Those were the days. Evil Kneivel bicycle ramps, jumping off the roof the house, climbing to the top of the highest trees, playing on beached ships and barges on the banks of the Mississippi River, swimming in water with alligators, chasing the mosquito fogger truck like it was the ice cream man, M80s, cherry bombs...
Ha! Also, we had the wooden merry go rounds that would fill your behind with splinters, two ton teeter totters that could catapult (or castrate) a kid, and those metal monkey bars that some kid broke an arm on every single year at school.