Posted on 10/13/2005 6:31:00 PM PDT by Clive
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Reminds me of when we used to make cannons out of coke cans, lighter fluid and tennis balls. Those were the days.
Reminds me of when we used to make cannons out of coke cans, lighter fluid and tennis balls. Those were the days
In the 50's we made cannons out 1 1/2 inch pipe, C batteries and cherry bombs. These were dangerous.
Islamofascist terrorist alert! Quick, call the knee-jerks!
Yep...ready to defend against the Red Menace, should they decide to invade..right? :-)
those massive, yet safe, wooden structures that are called playgrounds... my boys always climb up the outside of them. parent look over towards me like i should be yelling at them to get down or something.
Rubber ice we called it when it was on it's way in, or on it's way out ... and I took the dare (I think I was in Kinnygaht'n), and I broke through, got soaking , freezing wet, laughed it off(outwardly, 'cause y' can't cry in front of your friends), and 'allowed' my mother to smother me in mother's warmth ...
Aw hell ... I think I'm gonna' cry.
Who started this stupid thread, anyway?
I remember all that and more. We had WW2 surplus equipment to climb all over--a tank, a couple of anti-aircraft guns, even a fighter plane although that was hoisted on concrete pylons. All gone now.
I also had a friend whose father was a welder and came up with some beauts for us to play on in his backyard. I won't go into detail but picture one of those toys which attach by a suction cup and have a spring to whip the top back and forth. Now picture it large enough to hold an adult inside a cage and you have the best playground equipment ever. I'm surprised any of us survived to puberty. I can remember a lot of bruises but nothing serious.
A park near my folks' home still has one of those high-rise (about 20') slides with no cage or high edges or anything to keep a kid from taking a tumble off the top. I guess the kids in my old hometown are just smart enough not to kill themselves. On the other hand, maybe people thought about purifying the gene pool back then. ;)
Then there were the informally contrived joys of the gravel pit and the rope swings across the canal. Oh man, I'm getting nostalgic.
As the man said... "First, you kill all the lawyers!" ;^)
I remember all that and more. We had WW2 surplus equipment to climb all over--a tank, a couple of anti-aircraft guns, even a fighter plane although that was hoisted on concrete pylons. All gone now.
I also had a friend whose father was a welder and came up with some beauts for us to play on in his backyard. I won't go into detail but picture one of those toys which attach by a suction cup and have a spring to whip the top back and forth. Now picture it large enough to hold an adult inside a cage and you have the best playground equipment ever. I'm surprised any of us survived to puberty. I can remember a lot of bruises but nothing serious.
A park near my folks' home still has one of those high-rise (about 20') slides with no cage or high edges or anything to keep a kid from taking a tumble off the top. I guess the kids in my old hometown are just smart enough not to kill themselves. On the other hand, maybe people thought about purifying the gene pool back then. ;)
Then there were the informally contrived joys of the gravel pit, the rope swings across the canal, frozen ponds and sledding hills out in the country. Oh man, I'm getting nostalgic.
Blame the lawyers. Playgrounds aren't the only thing they've ruined for everyone else.
This is exactly why I'm building my own playground in the backyard for the kids. I'm using 20 foot pipe to build the swingset and slide. I want this thing to be fun for the kids until they get married. None of this three foot tall swingset for $199 at Toys R Us junk for my kids. What's even better is that my wife just insisted that I put in a zip line for the kids too! (they are 1 and 3 now)
Guess it's all what you had then and where you are now.
They have really cool zip lines at www.visionforum.com
Look in the all-American boys catalog. I also highly recommend the wooden swords and shields.
Oh yah, zip lines rock, your kids will love you. Buy the one made of heavy duty metal, the plastic ones will break in no time, and that is not fun at all.
Yeah, no kidding... The Libs would call kids who do that today terrorists (or at least Columbine wannabes)while saying that Islam is a peaceful religion and that the jerks in Gitmo are not terrorists. I'm only 24 but I remember when it was okay to have cap guns in school. What the hell has happened to our society in a few short decades?
I never really played on swing sets or anything.
I was always out playing kickball or football....
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