Didn’t you guys play with each other outside and ride bikes, hunt for snapping turtles and shoot BB guns and throw rocks and play baseball and football with each other and have rock fights, play marbles and trade baseball cards and coins out of your coin collections and climb trees and swim wherever there was water, play army?
Growing up in a city, we have a river running along active as well as derelict/abandoned factories and warehouses. The area was wooded and for us it was “the wilderness” even though you could still hear traffic.
We had our bikes as well as Basketball hoops at the school yard. We would play games like stickball and “four square” in the street.
We’d also go exploring the ruins of the abandoned structures. Our parents didn’t particularly care what we did; but they still would have come down on us like a ton of bricks if we were caught somewhere we shouldn’t be and they got called in by the police.
“””” a river running along active as well as derelict/abandoned factories and warehouses. The area was wooded and for us it was “the wilderness” even though you could still hear traffic.””””
Riches beyond belief, a true boy heaven, you had everything.