Under 65...

[CanadianPoncho]

Remember all the kids on the block playing hide go seek until it was too dark to see? I remember us having slingshots and building "forts" from tractor tire inner-tubes and shooting berries from our mountain ash tree at each other. Remember all your buddies coming over with their Hot Wheels or Matchbox cases and picking our "rides" and driving them on dirt roads made in the garden? Ahh-those were the days..
Todd

[Mr70]

Ha!...we too played in the dirt with our HotWheels,so much so that our friends Moms would not allow us to enter their yards carrying the lil 4 wheeled gofers,as one Mom put it.
I grew up down the street from the Ovaltine factory.
Thir 6 O'clock whistle was our sign to go home & eat during the spring/summer months.
When we realized we could get a nickel for one bottle,we scoured for every Bubble Up bottle we could find,right after watching the Banana Splits of course.
After 1968,we saw the Chicago police in a whole new light too.
"Roll up the windows & obey everrrry traffic light",my Dad would say.

[Chateau Slate 66]

I had a great collection of Matchbox cars until I had the idea to play "car crusher" with my Dad's bench vice. It was fun to watch the windows pop out and watch them crush like the big machines at the salvage yard.

What an idiot...

[Nova Jed]

To this day, it's talked about at holidays of Jed's death stump. That's where I smashed all of the Matchbox cars I could find with a rock hammer. LOL

[COPO 70 RS/Z28]

How bout the "Wrist Rocket"

Major slingshot

could buy it at the 5 & Dime didnt even need a parent with you

[Dave Rifkin]

This is a very interesting post; I too remember most of the things you guys are mentioning. It worries me that the majority of kids these days can't even figure out how much change to give you at the register unless the register calculates it for them.
They seem to have no imagination and need video games to provide entertainment. When I was a kid I was more than content with a yellow Tonka dump truck, a "real" GI Joe, not some miniature thing they pass off as a GI Joe these days, or some Hot Wheels and I could entertain myself for hours.
I am glad I grew up when I did; I cherish the memories of being outside with my friends doing whatever all day. I never had to concern myself with my diet because I would burn whatever I ate off running around all day. Kids these days wouldn't last an hour with me and my friends back then; they'd be hunched over gasping for breath.

Maybe I'm jusy getting too old but, I think we grew up in a great time and I wouldn't change a thing.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot the great memories I have of seeing the musclecars roaming the streets, doing burnouts and even riding in my Dad's Shelby while we got involved in some street races.

[WILMASBOYL78]

I only have one thought....what ever happened to Lincoln Logs???


wilma

[firstgenaddict]

I remember damming the creek then catching crawdads and salamanders. Playing war and hide-n-go seek for hours... foorball in the street...
Then the bottlerocket wars... I have more burn scars from those... LOL Roman candles bouncing off the other guys...
It is a wonder we never got hurt!

[P.J.]

are we better off today??
PJ

[427.060]

Don't forget about the bb gun fights. My brother still has a scar between his eyes from a bb.
James