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OT: Sports toys/games from your younger days. (Pics encouraged)
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Like those Wham-O super bouncy balls that were loaded with pfas.
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.
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x100 for the bow and arrow sets we all got as kids. Banning Jarts was comicly stupid.
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We used electrical tape instead of duct tape on the barrel.
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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.
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pellet gun gun fights? Insanity!
(We had a BB only rule.)
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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.
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.
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.