Remember tennis ball cannons?
I shot one at cars at night.
Soaked the felt with lighter fluid so the ball was FLAMING!
Another thing we had as kids. We could walk into the local market and buy lighter fluid. No one would even bat an eye.
But, I’m old enough to remember buying Lucky’s for the old man.
Hell yeah. We got immunized in the old fashioned ways. Trial by fire.
Flaming tennis cannon balls was a top tier activity that was above my pay grade, seeing how I was more or less a youngster / part time juvenile delinquent, during this formative time frame. Born on date- 1957.
Those water filled, hand held, pump up rockets were quite popular in my social circle around 1967.
So am I, bought Dad Camel's $0.32 a pack at the Sweet Shop at the top of the block.
I got the $0.08 to buy a pack of Baseball Cards & 3 pieces of candy.
The 7-11 equivalent back then sold saltpeter(potassium nitrate). We made our own gunpowder.
We used to buy black powder by the keg. Wasn’t hard to figure who was creating the window shaking and large pleum of black smoke.
Before we graduated to that we knocked out the primer of a rifle cartridge insert a wick, fill the case with powder from shotgun loads n crimp the neck over, made great grenades. It was great fun until I had a fast fuse that exploded about twenty feet from me as I threw it.
Pellet gun wars was all the rage.