Under 65...

[L72COPO]

I have it better than my parents had it and my kids have it better than I did. And that is the way it is suppose to be. I vividly remember and have done everthing mentioned in this thread and miss and yearn for it all. If nothing had changed I don't think we would have progressed to where we are today. Are we better off today, materially yes. Ethically,emotionally and morally no way.

I'm also under 65 but not by much.

Don

[firstgenaddict]

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

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We used to tell my brother to dance... and then shoot at his feet with the Red Ryder BB guns... thought it was really funny back then...

Yes materially we are better off but is that really a way to guage if we the human race are better off as a whole?

[agtw31]

back in the day,you could buy a bag of pot with paper route money,now you need a visa card to afford the crap.

[firstgenaddict]

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back in the day,you could buy a bag of pot with paper route money,now you need a visa card to afford the crap.

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If pot was the worst we had to worry about it would be great!

[Xplantdad]

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I have it better than my parents had it and my kids have it better than I did. And that is the way it is suppose to be. I vividly remember and have done everthing mentioned in this thread and miss and yearn for it all. If nothing had changed I don't think we would have progressed to where we are today. Are we better off today, materially yes. Ethically,emotionally and morally no way.

I'm also under 65 but not by much.

Don

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Yep...You are right Don!


Okay...did anyone besides me and my brother pop out the windows in matchbox cars and insert bottle rockets to make rocket cars (That blew up at the end...LOL)?

How about tennis ball cannons with lighter fluid...?

[firstgenaddict]

Rocket cars used to Rock... whistling bottle rockets worked the best with the plastic housing...

[x Baldwin Motion]

don't get me started about making things that go boom. I'm not sure about the statute of limitations. long before Algore invented the internet we were drilling holes in black pipe and capping it after stuffing it with match heads and black powder from cut open shot gun shells. when we ran out of caps we melted fishing weights into globs and the homemade cannon was born. ouch!
lucky to be alive and free and I damn well know it.

[427TJ]

17 years old, sitting at the kitchen table with two buddies, each with a brick of firecrackers breaking them open one by one and making a softball-sized pile of powder on a piece of typing paper. Roll it carefully into a ball, insert some waterproof wick meant for Estes model rockets, wrap the whole thing in duct tape. Walk out onto the golf course Friday night after dark and set it in the cup on the 11th green and light it. Run like hell and hide maybe 50 yards away and wait. BOOM! Laugh like hell and then go look at the blast zone. Huge crater where the cup used to be. "Oh sh*t!!!" Make another one the next day and light it after dark Saturday night and drop it into one of the ponds along the fairway. Run like hell. Muffled "whump" and a column of water shoots up 15 feet. Go back on Sunday morning and look at 100s of dead fish on the grass around the perimeter of the pond and laugh hysterically. Or so I heard.

[firstgenaddict]

"Or so I heard."
I love that disclaimer...
Used to take smoke bombs and during the pep rallies in the school gym drop them down the bleachers... smoke out the gym... then one day got the bright idea to put one in the homecoming mascot float in front of the school and make it smoke... problem is smoke bombs shoot a flame out in the beginning... flames and a tissue papered float don't mix... caught the whole thing on fire burned up everything but the chicken wire... blamed it on the rival highschool... or so I heard...

[COPO 70 RS/Z28]

If you put a bolt or a nail in the little hole on the latch to the mailbox so the door couldnt open the sides blew out, so I heard