There were trees to climb, beaches to splash around in. An empty yard to build a marble game in, in fact we had about 3 places where we scraped away the vegetation and built our
marble “yards”. We built small hills, one even had a tunnel the marble had to go through. Lawn mowers became race machines, the mowers we pushed without engines. An old house we played kick the can. We didn’t have anyone teach
us how to have fun. Baseball was in “the” empty lot. We built our own stilts, and boy did we have some races.!
Looks like we lived in the same areas. I still have some of the marbles I used to play with and I am 67 years young.
I used to have large coffee cans full of marbles, but the ones I have left fill a large glass jar that sits on the kitchen windowsill.