Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Nov 6, 2016 10:16:42 GMT -5
LOL,firecrackers so powerful,they could blow fingers off!!! Cherry bombs! Oh the 4th of July was crazy back in the 60's.....
I have a story about us brothers making a pipe cannon from fireworks..Was my brothers lucky day,that day!!! For sure!!!!
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NDK
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Post by NDK on Nov 6, 2016 12:22:42 GMT -5
1dave shooting flies with a bun gun! That's got me beat. Growing up there was a small stream running through our property. One spot where it pooled I'd shoot the water striders with my bb gun. Never knew for sure if I got them except the # kept getting less & less. Also shooting dragonfly that were perched on tall grass swaying in the breeze. Many fond memories with that bb gun.
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Post by 1dave on Nov 6, 2016 12:26:28 GMT -5
1dave shooting flies with a bun gun! That's got me beat. Growing up there was a small stream running through our property. One spot where it pooled I'd shoot the water striders with my bb gun. Never knew for sure if I got them except the # kept getting less & less. Also shooting dragonfly that were perched on tall grass swaying in the breeze. Many fond memories with that bb gun. Mom didn't appreciate it when I killed a fly on her big mirror above the fireplace. many times when she should have killed me! |
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Post by 1dave on Nov 6, 2016 12:37:07 GMT -5
LOL,firecrackers so powerful,they could blow fingers off!!! Cherry bombs! Oh the 4th of July was crazy back in the 60's..... I have a story about us brothers making a pipe cannon from fireworks..Was my brothers lucky day,that day!!! For sure!!!! Stupid kids in high school lit TNT bombs (AKA Silver Salutes) and flushed them down the toilets. Mom Nature made us all pay for that. |
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 6, 2016 12:44:20 GMT -5
Hope I haven't told this story before, but me and the neighbor kid were a real couple of jerky idiots. His pop was a sales rep for 20 Mule Team Borax. As a sales reward one year they presented his pop with a scale model replica of a Twenty Mule Team wagon. Absolutely beautiful, all wood and brass. Wish I had one like it for my living room today. It was a real work of art.
Well, we took one look at the wagon and being a couple of dumbasses, decided what a perfect cart for a wheel mounted cannon. Built one from a too weak pipe, wired it to the fancy wagon, loaded it with a M-80 firecracker and a one inch ball bearing and pointed it at a target on the back fence where our yards backed up against a farm yard.
Lit that puppy up and ran, lucky for us! Not surprising results. Cannon went bang, wagon disintegrated in a flash of fire, metal fragments, and splinters, ball bearing blew through the target, busted a board off the fence and blew a nice hole in the lady's barn in the farmyard. Lucky for us her car was not in the barn nor were their people there. Man, we got whupped, grounded, had to fix the fence, pay for damage etc. And, worst of all, it was summer and the neighbor kid had the only swimming pool in the neighborhood and I was banned for like a year. All I could say, is, heck, it seemed like a fun idea at the time *L*.....Mel
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Post by 1dave on Nov 6, 2016 12:51:19 GMT -5
All I could say, is, heck, it seemed like a fun idea at the time *L*.....Mel Didn't they all! Swinging wet towels to put out grass fires started from our pipe cannons - I jumped off our garage holding four corners of a sheet for a parachute. Idiot! wired an angle iron to the fence and tried "high wire walking. Instantly ended on the ground with the angle iron buried in my head. Lots of trips for stitches from what was obviously stupid. |
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Post by gemfeller on Nov 6, 2016 13:30:03 GMT -5
Carbide cannons were my addiction. A strong steel pipe with an end cap and a small hole drilled near the cap. Drop a few chunks of carbide into the pipe, a projectile (rocks were my favorites) add some water and aim. When wisps of smoke emerged through the hole, light with a match and WHAM! They were extremely powerful and very dangerous. Good fortune smiled upon me in my ignorance because I chose steel instead of cast iron pipe. I heard of a cast iron cannon exploding and sending shrapnel in every direction.
My Dad was a powder monkey and he always had a case or two of dynamite in the barn. He also had caps and fuse
well as a stash of black powder for other uses. I remember one July 4th when we didn't have any fireworks. "Not to worry," Dad said. He grabbed a few sticks of dynamite, chopped them in half and inserted capped fuses. He took several tin cans and half-filled them with black powder, fused them and packed mud into the top half. We went out to the middle of the small farm field where we lived and got busy lighting fuses. Then we ran like hell.
Best July 4th ever!
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Nov 6, 2016 20:11:51 GMT -5
The stinging of the wooden paddle in the principles office! Ouch!
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Post by 1dave on Nov 6, 2016 20:25:48 GMT -5
The stinging of the wooden paddle in the principles office! Ouch! Lots of those Texas Teachers had BIG paddles with one inch holes drilled in them to prevent wind resistance. We were just like today's kids, dumb as a box of rocks and sure we knew everything. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2016 0:02:41 GMT -5
Grape Nehi. 5¢ deposit on the bottles. Bring in a six pack of empties get a free soda.
Getting dead car batteries from neighbors, free, trade in for $3 core charge. Could put three on the two wheel dolly then it was 1 mile to the repair station for trade ins.
Mowing lawns all summer for $5 a week. 12 Neighbours. Every Saturday. About wore out dad's lawnmower. Not bad for a 12 year old in 1975.
I will think of more
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Post by Pat on Nov 7, 2016 0:17:15 GMT -5
@shotgunner The email announcement of your memories translated Grape Nehi to Grape Behind!! Odd!😀
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Post by MrMike on Nov 7, 2016 6:21:19 GMT -5
@shotgunner The email announcement of your memories translated Grape Nehi to Grape Behind!! Odd!😀 Funny, sounds like what you get from one of those drilled paddles. |
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wannabee
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Post by wannabee on Nov 7, 2016 9:16:17 GMT -5
Floating down a creek on real inner tubes that we'd begged from a rural garage, and going so far down the creek that I got home really late for supper. My mother was less than pleased, but that did not stop me from doing it.
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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 7, 2016 9:34:24 GMT -5
Had to be home when the street lights came on. Universal.
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Post by 1dave on Nov 7, 2016 10:37:42 GMT -5
The day it snowed (January 31, 1949 - 6.5 inches) in Austin Texas. There is now a huge parking structure covering the whole city block on 16th street where we lived. From someone's yard we appropriated a 2X4 ladder and packed it to the top of the hill on 19th St. (Now Martin Luther King Jr Blvd) and David St. We all piled on that ladder and used it as a sled all the way down and across busy Lamar Blvd (bottom left) with cars spinning in the slush all around us. Some how we lived to tell the tale. |
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Nov 7, 2016 11:12:57 GMT -5
After school cartoons, the earlier ones Tom and Jerry , mighty mouse! Underdog , and a ton I can't remember?
"Little House on the prarie"
"MAD magazine"
Melting down legions of plastic army men!!
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Nov 7, 2016 11:17:51 GMT -5
JUST BEING ABLE TO SPEND THE SUMMERS WONDERING AROUND WITH NO WORRIES,
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geezer
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Post by geezer on Nov 7, 2016 14:48:28 GMT -5
Grape Nehi. 5¢ deposit on the bottles. Bring in a six pack of empties get a free soda. Getting dead car batteries from neighbors, free, trade in for $3 core charge. Could put three on the two wheel dolly then it was 1 mile to the repair station for trade ins. Mowing lawns all summer for $5 a week. 12 Neighbours. Every Saturday. About wore out dad's lawnmower. Not bad for a 12 year old in 1975. I will think of more Back in 1966 the deposit on the bottles was 3 cents. Buying a box of caps (cap gun type) for a nickle, putting the whole 5-roll piece under a flat rock, then jumping on it! Sounded like a shotgun going off and you could hear the bang echoing all the way down the block. Buying salt peter, flowers of sulfur, and powered charcoal at the corner drug store.......... |
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Post by 1dave on Nov 7, 2016 14:59:46 GMT -5
Grape Nehi. 5¢ deposit on the bottles. Bring in a six pack of empties get a free soda. Getting dead car batteries from neighbors, free, trade in for $3 core charge. Could put three on the two wheel dolly then it was 1 mile to the repair station for trade ins. Mowing lawns all summer for $5 a week. 12 Neighbours. Every Saturday. About wore out dad's lawnmower. Not bad for a 12 year old in 1975. I will think of more Back in 1966 the deposit on the bottles was 3 cents. Buying a box of caps (cap gun type) for a nickle, putting the whole 5-roll piece under a flat rock, then jumping on it! Sounded like a shotgun going off and you could hear the bang echoing all the way down the block. Buying salt peter, flowers of sulfur, and powered charcoal at the corner drug store.......... Bottle deposit 1945 ~ 1960 = 2 cents. BIG MONEY! |
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Post by Pat on Nov 7, 2016 15:10:21 GMT -5
Roller skating, bike riding, walking on stilts, dodge ball, tether ball, kick the can ---- all good and lots of fun.
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