OT: - Sports toys/games from your younger days. (Pics encouraged) | Page 2 | The Boneyard

OT: Sports toys/games from your younger days. (Pics encouraged)

I think this is the retro-new version, but you'll remember it if you are Gen X.

Image 7-2-24 at 11.17 AM.jpeg
 
Chin Diesel said:
I saw a lot of freak little league accidents but never saw anyone get a jart stuck in their head at a little league game. Maybe a Babe Ruth league or Twilight League game but never little league.
Expand ...

Sub Jart for a bb, bat or cleat. There were far more kids seriously injured in organized sports each year, than in decades of Jarts. I remember a kid in my area killed by a lacrosse ball hitting his heart between beats. Nobody banned lacrosse.

But you already knew this was my point.
 
Last edited:
Waquoit said:
I don't think you need to die for it to be an issue. I remember more than one story of a Jart getting stuck in somebody's skull back in the day.
Expand ...

x100 for the bow and arrow sets we all got as kids. Banning Jarts was comicly stupid.
 
.-.
ucp990411 said:
Strat-O-Matic
Expand ...
As a kid in the 60s, I'd never heard of Strat-O-Matic. But we had "Challenge the Yankees", where a team of all-stars would challenge the Yankees. There were 50 player cards, 25 Yankees and 25 "All-Stars", although I'm not quite sure what the criteria was for All-Star as such non-luminaries like Joe Christopher and Pete Ward were among the 25 opponent cards.
 
.-.
temery said:
I refuse to believe those things ever killed anyone outside a freak accident.

We used to have pellet gun Jarts fights. Use your trash can shield to block pellets or to block falling Jarts. I think this was taught at the War College in RI in the 60s.

We stopped when CO2 pellet guns came out, and a few balloon knots threatened to sharpen the Jarts.
Expand ...
pellet gun gun fights? Insanity!
(We had a BB only rule.)
 
Back here just to post a childhood favorite - Lincoln Logs.

Fast forward 30+ years and the one video I showed to my elementary school class every year was "Alone in the Wilderness."

Can you imagine never having to deal with another human for almost 40 years of your life? He built the cabin from scratch, was the very definition of a hunter gatherer, and just lived the perfect life in his very own self made Lincoln Log cabin.

(yes, I know his friend and his brother flew in once in a while. Doesn't change a thing.)

#1 on my bucket list is still to visit Dick Proenneke's cabin.

For anyone who hasn't seen "Alone in the Wilderness" - do it, and show it to your kids.
 
Gas plane on a tether. Saved up for it by selling Christmas Cards door-to-door as advertised in my “Boys Life“ subscription. (a magazine from cub scouts) Was a bear to control, and started a boyhood obsession with anything with an internal combustion engine. Amazing that we survived.

1719939175389.jpeg
 
.-.
CL82 said:
pellet gun gun fights? Insanity!
(We had a BB only rule.)
Expand ...

ok. You're right. The transition from BB gun to pellet gun was the end of the fun. CO2 came in about the same time as pellet guns.

We always had a "DMZ" buffer zone to prevent serious injury.
 
temery said:
x100 for the bow and arrow sets we all got as kids. Banning Jarts was comicly stupid.
Expand ...
Spoken like a man who never had a Jart stuck in his head. The difference being that someone isn't standing right next to the target in archery.
 
Waquoit said:
Spoken like a man who never had a Jart stuck in his head. The difference being that someone isn't standing right next to the target in archery.
Expand ...

Did you ever actually see anyone standing next to a Jarts target?
 
.-.
CL82 said:
I believe I had the detonator version. I loved that thing.

Expand ...

just found a box of my Hot Wheels cars from the 60s. Had no idea I still had them. A friend sold them all on eBay.
 
temery said:
ok. You're right. The transition from BB gun to pellet gun was the end of the fun. CO2 came in about the same time as pellet guns.

We always had a "DMZ" buffer zone to prevent serious injury.
Expand ...
If you "prevented serious injury" how did you know when the fight was over? It literally went on until someone got hurt.

Good times!
 
husky8273 said:
just found a box of my Hot Wheels cars from the 60s. Had no idea I still had them. A friend sold them all on eBay.
Expand ...
A friend sold all your hot wheels cars? He's kind of a jerk.
 
.-.
You must log in or register to reply here.

Forum statistics

Threads
168,211
Messages
4,557,231
Members
10,442
Latest member
Virginiafan


Top Bottom