“Geez that could have been me lighting some lady fingers in 1957.”
Fireworks were always a “blast”. I used to make trips to mexico every couple of weeks in the 80s, to bring back garbage bag fulls of M80s specifically for scaring the living p@&$ out of our rival fraternities. Great fun! Sometimes we would have “wars” in the streets.
And then there were cherry bombs and radio bombs..when America was still America.