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My Favorite Place to Buy Fireworks
self | July 1, 2011 | PJ-Comix

Posted on 07/01/2011 3:34:14 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Yeah, yeah. I know. The place is incredibly tacky. But guess what? The selection of fireworks there is also incredibly AWESOME. South of the Border was like a fireworks magnet for me when I was a kid. My folks liked the place and we enjoyed reading the multitude of Pedro signs on the way there. Plus back then it was about the only place in the eastern USA where you could eat Mexican food. But the big draw for me was the fireworks.


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Cherry bombs, M-80s, etc. I still love fireworks but when you're a kid they are like magic which is why I loved South of the Border. I still find it IMPOSSIBLE to drive in that part of the country without stopping there.
1 posted on 07/01/2011 3:34:17 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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In another state is usually most people’s favorite place to buy them.


2 posted on 07/01/2011 3:35:44 PM PDT by GraceG
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Williamsburg?


3 posted on 07/01/2011 3:37:05 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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When I was stationed at Ft. Gordon and made the trip back and forth from GA and MD, those “Pedro Sez....” signs drove me crazy.


4 posted on 07/01/2011 3:38:59 PM PDT by edpc (I disagree. Circle gets the square.)
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South of The Border. The biggest tourist trap on the East Coast. Almost Equal to J.R.’s.


5 posted on 07/01/2011 3:39:51 PM PDT by Venturer
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I never “Sausage a Place”!


6 posted on 07/01/2011 3:40:38 PM PDT by albie
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This explains a great deal about you, my FRiend.


7 posted on 07/01/2011 3:41:37 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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No place like Bob’s.


8 posted on 07/01/2011 3:41:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins)
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I literally bought fireworks south of the border when I was a kid. They were always locally handmade made in Mexico, not some faraway factory in Macau. I liked the big firecrackers that looked like small sticks of dynamite. Others were folded from strips of newspaper into triangles. Fuses so crude, it was a wonder they worked. God only knows what the powder was made from - it did not look like that silver magnesium powder or even black powder.


9 posted on 07/01/2011 3:42:38 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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I haven’t been able to buy Cherry bombs, M-80s for many a year now...


10 posted on 07/01/2011 3:43:47 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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I haven’t been able to buy Cherry bombs, M-80s for many a year now...

No longer sold? I used to love the tremendous explosions generated by the M-80s.

11 posted on 07/01/2011 3:46:12 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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For me (and many NYC folks), the best was going downtown to Chinatown and buying them in an alley. Good quality, and the danger made it more exciting. Now, the cops have cracked down and it ain’t what it used to be.


12 posted on 07/01/2011 3:48:03 PM PDT by Pharmboy (What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
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illegal here NJ.......Pennsy too


13 posted on 07/01/2011 3:49:19 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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...yeah. I used to make that pilgrimage on the Path


14 posted on 07/01/2011 3:51:09 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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My friend once tried to buy fireworks in NY Chinatown, he found it very difficult not to get guns, finally they gave him a box of fireworks for $20 and ushered him away before he could embarrass them further.


15 posted on 07/01/2011 3:52:21 PM PDT by discostu (Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn)
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Illegality is what makes fireworks FUn to buy.


16 posted on 07/01/2011 3:52:56 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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I don’t even know the closest place ....


17 posted on 07/01/2011 3:54:20 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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M8’s
Roman Candles
ummm.... makes my mouth water just thinking of those things I once played with each 4th of July.

Blow things up, throw an M80 into the water and watch the water geyser, scare the hell out of the cats.

Have battles with Roman Candles. Sometime you get burnt but you always survive even if your parents get after you for doing something stupid. How else are you going to learn?


19 posted on 07/01/2011 4:02:04 PM PDT by jongaltsr (It)
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I use delay fuses...*smiles*


20 posted on 07/01/2011 4:03:34 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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