but an entire roll hit with a hammer was so much more fun.
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Yep, been down the homemade M80 route and blew up plenty of stuff (trash cans, mail boxes, windows... You name it) back when I was naive but far from innocent.Not to show off, but I'll one up ya on that
Then get a bunch of packs of these:
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Open them up, collect the gun powder, pour all the gunpowder in the containers leaving a fuse sticking out (actually, like 4 fuses rolled together cuz we were chicken), then stuff the top of the bottle real tight with a little bit of this:
We'd then put a little hole in the cap, thread the fuse through (sometimes we put a hole in the side as opposed to the top), put the cap back on.... light fuse, AND GET AWAY!!!!!
And yes, of course sometimes we put one of these on top before lighting the fuse:
And the occasional one of these when we (or GI Joe) got lucky:
Good clean fun.
Blowing crap up. It's what kids are supposed to do. Now they either make believe, with video games, or blow real people up. What ever happened to this wonderful in-between
That was about the same time my dad brought home a couple of Big Bang Carbide Cannons for my younger brother and I. If you never had one of these growing up you really missed out on all the pyrotechnic fun. Basically the all steel foot long cannon has a water reservoir that you dispense a shot of carbide in, then as the carbide gets wet it generates acetylene gas which you ignite by hitting the striker. You get a darn loud bang (about the same as a 12 ga shotgun) and a foot long flame out the barrel.
It didn't take us long to figure out that you could stick a Lego or jumping jacks ball or heaven help you - a super ball, into the barrel and give it about 5 charges of carbide then cover your ears and hit the striker. It would send those projectiles flying for nearly a hundred yards. The super ball was by far the most deadly object we ever launched. If it hit a hard surface it would bounce back right in your face at what seemed like supersonic speed. I got beaned in the head more than once by those monsters and they really leave a bruise and a goose egg.
Surprised I'm still alive.
Here's one in action...
Winterglo,
Of course you didn't really rate high on your Stingray if it didn't have a banana seat with a two foot tall sissy bar and butterfly handle bars - extra points if it was purple, a three speed and made by Schwinn. You lost points if it had tassels, cards in the spokes or a kick stand that you used.
Of course you didn't really rate high on your Stingray if it didn't have a banana seat with a two foot tall sissy bar and butterfly handle bars - extra points if it was purple, a three speed and made by Schwinn. You lost points if it had tassels, cards in the spokes or a kick stand that you used.
