[doorgunner69]

And fireworks.

The great fun of a righteous pop bottle rocket war.

Blowing up red ant hills with cherry bombs.

[central_va]

I remember shooting bottle rockets at each other for fun, yes beer involved. You needed the empty beer bottles to hold the rockets.

[mountn man]

[Rome2000]

Blockbusters were awesome

Equivalent of a quarter stick of dynamite going BOOM in NYC.

[lonestar]

One of the kids I knew growing up put a firecracker under a tin can with a lid...and yep! it got him across the cheek...big time. Has a scar today.

That would have been in about '47 or '48.

He went on to get a PhD in physics from Rice and was an expert on lightening and was a consultant to NASA when clouds were in the area before a launch.

He's still called "Bubba" in our hometown.